Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Propaganda as Viral Stunts: How Party Press in China Navigates Between Tradition and Innovation (March 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80186 80186-20594127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk presents findings from Dr. Zou’s recent work that investigates the production of soft propaganda campaigns on China’s social media, where ideological persuasion is entwined with various forms of digital play, such as hip-hop music videos, memes/hashtags, and interactive mini-games. China’s state-run media play a crucial role in producing and distributing soft propaganda campaigns. This talk offers a glimpse of such campaigns and presents a nuanced mezzo-level analysis on the inter- and intra-organizational dynamics within the Party press system that contribute to the increasing output of soft propaganda. It shifts the emphasis from the effect of propaganda as a political instrument to the design of propaganda, which fashions an aesthetic and affective experience and opens up an ambient process of subject formation.

Sheng Zou is a postdoctoral research fellow at Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies of the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in Communication from Stanford University. His research interests include global media industries, digital politics and popular culture, platform economy and labor, and emergent technologies. His dissertation and book project: "The Engineering of Sentiment and Desire: Unraveling the Aestheticized Politics of Ideotainment in China" examines the shifting paradigm of propaganda and emotional governance in China, with emphasis on the entanglement of ideological persuasion and online entertainment.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:46:44 -0500 2021-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Sheng Zou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Korean War through the Prism of the Interrogation Room (March 2, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78269 78269-20002852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

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Through the interrogation rooms of the Korean War, this talk demonstrates how the individual human subject became both the terrain and the jus ad bellum for this critical U.S. war of ‘intervention’ in postcolonial Korea. In 1952, with the US introduction of voluntary POW repatriation proposal at Panmunjom, the interrogation room and the POW became a flashpoint for an international controversy ultimately about postcolonial sovereignty and political recognition.

The ambitions of empire, revolution and non-alignment converged upon this intimate encounter of military warfare: the interrogator and the interrogated prisoner of war. Which state could supposedly reinvent the most intimate power relation between the colonizer and the colonized, to transform the relationship between the state and subject into one of liberation, democracy or freedom? Tracing two generations of people across the Pacific as they navigate multiple kinds of interrogation from the 1940s and 1950s, this talk lay outs a landscape of interrogation – a dense network of violence, bureaucracy, and migration – that breaks apart the usual temporal bounds of the Korean War as a discrete event.

Monica Kim is a historian of the United States and international and diplomatic history. In her research and teaching, she focuses on three issues that have centrally informed the position of the United States vis-à-vis the decolonizing world during the twentieth century and beyond: the relationships between liberalism and racial formations, global militarism and sovereignty, and transnational political movements and international law.

Her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (2019) has received three book prizes:
2021 James B. Palais Book Prize (Korean Studies) from the Association for Asian Studies
2020 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
2020 Distinguished Book Award in U.S. History, Society for Military History

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:27:07 -0500 2021-03-02T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-02T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Monica Kim, Assistant Professor, History, University of Wisconsin
International Institute Conference on Arts of Devotion (March 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81757 81757-20951378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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https://ii.umich.edu/ii/news-events/all-events/ii-conference.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:00:09 -0500 2021-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Conference / Symposium II Conference on Arts of Devotion poster
CJS Lecture Series | How Japan Got It Wrong: Government Policy, Gender, and the Birth Rate (March 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79789 79789-20493918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

Over the past three decades, the Japanese government has enacted a series of measures to boost the country’s anemic birth rate. Nevertheless, the birth rate has hovered around 1.4 children per woman, far below what is required for the population to reproduce itself. Why haven’t the policies worked? I argue that policies that have focused on trying to make women’s work lives more like men’s have fundamentally missed the mark. Not only have such policies failed to raise the birth rate, they have also arguably exacerbated gender inequality. This paper suggests that future government and workplace policies move in a different direction.

Mary C. Brinton is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and the Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Her research focuses on contemporary Japanese society and economy, labor markets, social demography, and gender inequality. She has published widely on gender inequality in Japan and in East Asia more broadly.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:50:21 -0500 2021-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
A Taste of Frontier Medicine: The Kumys Cure in Sergei Aksakov’s Eastern Frontier Trilogy (March 4, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81936 81936-20990916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

"A Taste of Frontier Medicine” considers Sergei Aksakov’s extensive, mid-nineteenth-century memoirs through the lens of a “frontier family narrative,” a genre perhaps more familiar in the American literary setting. While Aksakov’s work has received critical attention for its memoiristic content and attention to nature, the geohistorical specificity of the trilogy’s setting has been overlooked. This is surprising given the recent interest in understanding Russian colonial and imperial experience. A Family Chronicle (1856) and Childhood Years (1856) are not books in which the action could take place anywhere or in some generic pastoral or provincial space. Rather, they are about a specific place – Orenburgskii krai (Bashkiria) – that was a borderland, frontier, and contact zone from the time of its inclusion within Russian imperial space in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries into Aksakov’s lifetime. In “A Taste of Frontier Medicine,” I explore some of the ways in which the eastern Russian border with “Asia” broadly understood frames Aksakov’s work, as well as how these texts make claims about Russian identity as something defined by and in the “hybrid,” Eurasian sphere of the border zone. Discussion will center on two episodes that articulate a critical aspect of Aksakov’s frontier imaginary: the narrator’s mother’s taking of a “kumys cure.” The “kumys cure” serves as a revitalizing moment that establishes “nomadic,” “Asiatic” elements of the frontier as a crucial antidote to both a perceived excess of civilization and, counter-intuitively, to the potential dangers of the frontier zone itself.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:45:06 -0500 2021-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar A Taste of Frontier Medicine
CSAS Book Talk | The Globally Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80586 80586-20759739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India has created opportunities for young people to creatively explore their gendered, classed, and racialized subjectivities in and through transnational media worlds. His ethnography focuses on a group of diverse young, working-class men in Delhi as they take up the African diasporic aesthetics and creative practices of hip hop. Dattatreyan shows how these aspiring b-boys, MCs, and graffiti writers fashion themselves and their city through their online and offline experimentations with hip hop, thereby accessing new social, economic, and political opportunities while acting as consumers, producers, and influencers in global circuits of capitalism. In so doing, Dattatreyan outlines how the hopeful, creative, and vitally embodied practices of hip hop offer an alternative narrative of urban place-making in "digital" India.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:22:59 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS Book Talk | The Globally: Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi
Karma Yoga - Spirituality in Every Action (March 6, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82692 82692-21157679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle

About the Speaker: https://rkmdelhi.org/about-us/swami-shantatmananda/
About Karma Yoga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Yoga_(book)

Please come. All are welcome. .

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:25:15 -0500 2021-03-06T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Vedanta Study Circle Lecture / Discussion Talk by Swami Shantatmananda
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cultural Mediations in the Great Wall Frontier: The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80187 80187-20594128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Great Wall regions of northern China have long been characterized as frontiers of political and cultural expansion in which steppe groups were acculturated and assimilated into Chinese society. Yet examinations of individual communities and persons in the frontier demonstrate overarching vacillations of political sovereignties and varied mélanges of cultural practices. This lecture engages historical and archaeological discussions of the Southern Xiongnu (ca.50-200 CE) as one example of local leaders who navigated their presence between exterior competing regimes through a suite of hybrid cultural mediations to successfully maintain independent political power.

Bryan K. Miller received a MA in Archaeology from UCLA and a PhD in East Asian Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. His research investigates the history and archaeology of early empires in East Asia, focusing on intrapolity social and economic developments that occurred over the course of large polities as well as the interaction between regimes of Mongolia and China. His publications include studies of political substrata and the roles of local elites in regional polities, alternate models of interaction for frontier matrices of cultures in contact, functions and configurations of urban settings, and the interplay between local politics and larger processes of globalization. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the Xiongnu Empire for Oxford University Press.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:51:15 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Bryan K. Miller, Lecturer in the U-M History of Art Department
CSAS Film Series | Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director (March 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82550 82550-21116098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Covid response is a documentary on the ongoing global pandemic and how it affects a remote Himalayan state in India. The film is a critical look at the various ways in which people’s suffering- mental, physical and financial, have been worsened by the novel coronavirus.

Munmun Dhalaria is an independent filmmaker and National Geographic Storytelling Explorer, mainly focused on wildlife conservation, gender, science communication and human rights. She deals with her own sense of solastalgia by revealing unseen places and untold stories of people’s perseverance to protect our natural world.

Zoom registration is required to attend the event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArf-CgqjopHdBVcWS3XuiUI17eFTHz3xHf

Prior to the talk with Munmun Dhalaria, the documentary will be available for viewing online from Monday 3/8 until Sunday 3/14. To view it, please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScu86F5Wjp0nWML3LSPak9wRyVKSG4rSt2Txm2QIL74bQYY5Q/viewform

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:11:02 -0500 2021-03-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director
CJS Lecture Series | 3.11—Ten Years Later: Addressing Gender Disparity in Japan’s Disaster Response (March 11, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79859 79859-20509624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

(日本語版はこちら)https://myumi.ch/v2y3Q
Delivered in Japanese with English translation.

Disasters have been known to exacerbate pre-disaster inequalities, with greater impact on vulnerable populations. In 2011, the “3.11 Great East Japan Disaster” — a cascade of a M9.0 earthquake, massive tsunamis, and a nuclear accident — struck Japan, which at that time ranked just 98th of the 135 countries on the Gender Gap Index (121th of the 153 countries in 2020). Now 10 years after 3.11, panelists will discuss the disaster’s effects on women through their own experience and grassroots activism, illuminating ways in which structures and norms of Japanese society contributed to women’s increased vulnerability in this time of crisis. They will provide invaluable first-hand accounts of how women in Japan organized and exposed post-disaster gender-based violence, advocated for more gender-informed disaster policies and response, shattered societal indifference and denial, and created change.

Teruko Karikome
Ms. Teruko Karikome is a founder and former Executive Director (2007~2019) of NPO Women’s Space Fukushima, Inc. (formerly Association for Women’s Independence). Following the Great East Japan Disaster, her organization managed “Women’s Space” in the biggest evacuation shelter in Fukushima, and continues to operate programs such as telephone counseling, support groups, and workshops on gender-based violence, while advocating for policy attention to women in Fukushima.

Reiko Masai
Ms. Reiko Masai is a founder and Executive Director of NPO Women’s Net Kobe, Inc., the first group in Japan to call attention to disaster-related gender-based violence. For over thirty years, Ms. Masai has worked to promote women’s rights and gender equality in Japan. In 2007, she launched Disaster & Gender Information Network, the first initiative of its kind in Japan, and co-founded Women's Network for East Japan Disaster in 2011, also the first of its kind, advocating for more inclusive disaster response.

Etsuko Yahata
Ms. Etsuko Yahata, founder and Executive Director of NPO Hearty Sendai Inc., spearheaded grassroots initiatives to assist women affected by the Great East Japan Disaster, on top of running a domestic violence shelter and many assistance programs. Originally trained as a midwife, she has since worked over 30 years in advocating against gender-based violence, promoting reproductive health and justice, human rights and nonviolence; also serving as board of director for Sendai Gender Equal Opportunity Foundation, Child Line Miyagi and many others.

Mieko Yoshihama
As a professor at the U-M School of Social Work, her teaching and research focus on promoting the wellbeing of marginalized communities. In Japan, she co-founded the Domestic Violence Research & Action Group in 1990 and conducted the nation’s first study of domestic violence; she also co-founded Women's Network for East Japan Disaster in 2011 and conducted a study of gender-based violence following the disaster, the first of its kind in Japan, as well as PhotoVoice Project (see below).

PhotoVoice Exhibit
Established in 2011, the PhotoVoice Project works with women affected by the Great East Japan Disaster, documenting their experiences through their own photography and written messages (“voices”), which serve to inform more inclusive disaster prevention and reconstruction efforts. This online PhotoVoice exhibition opens March 11, 2021.
https://photovoiceprojectjapan.zenfolio.com/exhibition


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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:05:05 -0500 2021-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Addressing Gender Disparity in Japan’s Disaster Response
Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest (March 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77488 77488-21034701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Seminar coordinator: Marlon James Sales (U-M Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies)

Although Filipino migration has historically converged in other places across the US, it is in the Midwest, particularly at the University of Michigan, where some of the most extensive archival sources on this Southeast Asian nation can be found. These sources are generally used to examine US imperialism in Asia-Pacific, often glossing over the fact that the American period in the Philippines also led to the flourishing of Filipino literature in Spanish as a nationalist response. In this second installment of our Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminars, we shall analyze the archive as a site of translation and historical memory as a multilingual construct, focusing specifically on Hispanofilipino texts in the libraries of the University of Michigan and the broader Midwest. Translation here means two things. Since Spanish has never been spoken widely in the Philippines despite three centuries of colonial rule, translation may refer to the rendering of texts in another language supposedly understood by a majority of local readers. But given the limitations in how archival data is stored in the Philippines, translation may also refer to the movement of the archival sources themselves, whether physically or digitally, thus reclaiming them as objects of cultural memory. How has translation contributed to a monolingualized commemoration of multilingual pasts? What are the stakes of reconstructing a nation’s history through texts written in colonial languages? In which ways can translation help in recuperating a peripheral literary tradition in Spanish?

