Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CSAS Lecture Series | Changes in Dowry Practices?: Insights on Dowry and Its Regulation (September 8, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41487 41487-9308241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

The Law in India has prohibited demands for dowry since 1961 and expected penalties have been increased multiple times since then, but from most accounts the incidence and magnitude of dowry demands appears to have only increased. I am examining dowry from a somewhat different perspective - are there examples of dowry having declined and what insights might we gain from these examples? This examination includes not only current instances of declines in dowry in India, but also historical and comparative examples. Through this kind of inquiry one hopes to obtain some useful insights for law and law reform in the South Asian context.

Vikramaditya Khanna is the William W. Cook Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He earned his S.J.D. at Harvard Law School and was Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law, Fall 2013 at Harvard Law School. He was also a senior research fellow at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School, and a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School. His interest areas include corporate and securities laws, law and legal issues in India, corporate and white collar crime, legal profession and professional responsibility, corporate governance in emerging markets, and law and economics. He is the founding and current editor of India Law eJournal and White Collar Crime eJournal at the Social Science Research Network and has served as Special Master in a dispute involving an Indian and American company. He has testified at the U.S. Congress and his papers have been published in the Harvard Law Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Econometrics, Michigan Law Review, Supreme Court Economic Review, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, American Journal of Comparative Law, and the Georgetown Law Journal, amongst others. News publications in the US, India, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, and the United Kingdom have quoted him. He has given talks at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Yale, NYU, Berkeley, Wharton, NBER, and other venues in the US, India, China, Turkey, and Greece amongst others, including a keynote in Brazil.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:20:02 -0400 2017-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Vikramaditya Khanna
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Cyborg Able-ism: Critical Insights From the Not So ‘Uncanny Valley’ of Japan (September 14, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42726 42726-9651129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

I explore and interrogate the development and application in Japan--with cross-cultural comparisons--of robotic prosthetic devices that effectively transform disabled persons into cyborgs. Included here is a critical reassessment of the so-called theory of the “uncanny valley.” My paper focuses on both the anthropological and the phenomenological dimensions of what I call “cyborg-ableism.” In Japan and elsewhere, wearable robotic devices proceed from and depend on a corporeal aesthetics of cyborg-ableism. I examine the types of human bodies that are privileged in the discourse of machine-enhanced mobility, and also analyze the modes of sociality that robotic devices and prosthetics are imagined to recuperate.

Jennifer Robertson is Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also on the faculty of the Stamps School of Art and Design and the Robotics Institute, and a faculty associate in the Science, Society and Technology Program, among others. Robertson earned her PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University in 1985, where she also earned a B.A. in the History of Art in 1975. The author of seven books and eighty articles, her new book, Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation, is forthcoming from the University of California Press. http://www.jenniferrobertson.info/

Photo Caption: Jennifer Robertson in a HAL exoskeleton climbing a staircase at Cyber Studio, Tsukuba, Japan (November 2015).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:43:41 -0400 2017-09-14T11:30:00-04:00 2017-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo Caption: Jennifer Robertson in a HAL exoskeleton climbing a staircase at Cyber Studio, Tsukuba, Japan (November 2015).
Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (September 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-9852295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-09-15T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
Legal Negations and Negotiations of Citizenship (September 18, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42655 42655-9969043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Libby Garland (Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York)
Kunal Parker (University of Miami School of Law)
Anna Pegler-Gordon (Michigan State University)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Libby Garland is Associate Professor of History at Kingsborough College, The City University of New York, where she teaches immigration history and urban history. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan. Garland is the author of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), winner of both the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener book prize and the American Historical Association’s Dorothy Rosenberg prize in 2015.

Kunal Parker is a professor and Dean's Distinguished Scholar with a PhD in history from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Harvard University. He recently completed Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Professor Parker's teaching areas and interests include American legal history, estates and trusts, immigration and nationality law, and property.

Anna Pegler-Gordon became interested in US immigration policy when she was photographed for her immigration papers in 1990. Her first book, In Sight of Ellis Island: Photography and the Development of US Immigration Policy, began as a dissertation in the University of Michigan Department of American Culture. In Sight of America won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Theodore Saloutos Book Award (2009) and an essay drawn from this research was included in Best American History Essays (2008). Pegler-Gordon is currently completing work on a second book project, tentatively titled From East to East: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Ellis Island. Pegler-Gordon is an associate professor at Michigan State University, teaching in the James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies program. She recently stepped down as director of MSU’s APA Studies program and has started as director of a graduate fellowship program focused on interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:40:11 -0400 2017-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
Medieval Lunch. Cultures of the Medieval City in Asia (September 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43659 43659-9829804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Two of this semester’s lunches pair graduate students & faculty across departments whose projects share broad themes, ideas, or sources. First up:

Christian de Pee: “Text and the City: Literary Topography and Urban History in Middle-Period China, 800-1100”

Rob Morissey: “Performing the Capital: Aristocratic Culture as Utopia in Fourteenth-Century Kyoto”

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2017 09:16:54 -0400 2017-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Ideas of the urban
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Visual Narrative of Japan and Self (September 21, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41958 41958-9497499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Information visualization is a powerfully compelling medium for working with digital scholarship. Through visualization, we build narratives that enable us to reframe the world and our experience of it in carefully crafted slices of space and time. But as both practitioners and consumers of visualization, we sometimes forget that visualization can tell us more about ourselves than it can about the world alone. In this talk, by way of examples of recent personal works in visualization, I reclaim an understanding of information visualization as a medium for constructing narratives about self, other, and the space between them.

Steven Braun is the Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist in the Northeastern University Libraries. He earned his M.S. in molecular biophysics from Yale University and his B.A. in Asian studies and chemistry from St. Olaf College. He has lived in Kyoto, Japan as a Fulbright Fellow.

List of Steven's digital humanities works: http://www.stevengbraun.com/index.php?p=portfolio&type=dataviz

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:45:36 -0400 2017-09-21T11:30:00-04:00 2017-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Steven Geofrey Braun
CSAS Conference | Seeking Social Justice in South Asia (September 22, 2017 9:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42093 42093-9544167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 9:15am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

For complete conference details, please see: http://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events/conferences/seeking-social-justice-in-south-asia.html

The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan is pleased to host an international conference on September 21-23, 2017: “Seeking Social Justice in South Asia.” The conference’s aim is to focus attention on stark and persistent political, economic, and social inequalities and the ongoing struggles to address them in contemporary South Asia.

The conference will bring together a group of internationally-renowned lawyers, activists, academics, and producers of media (print and multimedia) to consider a range of interconnected struggles for social justice, including religious and ethnic polarization, gender and sexuality, caste politics, minority rights, urbanization and displacement, and media and information access. Presentations will address these issues in the Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan contexts.

This conference is made possible by generous support from Ranvir and Adarsh Trehan and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, with additional support from the: Department of History, Department of Anthropology, Global Media Studies Initiative, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Program in International and Comparative Studies, Donia Human Rights Center, Islamic Studies Program, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. This conference is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:01:12 -0400 2017-09-22T09:15:00-04:00 2017-09-22T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium Seeking Social Justice in South Asia
Fragments Workshop. Scented Protection: A History of Saffron in Medieval China (September 22, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42749 42749-9653777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 2:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Panelists: Aileen Das (Classical Studies), Amanda Repass (PhD student in History-Anthropology Program), and Paul Freedman (History, Yale).

The flourishing commerce of the Silk-Roads and the vibrant cultural exchange between China and the Western Regions (xiyu) fostered the circulation of diverse substances across the Eurasia continent. Prominent among them were a large number of aromatics of Indian, Persian, or Southeast Asian origin that entered Tang China (618-907) and transformed the landscape of Chinese medical practices. This paper focuses on a particular aromatic, saffron (yujin xiang), which came from northern India and Kashmir. The paper explores the identification of the plant in Chinese sources, various ways through which it was imported into China, and the diverse values it acquired there.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:41:01 -0400 2017-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Xiang fu san
2017 Nam Center Professional Development Workshop for Educators (September 23, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43878 43878-9852277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

While we often hear news about Korea’s security issues and smartphones, little is said about Korea’s rich artistic traditions that go back millennia.

Through a series of lectures focused on dance, music, and fine arts, as well as a hands-on demonstration on Korean folk painting and a visit to the Korean galleries at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, this workshop will shed light on contemporary Korean arts, showing how Korea has reinterpreted its own tradition, merged it with the contemporary global practice and successfully exported it all over the world.

What to expect: engaging lectures on Korea, provided by specialists in the field; teacher resource kits; a tour of the Korean galleries at the University of Michigan Museum of Art; lunch and coffee breaks; travel reimbursements for eligible participants.

Reserve your spot today—registration is limited.
Registration deadline: September 20.
It is possible to participate in-person or remotely (online).

SCECH credits (5) available both for in-person and online participants ($10 processing fee).

Register Now! http://bit.ly/koreaworkshop2017

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:50:53 -0400 2017-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2017-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Workshop / Seminar Korea through the Arts: Tradition and Modernity
CSAS Conference | Seeking Social Justice in South Asia (September 23, 2017 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42093 42093-9544168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2017 9:30am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

For complete conference details, please see: http://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events/conferences/seeking-social-justice-in-south-asia.html

The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan is pleased to host an international conference on September 21-23, 2017: “Seeking Social Justice in South Asia.” The conference’s aim is to focus attention on stark and persistent political, economic, and social inequalities and the ongoing struggles to address them in contemporary South Asia.

The conference will bring together a group of internationally-renowned lawyers, activists, academics, and producers of media (print and multimedia) to consider a range of interconnected struggles for social justice, including religious and ethnic polarization, gender and sexuality, caste politics, minority rights, urbanization and displacement, and media and information access. Presentations will address these issues in the Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan contexts.

This conference is made possible by generous support from Ranvir and Adarsh Trehan and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, with additional support from the: Department of History, Department of Anthropology, Global Media Studies Initiative, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Program in International and Comparative Studies, Donia Human Rights Center, Islamic Studies Program, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. This conference is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:01:12 -0400 2017-09-23T09:30:00-04:00 2017-09-23T12:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium Seeking Social Justice in South Asia
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 27, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42426 42426-9601972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

An experiential workshop co-hosted by FoodLab Detroit, Keep Growing Detroit, and GRA Inc. Join us to learn first-hand how community entrepeneurs in Detroit and post-tsunami Japan are working to make the business of growing, picking, and selling food more equitable and inclusive!

To register for this event, or to sign up for a ride to Detroit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agricultural-entrepreneurship-in-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168276288

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:44:03 -0400 2017-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Detroit & Regional Japan
Vestiges of Snake Cults: The Banana Python and His Sons (September 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44784 44784-9980556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Snake cults, which were probably once prevalent among the indigenes of southern China, have all but disappeared through the subjugation of snake deities (a.k.a. demons) by Buddhist monks, Daoist priests and Shamanistic local deities. While most snake deities exist as defeated demons/demonesses in religious lore, their power continues to be harnessed in some religious rituals and recognized in remote regions of Fujian. The Banana Python God and his three sons are a prominent example of their survival in transformed incarnations. In her presentation, Dr. Fan Pen Chen of SUNY-Albany, will share photos of temple murals as well as video recordings of string-puppet performances that depict the sacred tale of these snake gods.

Dr. Fan Pen Chen is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at SUNY-Albany. She is the author of Chinese Shadow Theater: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors; Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi; Marionette Plays from Northern China; Journey of a Goddess: Chen Jinggu Subdues White Snake (forthcoming); and dozens of articles on Chinese drama, fiction, puppetry, and folk religion.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:15:21 -0400 2017-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Snake Girl
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea (September 27, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42278 42278-9593311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Program in Transcultural Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies, and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies .

Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. With her award-winning book Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea (Stanford University Press, 2016), Jaeeun Kim shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and diasporas.

Contested Embrace is a comparative, historical, and ethnographic study of the complex relationships among the states in the Korean peninsula, colonial-era Korean migrants to Japan and northeast China and their descendants, and the states in which they have resided over the course of the twentieth century. Extending the constructivist approach to nationalisms and the culturalist view of the modern state to a transnational context, Contested Embrace illuminates the political and bureaucratic construction of ethno-national populations beyond the territorial boundary of the state. Through a comparative analysis of transborder membership politics in the colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods, the book shows how the configuration of geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques, and actors' agency shapes the making, unmaking, and remaking of transborder ties. Kim demonstrates that being a "homeland" state or a member of the "transborder nation" is a precarious, arduous, and revocable political achievement. The talk will flesh out these claims through the analysis of (1) South Korea’s effort to create its own docile citizens out of ethnic Koreans in Japan in the fierce competition with North Korea; and (2) South Korea’s effort to control its territorial and membership boundary from ethnic Korean “return” migrants from China.

Jaeeun Kim is Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the University of Michigan. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton (2011–2012) and Stanford (2012–2013), and a former member at the Institute for Advanced Study (2016–2017).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:25:47 -0400 2017-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Jaeeun Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
Ross Global Showcase & Opportunities Fair (September 28, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42665 42665-9622488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Global Initiatives

Now's the time to start thinking about going global with Ross! U-M undergraduates of all majors can expand their international business knowledge by participating in a Ross study abroad program. Mark your calendar and attend the 2017 Ross Global Showcase & Opportunities Fair to:
• Listen to inspirational stories from past Ross global program participants
• Explore the wide range of global opportunities, from study abroad to international internships to action-based projects
• Connect with global program representatives from Ross and across U-M to get the scoop on program details, funding info, and more.
• Begin planning for your international experience

Event Agenda

• Global Opportunities Fair: Noon - 4:30pm in Robertson Lobby: Explore global opportunities offered by Ross and U-M.

• Global Showcase & Reception: 4:30-6:00pm in Robertson Auditorium: Listen to impact stories from fellow students who participated in Ross global programs. A reception will follow featuring international cuisine and an opportunity to win a $500 Ross Global Program Voucher toward your participation in a 2018 global program.

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Fair / Festival Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:31:20 -0400 2017-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Global Initiatives Fair / Festival Event invite featuring photos of U-M students traveling in various locations around the world.
CSAS Lecture Series | Sarandib, Lanka, Ceylon: Banishment and Belonging (September 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41921 41921-9489371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

The small, Indian Ocean island known as Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon has figured as an important site of banishment in different periods and different literary and religious traditions. This talk takes as its starting point the history of the Sri Lankan Malays, a community descended from 18th century royal exiles from across the Indonesian archipelago, soldiers in colonial armies, servants, convicts, and others sent to Dutch and British Ceylon, to consider if and how earlier traditions of banishment mattered to the Malays’ images of, and sense of belonging to the island. In particular, the talk explores the Islamic tradition that views the island, which the Arabs called Sarandib, as the site of Adam’s Fall from Paradise to earth, and the ways that ancient story helped frame, and give meaning to exile in the colonial period.

Ronit Ricci received her PhD in Comparative Literature from UM in 2006. She is Associate Professor at the department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University. In addition to essays and articles on translation, Javanese and Malay manuscript literatures, and the literary history of the Sri Lankan Malays, her publications include Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2011), the co-edited volume Translation in Asia: Theories, Practices, Histories (with Jan van der Putten, St. Jerome, 2011) and the edited volume Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration (University of Hawaii Press, 2016).

This event is cosponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:37:10 -0400 2017-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Roni Ricci, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 29, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42571 42571-9611995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Opening reception for Ishinomaki Laboratory's debut exhibition in the United States. Presented in partnership with the Brightmoor Maker Space and The Carr Center.

Registration is required. Light refreshments will be served.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:54:46 -0400 2017-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Ishinomaki Laboratory - Exhibition Opening
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 30, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42574 42574-9611997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

A maker workshop for all ages! Using a DIY kit co-developed by the Brightmoor Maker Space, Ishinomaki Laboratory, and U-M called the Brightmoor Bento Kit, we will build furniture for use in outdoor classrooms in the neighborhood. Participants can also make their own creations: small stools, bookshelves, birdhouses--whatever you can imagine!

Lunch served at noon.

Registration required. Participants must fill out this questionnaire to secure their registration: https://goo.gl/forms/TQweMy7tKwRe1Ifu1

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:55:49 -0400 2017-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Brightmoor Bento Maker Workshop
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 30, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42575 42575-9611998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

DIY furniture maker Ishinomaki Laboratory's debut exhibition in the United States. Presented in partnership with the Brightmoor Maker Space and The Carr Center.

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/real-estate-vacancy-in-nw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168294342

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:11:26 -0400 2017-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Ishinomaki Laboratory - Saturday Exhibition
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 30, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42576 42576-9611999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

An experiential workshop co-hosted by Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation (DHDC) and ITNAV Ishinomaki. Join us as we discuss DHDC and ITNAV's co-developed Humans of Ishinotroit project, and workshop future community-engaged, IT-oriented collaborations between the two organizations.

Registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-it-education-in-sw-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36168367561

View the conference website: http://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/building-community-in-detroit---regional-japan.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:14:19 -0400 2017-09-30T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Youth IT Education in SW Detroit & Regional Japan
Nam Center for Korean Studies | Chuseok Dae Party (October 1, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43434 43434-9762898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2017 2:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

The 2017 Chuseok Dae Party is the seventh annual celebration of Korean Thanksgiving.

Featuring an afternoon of Korean culture and arts with traditional games, crafts, performances, and holiday food, all members of the U-M community and area residents of all ages are welcomed to enjoy Korean hospitality and traditions at this festival.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:04:40 -0400 2017-10-01T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Nam Center for Korean Studies Reception / Open House Chuseok Dae Party
Non/Human Materials Before Modernity (October 2, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41784 41784-9472911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Non/Human Materials Before Modernity considers the materiality and makings of the non/human body. Through a series of short papers, responses from colleagues, and larger discussion, the symposium will provide a forum for thinking cross-disciplinarily and across traditional lines of periodization. The symposium will address how different premodern cultures sought to understand the makings of species, kinds, and other divisions between beings and/or things. By historicizing the materialization of non/human bodies, documenting the many and various strategies by which they have emerged and been constituted, and tracing the broader cultural impacts of their emergence and constitution, these panels will challenge the U-M community to re-imagine the materials and effects of non/humanity.

Monday, October 2, 2017

9-9:30 am: Welcome and Introductions

9:30-10:50 am: Flesh & Stone
Miranda Brown (University of Michigan): The Jade Body
Rick Bonnie (Frankel Center, University of Helsinki): Pure Stale Water: Experiencing Ancient Jewish Ritual Bathing
Erin Brightwell (University of Michigan): response

11:10 am-12:30 pm: Messmates
Mira Balberg (Northwestern University): The Human and Its Double: Snakes, Humans, and Dogs in the Palestinian Talmud
James McHugh (University of Southern California): Spirits of Liquor and Consciousness as Alcohol in Early Indian Thought
Ian Moyer (University of Michigan): response

2-3:20 pm: Humanimal
Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan): The Material of Metamorphosis,
Sonya Özbey (University of Michigan): “Those that Have Blood and Qi”: The Psychophysical Continuum of Humanity and Animality in the Xunzi
Melanie Yergeau (University of Michigan): response

3:40-5 pm: Malleable Matter
Aileen Das (University of Michigan): An Alchemical Cosmos: Material Fluidity and Transmutation in the Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ
Rachel Neis (University of Michigan): Flesh, Food, or Family? Rabbinic Uterine Materials
Elizabeth Roberts (University of Michigan): response

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

9-10:20 am: Cutting & Assembling
Sarah Linwick (University of Michigan): Between Kinds: Knowing Non/Human Bodies in Early Modern England
Paolo Squatriti (University of Michigan): response
Clara Bosak-Schroeder (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Women’s Bodies Remaking Boundaries
Todd Berzon (Frankel Center / Bowdoin College): response
(workshop format; link to Sarah Linwick and Clara Bosak-Schroeder's precirculated papers at http://bit.ly/cuttingassembling)

10:40 am-12 pm: Gods & Humans
Paroma Chatterjee (University of Michigan): The Emperor’s “New” Images
Youn-mi Kim (Ewha Womans University): Beyond Anthropocentric Approaches: The Agency of the Nonhuman in Enacting Buddhist Ritual
Michael Swartz (Frankel Center / Ohio State University): response

12:30-1:50 pm: Weaving
Francesca Rochberg (University of California, Berkeley): Ways that Matter Can Matter: Reflections on the Concept of Kinds and Categories before Modernity
Catherine Chin (Frankel Institute, University of California, Davis): Brick Says: I Like an Arch

This Eisenberg Forum / Frankel Institute Symposium is presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, with additional support from Asian Languages and Cultures, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, International Institute, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures.