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:44:47 -0500 2021-03-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest
Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit (March 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82095 82095-21034702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In the afternoon, the public is invited to a book talk between Harold Augenbraum, editor, translator, and former executive director of the National Book Foundation, and award-winning author Gina Apostol. The conversation will revolve around Augenbraum’s translations of the novels Noli me tángere and El filibusterismo by Philippine national hero José Rizal, and Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, which won the 2010 Philippine National Book Award and has recently been republished in the US. Apostol is also the author of Insurrecto, which has been included in the list of the ten best books for 2018 by the magazine Publishers Weekly.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:41:02 -0500 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit
Translation, Memory and the Archive: The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82097 82097-21034705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Immediately after the book talk, join us for the launch of the virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish. This virtual exhibit, curated by Professor Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology) coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:52:33 -0500 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation, Memory and the Archive: The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines
CSAS Lecture Series | The Price of Acceptability: On South Asian Inclusion and Exclusion in the US (March 12, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76261 76261-19679593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 11:30:13 -0500 2021-03-12T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Vivek Bald, Comparative Media Studies, MIT
2021 Doris Sloan Memorial Program Chitra Ganesh: On Utopia and Dissent (March 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80790 80790-20793301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975, Brooklyn, NY) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. For the past 20 years, Ganesh's drawing-based practice has shed light on narrative representations of femininity, sexuality, and power typically absent from canons of literature and art. Ganesh’s installations, comics, animation, sculpture, and mixed media works on paper often take historical and mythic texts as inspiration and points of departure to complicate received ideas of iconic female forms. Her studies in literature, semiotics, and social theory have been critical to a steady engagement with narrative and deconstruction that animates her work. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia, with solo exhibitions at MoMA P.S.1, The Warhol Museum, Göteborgs Konsthall, Brooklyn Museum, Rubin Museum, Kitchen, and most recently, A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask, the 4th Annual QUEERPOWER Facade Commission at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York City. (currently on view through October 2021). 

Her work Sultana’s Dream was recently acquired by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Oh, honey… A queer reading of the collection in fall 2021. Learn more about Sultana’s Dream in UMMA’s online presentation of the exhibition. 

Her work has also been exhibited in group exhibitions across the United States, including at The Walker Art Center, MN; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Queens Museum of Art, NY; The Asia Society, NY; The Bronx  Museum, NY, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; and the Boca Raton Museum of Art, LA, among others. Ganesh’s work has also been widely exhibited across Europe and Asia, including at the Hayward Gallery, London, Saatchi Museum, London; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Spain; the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Kunstalle Exnergrasse, Vienna, Arthotek Kunstverein, Göttingen; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; the Gwangju Contemporary Arts Centre, Korea; Parasite, Hong Kong, the Bhau Daji Lad and Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai; Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and the Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; The Kochi-Muzuris Biennale, India, & the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh among others.

Ganesh's works are held in prominent public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Berkeley Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum, among others. She has received numerous awards, including  the New York Foundation for the Arts; Art Matters Foundation; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; the Joan Mitchell Foundation; and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, Pollock Krasner Foundation, and most recently the Anonymous was a Woman Award in 2020. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her M.F.A. from Columbia University.

Lead support for Oh, honey...A queer reading of the collection is provided by Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.  

The 2021 Doris Sloan Memorial Program is presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. Established through the generosity of Dr. Herbert Sloan, this annual program honors one of the Museum’s most ardent friends and supporters, Doris Sloan, a long-time UMMA docent.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:15:49 -0500 2021-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Innovations in Global Maternal Healthcare Delivery (March 15, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82932 82932-21225228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for the History of Medicine

Hi UMMS!

NextGen Med and the Society for the History and Philosophy of Medicine are excited to co-host an educational discussion on Monday, March 15th from 5-6PM via Zoom! Please join us for a talk and Q&A, "How Philanthropy Can Catalyze Innovation in Global Public Health: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Focuses in the Gates Foundation," with Program Officer Mrs. Anisha Gururaj.

Anisha Gururaj is a Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in the Maternal Newborn Child Health, Discovery & Tools team, where she develops strategy and manages an investment portfolio focused on developing and delivering novel technologies, like digital health, AI, and connected diagnostics, to transform maternal and newborn health across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Previously, she has worked for a wide variety of technology and public health-focused organizations, ranging from the Baltimore city health department to med device startups and large manufacturing companies. She has a B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering from MIT and a dual MSc in Global Governance & Diplomacy and Women's Health Sciences from the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Zoom link here: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93942689324
Meeting ID: 939 4268 9324

Hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:50:14 -0500 2021-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T18:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for the History of Medicine Livestream / Virtual
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Global Medicine in Chinese East Asia, 1937-1970 (March 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80188 80188-20594129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This presentation makes the case for a new concept of “global medicine" to highlight the multivalent and multidirectional flows of medical practices and ideas circulating around the world in the 20th century through the examination of two case studies on how the Chinese diaspora came to shape biomedicine in China and Taiwan from 1937 to 1970. First, the presentation examines how Chinese American women medical personnel came to establish the first Chinese blood bank in New York and Kunming, China. Second, this talk reveals how Singapore-born and Edinburgh-educated Dr. Robert Lim successfully relocated the National Defense Medical Center from China to Taiwan in 1948 despite the longstanding challenges posed by the Chinese Civil War. This presentation highlights the essential intersections of scientific expertise, political freedoms, and diasporic power in shaping global medicine in China and Taiwan through a critical examination of these two medical encounters between the diaspora and the local Chinese and Taiwanese.

Wayne Soon (PhD Princeton) is an Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College. His book, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford University Press, 2020), tells the global medical histories of Chinese East Asia through the lens of diasporic Chinese medical personnel, who were central in introducing new practices of military medicine, blood banking, mobile medicine, and mass medical training to China and Taiwan. Universal care, practical medical education, and mobile medicine are all lasting legacies of this effort on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. Dr. Soon’s published and forthcoming articles can be found in "Twentieth Century China," "Bulletin of the History of Medicine," "American Journal of Chinese Studies," and "East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal."

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zruicPE8SpOGti5PJxsvAA

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:32:00 -0500 2021-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Wayne Soon, Assistant Professor of History, Vassar
Alumni Networking | The Society for Asian Studies Students (March 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83077 83077-21266959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

Register for the event at tinyurl.com/sassalumni

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:08:05 -0400 2021-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Yellow Background Featuring Photos of Julia Shiota and Elise Huerta
CJS Lecture Series | An Introduction to Ishinomaki Kokeshi (March 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79777 79777-20491897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

In this lecture, Takatoshi Hayashi will explain the origins of his "Ishinomaki Kokeshi" concept, reflect on its development over the past six years, and discuss its future. He will also demonstrate how to carve an Ishinomaki Kokeshi from his home workshop.

Takatoshi Hayashi was born and raised in Ishinomaki. After graduating from university, he spent ten years working as a quasi-civil servant in various capacities. In 2009, he returned home to help run his family's kimono shop, Hayashi Gofuku-ten. He became the official head of Hayashi Gofuku-ten in 2019.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Zoom registration required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ro5btsbQA2HAY0D9rcGMQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:20:01 -0500 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Takatoshi Hayashi, Maker of Kokeshi dolls
Heung Coalition Event | Empire's Afterlives: Legacies of Militarization and Cultural Politics in Korea (March 18, 2021 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82718 82718-21163657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 10:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please register for this event here:
https://myumi.ch/qgkxW

In their article, “Transpacific Entanglements,” Yên Lê Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Lisa Yoneyama argue that “U. S. neoliberalism mediates itself through the U. S. national security state, which is simultaneously a racial and a settler state; this is expressed not merely in the racialization of the Asian and Pacific Islander peoples but significantly in the erasure of historical and ongoing settler colonialism and, furthermore, in a racial social order that simultaneously pronounces antiblackness and Islamophobia.” In the case of Korea, such processes are evident in the ongoing division of the peninsula, the presence of U. S. military bases, and the praise for South Korea’s ascendency in the global capitalist order - even as this ascent remains contingent upon exploitation in other countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia.

For this event, we bring together E. Tammy Kim and Eunsong Kim to discuss these “transpacific entanglements” with U. S. neoliberalism, militarization, and racism that South Korea’s own position reveals. What are the legacies of militarism in Korea and how do they impact the everyday lives of Koreans within and outside the peninsula? What does South Korea’s position as a sub-empire reveal about the ways in which ongoing legacies of the Cold War affect the narratives around Asia and Asia America? How do such narratives manifest in the cultural politics of South Korea? How can we form transnational spaces to counter the results and norms of U. S. militarism and work towards building solidarity outside the parameters inscribed by U. S. militarism? Please join us on Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 7pm PST for this important and timely conversation between E. Tammy Kim and Eunsong Kim.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Eunsong Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and an affiliate faculty of the department of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies at Northeastern University. Her practice spans: poetry, translation, visual culture and critical race & ethnic studies. Her book project in progress, "The Politics of Collecting: Property & Race & Aesthetic Formations" considers how legal conceptions of racialized property become foundational to avant-garde and modern understandings of innovation in the arts. Her essays have appeared in: "Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association," "Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies," and in the book anthologies, "Poetics of Social Engagement and Reading Modernism with Machines." Her poetry has appeared in the Brooklyn Magazine, The Iowa Review, Minnesota Review, and P-Queue amongst others. Her first book of poetry, "gospel of regicide," was published by Noemi Press in 2017, and her co-translation (with Sung Gi Kim) of Kim Eon Hee’s poetic text "Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?" was published in 2019. She is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the Andy Warhol Art Writers Program, and Yale’s Poynter Fellowship.

E. Tammy Kim is a freelance reporter and essayist, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and a co-host of the podcast Time to Say Goodbye. In 2016, with Yale Professor Michael Veal, she published Punk Ethnography, a book about the politics of contemporary world music. She writes about the Koreas and labor and public goods in the U.S. for The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, and many other outlets, and previously worked at The New Yorkerand Al Jazeera America. Before pursuing a career in journalism, Ms. Kim was a social justice attorney, and she has been active in the U.S. labor movement. She is currently the 2021 James H. Ottaway Sr. visiting professor of journalism at SUNY New Paltz.

Co-sponsored by the Heung Coalition, the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan and the Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at youngkch@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:25:35 -0500 2021-03-18T22:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T23:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Heung Coalition Event | Empire's Afterlives: Legacies of Militarization and Cultural Politics in Korea
From Rufio to Zuko and The Debut: Actor Dante Basco (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83129 83129-21282826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Have you been binge-watching Avatar the Last Airbender during quarantine? Meet the voice of Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, actor Dante Basco, as he discusses his career, Filipino Americans in film, his memoir, and his new film, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers. Dante Basco is an award-winning American film, television, and voice actor who has appeared in over 30 films, and over 65 television shows, web series, and video games. He is best known for his roles as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s film Hook; as Prince Zuko in Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender; as Jake Long in Disney Channel’s American Dragon: Jake Long, and as Spin Kick from Carmen Sandiego. He starred as the lead actor alongside his three brothers and sister in the independent film, The Debut, the first Filipino American film to be released in American theatres nationwide. In 2019, the independent press, Not a Cult, published Basco’s book, From Rufio to Zuko, a memoir detailing his life as a working class actor of Filipino heritage. Basco was born and raised in California in a Filipino American family of performing artists. He continues acting, writing and performing spoken word poetry, and streaming on Instagram and Twitch. The new feature film he directed, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, had its world premiere at the SXSW Festival in March 2021:www.fabfilipinobros.com

Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin in conjunction with the ASIANPAM/AMCULT 353/HISTORY 454: Asians in American Film and Television course.

Co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Department of American Culture, in commemoration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Register for this free, virtual event here: http://tinyurl.com/FromRufiotoZuko

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:56:56 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Dante Basco
Designing for Impact in Global Health (March 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82821 82821-21179589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the next seminar for the UM Center for Global Health Equity: Designing for Impact in Global Health.

Panelists include:
Kathleen Sienko, College of Engineering
Paul Clyde, William Davidson Institute
Rocky Oteng, School of Medicine
Kentaro Toyama, School of Information
Grace Burleson, College of Engineering
David Green, Social Entrepreneur
Jesse Austin-Breneman, College of Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:12:00 -0500 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Panelists
The Ocean in the School: How Pacific Islander Students Transformed their University (March 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82934 82934-21225230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

In this talk, we will explore the ways in which Pacific Islander Students learned how to understand and engage with their isolation and alienation from school to eventually transform it into a place of discovery and meaningfulness. Building against the historical contexts of imperialism as well as the structural forms of domination that students lived through, we will touch on the values of collective work and cultural activism that Pacific Islanders and their allies enhanced to enable resistance and institutional change. We will learn what it meant to embrace the ocean in their school. This talk will then be followed by a discussion with the audience.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:00:13 -0500 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Picture of ocean wave washes on sandy beach
CSAS Lecture Series | Theorizing the Company Village: Corporate Social Responsibility in India’s Mining Belt (March 26, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80219 80219-20601995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Over the last two decades, the pace and scale of private extractive industry in central and eastern India’s mountainous regions has intensified, producing a profusion of open cast mines, power plants, refineries, and steel plants that have converted vast agricultural and forestlands to new extractive and industrial use. Through the activities of their Corporate Social Responsibility units, firms become embedded in the countryside through what I call “company villages.” These are inversions of the “company town” of the past, which emerged in the 20th century as companies were forced by labor mobilization to enact programs for social welfare, redistribution, and development—what we might consider corporate social ethics—within the body of the firm itself. In a sector that is now heavily mechanized and capital-intensive, firms attempt to demonstrate their social ethics on sites and on behalf of communities that are exterior to and on the periphery of their plants and mines. In place of the labor-capital dynamics that produced hard-won welfare for workers in yesterday’s company towns, today’s extractive economies are marked by these company villages, as firms build and operate rehabilitation settlements, hospitals, schools, and cottage industries, extending the spatial reach of their presence far beyond the perimeters of mine pitheads and industrial plants. This talk will illustrate the dynamics of the “company village” by drawing on fieldwork at several locations in Odisha, India.

Sunila S. Kale is Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where she also serves as Chair and Director of South Asia Studies. Her research and teaching focus on Indian and South Asian politics, energy studies, the political economy of development, and the history of capitalism. Her books include *Electrifying India* (Stanford 2014) and *Mapping Power* (OUP 2018). She is currently working on two book-length projects: one on corporate social responsibility and socio-economic change in the mining areas of eastern India, and a second on yoga in the world of politics (with Christian Lee Novetzke).

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vc-qsrzIoEtywZcPyRnhns5YjokKT0grE

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at csas@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:55:49 -0500 2021-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS Lecture Series | Theorizing the Company Village: Corporate Social Responsibility in India’s Mining Belt
Letters to a Young Brown Girl Poetry Reading & Book Discussion (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83149 83149-21282827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2020). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017). She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City that Nearly Broke Me (Aztlán Libre Press, 2012).

Her work is published or forthcoming in Arroyo Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, As/Us, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, Eleven Eleven, Entropy, Fairy Tale Review, Fourteen Hills, Hambone, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Origins Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, TAYO Literary Magazine, xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, among others. An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, educator, and poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.

https://barbarajanereyes.com/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:55:59 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Letters to a Young Brown Girl
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dancing Productive Missteps: the American Dance Festival at China’s Reform Era (March 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80189 80189-20594130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk explores the paradoxical role that the US played in China’s dance modernization during the Reform Era through a paradigmatic case: for four years (1987-1991), teachers from the American Dance Festival, at the invitation of the Guangdong Dance School, taught dance techniques and composition and trained the first group of professional modern dancers in China, most of whom continued on to establish the country’s first modern dance company in 1992. Contesting the presumption that a smoothly-communicated physical and spiritual liberation defined the program, Professor Miao argues that recurrent reciprocal misunderstandings deeply marked the exchange, because of the American teachers’ and Chinese students’ profoundly different conceptions of kinesthesia, pedagogical approach, and freedom. These missteps generated new methods of dance modernization and significantly shifted the history of Chinese modern dance.

Fangfei Miao, dance scholar, choreographer, and dancer, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from UCLA and MFA from the Beijing Dance Academy. Dr. Miao is working on her book manuscript that investigates the productivity of embodied cross-cultural missteps in transforming dance history in China’s Reform Era. Her publications, in both English and Chinese, have featured in Dance Research Journal, Asian Theater Journal, Journal of Contemporary Research in Dance, and Journal of the Beijing Dance Academy. With extensive professional training in both western and Chinese dances, she has toured internationally and staged her choreography in New York City, Los Angeles, Auckland, and Beijing, among others.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_roHoUTD2TEiO10rP7UhLkA

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:49:20 -0500 2021-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Fangfei Miao, Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Michigan
Gran Torino, Refugees, and Anti-Asian Racism: A Conversation with Actor Bee Vang (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83150 83150-21282829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Bee Vang, at 16, held the leading Hmong American role as Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino. He subsequently performed in independent films and on stage at Brown University where he received a 2016 liberal arts degree in international politics, media, and cultural studies. He also trained in China in techniques of Chinese opera and Japanese performance. Throughout this time, Vang engaged in social justice and media activism, and published works related to the visibility and inclusion of Southeast Asian Americans and, more broadly, Asian Americans in Hollywood and mainstream popular culture. His work covered such topics as representation, race, gender, sexuality, production, geopolitics, refugees, criminal justice, mass incarceration. Vang presented at multiple conferences related to these topics, and publicly lectured or gave workshops in over thirty venues, domestically and overseas including the University of Toronto, Beijing University, Minzu University, and Zhongshan University.

Meanwhile, Vang worked at MSNBC with The Rachel Maddow Show in broadcast journalism, at The Economist in print journalism, and at First Look Media in documentary filmmaking with Laura Poitras. After several years working as a print journalist, nonfiction writer, and policy researcher, he recently moved to LA to devote himself to acting, filmmaking, and other creative pursuits.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:29 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Gran Torino
CJS Lecture Series | Contrasts in US-Japan Global Supply Chain Management during the Coronavirus Pandemic (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79940 79940-20517546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

Stark differences exist between the ways in which U.S. and Japanese multinational firms manage global production. Trump’s China policy and the coronavirus pandemic have made U.S. firms acutely aware of the consequences of sudden supply chain disruptions caused by their heavy dependence on China over the years. On the other hand, Japanese firms have been methodically diversifying and localizing their supply chain and production strategies.

Masaaki Kotabe holds the Washburn Chair Professorship in International Business and Marketing at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University in 1998, he was Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow and Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has lectured widely at various business schools in 20 countries around the world. For his research, he has worked closely with leading companies such as AT&T, Kohler, NEC, Nissan, Philips, Sony, and Seven&i Holdings (parent of 7-Eleven stores), and served as advisor to the United Nations’ and World Trade Organization’s Executive Forum on National Export Strategies. Dr. Kotabe also served as President of the Academy of International Business in 2016-7.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CrscjSk8Sma4AWf7oTOjCQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:28:45 -0500 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | A Stark Contrast in Global Supply Chain Management between U.S. and Japanese Multinational Firms as Evidenced during the Coronavirus Pandemic
CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes (April 2, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80584 80584-20759737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Full conference details and schedule here:
https://myumi.ch/xm2B4

Registration for this Zoom workshop is required:
https://myumi.ch/0Wn4k

Religious identity in South Asia has been shaped within the context of a fraught and contentious history, ranging from issues of “communalism” in colonial India to the question of “radicalization” and political Islam in post 9/11 Pakistan. Yet, religious practice has developed in relation to longstanding sacred geographies and networks in South Asia, intersecting with modern identity formations in unusual and unexpected ways. In this conference, we will explore the relationship between religion, identity, historical networks and sacred landscapes to understand the formation of religious thought and practice in Pakistan. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this conference aims to cultivate a discussion of transnationalism, sectarianism, marginality, inter and intra-religious dynamics. We will engage with the work of scholars and artists from Pakistan, Europe and the United States concerned with a variety of religious groups in Pakistan, and the complex ways that religious practice has been shaped through interactions between distinct identities, not only along the lines of religion, but also gendered and social difference. While focusing on Pakistan, we hope to challenge prevalent assumptions about the current configuration of borders and explore deeper and continually relevant connections between distinct religious spaces and practices in South Asia.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:29:47 -0400 2021-04-02T09:30:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes
CWPS 20th // Faculty *in Conversation* (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82694 82694-21161627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/4p3pN

In March 2001, the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) celebrated its grand opening, inviting the community to participate in an evening of lectures, performances and food at the International Institute. As part of the ongoing virtual celebration of this milestone, CWPS invites four esteemed U-M faculty members to reflect on the Center’s founding, its contributions to increasing the diversity of arts and research at University of Michigan, and to imagine the possibilities for the next twenty years.

Kwasi Ampene, Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, is a scholar and practitioner of ethnomusicology. He specializes in the rich musical traditions of the Akan people of West Africa. His research interests include the performing arts as individually and collectively created and experienced, the performance of historical and social memory, politics, ideologies, values, and religious philosophy in Akan court music. Professor Ampene’s latest book, *Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool*, was published on June 30th, 2020 by Routledge. Dr. Ampene was Director of the Center for World Performance Studies from 2011-2016.

Lester Monts is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Music (ethnomusicology). From 1993 until 2014, he served as senior vice provost for academic affairs and senior counselor to the president for the arts, diversity, and undergraduate affairs. He is currently director of the Michigan Musical Heritage Project that seeks to capture on film the state’s folk, ethnic, and immigrant music traditions. Monts received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Arkansas Polytechnic College, a master’s degree in trumpet performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Minnesota.

Mbala Nkanga is an Associate Professor of Theatre and head of the minor in Global Theatre & Ethnic Studies. A native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he taught directing, scenography and dramaturgical analysis at the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa (DRC) beginning in 1979. He has directed plays in various professional companies there, such as Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo, Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests, and Réné Kalisky’s Aïda Vaincue. Dr. Nkanga received his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and has led the Center for World Performance Studies graduate seminar since 1999.

Robin Wilson is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan, on the faculty since 1995, and is best known as a founding member of New York’s Urban Bush Women. In 1995, she was awarded a New York Performance Award for the collective work of the Urban Bush Women from 1984-1994. Her studio teaching is informed by years of study in various mid-twentieth century modern dance and Afro-Caribbean folkloric dance techniques. She performed in New York for more than a decade with such choreographers as Dianne McIntyre, Kevin Wynn, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Professor Wilson served on the Center for World Performance Studies faculty advisory committee for over a decade.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:46:38 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion CWPS 20
CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes (April 3, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80584 80584-20759738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Full conference details and schedule here:
https://myumi.ch/xm2B4

Registration for this Zoom workshop is required:
https://myumi.ch/0Wn4k

Religious identity in South Asia has been shaped within the context of a fraught and contentious history, ranging from issues of “communalism” in colonial India to the question of “radicalization” and political Islam in post 9/11 Pakistan. Yet, religious practice has developed in relation to longstanding sacred geographies and networks in South Asia, intersecting with modern identity formations in unusual and unexpected ways. In this conference, we will explore the relationship between religion, identity, historical networks and sacred landscapes to understand the formation of religious thought and practice in Pakistan. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this conference aims to cultivate a discussion of transnationalism, sectarianism, marginality, inter and intra-religious dynamics. We will engage with the work of scholars and artists from Pakistan, Europe and the United States concerned with a variety of religious groups in Pakistan, and the complex ways that religious practice has been shaped through interactions between distinct identities, not only along the lines of religion, but also gendered and social difference. While focusing on Pakistan, we hope to challenge prevalent assumptions about the current configuration of borders and explore deeper and continually relevant connections between distinct religious spaces and practices in South Asia.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:29:47 -0400 2021-04-03T09:30:00-04:00 2021-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes
CSAS U-M Pakistan Conference Keynote | Glimpsing History through Literature's Window: Religious Sentiments, Emotional Styles, Punjabi Poets (April 3, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83276 83276-21330361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Part of the 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes

Full conference details and schedule here:
https://myumi.ch/xm2B4

Registration for this Zoom workshop is required:
https://myumi.ch/0Wn4k

Much of the discussion around Sufi poets and poetry emphasizes their appeal to a broad audience that transcends religious community, caste and class. Reading and listening audiences take this ecumenical or pluralistic message as characteristic of such poets and of Sufism at large. The purpose of my talk is to examine this premise through a focus on specific Sufi poets from the Punjab, using their work to analyze how they imagined and configured Muslim identities. Important questions emerging from such an investigation include how religious identity is configured, what purposes lie in behind choices of linguistic register, and how one expresses emotions and values in different contexts.

Jamal J. Elias is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A recipient of many grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the (U.S.) Social Science Research Council (among others), he has lectured and published extensively on a broad range of subjects relevant to the medieval and modern Islamic world. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of nine books and numerous articles dealing with a range of topics in Islamic history, thought, literature, and art and his writings have been translated into at least ten languages. His most recent books are *Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies* (Berkeley, 2018); *Aisha’s Cushion: Religious Art, Perception and Practice in Islam* (Cambridge Massachusetts, 2012); and *On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan* (Oxford, 2011).

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:50:30 -0400 2021-04-03T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Jamal J. Elias, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of More than Humans in Making Chinese Society and History: Thinking With Elephants and Mushrooms (April 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80190 80190-20594131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Over the last few decades, scholars from several disciplines have shown increasing interest in moving beyond anthropocentric studies to explore how animals have played a role in their own right in shaping larger social and historical outcomes. At present, China studies scholars have just begun this work. Dr. Hathaway’s talk describes some of these efforts and introduces his own studies on how wild elephants motivate and challenge international conservation efforts, as well as how a wild mushroom is shaping an important part of the rural economy in Southwest China, thus expanding attention beyond our animal kin.

Michael Hathaway received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2007, and shortly thereafter began teaching at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor, director of SFU's David Lam Centre for the Asia-Pacific, and the editor-in-chief of American Ethnologist (with Stacy Pigg). His award-winning first book, "Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China," was published in 2013 by the University of California Press. One of the three core members of the anthropological collaborative, the Matsutake Worlds Research Group, he has led research in China on the social worlds made through the creation of the wild matsutake mushroom economy. Anna Tsing's book, "The Mushroom at the End of the World" was the first book in the trilogy, and Michael has just completed the second volume.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:25:42 -0500 2021-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of More than Humans in Making Chinese Society and History: Thinking With Elephants and Mushrooms
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Visions of Global Solidarity: Anti-Imperialism in Colonial Korea and the Diaspora (April 6, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77261 77261-19828140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at:
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How did people analyze and criticize colonial oppression a century ago? How did they find connection and imagine solidarity with others in distant parts of the world experiencing social injustice? This talk reconsiders the “global” dimensions of Korean anti-imperialism during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45), discussing several primary sources such as newspapers, magazines, and the work of intellectuals. The Korean anti-imperial movement and its thought were inherently transnational in its scope. Such transnationality developed under shifting political conditions in which the movement leaders, participants, and supporters wrestled with Japanese colonial domination. As officials censored criticism of the colonial regime, activists and writers negotiated the interventions by the colonial power. While some were involved in clandestine organized activities, others offered critical analyses of colonialism in academic studies, socialist literature, and journalistic accounts.