Image: "Rapture," Kiki Smith, bronze, 2001 (Pace Gallery).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:03:36 -0400 2017-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium word mark
Non/Human Materials Before Modernity (October 3, 2017 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41784 41784-9472912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:30am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Non/Human Materials Before Modernity considers the materiality and makings of the non/human body. Through a series of short papers, responses from colleagues, and larger discussion, the symposium will provide a forum for thinking cross-disciplinarily and across traditional lines of periodization. The symposium will address how different premodern cultures sought to understand the makings of species, kinds, and other divisions between beings and/or things. By historicizing the materialization of non/human bodies, documenting the many and various strategies by which they have emerged and been constituted, and tracing the broader cultural impacts of their emergence and constitution, these panels will challenge the U-M community to re-imagine the materials and effects of non/humanity.

Monday, October 2, 2017

9-9:30 am: Welcome and Introductions

9:30-10:50 am: Flesh & Stone
Miranda Brown (University of Michigan): The Jade Body
Rick Bonnie (Frankel Center, University of Helsinki): Pure Stale Water: Experiencing Ancient Jewish Ritual Bathing
Erin Brightwell (University of Michigan): response

11:10 am-12:30 pm: Messmates
Mira Balberg (Northwestern University): The Human and Its Double: Snakes, Humans, and Dogs in the Palestinian Talmud
James McHugh (University of Southern California): Spirits of Liquor and Consciousness as Alcohol in Early Indian Thought
Ian Moyer (University of Michigan): response

2-3:20 pm: Humanimal
Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan): The Material of Metamorphosis,
Sonya Özbey (University of Michigan): “Those that Have Blood and Qi”: The Psychophysical Continuum of Humanity and Animality in the Xunzi
Melanie Yergeau (University of Michigan): response

3:40-5 pm: Malleable Matter
Aileen Das (University of Michigan): An Alchemical Cosmos: Material Fluidity and Transmutation in the Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ
Rachel Neis (University of Michigan): Flesh, Food, or Family? Rabbinic Uterine Materials
Elizabeth Roberts (University of Michigan): response

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

9-10:20 am: Cutting & Assembling
Sarah Linwick (University of Michigan): Between Kinds: Knowing Non/Human Bodies in Early Modern England
Paolo Squatriti (University of Michigan): response
Clara Bosak-Schroeder (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Women’s Bodies Remaking Boundaries
Todd Berzon (Frankel Center / Bowdoin College): response
(workshop format; link to Sarah Linwick and Clara Bosak-Schroeder's precirculated papers at http://bit.ly/cuttingassembling)

10:40 am-12 pm: Gods & Humans
Paroma Chatterjee (University of Michigan): The Emperor’s “New” Images
Youn-mi Kim (Ewha Womans University): Beyond Anthropocentric Approaches: The Agency of the Nonhuman in Enacting Buddhist Ritual
Michael Swartz (Frankel Center / Ohio State University): response

12:30-1:50 pm: Weaving
Francesca Rochberg (University of California, Berkeley): Ways that Matter Can Matter: Reflections on the Concept of Kinds and Categories before Modernity
Catherine Chin (Frankel Institute, University of California, Davis): Brick Says: I Like an Arch

This Eisenberg Forum / Frankel Institute Symposium is presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, with additional support from Asian Languages and Cultures, Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, International Institute, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, and Romance Languages and Literatures.

Image: "Rapture," Kiki Smith, bronze, 2001 (Pace Gallery).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:03:36 -0400 2017-10-03T08:30:00-04:00 2017-10-03T13:50:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium word mark
SMTD@UMMA: From Mystery to Illumination (October 8, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44977 44977-10038419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Magnificent music in a magnificent space: the celebrated U-M Chamber Choir premieres a newly commissioned work by renowned Korean composer Hyo Won Woo and performs works by Rautavaara, MacMillan, Richard Strauss, Esenvalds, and Frank Martin, led by preeminent conductor Jerry Blackstone in his last appearance at UMMA before his retirement. Join us at 6:30 p.m. for a short pre-concert talk with Woo, a visiting scholar with the U-M Nam Center for Korean Studies.

The SMTD@UMMA performance series is generously supported by the Katherine Tuck Enrichment Fund and the Greg Hodes and Heidi Hertel Hodes—Partners in the Arts Endowment Fund.

For more details, visit umma.umich.edu/events!

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Performance Sun, 24 Sep 2017 15:51:50 -0400 2017-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 2017-10-08T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Limits of Chinese Buddhism: Protecting the State in the Dali Kingdom (937-1253) (October 10, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41709 41709-9440418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

The Dali Kingdom governed a large swath of territory in what is now southwest China and Southeast Asia. Its rulers embraced Buddhism, especially the state-protection Buddhism of the Renwang jing (Scripture for Humane Kings), which was written in fifth-century China. This talk uses texts and images related to the Renwang jing from the Dali kingdom to examine how border regions like Dali challenge the academic category of “Chinese Buddhism.”

Megan Bryson is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research focuses on Buddhism and local religion in the Dali region of southwest China as well as the themes of gender and ethnicity in Chinese religions. Professor Bryson has published several articles on these topics in journals such as "Asian Ethnology", "Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies", and "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society". Her monograph, “Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China” was published by Stanford University Press last year. She spent the 2016-17 academic year on an ACLS fellowship to work on a new project on Buddhist networks in the Dali kingdom.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:42:30 -0400 2017-10-10T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-10T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Megan Bryson
Mohsin Hamid: EXIT WEST (October 11, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45307 45307-10152987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Mohsin Hamid is the author of four novels, Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West, and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations.

His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of more than twenty-five awards, and translated into over thirty-five languages.

Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.

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Other Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:39:16 -0400 2017-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Other Mohsin Hamid
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Visible Rhymes, Inaudible Echoes: Script and Sound in the Sinitic Poetry of Modern Japan (October 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42778 42778-9661713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Through the turn of the twentieth century, Sinospheric intellectuals were bound together by their membership in an intraregional literary culture. Even as a full range of vernacular forms developed and thrived in premodern East Asia, literary Sinitic works continued to flourish: stimulating and in turn being stimulated by vernacular works. But whereas such texts moved relatively unproblematically across the region, the sound associated with such texts varied widely. This talk explores the implications of aural variation for a literary form in which the sound of words is especially privileged: poetry, focusing on Sinitic poetry from Japan’s nineteenth century.

Matthew Fraleigh is Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture at Brandeis University. His research concerns the literature of early modern Japan, especially kanshibun (Sinitic poetry and prose). He is the author of Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan (Harvard, 2016).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:00:50 -0400 2017-10-12T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Matthew Fraleigh, Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis University
Legal Negations and Negotiations of Citizenship (October 13, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42655 42655-9622478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Panelists include:

Libby Garland (Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York)
Kunal Parker (University of Miami School of Law)
Anna Pegler-Gordon (Michigan State University)

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Libby Garland is Associate Professor of History at Kingsborough College, The City University of New York, where she teaches immigration history and urban history. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan. Garland is the author of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 (University of Chicago Press, 2014), winner of both the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener book prize and the American Historical Association’s Dorothy Rosenberg prize in 2015.

Kunal Parker is a professor and Dean's Distinguished Scholar with a PhD in history from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Harvard University. He recently completed Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America (Cambridge University Press, 2015). His first book, Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Professor Parker's teaching areas and interests include American legal history, estates and trusts, immigration and nationality law, and property.

Anna Pegler-Gordon became interested in US immigration policy when she was photographed for her immigration papers in 1990. Her first book, In Sight of Ellis Island: Photography and the Development of US Immigration Policy, began as a dissertation in the University of Michigan Department of American Culture. In Sight of America won the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Theodore Saloutos Book Award (2009) and an essay drawn from this research was included in Best American History Essays (2008). Pegler-Gordon is currently completing work on a second book project, tentatively titled From East to East: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Ellis Island. Pegler-Gordon is an associate professor at Michigan State University, teaching in the James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies program. She recently stepped down as director of MSU’s APA Studies program and has started as director of a graduate fellowship program focused on interdisciplinary inquiry and teaching.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:40:11 -0400 2017-10-13T10:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Conference / Symposium Michigan Horizons graphic
Mae Ngai, A Long History of Unauthorized Immigration Keynote: Who Makes America a Nation of Immigrants? (October 13, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42666 42666-9622501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester

Mae M. Ngai is a professor of history and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University. She is a US legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. Mae is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, 2004), which won six awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians; and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010). Professor Ngai has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009-10); the Institute for Advanced Study (2009-10); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2003-04); the Huntington Library (2006); NYU Law School (1999-2000). Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the Nation, and the Boston Review.

The history of immigration in the United States is one of bans, quotas, restrictions, and exclusions. Immigrants have negotiated inconsistent and discriminatory definitions of authorized and unauthorized belonging and targeted restrictions on citizenship since the nation’s founding. This symposium brings together scholars who will illuminate the historical experiences of Asian American, Latinx, African American, Muslim, Jewish, gendered, and sexualized immigrants from the late-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Free and open to the public.

This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies; American Culture; Anthropology; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Asian, Pacific Islander American Studies; Bentley Historical Library; Comparative Literature; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; English Language and Literature; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; History; Institute for the Humanities; Latino/a Studies; Latinx Studies Workshop; Office of Research; Rackham Graduate School Dean’s Office; Romance Languages and Literatures; and William L. Clements Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:44:20 -0400 2017-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Mae Ngai
CSAS Lecture Series | ‘Marriage’, ‘Trafficking’ and the Transnational Family: Moral and Legal Regulation of Nineteenth Century Women’s Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean (October 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41928 41928-9495450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This paper examines the trans-oceanic migration of women between the Bombay Presidency, Persian Gulf and East Africa during the course of the nineteenth century. While their movement was subsumed by the colonial state under the overall rubric of ‘slave trafficking’, I argue that the category of ‘trafficking’—then as now—glossed over a number of trajectories for women’s mobility, not all coercive or limiting. The larger project that this paper is a part of looks at the legal and social category of ‘marriage’ as a regulatory regime that continues to have repercussions for citizenship and mobility across borders in the region. In contemporary times, women cross borders— notably from Sindh and Bengal—to marry in Kutch, now a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat that shares a border with Pakistan’s Sindh province. These marriages can be expressions of aspirational mobility, or a creative use of borders to negotiate citizenship rights in the aftermaths of partitioned territories. While some of these marriages are recognized legally and socially, others are designated as ‘trafficking.’ The paper asks: when is women’s mobility across borders sanctioned as ‘marriage’ and when is it criminalized as ‘trafficking’? What categories are used by the state and popular discourse in their evaluation of licit and illicit sexuality? How have these changed over time in a single region? Central to the nineteenth century state’s understanding of marriage and trafficking was their understanding of the legally free and un-free person. While slaves were legally seen as un-free, the state took it upon itself to liberate them, thereby criminalizing those who purchased, sold or otherwise transported them within British jurisdictions. On the other hand, this paper will argue that women and their presumed ‘traffickers’ took recourse to multiple legal discourses in circulation across the Indian Ocean region. These proposed a range of ways in which those designated as ‘trafficked’ could move along the continuum of bondage and freedom. Judgements and legal opinions from shari‘a courts in locations as diverse as Yemen, Muscat and Bombay were invoked to present alternatives to the marriage-or-trafficking paradigm of the state. In the debates over slavery and its abolition, the colonial state of the mid- to late nineteenth century, in its jurisdictions over western India, the Persian Gulf and East Africa, encountered legal and social elaborations of the family, marriage and co-habitation that push us to interrogate these anthropological categories in the present. Finally, the richly textured testimonies of these mobile women, add a refreshingly gendered dimension to existing work on Indian Ocean migration.

Farhana Ibrahim is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her research interests include the study of borders, migration and ethnographic perspectives on the state. Her book, Settlers, Saints, and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India (Routledge 2009) was an ethnographic study of mobility and place making by Muslim pastoralists along the Kutch-Sindh border in the light of resurgent Hindu nationalist discourses in Gujarat in the early 2000s. Her current book project looks at issues of gender, citizenship, surveillance and security in cross border migration in Kutch.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Aug 2017 08:26:51 -0400 2017-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Farhana Ibrahim
Ross China Initiatives and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies present "Climbing Life's Mountains" (October 18, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45779 45779-10276752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 2:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Wang Shi 王石
Founder, Vanke 万科
Lieberthal-Rogel Distinguished Visitor

No matter where life takes you, you will encounter mountains that challenge you to tackle issues from new perspectives. The art of overcoming obstacles is a prominent trademark of today’s most successful international business figures. To address this topic with details of his own personal “mountain climbing” life experiences, Ross China Initiatives and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies is proud to welcome Mr. Wang Shi 王石 to the Ross School of Business. Of the three tallest mountains Wang has come up against, namely ascending Mt. Everest at age 52 in 2003, initiating an environmental protection program following his climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and studying at Harvard with limited exposure to English, he cites his time in Cambridge as the most demanding peak to scale. Wang’s talk will center around his strategies for approaching and overcoming life’s mountains.

In 1984, Wang Shi founded China Vanke Co., Ltd., a real estate development company. Under his leadership, Vanke has grown into one of the most successful real estate development companies in the world as well as a pioneer in China’s green home construction. In addition to his role with Vanke, Wang serves as a chairman for numerous enterprises. In 2015, he was entitled “The Most Influential Entrepreneur in China” by Hurun Rich List because of his great sense of social responsibility and international initiatives. He splits his spare time between philanthropy and involvement in the rowing community, serving as the chairman of the Asian Rowing Federation.

Mr. Wang Shi is one of the most respected business leaders in China, and it is truly an honor to welcome him to Michigan Ross. This Wednesday, October 18th, doors will open at 1:30pm. Wang’s presentation will be held from 2-3pm followed by a discussion panel and Q&A session ending at 4pm. We hope you are able to join us in listening to this distinguished speaker as he shares his inspiring experiences in the business world and beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:22:00 -0400 2017-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wang Shi, Founder of China Vanke
Lunch and Learn: Intern Abroad with CRCC Asia (October 20, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45702 45702-10262639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 2:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Lunch and Learn: Global Internships with CRCC Asia
China, Japan, Vietnam, England

Join CRCC Asia for lunch and a presentation regarding international internship opportunities in 14+ sectors.

Session attendees receive 10% off program fees.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:39:33 -0400 2017-10-20T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Presentation CRCC Asia
CSAS Lecture Series | Inordinate Knowledge: Intimacy and Publicity in a Slum in Delhi (October 20, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41930 41930-9495451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This paper starts with a local incident of the abduction of a young girl, her bodily mutilation, and her eventual return to her parents. I explore the movement of stories around this crime and ask what is it that her kin and the neighbors knew and the interplay between knowledge and ignorance. The paper goes on to other cases such as those of domestic violence and sexual abuse, to ask a question that carries a compelling force for me –viz,. when we are unable to see what is before our eyes, is this a case of survival, aspect blindness, or soul blindness? Do these differences matter?

Veena Das is Krieger- Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent books are Affliction: Health, Disease Poverty (2015), Four Lectures in Ethics (2015,co-authored), Living and Dying in the Contemporary World (co-edited with Clara Han). Her forthcoming book is entitled, Textures of the Ordinary: Anthropological Essays: Wittgensteinian Traces). Das is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Scientists from Developing Countries and is the recipient of Honorary Doctorates from the University of Chicago, University of Edinburgh, Bern University, and has been unanimously elected to receive an honorary doctorate from Durham University in June 2018. She. has received the Ghurye Award, the Anders Retzius Gold Medal, and the Nessim Habif International Prize , in additional to Distinguished Alumna Awards from Indraprastha College, and from Delhi School of Economics.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:20:03 -0400 2017-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Veena Das
Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Keith Howard, Uni. of London (October 20, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45440 45440-10178329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The martial processional, Taech’wit’a, is preserved in South Korea through the maintenance of a limited and formulaic repertoire as Intangible Cultural Property 46. The revival of recent decades masks a break in performance at the beginning of the 20th century and a troubled initial redevelopment under Japanese colonial control. To do so, the identity enshrined in the Property designation, and the musical soundworld, has been reliant on iconography. But, the earliest iconographic representation Koreans have identified is in a 1600-year-old tomb on territory then home to a Chinese commandery, while some of the most elaborate depictions of martial music come down to us from Japanese sources. How are these sources interpreted to create something iconically Korean? This paper explores, for the first time, the procession of instruments in a previously unknown Japanese 12m-long hand scroll that has been attributed to Kanō Tōun Masunobu (1625-1694), the Chōsen shisetsu gyōretsu zukan, and the disguised musical activity in one of Hokusai’s (1760-1849) ‘100 Views of Mount Fuji’ woodblock prints. Neither depiction has to date been referenced by Korean musicologists. Both celebrate the extraordinary rather than the everyday: they date from a period when Korea’s relations with Japan were tightly controlled—over a 200-year period, Korea dispatched just 10 envoys to Japan, each following a regular, seasonal path. The hand scroll juxtaposes Japanese samurai and Korean musicians, while the second, where, a decidedly secular party replaces any martial overtones, dispenses with formality. To the Japanese artists, difference was tempered by their knowledge of Japanese musical practice, while Korean scholars examining the existing iconography (including tomb paintings), bring difference into alignment with a Korea-centered history. Using these significant new resources, the author explores how a specific martial music has travelled and transmigrated, and how it has been presented, re-presented, preserved and re-preserved.

Lecture co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the Nam Center for Korean Studies.

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Performance Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:15:31 -0400 2017-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Keith Howard, Uni. of London
Asian Studies at the University of Michigan: A Brief History (October 23, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41519 41519-9318404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 11:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

As the University of Michigan celebrates its bicentennial, it is important to consider the important place of Asian Studies in its history. In his lecture, Donald Lopez will consider Asian Studies not only as a field of scholarly pursuit, but also in the sense of people from Asia and of Asian heritage studying and teaching at the University.

If you are interested in attending, please register here: myumi.ch/6xPz9

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Sep 2017 10:59:09 -0400 2017-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2017-10-23T12:15:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Barbour Scholars Logo
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Literary Inscription of Things in Early Modern China (October 24, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41710 41710-9440419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

In addition to writing with the brush and ink, late imperial Chinese poets engraved their words onto cups and chairs, walking sticks, slabs of stone, and musical instruments. This talk examines how such practices challenge our own notions of writing and reading literature.