This talk pays particular attention to the ways that Korean intellectuals developed an interest in colonialism and racism in other parts of the world like India, Taiwan, and the United States. During the 1920s and early 1930s, as people traveled outside of Korea in spite of the border control and surveillance by colonial authority, intellectuals shaped their transnational perspectives. Through publications and media coverage about empire and global social movements, interwar Korean intellectuals and readers situated their colonial experience in world transformations and explored the possibilities for decolonization. Socialists, in particular, envisioned decolonization in tandem with other forms of social justice, namely socioeconomic equity for workers. Female leaders on the left, importantly, also argued for women’s liberation. In the places where they relocated or visited, migrants, international students, and exiled intellectuals witnessed and participated in different forms of social movements, which contributed to their visions of global solidarity.

Hiroaki Matsusaka is an intellectual and cultural historian of migration, social movements, and race and ethnicity across modern East Asia and North America. He is working on a book manuscript that traces the paths of several anti-imperial migrant activists across Korea, Japan, and the United States from the early to mid-twentieth century. He received a BA and an MA in Political Science from Waseda University and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Korean Studies at Yonsei University, a Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese Studies at UCLA, and an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In April 2021, he is starting a tenured position as a lecturer of global studies at Osaka University of Economics.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:44:36 -0500 2021-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Hiroaki Matsusaka, Incoming Lecturer, Department of Information Technology and Social Sciences, Osaka University of Economics
CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic *Bonsai* Inspire Iconoclastic Futures (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79854 79854-20509612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

The University of Michigan's emergence as a steward of nationally significant bonsai marks an inflexion point in the Academy for engagement with this international art form. While exhibited specimens are inherently focused on both this moment and change, the discipline itself is undergoing renewal in the United States. Today's presentation places this emergent collection in icontemporary academic and cultural contexts, including the necessity of exhibiting outstanding canonical specimens reflective of bonsai's Japanese heritage.

David Michener is the Curator at the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. After receiving his PhD in Botany from the Claremont Graduate School he was at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum before coming to the University of Michigan. He is most widely known for his work on historic peonies. He has been active in the reinterpretation of the Freer House's Garden at Wayne State University.

Carmen Leskoviansky has been caring for the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum's Bonsai and Penjing collection since 2011. Her degree in horticulture is from MIchigan State University. Carmen began studying with American bonsai artist Michael Hagedorn, of Crataegus Bonsai, in 2018 and will begin a 3-year apprenticeship in May 2021.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:52:36 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic Bonsai Inspire Iconoclastic Futures
Indian Literature Series (April 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83559 83559-21426681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan

SPICMACAY at University of Michigan is proud to organise the Literature Series, where we will organise discussions of various works of literature in classical & modern Indic languages, led by a language expert.

Our first discussion is on Silappatikāram, one of the five great Epics of Tamil literature, facilitated by Prof. Vidya Mohan, faculty for Tamil language, University of Michigan.

Date: 8-Apr-2021 (Thursday)
Time: 6pm to 7pm EDT
Language: English
No. of participants: 25 participants
Please sign-up on this link: https://forms.gle/WEkKQ7gA9VSjKfyJ6

Note: This event is only for UMich students, alumni & staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 May 2021 13:16:47 -0400 2021-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Discussion on Silappatikāram - The Tamil Epic
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy Book Talk with Editors (April 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83151 83151-21282830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Join us for a conversation with Asian American Studies Professors, Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State University) and Dr. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde (University of California, Davis), about their book Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin (University of Michigan)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power-holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/fight-the-tower/9781978806368

Bios:
Dr. Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American Studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora, co-founder of the social justice movement, Fight the Tower, and co-editor of Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy.

Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:58 -0400 2021-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Fight the Tower
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82263 82263-21068628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Monday, April 12

7:00-7:10pm Welcome Remarks
7:10-8:10pm Panel 1: History, Industry, and Policy

Chair: Sangjoon LEE (Nanyang Technological University)

South Korea’s Film Policy (1993-2020)
CHO Junhyoung (Korean Film Archive)

Evolution of the Korean Film Industry in the Hallyu Era
Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University)

8:20 – 9:30pm Keynote Lecture

KIM Hong-Joon (Korea National University of Arts)

Moderator: Sangjoon LEE (Nanyang Technological University)

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at ncks.info@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:50:37 -0500 2021-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Making of a Medium: Borrowing Views from Painting and Fiction in Early Modern Chinese Garden Design (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80588 80588-20759744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The notion that gardens might offer a private space, apart from the larger public world and even family responsibilities, dates to the middle Tang (late 8th-early 9th c.). Dr. Kile’s talk offers an introduction to the first two works in the Chinese tradition to consider the making of the garden itself as an art: Ji Cheng's Yuanye (Fashioning Gardens, 1631-34) and Li Yu's Xianqing ouji (Leisure Notes, 1671). Both men create a middle category between manual laborer and garden proprietor: that of the garden designer, who, they both argue, is the true master of the garden. The work of raising garden design to the status of an expressive art, rather than mere craft, followed the model by which literati painting had been elevated in status during the Song dynasty (960-1279), when literati borrowed from theories of poetry to argue that painting, too, could express the "hills and valleys" in their hearts.

SE Kile is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. A specialist in Ming and Qing literature and culture, Dr. Kile is finishing a book that theorizes early modern mediation and entrepreneurship through a synthesis of Li Yu's (1611-1680) cultural production.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YJwm_w_JS_iHdY3mpQLHZg

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:26:23 -0500 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual SE Kile, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 13, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82346 82346-21068629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Tuesday, April 13

7:00-8:00pm Panel 2: Transformation of the South Korean Film Industry 1

Chair: Dal Yong JIN (Simon Fraser University)

The Korean Film Industry’s Ambivalent Relationship to the Studio System
Jason Bechervaise (Sungshil Cyber University)

Short Film Productions in South Korea
Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham)

8:10-9:40pm Industry Roundtable

Speakers:
WON Dong-yeon (Producer; Along with the Gods),

PARK Eun-Kyung (Producer: A Taxi Driver),

IM Soon-rye (Director: Little Forest),

MIN Kyu-dong (Director: Herstory)

Moderator: HEO Chul (Nanyang Technological University; Director of The Return)

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at ncks.info@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:53:36 -0500 2021-04-13T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T21:40:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
Asian American Activism & Documentary Films: A Conversation With Grace Lee (April 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83465 83465-21383600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

GRACE LEE is an independent producer & director and writer working in both narrative and non fiction film. She directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, which The Hollywood Reporter called ”an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.” The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won its first of six audience awards before its broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV. Her previous documentary THE GRACE LEE PROJECT won multiple awards, broadcast on the Sundance Channel and was called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine and “a funny but complex meditation on identity and cultural expectation,” by Variety. Other credits include the Emmy-nominated MAKERS: WOMEN IN POLITICS and OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA, both for PBS; JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, set during the 2012 presidential campaign, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival as well as AMERICAN ZOMBIE, a personal horror film, which premiered at Slamdance and is distributed by Cinema Libre. She has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 2017 Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner, an envoy of the American Film Showcase (through USC and the U.S. State Department), and is co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network.

She is also an Executive Committee Member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her work has been supported by numerous awards and artist grants from the likes of Rockefeller, Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, UCLA, International Documentary Association and the USC World Building Institute. She is currently a producer/director on a five-part landmark PBS series THE ASIAN AMERICANS as well as AND SHE COULD BE NEXT, about women of color transforming politics and civic engagement. http://gracelee.net

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:29:27 -0400 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Lee
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82347 82347-21068630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Wednesday, April 14

7:00-8:00pm Panel 3: Transformation of the South Korean Film Industry 2

Chair: Daniel Herbert (University of Michigan)

The South Korean Animation Industries
Daniel Martin (KAIST)

Korean Remakes of Korean Films
Seung-Ae Lee (Macquarie University)

8:10-9:30pm Panel 4: Film Cultures

Chair: Irhe Sohn (Smith College)

Song Kang-Ho, A Star of New Korean Cinema
Noh Kwang-woo (Korea University)

Reel Heritage: the History of the Korean Film Archive and Film Restoration
Ariel Schudson (Film Archivist)

Creating a “Cheerful” Cinema: South Korea’s Cold War Regimes and State Film Censorship, 1960s-1980s
Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University)

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:57:19 -0400 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
CJS Lecture Series | Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity (April 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79852 79852-20509609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

In *Development Drowned and Reborn*, Clyde Woods proposes that we envision new worlds—worlds “more egalitarian and democratic,” and more committed to “sustainability” and “social, cultural, and economic justice”—by way of an epistemology of the blues. The blues are that musical form born in the freedom found in the wake of American slavery. They are characterized by the expressive deviations of the blue note and the transformation of memories of the sounds of the plantation (field hollers, wailings, and so on) into something more mellifluous. Woods contends that, with a bit of synesthesia, the modes of listening and sounding out afforded by the blues might help us make better sense of the world and give us a sense of how a better world might be.
This talk is interested in the formation of what we might call an epistemology of the violets, or that way of seeing and being in the world at the intersection of the blues and the reds, with “red” here serving as a chromatic stand in for the epistemological and sensorial insights embedded in Japanese creative works. To date, Afro-Japanese scholarship has been framed primarily by concepts such as representation and reception. While informative in their own way, such frameworks prime us to think about transferences from one culture (“blues”) to another (“reds”). Addressing collaborations such as the artwork produced by Pharrell Williams and Murakami Takashi, this talk provides general heuristics for those interested in the study of the epistemological possibilities of purple, or a way of seeing and creating possible worlds that is neither red nor blue—neither African American nor Japanese—but both red and blue, the emergence upon their coalescence.

Will Bridges is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester. His scholarship has been recognized by the Fulbright Program, the Japan Foundation, the Association for Asian Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His first monograph, *Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature*, was published in 2020 by the University of Michigan Press. He is currently working on two manuscripts. The first is *The Futurist Turn: The Japanese Humanities and the Re-imagining of the Unwelfare State*. The second is *The Black Pacific: A Poetic History*. He is also an author of creative nonfiction.


*This event is cosponsored by the University of Michigan Press.*

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Please register for this event on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3KYeArGLRxG0U7N1r7y-eQ

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:20:10 -0400 2021-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | The Politics of Volume and the Poetics of Reverberations across the Black Pacific
CSAS Lecture Series | The “Public” of Public Humanities: A Conversation about the University and Its Outside (April 15, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83629 83629-21444314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

In this conversation Prof. Anupama Rao will speak about the intersection of her scholarship with her role as Senior Editor, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East [CSSAAME]. The conversation will focus on “public humanities” as the place where these identities and agendas meet, often in a discordant and somewhat incommensurable manner.

Prof. Rao will offer a reflection on the question of intellectual labor, its relationship to the problem of mass intellectuality (from the vantage point as a scholar of Dalit pasts and presents), and the University, especially Columbia University where she is currently conducting archival research for a project called “Ambedkar in America,” which is linked with the Ambedkar Initiative: https://icls.columbia.edu/initiatives/ambedkar-initiative/

We then draw on ideas of historical comparison, translation, and (global) convergence as a useful rubric to guide an open discussion about CSSAAME journal as a particular artefact of collaborative scholarly labor.

Register here for the Zoom seminar: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcldO-trTsuG9YiSFiwUERIw-HuEXt-8Zkq

Cosponsored by the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:30:29 -0400 2021-04-15T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Anupama Rao, TOW Associate Professor of History, Barnard and MESAAS (Columbia)
Global Connections: An Investigation into How to Bring the Traditional Rituals of Tujia and Miao Chinese Ethnic Minorities to Contemporary Society through Theatre and Performance (April 15, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82073 82073-21016992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Guest: Jay Peng Zhang, vocalist, choreographer, Professor- Art College, Shanghai University of Sport, Hong Kong
Faculty Lead: Amy Chavasse

Folk singer and modern dancer, Jay Peng Zhang, is from the Tujia and Miao ethnic minority groups of Western Hunan Province. Jay’s research maintains a focus on rituals and their inspirational role in his contemporary practice. Culturally rooted songs and traditions from his native place Yongshun (Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Western Hunan) form the core of his work. Jay will share his research through a performative talk including movement and songs from Miao and Tujia minorities as well as wearing the traditional attire he inherited from his grandmother. As one of the few remaining practitioners of traditional Tujia songs and aware of the recent policies of tourism and entertainment, Jay raises questions about authenticity and the rapidly changing conditions of Miao and Tujia minorities in China today. Peng Zhang will share his research in song, performed live via ZOOM, and provide context for his examination of these cultural artifacts in his lecture. Videos and images from his home land in Western Hunan will amplify the exchange.

watch online at https://myumi.ch/4pQ5X

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-15T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 15, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82348 82348-21068631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Thursday, April 15

7:00-8:00pm Panel 5: BIFF, Film Criticism, and Transnationality

Chair: Markus Nornes (University of Michigan)

“Festival or Box Office? The Critical Reception of Spring in My Hometown and the debate over the future direction of South Korean Cinema 1998-1999.”
Andrew Jackson (Monash University)

Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and The City
Simone Chung (Singapore National University)

8:20-9:30pm Panel 6: Transnational Connections

Chair: Emilie Yueh Yu YEH (Lingnan University)

The Korean Film Industry and Chinese Cinema: Knowledge Transfer and Globalization
Nikki J. Y. Lee (Nottingham Trent University)

Transnational Film Relationships between Europe and South Korea (2005-2018)
Sonia Dueñas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Luis-Miguel Machin-Martin (Universidad de La Laguna)

From CHUNHYANG to PARASITE: South Korean Cinema’s American Story – Distribution, Marketing, and Reception
Goran Topalovic (Subway Cinema)

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at ncks.info@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:21:32 -0400 2021-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Muslim Religious Ideas and Identities in Mughal North India (April 16, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65327 65327-16571521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

What was a Muslim’s religious identity? What were the factors that influenced and shaped the making of his identity? Immediate, pragmatic, or deep historical and ideological? In my lecture I will first mention in brief how the markers of Muslim identity underwent change in the early phases of their evolution. I will then consider in some depth the role of the religious ideas in its formation in Mughal India. The discussion will be with special reference to the debates between the two major Sufi orders of the time, the Chishti and the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi, on some religious doctrines, ‘narrow’, sectarian or a non-sectarian and ‘pluralistic’. I will also consider some examples from the history of post-Mughal religious and political ideas.

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

Muzaffar Alam is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of South Asian Languages at the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the University of Chicago. He is a historian with field specialties in medieval and early modern South Asian Muslim religious and political cultures. His research interests also include comparative history of the Islamic world (as seen from an Indian perspective).

He has held visiting research and teaching positions in several academic institutions in Europe and America. His major publications include *The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India* (1986, New Oxford India Perennial Edition, 2013); *The Languages of Political Islam in India: c. 1200–1800* (2004); *Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discovery: 1400-1800 and Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture* (co-authored with Sanjay Subrahmanyam, 2007 and 2013).

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItdO-rqjkjGdfZv5nOF7U-zjCpdEegd-ir

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:29:13 -0400 2021-04-16T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-16T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82350 82350-21068633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Friday, April 16

8:00-9:30pm Director Spotlight: KIM Bora (Director: House of Hummingbird)

With Maggie Lee (Film Critic)

Moderator: Ungsan KIM (University of Michigan)

Film Screening: House of Hummingbird (2019) will be available for download from April 12-16. Additional details will be provided to all conference registrants.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at ncks.info@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:56:26 -0400 2021-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
Links Between Culture and Sanitation (April 20, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83816 83816-21540180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Project RISHI

Dr. Balmurli Natrajan, Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University will speak on the social practices in communities where open defecation is prevalent, toilet use, and sanitation practices in India. The discussion will center around the link between culture and accepting modern adaptations in rural communities. RSVP Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaJwRFl1WH56j3j604SnuPiLF5vRvgiAHais0Hse4ISjAATA/viewform

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:07:20 -0400 2021-04-20T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T15:00:00-04:00 Project RISHI Conference / Symposium Dr. Balmurli Natrajan, Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Making over 'The Big Reveal': Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Globalizing of the South Korean "Look" in Medical Tourism YouTube Videos (April 20, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83420 83420-21375692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/wlD97

Searching the words, “South Korean Plastic Surgery” on YouTube will lead to a plethora of vlogs with variations on the titles: “I Got Plastic Surgery in Korea” and “My Plastic Surgery Experience in Korea.” Typically sponsored by South Korean plastic surgery clinics or medical tourism agencies, such vlogs chronicle the YouTuber’s journey to South Korea to receive multiple surgeries as well as the pain of recovery and of course, surgery’s results. Given our social media driven landscape, these videos have become a key mode of advertising for South Korean clinics hoping to entice Western and/or English-speaking foreigners into traveling abroad for surgery. Focusing on videos and interviews with specifically non-Korean, US-born YouTubers, in this talk I show how these self-filmed YouTube videos are remaking reality television’s Makeover genre. In so doing, these videos enact the South Korean “look,” made popular by K-pop idols, as global by literally showcasing non-Korean bodies being transformed as such. In addition to selling South Korean plastic surgery, I argue that these videos animate US K-pop fans’ fantasies of South Korea as a multicultural alternative to hegemonic whiteness.

S. Heijin Lee is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University whose research explores the imperial routes of culture and media. In addition to her forthcoming book, The Geopolitics of Beauty, which maps the convergence of pop culture and plastic surgery coming from South Korea, Lee is co-editor of Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia (NYU Press, 2019) and Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea (University of Hawai'i Press, 2019). Lee has been featured on National Public Radio's Code Switch, Korea Society's "K-Pop 101" series, and at KCON discussing beauty, pop and power.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:16:51 -0400 2021-04-20T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-20T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual S. Heijin Lee, Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Decolonizing Race and Ethnicity: Understanding Racial formation in Japanese society (April 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83756 83756-21491329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://myumi.ch/nbEy3

What are race and ethnicity? Students are often taught in social science courses that they are socially constructed categories. But what does that exactly mean? In the United States, race is commonly defined and practiced as a category based on visible phenotypes, whereas ethnicity is based on distinguishable cultural traits. Are these definitions of race and ethnicity globally universal or should they be? In this webinar, I challenge the U.S. and Euro-centric understanding and applications of race and ethnicity. By introducing different theoretical approaches to define race and ethnicity in sociology, I discuss how these concepts should be understood, treated and applied in our analysis. In nutshell, race and ethnicity are malleable categories across time and space; they are subject to change depending on local and global conditions. I explore whether or not a distinction between race and ethnicity is analytically warranted and why discussing racism between groups who share similar phenotypical and cultural traits is not only possible, but important, especially in the context of Japanese society.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:53:49 -0400 2021-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Hwaji Shin, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco; and the 2020-21 CJS Toyota Visiting Professor
Links Between Culture and Sanitation (April 22, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83816 83816-21540179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Project RISHI

Dr. Balmurli Natrajan, Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University will speak on the social practices in communities where open defecation is prevalent, toilet use, and sanitation practices in India. The discussion will center around the link between culture and accepting modern adaptations in rural communities. RSVP Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaJwRFl1WH56j3j604SnuPiLF5vRvgiAHais0Hse4ISjAATA/viewform

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:07:20 -0400 2021-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Project RISHI Conference / Symposium Dr. Balmurli Natrajan, Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University
Honors Colloquium (April 28, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83852 83852-21555864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

Limmy Kim
-The Entertainment of Divorce

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:36:53 -0400 2021-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-28T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Blue poster with white writing: HONORS COLLOQUIUM with guests listed
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Challenges and Opportunities for a Historian of Japan Teaching about Race and Imperialism (April 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83818 83818-21540181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required: https://myumi.ch/jxED9

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

Historically, Cold War Area Studies and the nationalization of Ethnic Studies have contributed to an Orientalist arrangement in which “their” pasts and contemporary conditions have been separated from “ours.” For example, scholars of Asia are not supposed to teach about North American issues, let alone conduct research across national formations. However, this sequestering of “ourselves” from “them” has become increasingly untenable due to globalization and massive demographic changes in North America. This webinar discusses the challenges and possible methods for breaking through the separation of area studies (especially Japanese studies and East Asian studies) and ethnic studies by discussing two courses that I regularly teach -- “Colonialisms in Asia” and “The Asia-Pacific Wars” -- in which race, sex, gender and imperialism are key themes. These are modern phenomena that trouble the regions we Asia “experts” study and the places in which we live, teach and work. But an obscene screen sequesters these two knowledge formations, making it difficult for scholars of Asia to teach critically about racism in North America as well as about the U.S. and Canada as empires. While we Asia “experts” are normally assigned to study the people and nations “over there,” this webinar proposes that we need to refuse the disciplinary practices that the Cold War University has imposed upon us. The webinar will also propose that while important, linking Asian and Asian North American studies can only be one part of confronting the global problems of racism and empires.

Takashi Fujitani is a Professor in Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto. His research is focused on the intersections of nationalism, race, gender, war, and memory in East Asian history and Asian American history.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:19:17 -0400 2021-04-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Takashi Fujitani
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Confronting the “Ends” of Area: On Transpacific Accountability (May 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83819 83819-21540182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required: https://myumi.ch/51ZvE

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

Has Japanese Studies ever been a discipline? Who was it for? Conversations about its disciplinary survival continue and repeat attempts to contend with the deconstructive critique of “area.” According to reactions to the deconstructive critique of Area Studies, which began its course in the 1980s, we stand on the epistemological precipice of not simply the decline, but the death of the disciplines that comprise, for example, “Asian Studies” and “Latin American Studies.” Yet, efforts to undo Cold War era formations of knowledge production, in turn, have galvanized projects that seek to validate area studies through the rhetoric of their “re-birth,” often in formats that purport an interdisciplinary awareness to the diversifying demographics of higher education.

In this webinar, our aim will be to openly discuss the contradictions between the goal of “antiracist pedagogy” and the limits and possibilities of “Japanese Studies.” In emphasizing a framework of transpacific accountability that interrogates the “area” model through engaging critical race and Indigenous epistemologies, the webinar proposes a confrontation with the perceived crisis of area fields as an opening for a way to rethink and re-orient antiracist pedagogy. Highlighting a comparative study of race across Japan and Latin America as a case for the transpacific framework, the webinar introduces critical approaches to the histories of racism, militarism, nationalism, capitalism, and heterosexism in research and pedagogy across and after the “ends” of area.

Andrea Mendoza is an Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at UC San Diego. Her research areas are in critical race studies, transpacific studies, and East Asian and Latin American literatures and visual cultures.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:19:45 -0400 2021-05-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Andrea Mendoza
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-10T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-10T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 11, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-11T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-11T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-12T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Contrapuntal Imaginations: Reading Empires in an Undergraduate Japanese Studies Class (May 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83981 83981-21619291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p_LRbqtuSGiVocVOSEtodQ

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series:
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

In Culture and Imperialism (1993), Edward Said introduces the term, contrapuntal reading, as a method to analyze the imbrication between metropolitan and colonial literary texts in the empire. By reading texts contrapuntally, Said argues, we are in a better position to understand the presence of colonialism in British novels such as the reference to Australia in David Copperfield or India in Jane Eyre. Furthermore, contrapuntal reading must take account of both processes, that of imperialism and that of resistance to it. This method of reading is still relevant and can serve as a corrective to today’s liberal discourse of inclusion and diversity. Current DEI efforts in the universities, corporations and elsewhere as a result of systemic racism and exclusion laid bare by the pandemic and police violence are commendable, but have their limits. Much like the push for multiculturalism in an earlier conjuncture, the liberal discourse of DEI runs the risk of reifying differences and (un)consciously upholds the status quo without interrogating and dismantling the very system that made those differences possible in the first place. In the gesture of acceptance and tolerance, liberalism continues to sustain white privilege and espouse colonial benevolence. And if we can place postwar liberalism as the dominant ideology in the United States responsible for establishing Area Studies as part of its anti-Communist effort, a benign racism has been fundamental to the formation of our disciplines and knowledge production.

Contrapuntal reading, I suggest, is useful in understanding the constituting and co-figuring of metropolitan and colonial relations that while addressing the minoritarian position of the colonized, does not normalize the status of the colonizer. Furthermore, contrapuntal reading can be extended to analyze the transition and translation between empires, or what I am calling the transimperial to contextualize, for example, the shift from Japanese to American empire in postwar East Asia. Contrapuntal reading, however, is not simply descriptive in pointing out the presence and traces of empire in metropolitan and colonial texts. It requires imagination (and luck!) in juxtaposing and associating texts that are normally taught separately in different contexts to illuminate their contrapuntal relations. This webinar will present concrete examples from literature, film, popular culture and social theory intended for undergraduate teaching.

Leo Ching is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. His research interests include colonial discourse studies, postcolonial theory, Japanese mass culture, and theories of globalization and regionalism.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 May 2021 09:18:36 -0400 2021-05-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Leo Ching, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 13, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-13T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 14, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-14T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Kaleidoscopic Vision: Okinawa Amidst Competing Transpacific Politics (May 20, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83982 83982-21619292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sCvvNSW5TpW6miJZxLtg7w

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series:
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

In the Asia Pacific, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a major trading nation during the early modern period and Okinawa was the “Keystone of the Pacific” that served as a launching pad for America’s Cold War during the postwar era. The Satsuma domain invaded the Ryukyus in 1609 and turned it into a “hidden colony” vis-a-vis Ming/Qing China so that it could continue to funnel Chinese goods and culture into its domain via the Ryukyus without offending either China or the Tokugawa bakufu’s “closed country” (sakoku) policy. After the newly established Meiji government invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom and annexed it as Okinawa Prefecture in 1879, it once again kept it as a “hidden colony” vis-a-vis the international community. Today, modern Japan, and now also the US, continue to hide Okinawa’s colonial condition in order to concentrate US military bases on the islands in the interests of both.

Ifa Fuyū (1876-1947), the “father of Okinawan studies,” argued that Ryukyuan political and cultural life peaked in the 16th century when it could openly dazzle with the kaleidoscopic brilliance of all cultures that touched the lives of the Ryukyuan people. However, from the 17th century forward, Okinawa could only be seen in the ever shifting shadows of a constellation of moving sovereign states. Its dynamism—its “doubleness”—has been routinely flattened out into a singularity that is consumed by surrounding sovereign powers. This can be seen in Okinawa’s modern-day postcolonial predicament of a concentrated US military base presence that is enabled by the popular will of the Japanese people. For American statesmen, Okinawa is simply “one part of Japan” and therefore not a US problem, and for more progressive politics, Okinawa is victim to US (military) imperialism and white supremacy. For Japanese statesmen, Okinawa is simply ignored, and for more progressive politics, Okinawa is again victim to US (military) imperialism and white supremacy. However, Okinawans have recently been problematizing the fact that it is the Japanese government who funds the US military bases and decides to concentrate them in Okinawa, and the will of the Japanese people who are happy with this arrangement that guarantees Japanese economic and political stability.