Tom Kelly received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2017 and is a first-year fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. His current research explores the relationship between Chinese literature and the decorative arts in the early modern world.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:32:25 -0400 2017-10-24T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-24T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Thomas Kelly
Successful Barbour Alumnae: An International Career Panel and Lunch (October 24, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45641 45641-10242992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Please join us for a multi-disciplinary panel discussion about "Life after Barbour" with Rackham alumae and former Barbour Scholars. Our panelists include:

Amy Ai
Ph.D., Social Work and Social Science
Professor of Social Work, Florida State University

Xueyan (Sharon) Wang
Ph.D., Physiology
Director of Preclinical Development and Project Management, AntriaBio, Inc.

Hsiu-chuan Lee
Ph.D., Comparative Literature
Professor of English, National Taiwan Normal University

Yuqing (Melanie) Wu
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Pomona College

Learn about the impact of the Barbour Scholarship on their work, and the trajectories that have led them to their current roles. Lunch will be served.

Pre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=502.

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Presentation Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:51:36 -0400 2017-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Presentation Rackham Logo
100 Years of Opportunity: Asian Women’s Global Engagement (October 24, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41552 41552-9358897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This panel will bring together Barbour Scholars for a panel to reflect on Levi Barbour’s original motivation for creating his scholarship, and to seek to examine how the mission has been transformed over time and into the modern day. When Barbour first traveled throughout Asia, he met several women who had studied at the University of Michigan and then returned home to aid their countries’ development. Barbour wanted to provide the same opportunity for more women, who frequently faced obstacles to advancement in their home countries, to receive a western education. The Barbour Scholarship has survived through a highly dynamic century that has seen dramatic changes in the relationships between the United States and the home countries of many Barbour Scholars, the rise of globalism, and incredible innovations across many fields of study. Join us for a conversation amongst Barbour Scholars whose experiences span decades and fields of study. Please email rackham.alums@umich.edu with questions or for more information.

Barbour alumnae and current Scholars will participate in a panel to share their experiences traveling across the globe to earn a University of Michigan education. Participants will include Dr. Meera Sampath (Electrical Engineering), Dr. Heasook Rhee (Music Performance), and Dr. Wing Li (Mathematics). Current student participants will include Amrita Dhar (English Language and Literature) and Niloufar Emami (Architecture), both of whom are doctoral candidates These women will provide a small snapshot of the realization of Levi Barbour's vision of opportunity and a truly global experience.

The panel precedes a networking event for current Barbour Scholars and alumnae.

If you are interested in attending, please register here: myumi.ch/6xPz9

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:07:49 -0400 2017-10-24T15:30:00-04:00 2017-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Barbour Logo
CJS Thursday Lecture | Dynasties and Democracy in Japan (October 26, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42801 42801-9661741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Political dynasties exist in nearly all democracies, but have been conspicuously prevalent in Japan, where over a third of all legislators and two-thirds of all cabinet ministers in recent years come from families with a history in parliament. Such a high proportion of dynasties in a developed democracy is unusual, and has sparked concerns over whether the democratic processes in Japan are working properly. In his forthcoming book, Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan, Smith introduces a comparative theory to explain the persistence of dynastic politics in democracies like Japan, focusing in particular on electoral rules and party recruitment processes. Original legislator-level data from twelve democracies and candidate-level data from Japan are used to explore the implications of this theory for candidate selection, election, and cabinet promotion, as well as the consequences of dynasties for democratic representation.

Daniel M. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where he is also affiliated with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. His research focuses on the impact of political institutions, especially electoral systems and candidate selection processes, on aspects of democratic representation and behavior in Japan and Western Europe.

Co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:57:27 -0400 2017-10-26T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion David M. Smith, Assolciate Professor in the Department of Government, Harvard University
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Commodifying Art, Chinese Style: The Making of China’s Visual Art Market (October 31, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41711 41711-9440420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

The rapid ascendance of China as a superpower in the global art market and associated transformation of China’s art space have attracted global attention. This talk seeks to interpret the spatial and institutional evolution of China’s visual art market, and the rise of Chinese art clusters such as Songzhuang and the 798 District in Beijing.

Jun Zhang is an assistant professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto. Previously, he was on the faculty of Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His main research interests include: geography of innovation, industrial globalization, and geographic theorizing of markets, states, and institutions. After extensive empirical research on China’s Internet sector and venture capital development, he recently he has been exploring China’s electronics and art sectors, as well as the broad features of the emerging ‘Chinese Capitalism’ and its multi-scalar dynamics. He received his degrees from Peking University and University of Minnesota.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2017 15:42:30 -0400 2017-10-31T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-31T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Commodifying Art, Chinese Style: The Making of China’s Visual Art Market
Interested in teaching and working in Japan after graduation? (November 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46260 46260-10421262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Come find out about the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program, a Japanese government program aimed at promoting grassroots international exchange. JET offers two types of positions: Assistant Language Teachers (ALT) who help teach English in primary and secondary schools, and Coordinator of International Relations (CIR) who help coordinate international programs in city and town halls throughout Japan. Japanese language proficiency is NOT required for most positions.

The JET Program Coordinator from the Consulate General of Japan in Detroit will present an overview of the program and discuss the application process for positions that start in the summer of 2018.

This will be the final information session offered prior to the application deadline on November 9, so for those of you who have already started your application, this is a great opportunity to get any questions answered before submitting!

Website for the JET program here: https://jetprogramusa.org/

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:05:16 -0400 2017-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Careers / Jobs Jet Program
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Threat of Falling High Status and Corporate Bribery: Evidence from the Revealed Accounting Records of Two South Korean Presidents (November 1, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45097 45097-10084363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Ross School of Business

Social status and its dynamics may be an important predictor of which firms will engage in large-scale bribery. Prior theory is incomplete, however, and prior empirical studies have lacked comprehensive and reliable data on firm-level bribery decisions. We offer a new theoretical prediction and a novel data set on high-level corruption in South Korea, where the accounting records of two presidents in the 1987–1992 era were exposed to after-the-fact legal and public scrutiny. We find that, controlling for a range of alternative explanations, the threat of falling high status—that is, the combination of longstanding high social status with current-period mediocre economic performance relative to that of industry peers—is a significant predictor of increases in the amount of large-scale corporate bribery.

Jordan Siegel is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Faculty Fellow at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Professor Siegel is also a Research Fellow at the William Davidson Institute and an Associate-in-Research at the Harvard Korea Institute of the Harvard Asia Center.

Professor Siegel specializes in the study of how companies gain competitive advantage through their global strategy. Professor Siegel finds that there are numerous opportunities for companies to attain superior sustainable corporate performance through creative strategies for corporate governance and human resource management.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:52:11 -0400 2017-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Jordan Siegel
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Celebration of Life (November 2, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42802 42802-9661743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Life has served as the center of leading Japanese ceramic artist Tomoko Konno's creative mind. She enjoys giving her ceramics new life by taking influence from all kinds of organisms from nature, such as sea and botanical creatures that inspire her. Konno says she has no control over the birth of her artworks, they "just seem to materialize from nowhere." Each piece that she creates is an embodiment of her sense of excitement, energy, and anticipation for life as she introduces guests to her "mysterious garden."

Tomoko Konno (b. 1967) lives in the ancient pottery town of Tokoname while maintaining a studio in Bali, Indonesia. In her Bali workshop, art forms resemble exotic plants or sea creatures made in colored porcelain that she exhibits in her installation shows. Konno says that she wishes to express the power of living things and that her ideas “just seem to materialize from nowhere.” Konno is one of a prominent new generation of female ceramicists working in Japan today. The distinct features in her work are the fresh colors, meticulous detailing, and the dynamic flow created with the nerikomi technique. Konno is partial to the nerikomi technique, which she feels is akin to painting with clay in which the medium itself becomes an instrument for painting. She prefers this technique to using brushes for embellishing surfaces, feeling that the lines created by nerikomi are more natural and allow Konno to express her energy and zest for life. Through use of this technique, Konno realizes the flower looking creatures, making them appear more realistic and imaginative and drawing viewers into her mysterious flower garden. While participating in a number of international residency programs, Konno’s work has been housed at collectors’ homes internationally, and a number of museum collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts and Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Japan.

This event is cosponsored by the Detroit Institute of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:33:18 -0400 2017-11-02T11:30:00-04:00 2017-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Tomoko Konno, Ceramicist
CSAS Lecture Series | Film Screening and discussion of Khoon diy Baarav (Blood Leaves its Trail) (November 2, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41932 41932-9495452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

The film Khoon Diy Baarav enters the vexed political scenario in Kashmir through the lives of families of the victims of enforced disappearances. In an enforced disappearance people literally disappear, from their loved ones and their community, when state officials (or someone acting with state consent) grab them from the street or from their homes and then deny it, or refuse to say where they are.Today it is recognized as a crime under international law. The film is a non-sequential account of personal narratives and reminiscences ruptured by violence. Made over nine years it explores memory as a mode of resistance, constantly confronting and morphing - from the personal to political, individual to collective. The film looks at the ways in which those affected by violence have no choice but to remember.

The screening of the film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Iffat Fatima.

Iffat Fatima is an independent documentary filmmaker and researcher from Kashmir, based in Delhi. Since 2006 she is working in Kashmir on the issue of enforced disappearances in collaboration with the Association Of Parents Of Disappeared Persons (APDP), a collective of the family members of the victims of enforced disappearances in Kashmir campaigning for information on the whereabouts of their disappeared kin. In 2011, she made a short film Where Have You Hidden My New Crescent Moon on enforced disappearances. Her most recent film Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves its Trail) explores issues of violence and memory in Kashmir.

She very recently did the audio visual design for an exhibition Gold Dust Of Begum Sultans (19 April -10th May 2016) at The Indira Gandhi National Centre for The Arts , New Delhi. In 2015 she co-edited a compendium Bread Beauty Revolution, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914-1987). In 2004, she completed a Fellowship, Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts, at the Brandeis University, Boston, USA. In 2001, she was awarded the Asia Fellowship for her work in Sri Lanka, Inter-communal Relations and Education: The Sri Lankan Experience.

Her films include, Lanka- the other side of war and peace, on the history of overlapping conflicts in Sri Lanka; The Kesar Saga, on storytelling in Ladakh; In the Realm of the Visual, on one of India’s most prolific and versatile artist and designer, Dashrath Patel; Boojh Sakey to Boojh, on the contemporary understanding of the thirteenth-century Sufi poet and scholar Amir Khusro. Her video installation, Ethnography of a European city: Conversations in Salzburg, questions some of the assumptions in the east vs. west polarity/ dichotomy /disparity.

Cosponsored by the Donia Human Rights Center.

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Film Screening Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:26:16 -0400 2017-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Khoon diy Baarav
Asian Languages and Cultures Info Session (November 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45099 45099-10084364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and language programs. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor and ask questions specific to them.

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) is a center for the exploration of the humanities of Asia, where students are invited to cross the boundaries of nations (including China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea) and of disciplines (including literature, film, language, religion, and history) in order develop two vital qualities: a deep local knowledge and a broad global perspective.

The department offers instruction in the cultures of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, and in many of the languages of Asia (including Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese).

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/undergraduates/informationsessions.html. We hope to see you there!

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Other Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:34:02 -0400 2017-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other Flyer
Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (November 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-9855152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
Veterans Week - Korean War Veteran/Prisoner of War discussion and questions (November 6, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45815 45815-10307569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Called the “Forgotten War” the Korean War was in between WWII and Vietnam. The Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1954. It claimed over 1.2 million civilian and military casualties.
Come here Robert Fletcher talk about his experiences as an African-American before, during and after the Korean war. He will also talk about his 3 years as a prisoner of war in a Chinese prison camp.
Come here "Fletch" talk about his experiences and how the Korean War has shaped his life.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:39:27 -0400 2017-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Korean War Memorial at Night
EVENT CANCELLED | CSAS Special Event | Jalsa: Indian Women and their Journeys from the Salon to the Studio (November 7, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43439 43439-9762904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 10:00am
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Performance Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:23:44 -0400 2017-11-07T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T11:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Center for South Asian Studies Performance Vidya Shah, Singer and Musician
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Consuming Belief: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC (November 7, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41715 41715-9440433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

In the context of a perceived spiritual and moral crisis in Chinese society, growing numbers of Han Chinese are turning to Tibetan Buddhism for ethical guidance. This talk, based on an ethnographic study of a group of affluent, urban Han Chinese followers of Tibetan Buddhism, examines the sources of the appeal of Tibetan Buddhism for wealthy Chinese and the range of ways in which they integrate Buddhist principles and ritual practice into their lives as well as some of the tensions that have emerged in communities of followers. For some, donations to Tibetan lamas serve as a form of “spiritual protection money” that will safeguard their businesses and enhance their careers, while for others, Buddhist principles become the basis for dramatic moral and social transformation.

John Osburg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2008. Prior to his current position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at Stanford University. His research interests include morality, corruption, luxury consumption, gender and sexuality, and spirituality in contemporary China. Osburg’s first book, Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China’s New Rich (Stanford, 2013), examines the intersection of China’s market reforms with the local moral worlds and social networks of entrepreneurs and government officials in southwest China. Currently, he is engaged in two research projects. The first examines the effects of the current anti-corruption campaign on the cohort of businesspeople who were featured in Anxious Wealth. The other project, based on fieldwork Osburg conducted in 2014 and 2015, looks at wealthy Han Chinese who have become followers and patrons of Tibetan Buddhism. Professor Osburg is also currently a Fellow of the Public Intellectual Program at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:27:59 -0400 2017-11-07T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-07T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Writing History Through Photography: Kojong's Funeral of 1919 (November 8, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44478 44478-9920263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures.

This presentation looks into Kojong’s funeral in 1919, which became a backdrop for the March First Movement. While thousands of people took to the streets in display of modern public awareness and in demand of national independence, the event took place alongside the carefully-orchestrated funeral procession of the late king Kojong by the Japanese colonial government. This presentation asks how the funeral was re-staged as a modern spectacle and how it was subsequently narrated through photography (and cinema). At the crux of my analysis are the ways in which an age-old monarchical pageantry became an instrument for the narrative strategy of modern history. When a funeral procession was the dead’s journey to a holy place, making the place of the dead relevant in history through the sacrialization by ritual, the eternality of history was turned into the virtual, memory, and nostalgia by photography. I compare this photographic narrative to Ûigwe (The Records of Rites and Ceremonies) of the Chosôn dynasty, and discuss how the depiction of ritual -- repetitive and ephemeral -- became the singularity of event in the freeze frame of photography and in the linear narrative of panoramic cinema.

Se-Mi Oh is an Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Her current research focuses on the architectural and urban practices of Colonial Seoul of the 1920s and 1930s. Her book manuscript entitled Seoul Streets: Surface Matters and Speech Matters examines the relationship between language, text, and media in tracing the discursive formation of modernity and colonialism in Korea through urban space.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:53:11 -0400 2017-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Writing History Through Photography: Kojong's Funeral of 1919
CJS Conference | The University of Michigan and Japan's Auto Industry - An Enduring Partnership (November 9, 2017 9:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46179 46179-10409862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 9:45am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

For complete information and the conference program, please visit: https://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/the-university-of-michigan-and-japan-s-auto-industry---an-enduri.html

A day-long series of panel discussions focused on the past, present, and future of the forty-year partnership between the University of Michigan and Japan’s automotive industry. The day will begin with a look back at CJS’s U.S.-Japan Auto Conferences, which played a central role in fostering constructive dialogue between automakers and policymakers on opposing sides of the U.S.-Japan trade wars of the 1980s. The conversation will then shift to the myriad engaged learning and research collaborations that define the relationship between Michigan and Japan’s auto industry today. Finally, faculty and industry representatives will discuss the road ahead, with a focus on the exciting advances being made in connected and autonomous vehicle technology at the Toyota Research Institute and Mcity.

Free and open to the public.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:12:27 -0400 2017-11-09T09:45:00-05:00 2017-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium The University of Michigan and Japan's Auto Industry - An Enduring Partnership
Veterans Week - Seapower in the 21st Century (November 9, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45847 45847-10310529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Seapower in the 21st Century will explore global maritime security challenges to the United States and her allies. The aim is to shed light on current broader geopolitical challenges and corresponding maritime opportunities and vulnerabilities. The Panel will consider how “blue”, “green” and “brown” water navies compete in order to secure their interests. The panel will consider sea control, power projection, control of straits, security of SLOCs, maritime and economic infrastructure, anti-access/area denial, and littoral warfare – all of which have significant bearing on the future of the United States and her allies.

Panelists:
Donald C. Winter, Former Secretary of the Navy
Dr. James R. Holmes, Professor Naval War College Read
Dr. Toshi Yoshihara, Former Chair Asia-Pacific Studies at the Naval War College

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:54:01 -0400 2017-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Sea Power!
CSAS Lecture Series | The Highway, Automobility and New Promises in 1960s Bombay Cinema (November 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45937 45937-10333025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

A fascination for color in the 1960s led to Bombay cinema’s mobilization of the hinterland as the site for a new future. With the development of Indian highways and an increase in automobility, a new map of India now occupied the cinematic imagination. This talk will explore the links between the infrastructure of automobile culture, the highway, industrial development outside the city, and 1960s Bombay Cinema.

Ranjani Mazumdar is Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications focus on urban cultures, popular cinema, gender and the cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007) and co-author with Nitin Govil of the forthcoming The Indian Film Industry. Her current research focuses on globalization and film culture, the visual culture of film posters and the intersection of technology, travel, design and colour in 1960s Bombay Cinema.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:43:44 -0400 2017-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Ranjani Mazumdar
STS Speaker. Satisfied Callers: Police and Corporate Customer Service Technology in India (November 13, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42860 42860-9672384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

State organizations are infamous for their insatiable appetites for documentation, but sometimes they refuse to produce documents. In India, police officers often refuse to register complaints and initiate proceedings. A recent project by the police in the Indian state of Punjab has aimed to eliminate this practice. The state hired a private corporation to run a call center to take emergency calls to the police. Young, middle-class, educated women staff the phones and act as case coordinators, dispatching police in locations across the state and monitoring the progress of cases through an elaborate database that logs communications from victims and police documents. Procedures embedded in corporation software translates the government procedure into the language of customer service.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:03:39 -0400 2017-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Matthew S. Hull
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Capital Punishment and “Confucian Clemency”: The Quandaries of Qing Criminal Justice (November 14, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41712 41712-9440422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

Violent crime in the Chinese provinces of the empire was a growing concern for the Qing court over the course of the long eighteenth century (1683-1820). Part of a wider, unprecedented “legislative turn” in imperial rule that quadrupled the number of substatutes in the Qing code, successive emperors enacted a flood of new legislation that expanded the concept of criminal behavior and increased the number of death penalty offenses that were subject to annual review. The crackdown on crime swamped the judicial bureaucracy and created ideological, political, and institutional quandaries for the eighteenth-century criminal justice.

Tom Buoye is an Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Tulsa, Research Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, and Team Member, “Legalizing Space in China,” Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS Lyon, France, an international collaborative project to translate the sub-statutes of the Qing dynasty law code. His research interests span social, legal, and economic history of late imperial China. His current research focuses on the crisis in eighteenth century criminal justice and the “legislative turn” in Qing rule.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:39:06 -0400 2017-11-14T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-14T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Thomas Buoye, Associate Professor of History, University of Tulsa
Global Course Connections (GCCs) Open Advising! (November 15, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46521 46521-10524135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS for an open advising event where students can come speak to Intercultural Program Advisors about all of our 2018 GCC offerings in Brazil, China, Italy, India, Israel/Palestine, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand!