Hence, when thinking of Okinawa transpacifically, which Okinawa do we prioritize? The Okinawa in the shadows of the US, or the Okinawa in the shadows of Japan? In this webinar, I will put Ifa in conversation with his contemporary W.E.B. Du Bois to imagine a global politics of the color line in which doubleness is not suppressed but becomes a driving liberatory force for what Ifa called an “age of sweetness” (ama yū) after colonialism.

Annmaria Shimabuku is the Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor at NYU. Her research is centered in the intersection of postcolonial Japanese Studies, Okinawan Studies, and literary/political theory.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 May 2021 09:29:42 -0400 2021-05-20T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Annmaria Shimabuku, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University
Anote's Ark - Film Screening and Panel Discussion (May 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83540 83540-21409116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL), in partnership with the CCL Asian Pacific Action Team, are pleased to host a virtual screening of the award-winning films, Anote’s Ark and Love Note to an Island. We invite you to view the films in the comfort of your home, then participate in an online panel discussion with filmmaker, Lulu DeBoer, and returned Peace Corps volunteers who served in Kiribati, Brady Fergusson and Dr. Michael Roman.

For complete details on viewing the film and joining the panel discussion, click on the Eventbrite Registration link.

Optional: we invite our attendees to help support the people of Kiribati by making a donation to the Kiribati Climate Action Network (KiriCAN) through our GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-submerging-island

About the films:

Anote’s Ark: The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati is one of the most remote places on the planet, seemingly far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first countries that must confront the existential dilemma of our time: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. While Kiribati’s former President Anote Tong races to find a way to protect his nation’s people and maintain their dignity, many Kiribati are already seeking safe harbor overseas. Set against the backdrop of international climate and human rights negotiations, Anote’s struggle to save his nation is intertwined with the fate of Tiemeri, a young mother who fights to migrate her family to New Zealand. At stake is the survival of Tiemeri’s family, the Kiribati people, and 4,000 years of Kiribati culture.
Love Note to an Island: This moving short film by Lulu DeBoer shows her visiting her home island of Kiribati for the first time in over 20 years, only to find that climate change will soon wash it away. But instead of despair, the love and hope of the country spurs her on to find solutions to adapt

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Film Screening Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:12:22 -0400 2021-05-23T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-23T20:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Film Screening photo of the island nation of Kiribati
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Multiculturalism in Japan: The Contradiction of Samba Matsuri (May 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84085 84085-21619929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://myumi.ch/WwXmY

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series:
https://myumi.ch/88W5V

Today’s globalism and cosmopolitanism highlight nations’ economic ties by commodifying the diversity of peoples, cultures, and languages present in their own borders, becoming a local multiculturalism. In Japan, this extends to highlighting the heterogeneous population of a country that others consider homogeneous. In this presentation, I examine the consumption of a Brazilian national imaginary in Japan, not as a country of “poverty and crime” but as “Brasil Fantástico!”: land of samba, açaí, eternal summer, and carnaval. I argue that the use of samba in matsuri stereotypes, contrasts, and further essentializes Japan’s multiculturalism in its presentation of a sexualized, racialized Brazilian musical form. In particular, I’ll discuss the historicity of the Asakusa Samba Matsuri and the fantastical presentation of samba as a redemptionary medium in Shiozaki Shōhei’s Akaneiro no yakusoku: samba do kingyo (Goldfish Go Home, 2012).

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 20 May 2021 09:12:43 -0400 2021-05-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-27T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Zelideth Rivas, Associate Professor of Japanese, Marshall University
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Getting Started: Challenges and Opportunities in Anti-racist Pedagogy in Premodern Japanese Literature (June 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84094 84094-21620027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://myumi.ch/BoYbQ

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series:
https://myumi.ch/88W5V

Teaching about race and ethnicity through premodern Japanese literature poses a formidable challenge. This is not only because we lack a robust body of scholarship trained on this lens to assign on syllabi, but also because we have lacked academic gatherings such as RaceB4Race, where medievalists working on Europe have begun to think about the possibilities of race as an analytical category in relation to medieval texts. This presentation is therefore a call to getting started, to think creatively about how we can incorporate existing scholarship on social marginality, precarity, and otherness (on outcastes and pollution, on Hansen’s disease, on slavery and indentured servitude, on illness, on animals) to help students make broader connections.

Vyjayanthi Selinger is an Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. Her research examines literary representations of conflict in medieval Japan, war memory, legal and ritual constraints of war, Buddhist mythmaking, and women in war.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 21 May 2021 11:25:50 -0400 2021-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Getting Started: Challenges and Opportunities in Anti-racist Pedagogy in Premodern Japanese Literature
Southeast Asian Languages and Scholarship Information Session (June 4, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84067 84067-21619803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 4, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 May 2021 09:19:30 -0400 2021-06-04T11:00:00-04:00 2021-06-04T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Event Poster with Southeast Asian Images
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Pedagogy for Solidarity: Teaching Japanese American Incarceration and Social Justice (June 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84197 84197-21620751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required: https://myumi.ch/wl34Z

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

This webinar will focus on the "pedagogy" part of the series title, "Japanese Studies Antiracist Pedagogy." I invite us to think together about what antiracist course design entails, and how it can--and must--be baked into a course at every level, from its learning goals and structures to assignments, discussions, readings, and classroom policies. I will draw from my experiences teaching at a small U.S. Midwestern liberal arts college, for a 100-level course titled "Reading the World: Social Justice," my version of which is themed around narratives of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The course explores these narratives as an active and enduring presence in the lives and politics of the present--in the United States, at its borders, and beyond them. My students and I consider Japanese American incarceration in conversation with Indigenous sovereignty and settler colonialism; the incarceration of Japanese Latin Americans; present-day activism around migrant detention at the U.S.-Mexico border; and the ongoing work of redress and repair with respect to structural/interpersonal racism and antiblackness in the United States.

I will discuss the writing and discussion prompts I use to engage students across different levels of familiarity with literary analysis/Japanese American studies/social justice, as well as my errors and successes in developing a classroom community that strives to be antiracist in its daily praxis; emphasizes experimentation over mastery; and scaffolds opportunities for students to bring the world into the classroom, and their learning into the world. The heart of this webinar is not mine alone: Several of my students have volunteered their experiments and reflections so that, as teachers and learners, we can see what the theory behind an antiracist syllabus creates in practice--what messy realities we might anticipate as part of the learning process, and how the seeds of a syllabus can be nurtured and extended through students' challenges, amendments, and additions.

Mika Kennedy is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Kalamazoo College. Her research examines narratives of Japanese American incarceration, and she is the curator of Exile to Motown: Japanese Americans in Detroit.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:07:47 -0400 2021-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-10T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Mika Kennedy, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Kalamazoo College
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Fugitive Planning and Potentials for Study: Lessons from the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy Project (JSAP) (June 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84246 84246-21620804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required: https://tinyurl.com/en9thcc6

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

What should an antiracist practice entail within the context of Japanese studies? What conceptual, political, and interpersonal tools might hinder or support such a project? And what pitfalls and possibilities should be avoided or embraced in pursuing better ways of learning and living? Given the racist origins and supremacist legacies of Japanese studies, approaching this field through an antiracist lens can seem fraught, if not doomed. Nevertheless, our Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy Project (JSAP) represents an experiment that attempted to do just this. As part of this project, we taught a mixed undergraduate/graduate course in the Winter semester of 2021, “Antiracism and Japanese Culture,” which entailed teaching and learning a number of lessons about “Japan,” analytical tools, politics, and the various intellectual and institutional constraints that shape our understanding. This webinar features presentations and reflections on the JSAP enterprise by the project’s co-organizers, Sophie Hasuo, Reginald Jackson, and Rachel Willis. In addition to explaining the course’s specific pedagogical underpinnings, goals, and organization, we will also discuss various philosophical and pragmatic aspects of developing such a collaborative project. Influenced by Moten and Harney’s notion of fugitive planning in The Undercommons, we outline lessons learned from working together to imagine how best to study and thrive within and beyond the ivory tower.

Reginald Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at the University of Michigan. His research is at the intersection of literature, art history, and performance studies.

The following text will be included on all II events unless you indicate otherwise:If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:30:07 -0400 2021-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-17T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Fugitive Planning and Potentials for Study: Lessons from the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy Project (JSAP)
Asian American History: Past and Present with Dr. Manan Desai (August 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84778 84778-21624935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

This lecture and discussion examines key moments in American history that illustrate the ways Asian Americans have been racialized in the U.S, how they have been subject to legal and extralegal exclusion and discrimination, as well as the ways communities have organized in resistance. Using key case studies spanning the late 19th century to the present moment, we will consider: What lessons from the past can we use to understand our present? What role can Asian Americans continue to play in the ongoing struggle against white supremacy and social inequalities?

This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Engineering Diversity & Outreach (CEDO), the APID/A Staff Association and Graduate Rackham International (GRIN).

This lecture is part one of a three part series on combating anti-Asian hate, harassment and racism throughout the 2021/2022 academic year.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:35:07 -0400 2021-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-08-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Lecture / Discussion A poster of the Manan Desai Aug 3 Lecture
CJS Lecture Series | The Link Between Marriage and Fertility and Changing Pathways to First Marriage in Japan (September 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84198 84198-21620754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The low prevalence of cohabiting unions and non-marital childbearing in Japan is inconsistent with the expectations of prominent theories of family change in low fertility societies. In this study, we use data from large national surveys to describe growing heterogeneity in pathways to first marriage in Japan, focusing on the temporal ordering of cohabitation, pregnancy, marriage, and first childbirth.

Jim Raymo is Professor of Sociology and the Henry Wendt III ’55 Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. Raymo’s research focuses primarily on evaluating patterns and potential consequences of major demographic changes in Japan. He has published widely on key features of recent family change, including delayed marriage, extended coresidence with parents, and increases in premarital cohabitation, shotgun marriages, and divorce. In other lines of research, he has examined health outcomes at older ages in Japan and their relationship with family, work, and local area characteristics and has examined multiple dimensions of well-being among the growing population of single mothers and their children in Japan.

Please register for the Zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U7wQQcTbTBKy12KSWtHSEA

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:31:05 -0400 2021-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-09T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jim Raymo, Professor of Sociology and the Henry Wendt III ’55 Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
CJS Lecture Series | Difficult Subjects: Religion and Public Schools in Contemporary Japan (September 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84200 84200-21620755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

As part of a new national policy of “making persons” (hitozukuri) who could support Japan’s rapid economic growth, in the mid-1960s Japan's Ministry of Education adopted a new objective centered on fostering students as “reliable human figures” (kitai sareru ningenzō). Despite the explicit legal prohibition regarding religious education in Japan’s constitution, policy makers clearly expected public schools to inculcate both personal piety and professional diligence as part of this new orientation. This talk shows how public education aligned with religious indoctrination as policy wonks temporarily partnered with clerics to advance a type of non-confessional training known as “religious sentiment education” (shūkyō jōsō kyōiku).

Jolyon Thomas is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan (2019) and Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan (2012).

Please register for the Zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B_L4r4l-SEOdqjRsQuG6dw

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:32:22 -0400 2021-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jolyon Thomas, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Crash Landing on You (September 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86485 86485-21634637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Yoon Se-Ri (Son Ye-Jin) is an heiress to a conglomerate in South Korea. One day while paragliding, an accident caused by strong winds leads Yoon Se-Ri to make an emergency landing in North Korea. There, she meets Ri Jeong-Hyeok (Hyun-Bin), who is a North Korean army officer. Does he decide to turn her in? Join the party to find out! We’ll be pointing out some interesting cultural aspects in the chat during the drama episode. Grab a blanket and some popcorn!

Pre-registration via Google Form is required to receive Netflix Party Link: https://forms.gle/iStdY17eFXMF3GeQ7

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:10:22 -0400 2021-09-19T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Crash Landing on You
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Taekwondo Workshop (September 20, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86527 86527-21634766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Tired of sitting around at home as the weather gets cooler? Get moving with the Nam
Center's Taekwondo Workshop as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021! Instructor
Alicia Wang will guide participants through the Taegeuk Il Jang, the first of eight taekwondo
forms. Alicia is a 2nd dan black belt with 8 years of experience in Taekwondo. She also
serves as a co-leader of the Michigan Taekwondo Demonstration Team.

Pre-registration for Zoom Webinar is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F2y2_zLqRLmIWMUhcYP9zQ

The University of Michigan Tae-Kwon-Do Club (UMTDK) was founded in 1964, making it the oldest martial arts club on campus. The club competes at tournaments in the Eastern Collegiate Tae-Kwon-Do Conference against other collegiate programs.

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:46:29 -0400 2021-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 2021-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Taekwondo Workshop
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | K-Pop Dance Tutorial (September 21, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86528 86528-21634767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Turn up the music with the Nam Center for Korean Studies for a K-Pop Dance Tutorial as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021! Leaders from Konnect [K-Pop Dance Group] will teach participants the moves to “Boom” by NCT Dream.

Pre-registration for Zoom Webinar is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a-GZ7t2QShKxRw6_12-9hw

Konnect is a co-ed K-pop dance group whose mission is to create an inclusive community for those interested in learning K-pop dance by holding weekly tutorials and creating a subunit that performs at various events around campus.