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Social / Informal Gathering Sat, 04 Nov 2017 12:51:37 -0400 2017-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Social / Informal Gathering GCC
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Ainu Indigenous Modernity in Settler Japan (November 16, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42834 42834-9664416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In Japan today, Indigenous Ainu women stitch together ancestral memory and global Indigenous activism to challenge bitter legacies of settler racism and colonial erasure. Instead of orchestrating this resistance in spectacular mass protest, they invoke clothwork as a silent yet potent resistance to these erasures. This talk elucidates how cloth arts allow Ainu women to move between “being Ainu,” a racist label assigned by Japanese society, to actively “becoming Ainu.” I describe how Ainu women counteract both the logics of erasure and the state’s neoliberal multiculturalist attempts to manage Ainu by embracing indigenous modernity on their own terms.

ann-elise lewallen, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, is a cultural anthropologist of Japan, India, and an engaged scholar. Her publications include "The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Japan" (2016) and she is a co-editor of "Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives" (2014). Her work-in-progress, entitled "In Pursuit of Energy Justice: Nuclear Diplomacy and Embodied Solidarity in Japan and India" examines how grassroots and irradiated communities center the human body in order to make radiation visible and to block nuclear energy development from poisoning their homelands.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:00:49 -0400 2017-11-16T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ainu Indigenous Modernity in Settler Japan
Nam Center Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2017 (November 17, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44881 44881-10000729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 11:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please visit the full conference website here: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea-conference-2017.html

Keynote Address by: KANG Il-won, Korean Constitutional Court Justice

In recognition of the Nam Center's 10th anniversary, the 7th Perspectives conference will showcase a series of innovative, border-crossing and pragmatic conversations about the past, present and future of South Korean society across the domains of education, politics, economy, culture, regional relationships, and law.

Cosponsored by the U-M Law School, Ross School of Business, School of Education, and the Departments of Communication Studies, Political Science, Screen Arts and Cultures, Economics, and Sociology, as well as by the International Institute/School of Education World History Initiative.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:52:21 -0500 2017-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T17:25:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Conference / Symposium Nam Center Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2017
ISP Lecture. Eating the Audience’s Brain: Persianate Sociability in 18th-Century Delhi’s Poetry Salons (November 17, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42653 42653-9622476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The grave of 18th-century Persian-language poet ʿAbd al-Qadir Bedil (d. 1720) hosted a posthumous literary salon from 1721 to roughly 1760. In anecdotes and verse, poets’ memories of the posthumous salon and its verse reveal how non-elite social actors shaped the Persianate literary sphere of Mughal India. Early modern literary spheres and shrine spaces have remained elusive subjects for social historians of South Asia, greater Iran, and Central Asia. My analysis of this shrine-based salon, as memorialized in period diaries, focuses on how localized/trans-regional textual processes mirrored the material settings in which they were deployed. New approaches to understanding available historical material, such as those focusing on literary modes of representation, are needed to document late-Mughal cultural history. From this position, we see how the socio-literary space of the shrine compels a vernacular appraisal of social institutions and linguistic spheres in which literary practices are viewed as ambiguous modes of pre-colonial sociability motivated by multilingual social actors.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:03:02 -0500 2017-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Nathan Tabor
Nam Center Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2017 (November 18, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/44881 44881-10012269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2017 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please visit the full conference website here: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea/perspectives-on-contemporary-korea-conference-2017.html

Keynote Address by: KANG Il-won, Korean Constitutional Court Justice

In recognition of the Nam Center's 10th anniversary, the 7th Perspectives conference will showcase a series of innovative, border-crossing and pragmatic conversations about the past, present and future of South Korean society across the domains of education, politics, economy, culture, regional relationships, and law.

Cosponsored by the U-M Law School, Ross School of Business, School of Education, and the Departments of Communication Studies, Political Science, Screen Arts and Cultures, Economics, and Sociology, as well as by the International Institute/School of Education World History Initiative.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:52:21 -0500 2017-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2017-11-18T17:25:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Conference / Symposium Nam Center Perspectives on Contemporary Korea Conference 2017
Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (November 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-10498325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Moralizing the Revolution: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Early Maoist Period (November 21, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43137 43137-9728909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

How do political actors mobilize support for and participation in violent movements and causes? Traditional collective action approaches have largely downplayed or ignored the significant moral-emotional barriers to participation, particularly in the context of high-risk, violent movements. Dr. Javed argues that political actors can eliminate these barriers to participation in violence by leveraging popular morality to: 1) delineate new social boundaries within communities that separate the "virtuous" public from a "morally degenerate" minority; and 2) provoke popular outrage against members of this targeted group through the theatrical display of their alleged moral transgressions--violations of shared norms of right and wrong behavior. He will demonstrate this process of moral mobilization using the case of the Chinese Communist Party's mass mobilization of violence against so-called "landlords" and "counterrevolutionaries" during the first several years of the Maoist period (1949-1953).

Jeffrey Javed is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the intersection of social mobilization and political violence, with a secondary focus on moral governance and memory politics. His current book project explores the process by which the nascent Chinese state mobilized popular participation in state repression during the mass campaigns of the early 1950s. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 from the Department of Government at Harvard University, and his B.A. in Sociology and East Asian Studies from Cornell University in 2009.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:49:48 -0500 2017-11-21T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-21T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jeffrey Javed
EVENT CANCELLED | LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Transmitting the Mind-Ground: The Formation of Esoteric Buddhist Initiation Lineages in Late-Medieval China (November 28, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41714 41714-9440430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Chinese Buddhism of the eighth through tenth centuries was marked by internal debates over the orthodox interpretation of buddha nature theory—and the concomitant development of advanced ritual methods for attaining the buddha-mind, or mind-ground as it was also known. By the mid eighth century, the methods used to access and transmit the mind-ground, like the mind-ground itself, were being framed in increasingly esoteric terms. This talk traces the formation of a number of late-medieval Chinese Buddhist initiation lineages to these esoteric developments. Drawing primarily on excavated manuscript sources dating to the ninth and tenth centuries, it shows how the bodhisattva precepts conferral ceremony, the rite of dharma transmission, and tantric consecration were being combined to create competing Chinese Buddhist lineages of esoteric initiation in a variety of regional and institutional settings.

Amanda Goodman is Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. She specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism, particularly the transmission and transformation of tantric Buddhism in China during the formative Tang-Song transition period. She is currently preparing a book-length study titled "The Vajra Peak Scripture: A Chinese Buddhist Book of Esoteric Initiation and Empowerment Rites from Late Medieval Dunhuang" that reflects on regional and trans-regional esoteric Buddhist ritual developments during China’s middle period.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:04:40 -0500 2017-11-28T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-28T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Amanda Goodman
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Impending Cultural Collapse? - Current Transformations in Japan’s Traditional Art Markets (November 30, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42837 42837-9664417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This talk addresses the origins of the remarkable weakening of today’s art markets and collecting practices in Japan. The financial reverses of the 1990s and subsequent decades helped lead to the weakening of the tea schools, the constriction of museum purchasing and the closure of some institutions. Simultaneous cultural trends have moved away from traditional art forms to new media including a shift from “art” to “design”, from “painting” to “illustration”, that is matched by westernization of domestic architecture and diminishing interest in cultural history that have eroded the appreciation and evaluation of traditional arts in an unprecedented manner.

After having taught for some years at the University of Michigan and the University of Washington, Prof. Berry has been doing research and teaching in Japan since the late 1990s. For the last several years he has been a researcher on a Japanese government Kaken research grant involving the redefinition of sensoga and a Mellon Curator-at-Large for the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:03:38 -0500 2017-11-30T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Paul Allan Berry, Professor, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
EIHS Lecture: The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene: Theory and Practice (November 30, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40915 40915-8828527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Climate denialism comes in many forms. Most historians understand that the planet faces severe environmental challenges, yet few incorporate this new reality into their work or consider its impact on history as a discipline. In this talk, Julia Adeney Thomas explains why some scientists find “the Anthropocene” a compelling concept and explores the challenges posed by earth systems science to the discipline, particularly history’s political function. Finally, using an example from Japan, she proposes a new form of critical history as we move from modernity’s promise of freedom and development to the more modest goal of sustainability with decency.

Julia Adeney Thomas has written extensively about concepts of nature in political ideology, the challenge posed by climate change to the discipline of history, and photography as a political practice in Japan and globally. She is the recipient of the AHA’s John K. Fairbank Prize for Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology and of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians' Best Article of the Year Award for “Photography, National Identity, and the 'Cataract of Times:' Wartime Images and the Case of Japan” from the American Historical Review. Two collaborative books: Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (with Ian J. Miller and Brett L. Walker) and Rethinking Historical Distance (with Mark Salber Phillips and Barbara Caine) have forwarded her interest in theory, history, and the environment. Currently, she is completing The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene as well as co-editing a collection on Visualizing Fascism: The Rise of the Global Right. Educated at Princeton, Oxford, and Chicago, she taught at the University of Illinois-Chicago and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before joining Notre Dame’s history department.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:38:48 -0500 2017-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Julia Adeney Thomas
EIHS Workshop: Crossing Boundaries in Environmental History (December 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41565 41565-9364969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How have various historical actors understood their embodied relationship with the environment? Reflecting on the scholarship of Julia Adeney Thomas—and particularly her essay, “Who is the ‘we’ endangered by climate change?”—our panel will consider this question and more from diverse historical perspectives. We will discuss Carolingian descriptions of climate change, Buddhist reincarnation in medieval Japan, as well as twentieth-century American and British literary depictions of polar landscapes. The panel will address some of the ways in which changes in the relationship between human bodies and their environments may alter our ability to establish historical continuity with people of the past.

Precirculated Paper: Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2016). Coda: Who is the 'we' endangered by climate change? In Fernando Vidal and Nélia Dias (Eds.), Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture (pp. 241-260). London: Routledge.

To receive a copy of the precirculated paper for this workshop, please email eisenberginstitute@umich.edu or pick up a printed copy at the Eisenberg Institute (1521 Haven Hall).

Panelists include:
Esther Ladkau, PhD Student, History, University of Michigan
David Patterson, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
Matthew Villeneuve, PhD Student, History, University of Michigan
Perrin Selcer, chair, Assistant Professor, History, University of Michigan
Julia Adeney Thomas, commentator, Associate Professor, History, University of Notre Dame

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

Image: "barbs002" (Robert Kash, CC BY 2.0)

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:15:19 -0500 2017-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar barbed wire
CSAS Lecture Series | Self and the World in a Life Narrative: Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah's Aatish-i-Chinar (December 1, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41444 41444-9263721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This talk examines the autobiography of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, the Kashmiri political leader, from the perspective of life narrative as political intervention. It reads the narrative’s ideas on the self, nationalism, history, and memory as a means to understand not just Abdullah’s public life and how he is remembered, but the larger contradictions and conflicts among these ideas in Kashmir and postcolonial India, which ultimately define the relationship between the two.

Chitralekha Zutshi is James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History at The College of William and Mary. She is the author of Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination and Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Kashmir, and the editor of Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation.

Cosponsored by the Department of History.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:27:32 -0400 2017-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Chitralekha Zutshi
Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (December 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-10498339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-12-04T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-04T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | ‘Spoken Drama (Huaju) with a Strong Chinese Flavor:’ The Resurrection and Demise of Popular Spoken Drama (Tongsu Huaju) in Shanghai in the 1950s and Early 1960s (December 5, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41716 41716-9440434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

Contrary to popular belief, China’s first, hybrid form of spoken drama wenmingxi (civilized drama) did not vanish after its brief glory in Shanghai in the 1910s; it lingered on as part of the popular entertainment in the following decades, including a brief revival in 1957. Known as tongsu huaju (popular spoken drama) by then, it attracted the attention of modern theatre huaju (spoken drama) experts who praised its dramaturgy and performance as much closer to indigenous Chinese theatre than huaju, thus triggering a debate over its efficacy and limitations in the nationalization of Western-oriented spoken theatre. Using contemporary sources, Professor Liu examines the brief rise and fall of tongsu huaju in Shanghai in the late 1950s and early 1960s with focus on its performance, the debate over its utility, the policies that ultimately led to its demise, and the implications of the tongsu huaju phenomenon on the periodization of modern Asian theatre.

Siyuan Liu is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of British Columbia. He is a former President of the Association for Asian Performance and editor of Asian Theatre Journal. His published books include Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre (2016), Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000 (co-author, Methuen 2014), and The Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian Plays (co-editor, 2014). He has also published over two dozen articles and book chapters on Chinese theatre in the modern era.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Nov 2017 08:07:48 -0500 2017-12-05T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-05T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Siyuan Liu, Associate Professor of Theatre, University of British Columbia
LRCCS Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series | China’s Economic Reform in the Wake of the 19th Party Congress (December 5, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43141 43141-9728911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

China’s economic reform has been stalled for some years and in the meantime financial risks are building up. With leadership issues settled by the 19th Congress, what are the prospects for vigorous economic reform? What are the key problems that Beijing needs to tackle? And how does this affect US-China economic relations?

David Dollar is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. He is a leading expert on China's economy and U.S.-China economic relations. From 2009 to 2013 he was the U.S. Treasury's economic and financial emissary to China. Before his time at Treasury, Dollar worked at the World Bank for 20 years, and from 2004 to 2009 was country director for China and Mongolia. His other World Bank assignments primarily focused on Asian economies, including South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Bangladesh and India. From 1995 to 2004, Dollar worked in the World Bank’s research department. Prior to his World Bank career, Dollar was an assistant professor of economics at UCLA, spending a semester in Beijing teaching at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Co-sponsored by the International Policy Center of the U-M Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:04:41 -0400 2017-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-05T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion David Dollar, Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China Center
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Homelands of the Imaginary (December 6, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45781 45781-10276754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

David Chung will present an illustrated lecture that traces his career as a visual artist and filmmaker. He will discuss projects about Korean diasporic populations in the United States and the former Soviet Union as well as a work in progress about North Korean refugees living in Seoul.

Born in Bonn, Germany, and educated in the United States, David Chung is an acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker known for his large-scale drawings, prints, video installations and films. His work focuses on how identities are shaped in immigrant communities and the challenges of refugees as they integrate into new homelands. Chung's work has been exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Asia Society, the Walker Arts Center, Project Rowhouses, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Gwangju Biennale in Korea, the Tretyakov Gallery of Art in Moscow, the Williams College Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution and a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Chung has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the National Board Film Board of Canada’s Award for Best Documentary Film.

David Chung is a professor with the Stamps School of Art and Design and Core Faculty with the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan. Recently, he was the Kim Koo Visiting Professor at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Nov 2017 09:48:48 -0400 2017-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion David Chung, Professor, U-M Stamps School of Art and Design
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 7, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Eating Contests in Early Modern Japanese Entertainment Media (December 7, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42854 42854-9672379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Early modern Japan witnessed the rise of food as a subject of entertainment media as exemplified by numerous literary and visual depictions of culinary contests in which pedants debated the virtues of rice or tea; strong men (and women) measured their endurance in the number of bowls of noodles or cups of sake they could swallow; and posters ranked seafood recipes against vegetarian dishes. Visual and literary artists even helped audiences imagine what would happen if food or drinks came alive and debated and battled each other. Early modern media proved that food and beverages were not mundane objects, but instead had lives of their own, which were poetic, heroic, and potentially precarious.

Eric C. Rath is the CJS Toyota Visiting Professor for the 2017-2018 academic year and a professor of premodern Japanese history at the University of Kansas where he specializes in Japanese cultural history. His publications include Japan’s Cuisines: Food, Place and Identity (Reaktion Books, 2016) and Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2010).

Image: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) “Peace, Joy, and the Price War Between Sake and Sweets” (Taiheiki mochi sake tatakai) produced between 1843-46

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:59:57 -0400 2017-12-07T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) “Peace, Joy, and the Price War Between Sake and Sweets” (Taiheiki mochi sake tatakai) produced between 1843-46
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 | "Seoul in the 1960s" lecture and Artist Q&A (December 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46848 46848-10656083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Kicking off an exhibition of photography by Margaret Condon Taylor, the Nam Center, in collaboration with the Institute for Humanities, is pleased to host a conversation with the artist.
The Q&A with the artist will be preceded by a short lecture on Seoul and Korea in the late 60's by Se-Mi Oh, Assistant Professor of Korean History and Visual Culture in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures.

A light lunch will be provided for the first 25 people in attendance.

Margaret Condon Taylor received her B.A. in English from Cornell University and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, she photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs have been selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:07:22 -0500 2017-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Accidental Photograher: Seoul 1969
CSAS Lecture Series | “Minimum Government, Maximum Governance”: Modi’s Statue of Unity and the Sense of Scale (December 8, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41933 41933-9495454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Kajri Jain is Associate Professor of Indian Visual Culture and Contemporary Art at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on images at the interface between religion, politics, and vernacular business cultures in India; she also writes on contemporary art. Jain is currently completing a book on the emergence of monumental iconic sculptures in post-liberalization India. She is the author of Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art (Duke, 2007); her recent publications include essays in Current Anthropology (2017), Art History and Emergency: Crises in the Visual Arts and Humanities (Clark Art Institute/Yale, 2016), and New Cultural Histories of India (Oxford, 2014).

Cosponsored by the Department of History of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:29:20 -0400 2017-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Kajri Jain
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 11, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-11T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 12, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Geography of Political Self-Censorship in an Authoritarian State by Charles Chang and Melanie Manion (December 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41717 41717-9440435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.

Authoritarian states generate a culture of self-censorship in political talk. Yet, preference falsification is surely not indifferent to geography. Audience aside, we expect political talk to flow less freely in public spaces than at home, for example. We expect citizens to self-censor their political talk in politicized public places, where features like political monuments, government buildings, and armed forces are conspicuous reminders of the powerful authoritarian state. We introduce a place-based theory that updates, for the internet age, the classic argument about how self-censorship undermines authoritarian states. We construct an innovative and rigorous test of the theory’s implications for citizens in China, by estimating very precisely how and when location in politicized public places impacts choices to engage in political talk in smartphone dispatches. We retrieve and analyze the population of 6.7 million geotagged smartphone dispatches that Beijing netizens posted on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, over a 350-day period in 2014 and 2015. Our research design exploits announcements, in our period of study, of communist party investigations into corruption by the some of China’s highest-ranking officials. Given the explosive political sensitivity of the news releases, the authorities carefully managed their timing. This allows us to identify very precisely the impact, at a time of political stress, of physical space on self-censorship in cyberspace through a difference-in-differences design that compares smartphone political talk at and away from politicized public places 72 hours before and after news of the investigation. We find evidence of significant place-based self-censorship that suggests a remarkable and sophisticated influence of place on political talk in cyberspace.