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:54:48 -0400 2021-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | K-Pop Dance Tutorial
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Korean Storytime (September 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86532 86532-21634771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Join Eunjae Cheon and Andrea Yun for crafts, songs and stories in Korean!

We will also make a Chuseok Gift Set craft together!

You will need:
-Download & Print the Chuseok Gift Set PDF file
-Childsafe Scissors
-Glue
-Coloring Utensils
-A Small Empty Box to display your “items”

Pre-registration via Google Form is required to receive Zoom Link: https://forms.gle/RMwzW1MNPzhhHbmA8

Eunjae is a teacher for the Korean School of Ann Arbor and Andrea is a classical cellist and teaches cello privately out of her home.

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:11:08 -0400 2021-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Korean Storytime
CJS Lecture Series | Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community (September 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84105 84105-21620253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Based upon his latest book, Professor Samuels will explore the history of the Japanese intelligence community from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries across wars and peace. He will examine where matters stand today now that the Japanese government has begun to enhance intelligence reform.

Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2011 he received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, an Imperial decoration awarded by the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Prime Minister. From 2015 to 2019 he was an Albert Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, where he completed Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community (Cornell University Press-- and, in translation, Nikkei Books). Special Duty was named one of the “Best of Books, 2019” by the journal Foreign Affairs.

In 2013, Cornell University Press published his book about the political and economic effects of Japan’s March 2011 catastrophes: 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan. Dr. Samuels’ prior book, Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, was named one of the five finalists for the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book in international affairs. Another, Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan, a comparative history of leadership in Italy and Japan, won the 2004 Jervis-Schroeder Prize for the best book in International History and Politics from the American Political Science Association.

His 1994 study, “Rich Nation, Strong Army”: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan won the 1996 John Whitney Hall Prize of the Association of Asian Studies and the 1996 Arisawa Memorial Prize of the Association of American University Presses. His book, The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective received the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 1988.

Professor Samuels has also published widely in peer reviewed journals such as International Security, International Organization, The Journal of Japanese studies, and Political science Quarterly, as well as in policy journals such as The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, and Foreign Affairs.

Please register for the Zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h9IVRf0HTl-gMvpXJ91BTA

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:10:51 -0400 2021-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Kingdom (September 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86533 86533-21634772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Set in Korea’s medieval Joseon period, it tells the story of Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon), who becomes embroiled in a coup/political conspiracy and is forced to embark upon a mission to investigate the spread of a mysterious undead plague that has beset the current emperor and the country's southern provinces. We’ll be pointing out some interesting cultural aspects in the chat during the drama episode. Grab a blanket and some popcorn!

Pre-registration via Google Form is required to receive Netflix Party Link: https://forms.gle/GefccmrmxkKz2b4N8

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:09:12 -0400 2021-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Kingdom
POSTPONED TO 10/29--CSAS Lecture | Misinformation and Political Twitter in India (September 24, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85976 85976-21630634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This event has been rescheduled for October 29.

In the last decade, India has seen a massive uptake in the adoption, and frequency of technology use by citizens, making social media a primary means of information access for a large part of the Indian citizenry. This talk uses three instances of coordinated online misinformation around the COVID-19, the 2021 farmer protests, and the demise of a movie star to highlight ways in which social media has become a feeder channel for mainstream media in India. I show that in each case, misinformation related to the primary event was crafted to engage alternate targets – including communities, activists, political actors, or celebrities, and that this was done within a larger narrative of belonging and citizenship.

Joyojeet Pal is an associate professor at the School of Information at the University of Michigan and a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India. His research examines the use of social media in mainstream politics.

Please register in advance for this zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkdu-qpzooHdA1Rh0H6trGUh2Za_qxWuGt

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:12:47 -0400 2021-09-24T16:30:00-04:00 2021-09-24T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Joyojeet Pal, School of Information, University of Michigan
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Chuseok Keynote Event Author Reading with Tae Keller: When You Trap A Tiger (September 24, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86535 86535-21634774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

We’re hosting a very special Keynote event this year featuring Tae Keller, author of *When You Trap A Tiger*, Winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal! Tae will perform a reading of the book followed by a question and answer session. We encourage you to check out her website and read her “Author’s Note” and “Guide to Mythology in *When You Trap A Tiger*.”

Pre-registration for Zoom Webinar is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bYM6_oiPTA6Zeb9V53m9dw

Tae Keller grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she subsisted on kimchi, purple rice, and stories. Now, she writes about biracial girls trying to find their voices, and lives in Seattle with her husband and a multitude of books.

*When You Trap A Tiger* Synopsis:
Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother.

Some stories refuse to stay bottled up…

When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni’s Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal–return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni’s health–Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice…and the courage to face a tiger.

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:54:08 -0400 2021-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Chuseok Keynote Event Author Reading with Tae Keller: When You Trap A Tiger
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Modern Monumentality: Sculptural Attitudes in Post-1949 China (September 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84726 84726-21624493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series

Please register here for this Zoom webinar: https://myumi.ch/PleQR

Since the early 20th century attitudes toward modernization have increasingly centered on spatial hierarchies manifested not only in the built environment, but also through China's arts and culture such as through the growing nationalist interest in its ancient sculptural sites. Through tracing the new emphasis on the monumental in various interpretations of sculpture of the past as well as the present up to the 1950s, this talk examines the motivations for invoking monumentality in modern China and its role in envisioning a new mass viewer in the young Communist nation.

Vivian Li is the Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art and a specialist in postwar and contemporary art in Asia. She has realized several ambitious exhibitions and commissions, including collaborations with Mel Chin, Lee Mingwei, and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. With the support of a Fulbright fellowship she completed her dissertation on postwar sculpture in China and received her PhD from the University of Michigan in Art History in 2015. She has contributed to various publications, including the Oxford Art Journal," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art," and the forthcoming anthology "Postwar—A Global Art History, 1945–1965" edited by Okwui Enwezor and Atreyee Gupta.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:58:00 -0400 2021-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Vivian Li, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Epistolary Revolution in Chosŏn Korea (September 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84647 84647-21624355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/QAgxE

While discussing his book The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2020), Hwisang Cho will give a survey of the “epistolary revolution” that shaped Korean society from the sixteenth century to the end of the Chosŏn dynasty and beyond. By examining the physical peculiarities of new letter forms, the cooptation of letters for other purposes after their communicative functions, and the rise of diverse political epistolary genres, this talk will illuminate how innovation in epistolary practices allowed diverse writers to move beyond the limits imposed by the existing scholarly culture, gender norms, and political systems. While emphasizing how the epistolary revolution posed new challenges to traditional values and already-established institutions, it will demonstrate that new modes of reading and writing developed in the seemingly mundane and trivial practice of letter writing triggered a flourishing of Neo-Confucian moral thought, the formation of new kinds of cultural power, and the rise of elite public politics.

Hwisang Cho is an assistant professor in Korean studies at Emory University. Cho’s areas of specialization include the cultural, intellectual, and literary history of Korea, comparative textual media, and global written culture. His major work in progress is The Tales of the Master: T’oegye and the Making of Modern Korea, a study of how the culture of storytelling about a historical personage and its manifestation in diverse material forms have influenced the formation and appropriation of self-identities of various communities in Korea from the late sixteenth century to the present.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:11:07 -0400 2021-09-28T16:30:00-04:00 2021-09-28T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Colloquium Series | Epistolary Revolution in Chosŏn Korea
Measures of Mental Health - Using Life History Calendars to Improve Measurement of Lifetime Experience With Trauma and Psychiatric Disorders: The Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal (September 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85328 85328-21626240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 2: Measures of Mental Health - Using Life History Calendars to Improve Measurement of Lifetime Experience With Trauma and Psychiatric Disorders: The Chitwan Valley Family Study in Nepal

Wednesday, September 29, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenters: William Axinn and Stephanie Chardoul

This webinar will describe the work to create a Nepal-specific Composite International Diagnostic Interview and the application of life history calendars to improve measurements of individual exposures to potentially traumatic experiences and psychiatric disorders. Results from initial analyses of these new CVFS measures will be used to illustrate the potential of this approach to advance population health research. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpcuCgrDkoGNXE4HjrkkEHwVmbZPMq3F0b

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:11:55 -0400 2021-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
EIHS Lecture: Beyond the Asylum: Mapping Circuits of Recovery and Relapse in Colonial Vietnam (September 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85451 85451-21626470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This is a hybrid event. Link here for in-person registration (limited): https://myumi.ch/QAkxr
Link here to stream via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/nbW03

Description: In colonial Vietnam, patients would spend years circulating in and out of mental asylums, defying our sense of these spaces as total institutions. This talk follows the movements of patients out of the asylum to ask what the dynamics of patient release can tell us about the varied meanings and lived experiences of recovery in a colonial society. What possibilities are opened when we shift our focus from confinement to release, from the asylum to its social world, from cure to healing?

Biography: Claire E. Edington is an associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, where she specializes in the history of public health, the history of modern Southeast Asia, and the colonial and postcolonial studies of science and medicine. Her first book, Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam, was published by Cornell University in 2019. She received her PhD from the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences and History from Columbia University in 2013.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:41:13 -0400 2021-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Claire Edington
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Cornucopian Stage: Dramas of Endless Surplus in Early Modern China (October 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84763 84763-21624920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/AxpEy

This talk takes the titular object of the play Jubaopen 聚寶盆 (Cornucopia), attributed to the Suzhou playwright Zhu Suchen 朱素臣 (ca. 1620–after 1701), as the point of departure for an exploration of the productive possibilities of early modern drama. Like the jubaopen—a magical basin that reproduces ad infinitum whatever is placed inside—the Suzhou stage poured forth strings of coin, jars of gold, and carts of silver. Here the experience of living through China’s “silver century,” when the silver extracted from Japanese and New World mines flooded the Jiangnan marketplace, metamorphosizes into a fantasy of endless accumulation. The generative capacity of the Suzhou stage was not limited to the literal appearance of treasures on stage (nor to the profits made off stage by a group of playwrights whose work is often described as “commercial”); rather, the Suzhou plays show how commercial subjects and objects can be made narratively, morally, and socially productive. This talk argues that it is in this transformation of the stage into a self-consciously productive space, and the transformation of authors, actors, and audience members into similarly productive economic subjects, that the Suzhou plays enacted an early modern imaginary that linked the stages of Jiangnan to those in the far-flung but increasingly interconnected commercial centers of Amsterdam, London, Venice, and Osaka.

Ariel Fox is an assistant professor of Chinese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. She received her BA in East Asian Studies from Columbia University and her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. Her work explores the intersection of literary and economic imaginaries in late imperial China. She has recently completed a book manuscript, “The Cornucopian Stage: Performing Commerce in Early Modern China,” and is currently working on a project on monetary and literary forms.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:00:01 -0400 2021-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Ariel Fox, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Spring/Summer Study Abroad Advising Fair (October 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87444 87444-21642148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students during this pandemic, particularly for Spring/Summer 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Spring/Summer Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health to name a few. We'll also have interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia.

On top of the multiple sessions we'll be offering, we'll also have open advising hours where you can speak with CGIS advisors, LSA Scholarship Office advisors, and various partners who will be happy to discuss various program options. First Step sessions will also take place both days. Keep in mind that attending a First Step session is a required step to the application process.

Zoom links for the event will be sent out the day before the event!

Spring/Summer applications open October 1st!

RSVP Today @ myumi.ch/qgVzw

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Presentation Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:34:56 -0400 2021-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Advising Fair
CJS Lecture Series | Empowering Women Through Radio: Evidence from Occupied Japan (October 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84240 84240-21620797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

2021 marks the 75th year since Japanese women participated in the national election. In that election, women won 8.4 percent of the seats - the record which had never been broken until 2005. This study provides causal evidence that women's radio programs played a critical role in empowering women to participate in politics and beyond in Occupied Japan.

Yoko Okuyama is an Assistant Professor at the economics department of Uppsala University. Her current research focuses on the intersection of labor economics and political economy, particularly relating to gender and socio-political participation. She completed BA and MA in economics at the University of Tokyo and PhD in economics at Yale University.

Please register for the Zoom event here:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_deBHGUa1SW2ulGjdvmohKQ

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:21:17 -0400 2021-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yoko Okuyama, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Uppsala University
Spring/Summer Study Abroad Advising Fair (October 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87444 87444-21642149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students during this pandemic, particularly for Spring/Summer 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Spring/Summer Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health to name a few. We'll also have interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia.

On top of the multiple sessions we'll be offering, we'll also have open advising hours where you can speak with CGIS advisors, LSA Scholarship Office advisors, and various partners who will be happy to discuss various program options. First Step sessions will also take place both days. Keep in mind that attending a First Step session is a required step to the application process.

Zoom links for the event will be sent out the day before the event!

Spring/Summer applications open October 1st!

RSVP Today @ myumi.ch/qgVzw

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Presentation Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:34:56 -0400 2021-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Advising Fair
CHOP Film Series | All in My Family (2019) PANEL (October 7, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87186 87186-21639350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note that all listed times for the CHOP Film Series are Eastern Time (US & Canada).

A documentary short launched in May 2019 (39 min)
Independent viewing of film here: https://www.netflix.com/title/80208662

Discussants: Director Wu with Ian Shin (Assistant Professor of History & American Culture) and Ungsan Kim (Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema & Film, Television, and Media)

Ian Shin is Assistant Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan, where he is also a core faculty member in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program. Ian specializes in the history of U.S. foreign relations and Asian American history. For AY 2021–2022, Ian is the Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow at the U-M LSA Institute for the Humanities, where he is completing his book on the politics of Chinese art collecting in the United States in the early 20th century.