Melanie Manion is Vor Broker Family Professor of Political Science at Duke University. She studied philosophy and political economy at Peking University in the late 1970s, was trained in Far Eastern studies at McGill University and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and earned her doctorate in political science at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on contemporary authoritarianism, with empirical work on bureaucracy, corruption, information, and representation in China. She is the recipient of numerous research awards, including awards from the National Science Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and American Council of Learned Societies. Her newest research, in collaboration with Charles Chang, analyzes state management of the social media in China. Her newest book, Information for Autocrats (Cambridge University Press, 2015), examines representation in Chinese local congresses. Previous publications include Retirement of Revolutionaries in China (Princeton University Press, 1993), Corruption by Design (Harvard University Press, 2004), and Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies (edited with Allen Carlson, Mary Gallagher, and Kenneth Lieberthal, Cambridge University Press, 2010). Her articles have appeared in journals including American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and China Quarterly. She is an award-winning teacher.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:09:37 -0500 2017-12-12T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-12T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Melanie Manion
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 13, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 15, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
Global Course Connections (GCCs) Deadline (December 15, 2017 11:59pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46522 46522-10524136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 11:59pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

All applications and necessary documents must be submitted by 11:59pm on December 15th for all Global Course Connections programs! Call to schedule an appointment now with your advisor! (734) 764-4311

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Other Sat, 04 Nov 2017 12:56:34 -0400 2017-12-15T23:59:00-05:00 2017-12-15T23:59:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Other GCC
Exhibit: Sino-American Relations and "Ping-Pong Diplomacy," 1971-1972 (Sept.15-Dec. 22, 2017) (December 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43895 43895-10498355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the early 1970s, the two large countries at either end of the Pacific shaped the restless world in their own ways. China was moving full steam ahead on the Cultural Revolution. The U.S. was grappling with a series of domestic and international problems including the Vietnam War. Mired in ideological opposition, U.S.-China relations had been hostile since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Getting these Cold War foes to reconnect with each other looked like a mission impossible. Curiously, Ping-Pong emerged to play an important role in bringing U.S.-China relations to rapprochement in the early 1970s and finally to normalization in 1979.

The historically significant Ping-Pong exchanges between China and the U.S. held in 1971 and 1972, which came to be called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” (乒乓外交 pingpang waijiao) in English, were nicknamed xiaoqiu zhuandong daqiu 小球转动大球 (small ball spins the big globe) in Chinese. Unbeknownst to many, Michigan played a key role in the 1972 exchanges.

Featuring an authentic Ping-Pong-table-sized panel that details highlights of these exchanges, this exhibition commemorates the 45th anniversary of the Chinese Table Tennis Delegation’s historic visit to the U.S. in 1972, especially to Ann Arbor and the U-M. Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Liangyu Fu, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Confucius Institute, and the Asia Library.

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:28:49 -0500 2017-12-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-18T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Exhibition Sino-American Relations and “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” 1971-1972
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 18, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-18T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-18T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 19, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-19T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-19T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-20T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-20T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 21, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 21, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-21T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 22, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-22T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 2, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-02T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-02T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 3, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-03T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-03T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 4, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-04T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 5, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-05T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-05T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 8, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-08T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
CSAS Lecture Series | India's Archaeological Heritage Since Independence: Challenges and Dilemmas (January 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41935 41935-9495456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

India’s archaeological heritage has continued to grow in many different ways since independence, even as the monuments and relics, sites and sculpture remain vulnerable and compromised. This lecture will look at the challenges and pressures on this heritage as a consequennce of developments arising from the impact of accelerated industrialization and mega projects, the antiquity trade protected by mafias of various kinds, the state of government-funded institutions, and the adjudication of legal disputes relating to monuments. The lecture will also offer some possible solutions on how India’s heriage can be made to matter more than it does at present.

Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at Ashoka University. Prof. Lahiri won the 2013 Infosys Prize in the humanities for her contribution towards the integration of archaeological knowledge with the historical understanding of India from the earliest times. She also won the 2016 John F. Richards prize for her book Ashoka in Ancient India. Her books include The Archaeology of Indian Trade Routes (1992), Finding Forgotten Cities (2005), Marshalling the Past -Ancient India and its Modern Histories (2012), Ashoka in Ancient India (2015) and Monuments Matter: India’s Archaeological Heritage Since Independence (2017). She has edited The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization (2000) and an issue of World Archaeology entitled The Archaeology of Hinduism’ (2004).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:07:41 -0500 2018-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka University
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-09T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 10, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-10T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 11, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | The Economy of Fear in Nineteenth-Century Japan (January 11, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47186 47186-10813703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japanese historians have long struggled to understand how common people experienced the Meiji Restoration of 1868. In this presentation, I will read the drama and disorder of the Restoration years against the weight of the quotidian routines of production and paperwork that characterized life and administration in early modern villages. I will frame my discussion in terms of an economy of fear—the ledger of who feared whom and the resources devoted to addressing that fear—as a way to gain insight into how the competing anxieties of rulers and ruled shaped the course of politics during the Restoration period.

David L. Howell is Professor of Japanese History and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. He studies the social and economic history of early modern Japan, with a particular focus on the nineteenth century.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:25:42 -0500 2018-01-11T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-11T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion David L. Howell, Professor of Japanese History and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages, Harvard University
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-12T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 12, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T13:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-13T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Korean Cinema NOW | A Taxi Driver 택시운전사 (January 13, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47826 47826-11015166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Kim Sa-bok (Song Kang-ho) is an impatient taxi driver and the clueless father of a 11-year-old girl, Eun-sung (Yoo Eun-mi).
Four months behind in paying his rent, he unwillingly accepts to take the German journalist Jürgen Hinzpeter (Thomas Kretschmann) all the way from Seoul to Gwangju, besieged by the military so that he could capture the student rebellion and the brutal repression ordered by Chun Doo-hwan.

Director Jang Hoon (The Front Line, 2011) masterfully narrates the personal journey of the taxi driver from a selfish man to a politically awakened citizen.

Please see review on The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/movies/a-taxi-driver-review.html?_r=0

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:46:22 -0500 2018-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Taxi Driver
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-14T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 15, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-15T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 16, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-16T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 17, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-17T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-18T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Care as Labor, Care as Ethics: Feminism and the Documentaries of Kamanaka Hitomi (January 18, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47472 47472-10929754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This talk introduces two post-Fukushima films by Kamanaka Hitomi (1958-): "Living Through Internal Radiation" (2012), and "Little Voices of Fukushima" (2015). In interviews, Kamanaka explains that the aim of both was to increase radiation literacy by conveying the truth fully and accurately. Yet regardless of high radiation readings, she emphasizes that neither her films, nor the community discussion spaces she cultivates in trademark local screening events, will ever judge exposed people for evacuating or not. How do we resolve the contradiction? This talk expands the insights of a biopolitical reading with an eco-materialist focus on affective labor and nuclear carework.

Margherita Long teaches Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Irvine. Her talk today is from an in-process book manuscript titled "On Being Worthy of the Event: Thinking Care, Affect and Origin after Fukushima".

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:31:34 -0500 2018-01-18T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Margherita Long, Associate Professor, East Asian Language & Literature, UC Irvine
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-20T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-20T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Korean Cinema NOW | On the Beach at Night Alone 밤의 해변에서 혼자 (January 20, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47827 47827-11015167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Continuing on the path of the miscommunication-filled romance we saw last year in the Korea Cinema NOW screening of Right Now, Wrong Then, director Hong Sang-soo brings us what could be interpreted as a self-confession and explanation of the affair with the main actress Kim Min-hee.
Here, she plays the role of a disillusioned young actress Young-hee, visiting her friend Jee-young (Seo Young-hwa) in Germany. Young-hee is recovering from the end of an affair with a married film-maker and she discusses her scandalous relationship wandering in the winter weather and visiting friends.

Once back in Korea, she walks the lonely beaches of Gangneung and discusses the right to her choices and the harm she’s done to other people.

Read the review on Variety: http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/on-the-beach-at-night-alone-review-berlinale-2017-1201990042/

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:46:39 -0500 2018-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening On the Beach at Night Alone
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-21T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Guided Tour - Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters and In Focus: Paul Rand (January 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47988 47988-11162392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In the 1980s, Japan’s strong trade surplus and currency were causing friction and antagonism overseas. In response, three renowned Japanese artists took on the challenge of changing Japan’s global image through graphic design. Their eye-catching designs often incorporated familiar traditional symbols and motifs, notably the iconic red circle against a white background of Japan’s national flag, from which this exhibition gains it name, Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters. Paul Rand also crafted memorable graphic design in the second half of the twentieth century. Rand was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC, IBM, UPS, and Westinghouse. This installation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign, a rebus which transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. Join Docents as they introduce and connect these two exciting exhibitions focusing on graphic design.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.

Lead support for Red Circle is provided by AISIN, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 02 Jan 2018 23:07:42 -0500 2018-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Red Circle
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-22T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Can’t Buy Me Love: Beijing’s Bid to Expand Its Soft Power (January 23, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47852 47852-11033229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Since the late 1990s, China has sought to bolster its soft power – a country’s use of culture, language and other “soft” tools aimed at making outsides feel better about its politics and motives – with mixed results. China is often feared and respected but not necessarily trusted or loved beyond its borders. Mark Magnier, a foreign correspondent based for the past two decades in Asia, will look at Beijing’s strategies and tactics moving forward as it attempts to improve its image and ease its rise as a global power.

Mark Magnier has spent the past 20 years as a foreign correspondent based in Japan, China and India for the "Los Angeles Times" and "Wall Street Journal." He’s also done various conflict assignments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, covered earthquakes and tsunamis, camped under Saddam Hussein’s highways and slept in an abandoned nunnery during the violent birth of East Timor. He is here on a U-M Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:21:07 -0500 2018-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-23T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Mark Magnier, Foreign Correspondent, U-M Knight-Wallace Fellow
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 24, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-24T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 25, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-25T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Magic Numbers in Shinto Rituals and Music (January 25, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48084 48084-11180645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

William P. Malm joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1960 and there developed a program in ethnomusicology which included world music surveys, seminars and performance ensembles, particularly in Japanese kabuki and festival music. He also arranged the university acquisition of a Indonesian gamelan and taught that music as well.. In 1980 he became director of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments and pursued new approaches to display such as holography and computer methods for cataloguing and research.  He has been president, treasurer, and office manager of the Society for Ethnomusicology and been on the boards of many other music and Asian organizations. He has written extensively in a wide variety of fields. His Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia was a pioneer step towards world music text books. Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music came from his lectures as the Ernst Bloch Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. "Theater as Music"(1990) is a joint study of the music of Japan's puppet theater. The second edition of his 1997 book appeared with a CD in 2000 as Japanese Traditional Music and Musical Instruments.

Malm has been a distinguished professor at several schools and has lectured extensively around the U.S. and the world. Research grants have sent him to such places as Japan, Malaysia, Australia, the East-West Center in Hawaii, and the Villa Serbelloni in Italy. Among his honors at Michigan are the Henry J. Russel (1965) and State Legislature (1990) awards for excellent in undergraduate teaching and, internationally, the Koizumi Fumio Prize for Ethnomusicology (1993). He retired in 1994.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:20:22 -0500 2018-01-25T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion William Malm, Professor Emeritus of Music (Music History and Musicology) U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: CONCEPTS OF DOMESTICITY FROM JAPAN (January 26, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47946 47946-11152025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In the spring of 2017, a group of U of M architecture students visited the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Osaka, tracing the historical remnants of postwar and Postmodern Japanese architecture. This exhibition examines new types of domestic spaces in the crowded urban city of Tokyo, including the importance of the convenience store and the so-called “manga cafes” to Japanese daily life.
Exhibition opening presentation Wednesday, January 10 at noon in the Art & Architecture Auditorium, followed by an opening reception in the Taubman College Gallery. Exhibition will be on view in the Taubman College Gallery January 10 - January 26.

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Exhibition Mon, 01 Jan 2018 22:21:39 -0500 2018-01-26T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Exhibition Art and Architecture Building
CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. Past Lives Present, Tense: Past life memory in contemporary Cambodia and its significance (January 26, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46942 46942-10703016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Past-life memory in Cambodia is common. In Buddhist scriptural practices, past-life memory is usually thought of in terms of the Buddhist cycle of saṃsāra, where past-life memory is often a prerequisite for advanced stages of spiritual accomplishment. However, in practice, past-life memory is often deeply disturbing to the rememberer, their family and their community. This presentation discusses multiple examples of contemporary past-life memory out of Davis' fieldwork in Cambodia, highlighting the practices that surround such memory and uses to which such memories are put. Examples include the Cambodian Prime Minister, a young girl who remembers being her own uncle, a spiritual leader who claims to be the most important Buddhist leader of the Cambodian twentieth century as well as the repeated subject of national scandal because of his claims, and another woman who put two families together in her youth, and has maintained their connections into her eighties. These memories and rituals challenge many Western notions about the self and its construction in ways that may be productive.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:02:26 -0500 2018-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia 2018 (January 27, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48756 48756-11306086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This one-day conference will be held on Saturday, January 27 in the 10th Floor event space at Weiser Hall. The aim of the conference is to showcase the work of graduate students at the University of Michigan who are working on any aspect of South Asia: past, present, or future. The conference features graduate students from several disciplines and at different stages of their career. The participants at the conference may expect a sustained discussion of each of the presentations by an interdisciplinary audience of faculty and students. Professor Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota, has kindly agreed to serve as keynote speaker for the conference.

For complete details and the conference schedule, please see the conference website: https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events/conferences/graduate-interdisciplinary-conference-on-south-asia---january-20.html

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 16 Jan 2018 08:40:54 -0500 2018-01-27T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia 2018
Korean Cinema NOW | Anarchist from Colony 박열 (January 27, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47845 47845-11033219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

A romantic drama by acclaimed director Lee Joon-ik (Dongju: Portrait of a Poet, 2016) set against the backdrop of Colonial Era Korea.

Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol (Lee Je-hoon), the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the 1923 great Kanto earthquake, focusing on his activities as the leader of the anti-Japanese organization Bulryeongsa and his relationship with Japanese comrade Fumiko Kaneko (Choi Hee-seo).

Read the interview with the director here: http://mengnews.joins.com/view.aspx?aId=3035715

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:46:59 -0500 2018-01-27T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korea Cinema NOW | Anarchist from Colony 박열
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-28T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
In Conversation: Graphic Power: Promoting Japan through Contemporary Posters (January 28, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47993 47993-11162397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please register to secure your place by emailing umma-program-registration@umich.edu. Please include date and title of program in the subject line of your email.

Japanese graphic designers Ikko Tanaka, Shigeo Fukuda, and Kazumasa Nagai created eye-catching posters for trade fairs, cultural festivals, and exhibitions in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Japan’s strong economy was causing anti-Japanese sentiment overseas. Their posters became powerful tools to promote a deeper understanding of Japan and its long cultural history. Join Curator of Asian Art, Natsu Oyobe, and explore concepts and visual strategies behind these poster designs, which helped to remake the national image.

Lead support for Red Circle is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Jan 2018 23:25:56 -0500 2018-01-28T15:00:00-05:00 2018-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Red Circle
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | “Treating One’s Neighbor Like a Gully” 以鄰為壑: Yellow River Management and the Environmental Ethics of the Chinese State (January 30, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47853 47853-11033230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The ancient philosopher Mencius criticized the hydraulic specialist Bai Gui: “When dealing with floods . . . you, my sir, treat the neighboring state like a gully [by discharging water into it].” In this talk, Professor Zhang argues that the ethical choice Mencius disdained as something “detested by benevolent men” has dominated environmental management – especially management of the Yellow River – by Chinese Confucian states during the past two millennia.

Ling Zhang is Associate Professor in the History Department at Boston College. Professor Zhang received a BA in Humanities and History from Peking University and an MPhil and a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Cambridge. She was a Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard University Center for the Environment and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. Her first book, The River, The Plain, and The State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 (Cambridge University Press, 2016), received the 2017 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the Best Book in Environmental History from the American Society for Environmental History. She is currently working on two book projects about political economy in middle-period China and political ecology of the Yellow River valley.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 09:32:40 -0500 2018-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-30T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ling Zhang, Associate Professor of History, Boston College
Building a Career in China (January 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49386 49386-11453730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Come learn from CRCC Asia about what it's like to work in China and how to stand out in internship applications! Participants will receive a discount on CRCC Asia programs for attending.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:03:24 -0500 2018-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Careers / Jobs image
Interview Tips for International Internships (January 30, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49390 49390-11453733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Learn about interview tips for international internships from CRCC Asia! Participants will receive a discount on CRCC Asia programs for attending.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:09:11 -0500 2018-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Careers / Jobs image
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (January 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Wealth as Pen and Death as Story in Medieval Korea (January 31, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48145 48145-11180772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

In this presentation Juhn Ahn offers a brief description of how wealth shaped religion and death in medieval Korea. The presentation will try to show how the relationship between wealth and religion changed and how the postmortem space of Korean elite families was consequently flattened after the Mongol invasions in the thirteenth century.

By taking a closer look at the history of the relationship between religion and wealth in medieval Korea, he hopes to challenge the widely accepted view that the Buddhist establishment in medieval Korea had grown so extravagant and corrupt that the state had to suppress it. When newly rising Korean elites (many with strong ties to the Mongols) used lavish donations to Buddhist institutions to enhance their status, older elites defended their own adherence to this time-honored practice by arguing that their donations were linked to virtue. This emphasis on virtue and the consequent separation of religion from wealth facilitated the Confucianization of Korea and the relegation of Buddhism to the margins of public authority during the Chosŏn dynasty.

Juhn Ahn is assistant professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press, 2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Jan 2018 08:13:27 -0500 2018-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Juhn Ahn, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (February 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | A History of Distant Reading in Japan (February 1, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47217 47217-10821993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In Japan, the impulse to reason about literature quantitatively goes back at least to Natsume Sōseki’s Theory of Literature (1907). Recently, computational techniques and digital corpora have taken this impulse further, promising new ways of reading literary history. Before diving into this future, however, it is worth reflecting on its past. In this talk I trace a genealogy of quantitative imagining from Sōseki’s theories of reading, to psycholinguistics and stylistic analysis from mid-century, and up through recent applications of computational methods like machine learning. I consider why scholars have previously turned to numbers to reason about literature, what they have gained from it, and what it means to do so now.

Hoyt Long is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Chicago. His research interests include sociology of literature, media history, and cultural analytics. He co-directs the Textual Optics Lab and is currently working on a project that tells the history of modern Japanese literature through a quantitative lens.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:10:20 -0500 2018-02-01T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Hoyt Long, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Chicago
CANCELLED: EIHS Lecture: Private Parts and Public Concerns: Erecting the Modern Japanese Penis (February 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/40916 40916-8828528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In Japan and other places, modernity has given rise to what might be called a “penis industry”: a complex of urological knowledge, business interests, and advertising media that, by instilling a fear in impressionable young males that their genitalia embody a shameful departure from the physical norm, extracts money from their wallets to carry out one or another kind of treatment. This talk considers the emergence of the penis industry in early twentieth-century Japan, focusing on the advertising strategies that its entrepreneurs developed in print to promote a distinctly modern form of psychological anxiety.

Gregory Pflugfelder is an associate professor of Japanese history in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of History at Columbia University. Professor Pflugfelder's current work engages the construction of masculinities, the history of the body, and representations of monstrosity. His books include JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life, coedited with Brett L. Walker (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, 2005); Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 (University of California Press, 1999) and Politics and the Kitchen: A History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Akita Prefecture (in Japanese; Domesu, 1986). His latest writing projects are "Growing Up with Godzilla: A Global History" and "Mobo: Playing the 'Modern Boy' in Interwar Japan and Its Empire." Professor Pflugfelder received his BA from Harvard (1981), his MA from Waseda (1984), and his PhD from Stanford (1996). He has been teaching at Columbia since 1996.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg with support from the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:36:43 -0500 2018-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Pflugfelder
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (February 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Asian Languages Fair (February 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48075 48075-11177994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Are you interested in learning more about the Asian languages taught at the University of Michigan? The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures invites you to the Asian Languages Fair, featuring guests from the Chinese Language Program, Japanese Language Program, Korean Language Program, South Asian Language Program, and Southeast Asian Language Program.

You are invited to come learn about opportunities at UM to study the following languages: Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese. There will also be live cultural performances and opportunities to win raffle prizes.

Students interested in studying abroad in Asia will be able to speak with a representative from the Center for Global and Intercultural Studies (CGIS). A representative from the Language Resource Center will be at the fair, as well, to share information about language-learning resources on campus.

The Asian Languages Fair will be held in the Pond Room on the first floor of the Michigan Union from 11am-3pm on Friday, February 2. We hope to see you there!

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Fair / Festival Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:00:35 -0500 2018-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival flyer
CSAS Lecture Series | Atmospheric Citizenship: Distributions of Life in the Wake of Delhi’s Airpocalypse (February 2, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41936 41936-9495457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

D. Asher Ghertner is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and director of the South Asian Studies Program at Rutgers University. His current research project, “Bad Air: The Cultural Politics of Breathing in ‘the World’s Most Air-Polluted City’,” builds on ethnographic, legal, and archival research to examine how templates of segregation are being remapped onto the three-dimensional space of the atmosphere, and how class- and caste-based exclusions are being reimagined in the wake of the WHO's declaration that Delhi’s air the worst in the world. His first book, Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi (Oxford University Press, 2015), was an ethnography of mass slum demolition, charting the rise of a mode of governing space premised on urban aesthetics.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Aug 2017 09:29:22 -0400 2018-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Asher Ghertner, Department of Geography, Rutgers University
CJS Special Lecture | Japan-U.S. Relations in the Changing World: North Korea, China, and America First (February 2, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48732 48732-11297749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The world seems to be going through many fundamental changes. Some of them deeply worry us or scare us. While they require careful examination and response, they often produce frustration, uneasiness, and uncertainty among peoples and countries of the world. They may also lead to excessive and emotional reactions and irrational denials.

North Korea presents a prime example of these worrisome changes. Trying desperately to survive, Mr. Kim seems to be succeeding in transforming this oppressive and disfunctional regime into a country capable of launching an ICBM targeted at Washington. An ominous change indeed.

China is another. Mr. Xi’s China seems to have reached the point where no country in its vicinity can afford to defy its immense might. Even South Korea, a robust industrial democracy, seems to be at the verge of succumbing to China’s demand that it refrain from closer and stronger security cooperation with the United States, let alone Japan. China’s ascent to this dominant power status is an even bigger change achieved in a relatively short span of time with far-reaching impact on the world order.

Mr. Trump as the new president is in and of itself a big change for the world. While nothing is wrong about his slogan, America First, questions remain whether his means and style of achieving it is the correct one. His decisions to withdraw from TPP, Paris Accord, Iran nuclear deal and some other international commitments the world has taken for granted may do great harms to the global community as well as to the United States itself. Mr. Trump, contrary to his will, may be weakening America.

My presentation will survey these changes in the world and argue that close Japan-U.S. cooperation in the area of security, economy, trade and investment is the key to better cope with these serious challenges benefiting the two countries as well as the whole Indo-Pacific region of the world.

Mr. Naoyuki Agawa currently teaches American constitutional law and history as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He joined Doshisha on April 1, 2016 upon leaving Keio University in Tokyo. At Keio, he served as Professor of the Faculty of Policy Management (1999 – 2016), Vice President, International (2009 – 2013) and Dean of the Faculty of Policy Management (2007 – 2009).

Mr. Agawa served as Minister for Public Affairs in charge of public diplomacy and press relations at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C. on leave of absence from Keio University (2002 – 2005).

Mr. Agawa practiced law with the law firms of Nishimura & Partners in Tokyo (1996 – 2002) and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C. and Tokyo (1987 -1995). He is licensed to practice law in the State of New York and the District of Columbia. He was also with the legal department of Sony Corporation of Tokyo, Japan (1977 -1987). Mr. Agawa read law and graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1984. He also graduated, magna cum laude, from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, in 1977, after transferring from Keio University in 1975.

Mr. Agawa’s books include: Understanding America Today through Its Constitution (2017); A History of Constitutional Amendments and Other Changes in America (2016); American History through the United States Constitution (2004, 2013) (for which he received the Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Award in 2005); Manifest Destiny on the Seas? The Birth and Rise of Pax Americana (edited and coauthored) (2013); The Friendship on the Sea: the United States Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, (2001); and The Birth of an American Lawyer (1986). He is also a co-translator into Japanese of Paul Johnson’s A History of the Jews (1999, 2006). He frequently contributes to various journals and newspapers and engages in public speeches at various fora.

Mr. Agawa has also taught at, among others, the University of Virginia Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and Tokyo University. He currently sits on the board of councilors of the Suntory Foundation, the Nomura Foundation, and the United States-Japan Council. He serves on various occasions as advisor to the government of Japan. This includes his current membership of CULCON, a group that advises the Japanese and U.S. governments on matters related to bilateral cultural and educational exchanges.

Cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:17:41 -0500 2018-02-02T18:30:00-05:00 2018-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Naoyuki Agawa, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Doshisha University
Registration for 2018 SASE STEM Midwest Regional Conference (February 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48861 48861-11317267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

University of Michigan Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers invite you to attend 2018 STEM Midwest Regional Conference (presented by GE, U.S. Navy, UTC, U of M College of Engineering and MSU College of Engineering) on February 2nd and 3rd at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. Students from all backgrounds are encouraged to come. Valuable insights from prominent speakers and career opportunities with top companies. Subsidized ticket ($20) for Michigan students include two catered meals, a T-shirt, bags, water bottles and other SASE swags! Early bird tickets closing soon, so RSVP now at www.sasemidwest2018.com!

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 17 Jan 2018 10:38:30 -0500 2018-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-03T23:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Conference / Symposium FB Cover
Korean Cinema NOW | The World of Us 우리들 (February 3, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47844 47844-11033218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Director Yoon Ga-eun’s first feature film brings us to the world of elementary school children in South Korea and the social issues related.

The main character is an introverted 11-year-old girl named Seon (Choi Soo-in) who struggles to be accepted by her classmates and finds an unexpected opportunity to make a new friend with the arrival of a new student Ji-ah (Seol Hye-in).

The two bond very fast but the differences in their family backgrounds eventually emerge bringing the two apart.

“Delicately paced and absorbing throughout, Yoon’s film never takes things to an extreme, but it soon becomes clear that the pressures these children face are not limited to the school grounds” https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-world-of-us-berlin-review/5100243.article

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:47:17 -0500 2018-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-03T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korea Cinema NOW | The World of Us 우리들
CJS Film Series | The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (February 5, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49490 49490-11464942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the “Enter the Samurai” Film Series sponsored by U-M Center for Japanese Studies.

A routed Japanese general, Yoshitsune (Hanshiro Iwai), and his group of loyal retainers are forced to flee from Yoshitsune’s own traitorous brother. En route to a safe zone, Yoshitsune and his bodyguards must pass through a heavily garrisoned mountain stronghold held by his brother’s forces. Hopelessly outnumbered, Yoshitsune and his guards, led by samurai Benkei (Denjirô Ôkôchi), decided that the safest way to pass through the checkpoint unharmed is to dress themselves as monks. Written & Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:27:58 -0500 2018-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Who is the 'Common' in the 'Common Good'? Public Health, Global Health, and the Bifurcation of Service and Governance in Urban China (February 6, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48425 48425-11233235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In this talk, Dr. Mason will examine the reinvention of the Chinese public health system that took place following the SARS epidemic of 2003, and the implications of this transformation both for the health of China's population and for global health and public health systems more broadly.

Katherine A. Mason is a medical anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in China and the U.S. Her research addresses issues in medical anthropology, population health, global health, bioethics, China studies, reproductive health, and mental health. Her first book, "Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic," based on fieldwork she conducted in southeastern China on the professionalization and ethics of public health in China following the 2003 SARS epidemic, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. She is currently working on a multi-sited ethnographic field project that examines family experiences of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in the U.S. and China. She is also a core consultant on the AmeRicans’ Conceptions of Health Equity Study (ARCHES), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Mason is affiliated with Brown's Population Studies and Training Center, and the Program in Science and Technology Studies, and she has served as an adviser in the Engaged Scholars Program. Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, U.S. Fulbright program, and Association for Asian Studies. She has previously held positions as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar (2013-2015) and a Lecturer in the Health and Societies program at the University of Pennsylvania (2011-2013). She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 2011.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:05:44 -0500 2018-02-06T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-06T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Katherine Mason, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | History as Context for the Present: A Family Story of China’s Coming of Age (February 8, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48862 48862-11317268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you end up on the wrong side of history, nobody writes yours. Correspondent Scott Tong of Marketplace public radio – and a 2013-14 University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow – talks about China’s long and interrupted opening to the world, told through the lives of five people across five generations in his own family. The stories are told in his new book, A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World.

He begins by pursuing the lives of relatives and ancestors whose names are hardly ever spoken at the family table. The untold stories and history help fill in an oft-ignored chapter in the China story: the contribution of mainlanders who adopted the ideas, music and literature of the outside world. Although A Village with My Name is a personal, historical work of narrative nonfiction, it provides history as context to the present. Tong, who is reporting on the current globalization backlash, will also address issues of national identity, globalization and drawbridges that many in the world are asking right now.

Scott Tong has reported from more than a dozen countries as correspondent for Marketplace, from refugee camps in east Africa to shoe factories in eastern China. He toured the oil sands of Canada and snuck into Burma. Currently he serves as correspondent for Marketplace’s Sustainability Desk, where his coverage focuses on energy, the environment, natural resources and the global economy.

In 2006, Scott opened Marketplace’s first permanent bureau in China, as Shanghai bureau chief. His first book, A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World (University of Chicago Press, 2017), is a personal, journalistic discovery of China’s long and interrupted economic opening. More than a faraway story from a long time ago, it addresses the divisive questions about globalization and drawbridges that many countries are debating today.

His reporting includes special coverage of the 2016-2017 globalization backlash; Water: The High Price of Cheap; Venezuela’s economic collapse; the triumph of the shareholder value model in the U.S. and the Price of Profits; the challenge of long-term job creation in the United States; the 2011 Japan tsunami and recovery; the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa; and the economics of one child in China. In 2013-14, Scott was awarded the Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Scott joined Marketplace in 2004, after working as a producer and off-air reporter for the PBS NewsHour, where he produced a series of mini-documentaries from Iraq following the U.S. invasion in 2003. He’s appeared on the PBS NewsHour, the Aspen Ideas Festival and TedxFoggybottom.

A graduate of Georgetown University, Scott is a native of Poughkeepsie, New York. He lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife Cathy and three children. He is an acknowledged soccer dad and cycles to work at a measured pace.

Cosponsored by the U-M Knight-Wallace Program.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:50:11 -0500 2018-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Scott Tong
CJS Special Lecture | Japanese Economy: Successful Recovery, Challenges, Foreign Policy, and US Relations (February 9, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48734 48734-11297750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The Japanese economy appears to have recovered from a two-decade long recession, which began in the early 1990s, as it is currently experiencing continuous growth for a seven-quarter period albeit meager growth rate of approximately 1 percent per year. Low unemployment rate of 2.7 percent and record high corporate profits also reflect relatively favorable economic situation. Despite favorable performance of the Japanese economy at the moment, future prospects are rather dim unless Japan can successfully deal with various structural problems, which include shrinking and ageing population, increasing government debt, and low exposure to the global economy. One important and effective policy that may contribute to solving/mitigating these problems is activist international economic policy such as free trade agreements (FTAs) and economic assistance policy such as official development assistance. Professor Shujiro URATA examines Japan’s current economic situation and identifies the problems, then he discusses the importance of adopting an activist international economic policy with a focus on its relationship with the United States, in order to overcome the problems and achieve sustained economic growth.

Shujiro Urata is Dean and Professor of Economics at Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. He is also Specially Appointed Fellow at the Japanese Centre for Economic Research (JCER), Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry (RIETI), and Senior Research Adviser for the Executive Director of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in Jakarta. Professor Urata received his B.A. in Economics from Keio University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University. He is a former Research Associate at the Brookings Institution, an Economist at the World Bank. He specializes in International Economics and Economics of Development. He has held a number of research and advisory positions including senior advisor to the Government of Indonesia, consultant to the World Bank, OECD, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Japan. He published and edited a number of books on international economic issues and is an author and co-author of numerous articles in professional journals. His book publications in English include Multinationals and Economic Growth in East Asia, co-editor, Routledge, 2006, Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific, co-editor, World Scientific, 2010, Economic Consequences of Globalization: Evidence from East Asia, co-editor, Routledge,2012, and others.

Cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit .

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:28:04 -0500 2018-02-09T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Shujiro Urata, Dean and Professor of Economics, Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
CSAS Lecture Series | India: The Contours of Emerging Agrarian Crisis and its Implications (February 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48761 48761-11306093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

If you are unable to join us in person due to the inclement weather, we will also be livestraming this event here: https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events/live-streaming-event.html

'Everything else can wait but not agriculture'. Indian agriculture has come a long way. Today the agrarian crisis in India has assumed systemic proportions. This has not happened suddenly. This story of agrarian crisis is a story that has unfolded in some sense over last two and a half decades and more. However this crisis is of a completely different dimension and will have a long term impact on the nature of the Republic itself. What then is the nature of this crisis? What are the systemic issues it poses? This presentation is about raising such questions and the way they are framed. The unravelling of India's agrarian landscape potentially has global implications. This presentation is a limited and inadequate attempt to frame the outlines of an understanding of the nature of this crisis.

Ajay Dandekar did his PhD from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi in the early nineties. He has worked on the issue of Denotified and Nomadic Communities, and Pastoral Nomadic groups. He has done work on the agrarian crisis and farmers' suicides. Lately his research interest has spilled over in the issues of resources and conflict in the tribal heartland and he has contributed writings on the same. He is at present a faculty member in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:31:39 -0500 2018-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Ajay Dandekar, Shiv Nadar University
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: How to Win at Checkers Every Time (February 9, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49311 49311-11417451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

After the loss of both parents, 11 years old Oat faces an uncertain future when his older brother must submit to Thailand's annual military draft lottery. Unable to convince his brother to do whatever he can to change his fate, Oat takes matters into his own hands resulting in unexpected consequences.

Based on the stories from the bestselling book Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap, the film is set in the economic fringes of Bangkok and examines the joys and challenges of growing up in contemporary Thailand.

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Film Screening Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:20:02 -0500 2018-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
Korean Cinema NOW | Our President 노무현입니다 (February 10, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48550 48550-11251645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Our President,” directed by LEE Chang-jae, is an outstanding, record-setting documentary on Roh Moo-hyun, the 9th president of the Republic of Korea.

Released two days after the 8th anniversary of his death, the documentary focuses on the spectacular rise of the newly nominated presidential candidate, from 2% support to frontrunner.

From old clips to recent interviews, including one of current president Moon Jae-in, as well as many famous speeches such as that calling for an end of regionalism, “Our President” gives tribute to one of the most popular people in recent South Korean politics.

See also the review from The Korea Herald: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170518000672

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Film Screening Wed, 07 Feb 2018 13:15:32 -0500 2018-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Our President 노무현입니다
CSAS Lecture Series | Demons in Paradise Film Screening (February 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47876 47876-11035901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Sri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratnam is five years old. On a red train, he flees the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the Pro-Sinhalese majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker, he takes the same train from South to North.

As he advances, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil's fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes.

Reminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again.

DEMONS IN PARADISE is the result of ten years of work. For the first time, a Tamil documentary filmmaker living in Sri Lanka is seeing the Civil war from the inside.

Jude Ratnam worked for an NGO before becoming a filmmaker. He obtained a degree in sociology and psychology from the University of Kamaraj in southern India, before studying cinema at the School of Media Art and Managment in Sri Lanka. In 2006, he left his post at the NGO, no longer able to bear the hypocrisy of a job consisting in preaching reconciliation while civil war still raged, and the country was violently divided and impoverished. He spent months thinking about how to reach the greatest number of people in an intimate yet political way. How could he tap into the emotions as well as the minds of his compatriots? His love for cinema suddenly made it seem obvious: He had to make films. It was this intuition that gave him the courage to commit to a project for 10 years, despite the risks involved. He trained and had the backing of a French team (his co-writer Isabelle Marina introduced him to the producer Julie Paratian), along with some Tamil and Sinhalese partners, since his aim was to put into practice a dialog of reconciliation during the actual shoot. On his way, he met some key gures who each, in their own way, gave him the strength to carry on: Tue Steen Muller, director of European Documentary Network; Ally Derks of the IDFA BERTHA FUND;
 Raoul Peck, president of the Fémis film school, when he attended the ARCHIDOC workshop; director Rithy Panh, his inspiration;
 the founder of ARTE’s Documentary Unit, Thierry Garrel; and Christian Jeune and Thierry Frémaux, who selected his film for the Festival de Cannes.
 Jude Ratnam is also a film critic and cofounder of the Colombo Film Circle, and manager of the KRITI-A Work of Art production company, which coproduced Demons In Paradise. He is currently working on 
some new film projects in Sri Lanka.

V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, a fiction writer and journalist, is the author of Love Marriage (Random House, 2008). The novel, which is set in Sri Lanka and some of its diaspora communities, was long-listed for the Orange Prize and named one of Washington Post Book World’s Best of 2008. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, Himal Southasian, and The American Prospect, among others. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is a contributing editor for Copper Nickel and Jaggery, a founding member of Lanka Solidarity, and a member of the board of directors of The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, and the American Academy in Berlin, among others, she is at work on a second novel, excerpts of which have appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014. She is on the board of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies, and is a founding member of Lanka Solidarity. In 2014, she concluded a five-year stint as the Delbanco Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. In the fall of 2015, she began teaching in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota.

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Film Screening Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:45:21 -0500 2018-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 North Quad Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Demons in Paradise
CJS Film Series | Rashomon (February 12, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49552 49552-11476263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the “Enter the Samurai” Film Series sponsored by U-M Center for Japanese Studies.

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, “Rashomon” is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.
Written & Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:19:55 -0500 2018-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Rashomon
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Between Blood and Sex: The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989-2013 (February 13, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48657 48657-11265183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Do external interventions matter? Existing research has focused on the extent to which transnational efforts compel recalcitrant governments to reduce levels of domestic repression, but few have considered how such interventions might also provoke new forms of repression. Using a longitudinal study of repression against AIDS activism in China between 1989 and 2013, Professor Long will propose that transnational institutions’ provision of material resources and reshaping of organizational rules can transform a domestic repressive apparatus in specific policy areas. The intervention of transnational AIDS institutions in China not only constrained traditional violent coercion, but also generated new forms of “diplomatic repression” that inadvertently contributed to expanded mobilization for urban gay men but demobilization for others. She will conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for understanding authoritarian innovation and sustainability.

Yan Long is an Assistant Professor of International Studies and Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a cultural and organizational sociologist interested in the evolution of technocratic governance as a transnational institutional model and its impact on existing forms of domination and resistance. Yan’s current book project, "Side Effects: The Transnational Doing and Undoing of AIDS Politics in China" (under contract, Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics), concerns the transformation of China’s infectious disease control driven by the conflict between transnational AIDS institutions, the state, and local activist groups. This book stems from her dissertation that won the 2014 ASA Dissertation Award. Yan was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society after obtaining her PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:06:10 -0500 2018-02-13T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-13T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yan Long, Assistant Professor of International Studies and Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington
CSAS Lecture Series | The Way She Saw It: Introducing Gauri Lankesh (February 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48766 48766-11306096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

The talk introduces the life and work of Gauri Lankesh, the courageous journalist and activist who was assassinated in Bangalore last year. After a fifteen year stint in mainstream English journalism, Gauri became editor of Lankesh Patrike, a major Kannada weekly, in 2000. The subsequent years saw her emerge as an important social and political activist in Karnataka. What were her political concerns? What forms did her activism take? An engagement with these questions illustrates the challenges and dilemmas of being a secular activist in India. Examining the public responses to her death, the talk also attempts to grasp the changing political culture in India.

Chandan Gowda's research interests include social theory, Indian normative traditions, caste, and Kannada literature and cinema. In addition to his academic publications, he has written for newspapers and published translations of Kannada fiction and non-fiction in English. Before moving to APU, he was Associate Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion, National Law School of India, Bengaluru, between 2008 and 2011. He is presently completing a book on the cultural politics of development in old Mysore state.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:02:55 -0500 2018-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Chandan Gowda, Azim Premji University
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Imperial Japan and the Nature of Borders in Occupied Inner Mongolia (February 15, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47716 47716-11002098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The multiethnic landscape of Inner Mongolia posed fundamental problems around governance and legibility for Japanese authorities after they invaded Northeast China in 1931. This talk examines how Japanese occupiers separated out nomadic and sedentary livelihoods along a new internal border through population transfers and rural development. Here, Japanese imperialism transformed an earlier policy of assimilation into a blueprint for establishing zones of ethnic autonomy. Inner Mongolia later became the first of these zones in 1947. Instead of only seeing the origins of Communist rule as forged in the fires of war against imperialism, this talk points to the significance of the Japanese occupation in shaping the ethnic and ecological bounds of modern China.

Sakura Christmas is an Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. A scholar of modern Japan, she focuses on the history of imperialism, the environment, and the borderlands. She is currently revising her first book, "Nomadic Borderlands: Imperial Japan and the Origins of Ethnic Autonomy in China".

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:35:10 -0500 2018-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Imperial Japan and the Nature of Borders in Occupied Inner Mongolia
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (February 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46613 46613-10566963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own seasonal Ikebana arrangement with guidance by a certified instructor. Cost: $20 which covers flowers and instructor. Reservations required. Info: a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Presenter: Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter

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Class / Instruction Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:02:58 -0500 2018-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-15T14:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
You For Me For You (February 15, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42734 42734-9653742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama. Directed by Priscilla Lindsay. Two sisters, separated during their escape from North Korea, cross space and time to be together again. Premiered in Washington D.C. in 2015.

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Performance Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:35:34 -0500 2018-02-15T19:30:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance You For Me For You
You For Me For You: Opening Night Reception (February 15, 2018 9:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48753 48753-11300572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 9:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This reception follows the opening night performance of the Department of Theatre & Drama’s You For Me For You. This event is sponsored by the Department of Theatre & Drama and the LSA Nam Center for Korean Studies.

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Performance Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:15:34 -0500 2018-02-15T21:30:00-05:00 Michigan League School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance You For Me For You: Opening Night Reception
Tet 2018 Lunar Near Year (February 16, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50049 50049-11630733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Join the Vietnamese Language Table to celebrate the lunar new year with food, games, and the music of TẾT!

Room 1022, South Thayer Building.
12:00-1:00 p.m. February 16, 2018

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:41:02 -0500 2018-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Social / Informal Gathering 202 S. Thayer
CANCELLED - A Conversation on North Korea as Artistic Inspiration (February 16, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49949 49949-11608289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL ISSUES.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

This conversation between playwright Mia Chung and U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and Nam Center faculty, David Chung will discuss how North Korea, real and imagined, informs their artistic work.

This event is in conjunction with the U-M School of Music Theatre & Dance Department of Theatre & Drama's 2017-2018 season production of "You for Me for You" by Mia Chung: https://events.umich.edu/event/42734

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:12:12 -0500 2018-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion A Conversation on North Korea as Artistic Inspiration
Theatre Conversation: Mia Chung, playwright (February 16, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50025 50025-11622338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A conversation between playwright Mia Chung and U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and Nam Center faculty, David Chung about how North Korea, real and imagined, informs their artistic work.

This event is in conjunction with the U-M School of Music Theatre & Dance Department of Theatre & Drama's 2017-18 season production of "You for Me for You" by Mia Chung.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:15:28 -0500 2018-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
CSAS Lecture Series | Reactive Viewing: Screens and Publics in 21st Century India (February 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41937 41937-9495458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Film and television in India have engendered excessive responses from sections of the audience for well over half a century now. There are well-documented studies of such excesses in the domains of film star fandom and popular devotion alike. In the more recent past, screen images have been accused of causing violence and even death (of viewers either due to shock or suicide). Recent scholarship on print media expands the field of audience excesses by suggesting that newspapers and magazines are not far behind as triggers of violence. And none of this research is even referring to the minefield of social media outrage. Although it should not come as a surprise to researchers that contemporary publics do not easily fit into the Habsermasian conception of the public sphere, literature on old and new media continue to be framed by it. Furthermore, the spectatorial response that constitutes screen publics in our time is not satisfactorily explained by concepts such as darsan, corpothetics and the active audience. I examine the evolving texts and contexts of film star fandom to argue that forms of engagement characteristic of fan activity offer insights into present day media publics—even those that have nothing do with either stars or the cinema.

S.V. Srinivas is a professor at the School of Liberal Studies, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has been associated with the Bengaluru-based Centre for the Study of the Culture and Society in various capacities since 1998 and is now one of its trustees. He held visiting positions at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2004-05), Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science (2013-15) and the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad (2014). He was the ICCR Chair Professor of Indian Culture and Society at Georgetown University (2012-13). His research focuses on the intersections between popular culture and mass politics. He is currently working on Telugu and Tamil language blockbusters. He is the author of Megastar (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Politics as Performance (Permanent Black, 2013).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Aug 2017 09:55:34 -0400 2018-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion S.V. Srinivas, Azim Premji University
CSEAS Lecture. Crossroads, Crossings, and Transgressions: Deconstructing Borders and Barriers in Southeast Asian/American Studies (February 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49569 49569-11476280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

While Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of influences and transnational movements, the rise of Asia-Pacific as an economic and political power center has brought increased attention to regional dynamics, transnational connections, processes and practices. Transnational flows of people, goods, capital, and ideas have engendered optimism about exchange, interdependence, and understanding, while persisting conflicts over resources, territorial claims, and national belonging have animated the discourse about borders, boundaries, lines of differentiation and stratification, crossings and transgressions in the examination of both the causes and consequences of conflict. These new im/mobilities and spatialities, in turn, compel a re-thinking of prevailing approaches and epistemologies that have been delimited by disciplinary boundaries.

This talk maps and interrogates the ways in which global and regional forces and dynamics inform new im/mobilities, spatialities, and belongings, and the negotiations that Southeast Asian individuals and communities have to engage at multiple levels and in multiple arenas. It is particularly attentive to the linkages between macro forces and the micro politics of the everyday struggle to survive and resist. It critiques and problematizes the binary between area and Ethnic/American Studies, and argues for a more expansive analytical approach that focuses on continuum, intersectionality, and relationality between peoples, communities, histories, and fields of study without abandonment of historical, contextual, and experiential specificities.

Professor Khatharya Um is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, and affiliated faculty of Global Studies, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for Race and Gender. She is also Faculty Adviser for the Berkeley Human Rights Center, member of the UC system-wide Faculty Advisory Board on Southeast Asia, and Faculty Academic Director of Berkeley Study Abroad.

Professor Um received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley where she was also the Chancellor’s Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research and teaching interests focus simultaneously on Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian American communities and include migration, diaspora and transnational studies, colonial and post colonial studies, and genocide studies. She is the author of From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora (NYU Press, 2015) and lead co-editor of Southeast Asian Migration: People on the Move in Search of Work, Refuge and Belonging (Sussex Academic Press, 2015), and has published numerous scholarly articles on Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian American communities.

In addition to her academic work, Professor Um is also actively involved in community advocacy, principally on issues of refugee integration and of educational access for linguistically and culturally diverse students. She has served on numerous national and community Boards of Directors, including as Board Chair of the Washington DC- based Southeast Asian Resource Action Center, and as President of the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese Americans. She was also Founder and Chair of the National Cambodian American Organization, Commissioner of the National Cambodian Health Crisis Initiative, and member of the Panel of Experts of the NEA Quality Schools Project.

Professor Um has received numerous awards for her community leadership and service, including congressional recognitions from Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo. She was a Chancellor Public Scholar and the first Cambodian American woman to receive a Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:53:24 -0500 2018-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion um_image
You For Me For You (February 16, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42734 42734-9653743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama. Directed by Priscilla Lindsay. Two sisters, separated during their escape from North Korea, cross space and time to be together again. Premiered in Washington D.C. in 2015.

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Performance Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:35:34 -0500 2018-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance You For Me For You
You For Me For You (February 17, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42734 42734-9653744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2018 8:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama. Directed by Priscilla Lindsay. Two sisters, separated during their escape from North Korea, cross space and time to be together again. Premiered in Washington D.C. in 2015.

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Performance Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:35:34 -0500 2018-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance You For Me For You
You For Me For You (February 18, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42734 42734-9653745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama. Directed by Priscilla Lindsay. Two sisters, separated during their escape from North Korea, cross space and time to be together again. Premiered in Washington D.C. in 2015.

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Performance Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:35:34 -0500 2018-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance You For Me For You
CJS Film Series | Seven Samurai (February 19, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49554 49554-11476264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the “Enter the Samurai” Film Series sponsored by U-M Center for Japanese Studies.

A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. A giant battle occurs when 40 bandits attack the village.
Written & Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:24:30 -0500 2018-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-19T22:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Seven Samurai
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Moonwalking in Beijing: Michael Jackson, Piliwu, and the Origins of Chinese Hip-Hop (February 20, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48551 48551-11251646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

During the latter half of the 1980s, a popular dance craze known as "piliwu" 霹雳舞 swept urban communities across China. Incorporating two new styles of US urban popular dance--New York-based b-boying/b-girling or "breaking" and California-based popping and locking-- piliwu was China's first localized movement of hip-hop culture, which reflected new circuits of intercultural exchange between China and the United States during the first decade of China's Reform Era. Analyzing the dance choreography recorded in a 1988 Chinese film, Rock Youth 摇滚青年 (dir. Tian Zhangzhuang), together with media reports and testimonials from members of China's piliwu generation, this talk reconstructs the history of the piliwu movement, arguing for the central influence of U.S. pop culture icon Michael Jackson, the growth of China's underground commercial dance (zou xue 走穴) economy, and the agency of dancers' bodies in transnational movements of media culture.

Emily Wilcox is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She is a specialist in Chinese performance culture, especially dance, and has published articles in both English and Chinese in "Asian Theatre Journal," "TDR: The Drama Review," "The Journal of Asian Studies," "Wudao Pinglun (The Dance Review)," and other venues. Dr. Wilcox co-curated the 2017 exhibition "Chinese Dance: National Movements in a Revolutionary Age, 1945-1965" that was on display in the UM Hatcher Library last spring, and she is the author of a forthcoming book on the history of concert dance in the People's Republic of China.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:29:38 -0500 2018-02-20T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-20T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Emily Wilcox, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Nam Center Colloquium Series | From 1988 Seoul to 2018 Pyeongchang: What Have We Learned in Hosting Mega Events? (February 21, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48531 48531-11243831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

If hosting a mega sport event is a measure of success in the sport system of a nation, South Korea is one of sport powerhouses that have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics, the FIFA World Cup, and the IAAF World Championships (track and field event). Hosting cities often experience drastic makeovers with an enhanced civic infrastructure but also are left with white elephant stadiums and huge debt. Pyeongchang is no exception. While the 1988 Seoul Olympics were a resounding success with millions of South Koreans attending events and tuning in on television, critics concern that the Pyeongchang Games will not receive such national support. The Pyeongchang Olympics Organizing Committee (OOC) has been struggling with slow ticket sales and lack of enthusiasm from the public. Geopolitics and escalating tensions with North Korea aside, I will review other reasons for the lack of interest. In addition, I will briefly review the development of sport system in Korea between the two Olympics and lessons we can learn from hosting the Winter Games.

Dae Hee Kwak is an Associate Professor of Sport Management in the School of Kinesiology. His research focuses on sport consumer behavior and consumer psychology. He has published in numerous articles in sport management and marketing outlets and recently co-edited a book "Sport in Korea: History, Development, Management" (Routledge). He is currently the director of the Center for Sport Marketing Research at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:28:32 -0500 2018-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion From 1988 Seoul to 2018 Pyeongchang: What Have We Learned in Hosting Mega Events?
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | A Woman’s Network in Japan around 1800 (February 22, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47187 47187-10813705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The talk examines the family network of one woman throughout her life that connected families across geographical space and also across status boundaries in Edo Japan (1600–1868). Rai Shizu’s (1760–1843) network centers around families of Confucian scholars in the late Edo period who all shared similar goals. Though administratively a household was a male-centered organization—and we will encounter many fathers, brothers and sons—women in their roles as mothers, daughters, and wives were indispensable for the maintenance and continuation of a household in addition to keeping up relations with other families.

The talk will introduce the Japanese Biographical Database:
https://www.network-studies.org/#!/

The records of Rai Shizu—a diary kept for over fifty years and many letters—offer a wealth of materials that make clear her role and position in the family endeavor. We will accompany Shizu in her relations when a young wife and mother in the castle town of Hiroshima. While her husband Shunsui stayed in Edo on duty on and off for almost twelve years, Shizu ran the household, was responsible for her children’s education, and was the important link in the family network. In her mature years, when Shunsui returned and the children were older, the couple’s house continued to be the center of the extended family and students. Even as a widow and of advanced age, Shizu was never able to let go of her household duties or directing the family’s fortune.

Bettina Gramlich-Oka is professor of Japanese history at Sophia University, Tokyo. Her current research interest combines intellectual networks, economic thought, and gender in the late Edo period. Most recent publication is “‘Knowing the [Confucian] Way’ and the Political Sphere.” In "Religion, Culture and the Public Sphere in China and Japan" (Religion and Society in Asia Pacific), ed. Albert Welter, Jeffrey Newmark, pp. 87–114. Palgrave MacMillan, 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:48:37 -0500 2018-02-22T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Network Visualization
CJS Film Series | Throne of Blood (February 26, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49555 49555-11476265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the “Enter the Samurai” Film Series sponsored by U-M Center for Japanese Studies.

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu (TOSHIRÔ MIFUNE) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit’s prophecy comes true, Washizu’s scheming wife, Asaji (ISUZU YAMADA), presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit’s prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director AKIRA KUROSAWA’s resetting of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
Written & Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:34:50 -0500 2018-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-26T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Throne of Blood
CJS Film Series | The Hidden Fortress (March 5, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49557 49557-11476268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 5, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japanese peasants Matashichi (Kamatari Fujiwara) and Tahei (Minoru Chiaki) try and fail to make a profit from a tribal war. They find a man and woman whom they believe are simple tribe members hiding in a fortress. Although the peasants don’t know that Rokurota (Toshirô Mifune) is a general and Yuki (Misa Uehara) is a princess, the peasants agree to accompany the pair to safety in return for gold. Along the way, the general must prove his expertise in battle while also hiding his identity.
Written & Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:46:19 -0500 2018-03-05T19:00:00-05:00 2018-03-05T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening The Hidden Fortress
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Evoking Enlightenment: The Rise of Poetic Language in Early Tantric Ritual (March 6, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47859 47859-11033305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

With the advent of the tantras came an unprecedented interest in the imagination, aesthetic experience, and poetic expression. At key moments in tantric ritual practice, poetic language began to be used to evoke a taste of awakening. The shift is seen most clearly in early tantric ritual manuals, the documents of lived Buddhist practice, examples of which will be drawn from the Dunhuang archive and analyzed for the kinds of literary moves they make.

Jacob Dalton, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, University of California, Berkeley, holds joint appointments in the departments of East Asian Languages and Culture and South and Southeast Asian Studies, for which he currently serves as chair. After working for three years (2002-05) as a researcher with the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library, he taught at Yale University (2005-2008) before moving to Berkeley. He works on tantric ritual, Nyingma Religious history, paleography, and the Dunhuang manuscripts. He is the author of "The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Tantra" (Columbia University Press, 2016), and co-author of "Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts from Dunhuang: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Stein Collection at the British Library" (Brill, 2006). He is currently working on a study of tantric ritual in the Dunhuang Manuscripts.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2018 13:08:21 -0500 2018-03-06T11:30:00-05:00 2018-03-06T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jacob P. Dalton, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Chair, South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
A Visitor’s View of Indonesia and Singapore (March 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42694 42694-9632915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Experience a 3-week photo trip to four islands and 5 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Indonesia and Singapore with OLLI colleagues Van Harrison and Bill Roberts.

You start in Jakarta on the Island of Java, Indonesia’s capitol. Fly to Yogykarta in southeastern Java, to see the sultan’s palace, the Buddhist temple complex of Borobodur, the Hindu temple complex of Parmbanan, and a volcano. Fly to the island of Bali to the upland artist colony of Ubud to visit the palace and travel through rice paddies to temple complexes. Fly to Labuanbajo on the island of Flores and travel to a mountain village to see a whip dance. Go by boat to Komodo and Rinca Islands to see 9-foot-long Komodo dragons. Fly back to Bali to relax in the southern beach town of Sanur and visit the Hindu Ulu Watu Temple and see the Kecak dance. Then fly to Singapore, the world’s only island city-state. Visit sites including botanic gardens, Marina Bay, and Gardens by the Bay.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership not required to attend "After 5" Events.

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION TO THE KELLOGG EYE CENTER, 1000 WALL STREET

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:52:48 -0500 2018-03-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-03-06T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion After 5
Connect with U-M Alumnus and SDE International Managing Director Stefan Wu (March 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50757 50757-11861936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

About SDE:
SDE International is an education solution provider. Supported by district education offices in cities throughout China, SDE International works to promote English education in Chinese classrooms, and to facilitate an international experience for Chinese students.

SDE International's primary focus is on the provision and management of Foreign Talents (particularly Foreign Teachers) working in public and private educational institutions in China. The majority of our teachers are currently based in Shenzhen, but we also have teachers in Beijing, and opportunities in Chengdu and Wuhan. Our management team includes foreign nationals and we employ education professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Date: Thursday, March 8th
Time: 10 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (You do not need to attend the entire session, just drop in whenever you can)
Location: LSA Building, Room 2001
RSVP: https://umichlsa-csm.symplicity.com/students/index.php?mode=form&id=636f30005762e4ca1a38e0ebc1ce4b44&s=event&ss=ws

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:34:50 -0500 2018-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T11:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Careers / Jobs LSA Building
US-Japan Relations: Past, Present, and Future (March 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50051 50051-11630734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This conference convenes experts to discuss the history and future of the US-Japan relations, arguably the most important bilateral relationship in the world in the last century and a half. Drawing on the book, "The History of US-Japan Relations: From Perry to the Present", but going beyond what is covered in the book, the three panels examine US-Japan relations in different historical periods and in different policy arenas, with a view to producing insights into how this bilateral relationship has shaped and will shape the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Welcome & Introductory Remarks (10:00am)

Kiyoteru Tsutsui, University of Michigan

Panel 1: US-Japan Relations from the Late 19th to Mid-20th Century (10:15am-12:15pm)

Facilitator: Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan

Kaoru Iokibe, University of Tokyo; “Japanese Modernization under American Intervention and Isolation”

Frederick Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania; “Asian-American Century: 1920s Japan, 21st Century China and the Rise and Fall of a Global America”

Fumiaki Kubo, University of Tokyo; “From Rivals, Enemies, to Allies: US-Japan Relations from 1920s to 1940s”

Adam Liff, Indiana University; “The Power of Example and the Changing Nature of Power”

Panel 2: US-Japan Economic Relations and Multilateral Frameworks (1:30-3:30pm)

Facilitator: Alan Deardorff, University of Michigan

Masayuki Tadokoro, Keio University; “Economic Rivalries between Allies: The US-Japan Economic Frictions in the 1980s”

Wendy Cutler, Asia Society; “Prospects for U.S. Return to TPP-11”

Christina Davis, Princeton University; “Japan and the Multilateral Trade Regime”

Takako Hikotani, Columbia University; “Stepping Up: Japan’s Contributions to the Liberal Democratic Order”

Panel 3: US-Japan Alliance and Security in East Asia (3:45-5:45 pm)

Facilitator: Melvyn Levitsky, University of Michigan

Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations; “North Korea and U.S. Alliance Responses in Asia”

Andrew Oros, Washington College; “The Alliance Role in Managing Uncertainty in East Asia’s New Security Environment”

Koji Murata, Doshisha University; “Japanese Domestic Politics and US-Japan Relations”

Makoto Iokibe, Kobe University; “US-Japan Leadership in the Post-9/11 East Asia”

Concluding Remarks (5:45pm)

John Ciorciari, University of Michigan

Reception (6:00-7:00 pm)

Organized by the Center for Japanese Studies and International Policy Center, University of Michigan.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 02 Mar 2018 08:58:57 -0500 2018-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium US-Japan Relations: Past, Present and Future
VCW's Critical Visualities conference (March 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50557 50557-11802347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

THURSDAY, MARCH 8 (3222 Angell)
10:00am-12:00pm | Panel 1: Script/Transcript
Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), "The Performative Photographic Index"
VK Preston (Toronto), "Performing Witch Archives: Decriminalizing Witchcraft"
Emily Wilcox (U-M), "Moonwalking in Beijing: Mediating Michael Jackson in Global Hip-Hop Dance"

1:00-3:00pm | Panel 2: Speculation/Fabulation
Sara Blair (U-M), "Occupational Hazards: The Performance of the Photo Portrait"
Hentyle Yapp (NYU), "Fireworks, Shine, and Postsocialist Form"
Tavia Nyong'o (Yale), "Towards a Critical Politics of Afro-Fabulation"

3:15-5:00pm | Feedback Session for Graduate Student Works-in-Progress

FRIDAY, MARCH 9 (3222 Angell)
9:30-11:30am | Panel 3: Life/Afterlife
Ruby Tapia (U-M), "Against 'Passive Resistance': On Photography, Facelessness, and the Juvenile Exception"
Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M), "The Play in the System: Parasitical Performance Art and the Art of Resistance from Within"
Rebecca Schneider (Brown), "Slough Media: Performance, Media Object, and the Production of Obsolescence"

11:45am-1:15pm | Closing/collective reflection: Where next?

With any questions, please don't hesitate to be in touch at visualculture@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:04:48 -0500 2018-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Critical Visualities schedule
VCW's Critical Visualities conference (March 9, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50557 50557-11802348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 9:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

THURSDAY, MARCH 8 (3222 Angell)
10:00am-12:00pm | Panel 1: Script/Transcript
Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), "The Performative Photographic Index"
VK Preston (Toronto), "Performing Witch Archives: Decriminalizing Witchcraft"
Emily Wilcox (U-M), "Moonwalking in Beijing: Mediating Michael Jackson in Global Hip-Hop Dance"

1:00-3:00pm | Panel 2: Speculation/Fabulation
Sara Blair (U-M), "Occupational Hazards: The Performance of the Photo Portrait"
Hentyle Yapp (NYU), "Fireworks, Shine, and Postsocialist Form"
Tavia Nyong'o (Yale), "Towards a Critical Politics of Afro-Fabulation"

3:15-5:00pm | Feedback Session for Graduate Student Works-in-Progress

FRIDAY, MARCH 9 (3222 Angell)
9:30-11:30am | Panel 3: Life/Afterlife
Ruby Tapia (U-M), "Against 'Passive Resistance': On Photography, Facelessness, and the Juvenile Exception"
Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M), "The Play in the System: Parasitical Performance Art and the Art of Resistance from Within"
Rebecca Schneider (Brown), "Slough Media: Performance, Media Object, and the Production of Obsolescence"

11:45am-1:15pm | Closing/collective reflection: Where next?

With any questions, please don't hesitate to be in touch at visualculture@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:04:48 -0500 2018-03-09T09:30:00-05:00 2018-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Critical Visualities schedule
CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. The Unfilled Vacuum: ASEAN and American Decline in Southeast Asia (March 9, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46943 46943-10703017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Increasingly, Southeast Asian states fear that the United States is an unreliable ally. This feeling has been growing since the end of the Cold War. In the 1990s, the US and Southeast Asian clashed over the “Asian values debate” and predatory American actions during the Asian economic crisis. In the 2000s, Southeast Asia was alarmed by growing American imperial overstretch in the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The inability of the Obama administration to “rebalance” American foreign policy towards the Asia Pacific was a further cause for concern. Today, the erratic behavior of the Trump administration is adding to regional instability and uncertainty. A security vacuum is opening in Southeast Asia. China wants to fill this vacuum, but it is distrusted in the larger region. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) sees one of its purposes as shaping the regional security environment. Can it fill the hole left by the changing American regional role?

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:06:36 -0500 2018-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED--CSAS Lecture Series | Lucknow in Letters: Endeavors, Achievements, and Tragedies (March 9, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/41916 41916-9489368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

We regret that we have had to cancel this event and we apologize for any inconvenience.

"Lucknow in letters: endeavours, achievements, and tragedies" is a multilingual (Urdu, English and Hindi) reading of personal letters written to/from Lucknow along with some contemporary newspaper reports and essays that provides glimpses of and chronicles the lived experience of the city since the 'ghadar' (Revolt of 1857) to the present times. Accompanied by images of original manuscripts, letters and the people who wrote them, the event has been conceived of as a labour of love for the city and its syncretic culture. The letters have been sourced from family archives and published material recording memories of everyday life in the city as well as events in history and interesting intersections of the personal and the political.

A contemporary Urdu newspaper account of the beginnings of the revolt of 1857 in the cantonments of Lucknow , letters written by British officers stationed in the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries….letters recording the sacrifices made in the struggle for independence….letters about memories of separation and longing of families torn apart by the Partition….of the determined struggle by the oppressed and marginalized groups as they struggled to lead a life of dignity in an independent India…..letters about everyday life….of childhood pranks, marriage proposals and food….these letters weave a tapestry of what it meant to live in the city and how those who wrote these letters interpreted and narrativised what they experienced of life in the city.

Saman Habib is currently a Senior Scientist at the Central Drug Research Institute in Lucknow where her work involves dissecting the molecular workings of the malaria parasite. She is also interested in the public interface of science and the spread of evidence-based, rational thought.

Sanjay Muttoo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism in Kamla Nehru College, Delhi University. He has been associated with All India Radio as a newsreader in English. In partnership with publishing firm Scholastic, he tells stories to children in primary schools. He has made documentary films and worked in television.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:27:01 -0500 2018-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Lucknow in Letters
Palestine & Native America: Settler colonialism and Indigeneity (March 9, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50563 50563-11816527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 5:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Tricontinental Solidarity Network

We are happy to invite you to this conversation between Mallory Whiteduck (American Culture) and Raya Naamneh (Comparative Literature) to comparatively and critically discuss indigeneity and the experiences of living under settler colonialism in both North America and Palestine. Thinking through these two fragmented geopolitical spaces, we hope to discuss the relevance of this transnational connection for the understanding of indigenous experiences and forms of anti-colonial resistance, past and present.
The event will include food and light refreshments.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:29:11 -0500 2018-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T18:30:00-05:00 West Hall Tricontinental Solidarity Network Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Korean Cinema NOW | The Villainess 악녀 (March 10, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48563 48563-11251664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

A blockbuster by former stuntman Jung Byung-gil (Confession of Murder 2012), the film feels like a first- person video game: “The camera whips to each new target with the assurance of someone who knows all the combinations, and has instinctive, practiced access to every code and cheat.”

The main character is an assassin (Kim Ok-bin) trying to escape her violent world, thrilling action-scene after action-scene, interspersed with some romance with her neighbor Hyun-soo Jung (Joon Sung).

Please also see the New York Times review: https://nyti.ms/2vvPggC

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:04:40 -0500 2018-03-10T13:00:00-05:00 2018-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening The Villainess 악녀
Indonesian Cultural Night 2018 (March 10, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50477 50477-11776836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: PERMIAS (Indonesian Student Association)

ICN will present a variety of Indonesian performances ranging from dramas inspired by local folk tales, Indonesian instrumental performances, and traditional dances from multiple parts of the country. We will also be serving Indonesian food at the end of the performances.

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Performance Tue, 27 Feb 2018 01:08:47 -0500 2018-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 2018-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre PERMIAS (Indonesian Student Association) Performance Indonesian Cultural Night 2018 Barong
CJS Film Series | Yojimbo (March 12, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49562 49562-11476275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the “Enter the Samurai” Film Series sponsored by U-M Center for Japanese Studies.

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master (Toshirô Mifune), enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon (Kamatari Fujiwara) and sake merchant Tokuemon (Takashi Shimura) to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Written & Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:53:17 -0500 2018-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Yojimbo
LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Between Arming and Disarming: The Culture and Politics of Private Gun Ownership in Modern China (March 13, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48514 48514-11243804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private gun ownership became surprisingly common. Civilian ownership of guns not only contributed to persistent social violence, but also transformed power structurers in local society and accelerated local militarization, changing the balance of power between state and society. The decision that each political entity made about how to deal with armed civilians had profound effects in the national political arena.

Lei Duan is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Liebethal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. His main research interest is social violence and state power in China. His current book project focuses on private gun ownership and its sociocultural and political implications in modern China from 1860 to 1949. He received his PhD in 2017 from the Department of History at Syracuse University, obtained an MA in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2011, and his BA from Nankai University in 2008.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:42:11 -0500 2018-03-13T11:30:00-04:00 2018-03-13T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Lei Duan, Postdoctoral Scholar, U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
WCED Lecture. Rights in Peril in the Philippines: How Rights Are Wronged and How We Fight Back (March 13, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47506 47506-10940117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

The Philippines is the oldest democracy in Asia. Once priding itself as the bastion of progressive thought on human rights, the country transitioned from decades of authoritarianism to democracy through an exemplary bloodless revolution. Recently, however, the country has faced deep challenges to the protection and promotion of human rights including mass killings in a drug war and attempts to stifle and silence watchdog institutions. In this public lecture, Chito Gascon will draw on his decades of work as a political activist and social reformer, and share his reflections on the social and political challenges to human rights and democracy in the Philippines.

Jose Luis Martin “Chito” Gascon was appointed in 2015 by President Benigno S. Aquino III as Chair of the Human Rights Commission of the Philippines, and his term will last until 2022. He has been active in public and government service for more than 30 years, at one time holding positions at the Department of Education and Office of the President. His continuing reform advocacies are in the areas of human rights, access to justice and the rule of law, transparency and accountability initiatives, political and electoral reforms, peace and conflict transformation, people’s participation and civic education, and state building in the context of democratic transitions. He holds bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and law from the University of the Philippines, and a master of law (LLM) degree specializing in International Law (Human Rights, Law of Peace, and Settlement of International Disputes) from Cambridge University as a member of St. Edmund's College through a joint British Chevening and Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:49:53 -0500 2018-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 2018-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Chito Gascon
CWPS Faculty Lecture Series (March 13, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48778 48778-11306109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

During the latter half of the 1980s, a popular dance craze known as "piliwu" 霹雳舞 swept urban communities across China. Incorporating two new styles of U.S. urban popular dance--New York-based b-boying/b-girling or "breaking" and California-based popping and locking-- piliwu was China's first localized movement of hip-hop culture, which reflected new circuits of intercultural exchange between China and the United States during the first decade of China's Reform Era. Analyzing the dance choreography recorded in a 1988 Chinese film, Rock Youth 摇滚青年 (dir. Tian Zhangzhuang), together with media reports and testimonials from members of China's piliwu generation, this talk reconstructs the history of the piliwu movement, arguing for the central influence of U.S. pop culture icon Michael Jackson, the growth of China's underground commercial dance (zou xue 走穴) economy, and the agency of dancers' bodies in transnational movements of media culture.

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week 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, 16 Jan 2018 11:24:09 -0500 2018-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2018-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion FLS flyer
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Yusin Redux: Satire and Democratization in South Korea (March 14, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48529 48529-11243829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Ahead of a hotly contested presidential race in 2012, a controversial painting by the artist Hong Sŏng-dam depicted the then candidate Park Geun-hye giving birth to her famous father, whose Yusin regime (1972-1979) had once turned South Korea into an anticommunist police state. The painting proved prescient. The four years that followed Park Geun-hye's victory at the polls may be characterized as Yusin Redux for its systematic attempt to roll back the democratic process in order to vindicate or reinstate the legacies of her father's rule. Looking back on Park Geun-hye's presidency from the vantage point opened up by its abortive end in impeachment, this talk will analyze several important cultural works of satire as examples of "laughtivism" in order to reflect on the significance of Yusin Redux in the history of South Korean democratization.

Youngju Ryu is Associate Professor of Korean Literature at the University of Michigan. Her publications include Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee's Korea (University of Hawai'i Press, 2016) and Cultures of Yusin: South Korea in the 1970s, forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:25:22 -0500 2018-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Yusin Redux: Satire and Democratization in South Korea
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Embodied Memory and Affective Imagination: Experiencing Food Allergies in Contemporary Japan (March 15, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47162 47162-10802665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Food allergies are on the increase across the industrialized world. Allergens are something that allergic bodies (over)react to (to varying degrees), but they can also become more than that. Individuals with experience of severe food allergies tend to be attuned to the presence of their allergens in their wider environments. Through embodied memory and affective imagination, allergens become more than a substance, protein or material: they become agents that are enacted through affective meshworks (Ingold 2011). This talk looks at the ways in which people dealing with severe food allergies develop and enact an embodied skill-set, built on embodied memory, affective imagination and their surrounding environment, that is enacted to mitigate the risk of severe reactions.

Emma E. Cook is a social anthropologist with interests ranging from gender, the body, food, health, risk, emotion, and affect. Her current research cross-culturally explores the social, embodied and affective experiences of food allergies in Japan and the UK, and is funded by a JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C).

Cosponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:07:46 -0500 2018-03-15T11:30:00-04:00 2018-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Emma Cook, Associate Professor, Modern Japanese Studies Program, Hokkaido University, Japan
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (March 15, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46620 46620-10566970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own seasonal Ikebana arrangement with guidance by a certified instructor. Cost: $20 which covers flowers and instructor. Reservations required. Info: a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Presenter: Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter

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Class / Instruction Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:18:25 -0500 2018-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T14:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
CLIFF 2018: Beyond the Scope, 22nd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (March 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50054 50054-11630743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote: "Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today"
Cristina Rivera Garza
Friday, March 16, 2018 at 5:30pm
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room

Professor Cristina Rivera Garza is the Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. Situated at the intersection of literature, literary theory, history, and creative writing, many of Rivera Garza’s recent publications (Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación, 2013) directly address the connections between writing, subjectivity, and community-based literary projects in the neoliberal age.

Friday, March 16
Michigan Union, Pond Room

10: 00am - 10: 30am Breakfast

10: 30am - 10: 45am Opening Remarks

10: 45am - 12: 15pm
Panel #1 - Beyond the Performance
Jieyi Yan - “The White Serpent Tale in Western and Eastern Literary Context: Its Adaptation, Transformation and Evolution”
Ann Tran - “Multicultural Comedy on YouTube: Anjelah Johnson’s Viral Nail Salon in Public Fora”
Anita Singh - “Budhan Bolta Hai: Social Mobilization through Community Theatre”

Faculty Respondent: Daniel Herwitz

12:15-1:15: Lunch

1: 15pm - 2: 45pm
Panel #2 - Beyond the Nation
David Ortega - “Álvaro Enrigue: Destabilizing Forces in the Quest for Origins in Vidas perpendiculares (2008) and El cementerio de las sillas (2002)”
Mung Ting Chung - “Re-defining Overseas Chinese Through “Historical” Stories:
A Study of the ​Chinese Student Weekly​ in the Early Cold War Era”
James Nichols - “An Impossible Bildungsroman: Exile and Transnational Subjectivity in Antonio Skármeta's No Pasó Nada”

Faculty Respondent: Antoine Traisnel

2: 45pm - 3: 00pm: Coffee Break

3: 00pm - 4: 30pm
Panel #3 - Beyond the Body
Joe Zappa - “Form and the Body in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83: For a Broader Affect Theory”
Hannah Doermann - “Beyond Diversity in Young Adult Fiction: Neoliberal Depoliticization of Social Movements in Hannah Moskowitz’s Not Otherwise Specified”
Martín Ruiz - “The Stranger and the Crack: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth”

Faculty Respondent: Silke-Maria Weineck

4: 30pm - 5: 30pm: Reception - The Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union

5: 30pm - 7: 00pm: Keynote - Cristina Rivera Garza
“Beyond Text: Writing with Communities Today”

Saturday, March 17
Rackham, West Conference Room

9: 00am - 9: 30am: Breakfast

9: 30am - 11: 00am
Panel #4 - Beyond the Neoliberal
Michael R. Fischer, Jr. - “Excluded from the Beginning: Neoliberalism and White Supremacy in Modern Discourse”
Graham Liddell - “Arab Migration Narratives in the Neoliberal Age: Rethinking Trans/Nationalism”
Kwanyin, Lee (Pearl) - “Subversive Complicity: The Hunger Games and Shingeki no Kyojin against and under the Neoliberal Logic of Competition”

Faculty Respondent: Peggy McCracken

11: 00am - 11: 15am: Coffee Break

11: 15am - 12: 45pm
Panel #5 - Beyond the Document
Shalmali Jadhav - “Touching the Untouchable: Deciphering the Untranslatable in Fandry”
Sarah Chanski - “Re-Membered Landscapes: Palestinian Resistance in Laila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi”
Dzovinar Derderian - “Journey to the Archives: The Logics and Affect of Ottoman and Armenian Archives”
(Raphael Seka) - “Postcolonial Narrative and Identity Negotiation in Nuruddin Farah’s A Naked Needle and Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”

Faculty Respondent: Ruth Tsoffar

12: 45pm - 2: 00pm: Lunch

2: 00pm - 3: 00pm: The Iliac Crest Reading and Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza

3: 15pm - 4: 45pm
Panel #6 – Beyond the Boundary
Raya Naamneh - "Language and the Postcolonial Self in Assia Djebar's Fantasia: An Algerian Cavelcade"
Grace Mahoney - “Notes from a Flying Nun: Vertigo and the Boundaries of Subjectivity in Shvarts’s Works and Days of Lavinia”
Duygu Ergun - “Coexisting in Space: The Battle of Algiers”

Faculty Respondent: Yopie Prins

4: 45pm - 5: 00pm: Closing Remarks

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is an annual conference sponsored by the graduate students of the Department of Comparative Literature. CLIFF is designed to promote increased awareness of research being conducted in various languages and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Michigan.

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