Ungsan Kim is Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema jointly appointed in the departments of Asian Languages and Cultures and Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. As a scholar of film and queer studies, he has published works on queer Asian cinema and Korean culture. He is currently at work of a monograph on the temporal politics of contemporary queer Asian cinema.

Please register for this Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1d8vxqVTS1abmXWEXj9vIA

See also CHOP events on:

October 6 (People's Republic of Desire): https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events.detail.html/86985-21637987.html

October 8 (76 Days): https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events.detail.html/87188-21639351.html

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) movie series, a collaboration between LRCCS and the Asia Library, will spotlight the films of award-winning director Hao Wu 吴皓, a U-M Ross alumnus originally trained as a microbiologist who followed the internet world before focusing on filmmaking.

Hao Wu takes a raw and human approach to story-telling in an era when culture evolves online and across borders.  His recent films provide a critical examination of contemporary Chinese culture by covering China’s online universe, LGBTQ parenting, and the pandemic in Wuhan.  U-M faculty and guest discussants will add their insights into the post screening Q&A, and Director Wu will be present at all events.  The festival is being organized as a virtual mini film festival.  Please stay tuned for updates and Zoom links on the LRCCS website.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:25:14 -0400 2021-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHOP Film Series | All in My Family (2019) PANEL
Wicked problems in vaccine equity: Exploring challenges & opportunities for impact (October 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88014 88014-21648531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

-Joseph Matthew, MD, Professor of Pediatric Pulmonology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India
-Matthew Boulton, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Global Public Health; Professor of Epidemiology & Preventative Medicine. U-M
-Diane Harper, MD, Professor of Family Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. U-M
-Pascale Leroueil, PhD, Vice President of the Healthcare Sector, William Davidson Institute. U-M
-Shobita Parthasarathy, PhD, Professor of Public Policy; Director, Science Technology, and Public Policy program; Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. U-M
-John Ayanian, MD (Moderator) Director, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Health Management and Policy; Professor of Public Policy. U-M

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:53:30 -0400 2021-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Flyer
CSAS Lecture | Outcaste Bombay and Inter-war Marxism (October 8, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85353 85353-21626293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Marxism arrived in inter-war Bombay under the reality of surveillance and the threat of proscription. Therefore, Marxist ideas, literature, and intellectuals trickled into the city, rather than gushed in, particularly in the first few years after World War I. The Marxist vision of a political and social revolution, that would end class inequality, needed to be translated in order to capture the imagination of intellectuals and the urban poor in the city. In other words, it needed to shed light on industrial capitalism in the city, the condition of workers within it, and provide a vision for overcoming it. Translation necessitated that Marxists address the question of caste too – how would they bring about a socialist revolution in a social formation riven with class and caste hierarchies? Marxists from S. A. Dange to M.N Roy addressed this question. They laid great store in the power of capital to desiccate caste. In their view, Marxists would organize workers, with shriveling caste affinities, into a working class. The working class would then lead the Indian revolution. Therefore, assertions of caste identity by the anti-Brahmin and the Dalit movements, and their attraction among workers, invited Marxist opprobrium and allegations of being reactionary, fascists, and petit bourgeois. This talk considers the politics of translating Marxism. Translation, here operates in two registers, one, as the interpretation of a system of ideas and concepts and the other as the language deployed to render these concepts from German via English into Marathi. Caste was important to both these translations.

Juned Shaikh is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor, published recently by the University of Washington Press and in India by Orient Blackswan. He will be a visiting research fellow of the Shelby Davis Center at Princeton University during the next academic year. His new work will be on the life and times of Gangadhar Adhikari, a Bombay Marxist. He was the recipient of the Dean’s medal for the Social Sciences as a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Please register in advance for this zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArc-Gtrz4uGNJgYN6SxjCCbDV0_lciajXF

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:31:46 -0400 2021-10-08T16:30:00-04:00 2021-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Juned Shaikh, History Department, UC Santa Cruz
Diversity Makes Us Stronger: Language as a Bridge (October 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87968 87968-21648121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Join us on October 8 at the Rackham Auditorium for entertainment and Dr. Gill's powerful talk followed by a short reception.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:10:30 -0400 2021-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion A portrait of Dr. Pinderjeet Gill
LRCCS 60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy (October 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84765 84765-21624921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/XedWy

Literature on scientific controversies has inadequately attended to the impact of globalization and, more specifically, the emergence of China as a leader in scientific research. To bridge this gap in the literature, Professor Lei develops a theoretical framework to analyse global scientific controversies surrounding research in China. Empirically, her talk will discuss the human genome editing controversy surrounding research conducted by scientists in China between 2015 and 2019. It shows how elite scientists negotiated expert– public relationships within and across the national and transnational expert spheres, how unexpected disruption at the nexus of the four spheres disrupted expert–public relationships as envisioned by elite experts, and how the Chinese state intervened to redraw the boundary between openness and secrecy at both national and transnational levels.

Ya-Wen Lei is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University, and is affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She is the author of "The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media and Authoritarian Rule in China" (Princeton University Press, 2018). Her articles have appeared in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Law & Society Review, Socius, Political Communication, and Work, Employment and Society.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:56:06 -0400 2021-10-12T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Ya-Wen Lei, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Linking Data within the CVFS and Beyond (October 13, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85329 85329-21626241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 3: Linking Data within the CVFS and Beyond

Wednesday, October 13, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Emily Treleaven and Adrienne Epstein

This webinar will give an overview of how to link observations across CVFS files, link individuals to households and neighborhoods, and link external data sources to CVFS. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:10:17 -0400 2021-10-13T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Gender and Voting Preferences in Japan, Britain, and the United States (October 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84203 84203-21620759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that the time of this lecture is 7:00 pm Ann Arbor time, 8:00 am in Tokyo (10/15/2021).

This talk examines why a gender difference in vote choice emerged – and varies – in the US, but not in Japan or Britain.

Gill Steel is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University. Her recent work includes What Women Want. Voting Preferences in Japan, Britain, and the United States (forthcoming); editing Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan (2019); and co-editing 現代日本社会の権力構造 (2018) with Masahiko Asano; Power in Contemporary Japan (2016).

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 24 Jun 2021 10:09:52 -0400 2021-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Gill Steel, Professor of Political Science, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University, Japan
CSAS Lecture | India's Newest Poses: The Imaginative Life of Yoga (October 15, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85979 85979-21630637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Yoga, a practice with a long history, has come to figure new ideas of India within twenty-first-century worlds of intense commodification, technological perfectionism, racial hierarchies, and violence of varying speeds. Under the sign of yoga, India can pose, and be posed as, the ultimate metaphor for flexible resilience. In this talk, I analyse diasporic ambivalence toward these new poses. Where yoga is often popularly celebrated for its ability to promote flexibility as a public and private good, imaginative work from the Indian diaspora has been critical of the very concept of flexibility. Such work reveals how the flexibilities demanded of the diaspora have served as assets that most benefit non-Indian corporations or individuals. Yet such critique can also recuperate the flexibility of yoga for more politically resistant and imaginatively hopeful ends. Engaging with the work of diasporic artists such as Chiraag Bhakta and Reetika Vazirani, I contend that it is by critiquing the sign of yoga most associated with flexibility – postural practice – and by engaging alternative histories of what yoga might mean, that diasporic artists and writers call into being a flexibility that works towards their own needs, not simply to benefit the capitalist expansions or racial hierarchies that structure their everyday lives.

Dr. Shameem Black is a literary, gender and cultural studies scholar of modern India and its diaspora who specialises in the ethics and politics of twenty-first-century culture. She teaches at the Australian National University, where she is based in Gender, Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language. She is the author of *Fiction Across Borders* (Columbia University Press) and numerous articles on literature, gender and culture. She serves as deputy director for the ANU's South Asia Research Institute and is the cofounder of Samyama Lab, a partnership designed to integrate academic and yogic forms of authority. Her most recent work takes yoga as a lens to understand key contradictions in twenty-first-century ideas of “India” and “Indianness,” especially in the context of national soft power aspirations, expanding capitalist practices, international migrations, and political violence. This project integrates critical and creative approaches to analyse how the imaginative life of yoga sheds light on these tensions.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:31:44 -0400 2021-10-15T16:30:00-04:00 2021-10-15T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Shameem Black, Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies, Australian National University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Lost in Translation: Chinese Literature and World Literature at the International Writing Program (1979-1988) (October 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84790 84790-21624978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series

The International Writing Program (IWP), co-founded by American poet Paul Engle and his wife, Sinophone novelist Hua-ling Nieh Engle at the University of Iowa, invited 57 writers from mainland China, 64 from Taiwan and 29 from Hong Kong from 1979 to 2019. Bringing literary representations of the residency by Chinese writers into a productive dialogue with field research and historical analysis, the talk will show that translation functioned as a tool for not only literary exchange but also cultural diplomacy in the tumultuous “first encounters” between Chinese literature and world literature on the platforms provided by IWP.

Jin Feng 馮進received her PhD in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2000. She is Professor of Chinese, the Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature, and Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Grinnell College. She has published four English monographs: "The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction" (Purdue, 2004), "The Making of a Family Saga" (SUNY, 2009), "Romancing the Internet" (Brill, 2013), and "Tasting Paradise on Earth" (U of Washington, 2019), three Chinese books such as "The Foodies’ Book" (Chihuo zhi shu, 2020), and numerous articles in both English and Chinese. She is currently researching and writing on the institutionalization of creative writing in China.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:33:34 -0400 2021-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jin Feng, Professor of Chinese, Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature; Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Grinnell College
CJS Lecture Series | Administrative Litigation Reform in Japan (October 21, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84238 84238-21620795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please take note of the 7pm (Ann Arbor time) starting time.

Japan has been known to have among the lowest rates of litigation against the state in the developed world. In recent decades, however, Japan has introduced reforms that make it easier to file suits against the state. This presentation will examine the determinants and impact of these reforms.

Rieko Kage is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at Kyoto University and earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Government, Harvard University. She is the author of Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan and Who Judges? Designing Jury Systems in Japan, East Asia, and Europe, both of which have been published from Cambridge University Press, and she has published broadly on issues relating to judicial politics, participation, and public opinion.

Professor Kage was the 2010-11 CJS Toyota Visiting Professor.

Please register for the Zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XYq-lv2oTAKcV3XRqjXRfg

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:49:22 -0400 2021-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Rieko Kage, Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
PICS Career Event. Humanitarian and International Development Careers with Mercy Corps (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85773 85773-21628980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Interested in humanitarian and international development careers with Mercy Corps? Join us to learn from Michelle LeMeur, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director, Mercy Corps Nepal.

Please note: This session will be held virtually ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to students, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/Ww2MM

Michelle LeMeur is the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director with Mercy Corps Nepal's USAID-funded BHAKARI (Building Hope Along the Karnali River Basin) program. Her professional and extracurricular GESI experience has centered on programmatic and organizational mainstreaming including diagnostics, analyses, project management, and training. Previously, she worked as the Program Development & Grants Manager with the Mercy Corps Mali team, and focused on proposal development, internal and door reporting, program quality, and gender and inclusion technical support. She has humanitarian and development experience in the sectors of economic recovery and market systems, agriculture and food security, shelter and settlements, WASH, food assistance, resilience, education, and peacebuilding, spanning Nepal, Mali, Niger, Malaysia, Thailand, Italy, and the US. She holds a Master’s degree in International Development and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors in International Studies from the same institution.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:39:41 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual Michelle LeMeur, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director, Mercy Corps Nepal
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems (October 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84787 84787-21624974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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By encouraging us to rethink familiar historical processes through an ecological lens, the field of environmental history provides new insights into the past. Professor Lander’s forthcoming book The King’s Harvest uses such an ecological perspective to examine the formation of political organizations in early China. Since early political systems were funded by the grain taxes of common farmers, it follows that these systems literally ran on solar energy collected by plants, so we should think of them as organizations dedicated to mobilizing photosynthetic energy. Early states devoted much of that energy to assembling large groups of men to fight with other groups of armed men, but they also used it to expand farmland and increase the human population in the interests of increasing their tax income. This paper will use these insights to explore the history of the state and empire of Qin (c. 800-207 BCE). Qin established the centralized bureaucratic empire which became the standard model of political organization in China, bequeathing subsequent empires with administrative skills that helped them thoroughly transform East Asia’s environments.

Brian Lander studies the environmental history and archaeology of early China. He is an assistant professor at Brown University, where he teaches in history and environmental studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:21:13 -0400 2021-10-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History and Environment Studies, Department of History, Brown University
LRCCS 60th Anniversary Author Series | Reading *The Fortunes* (October 26, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86988 86988-21637991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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The Center’s 60th anniversary programming will feature author Peter Ho Davies, Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, as he offers a reading from The Fortunes, a novel that recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational story through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this work captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood. Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses each of these stories—three inspired by real historical characters—to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:25:38 -0400 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Peter Ho Davies, U-M Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature
Innovation in Tracking and Collecting Migrant Data (October 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85330 85330-21626242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 4: Innovation in Tracking and Collecting Migrant Data
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Dirgha Ghimire

This webinar will provide an overview of CVFS design for tracking migrants and innovation in collecting migrant data along with empirical findings investigating consequences of international migration. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:15:26 -0400 2021-10-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
In Search of China's Soul ~ WebinART | Architecture with Chinese Characteristics: How the Past is Driving New Ideas for China's Future Cities (October 27, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86987 86987-21637990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Join top architects and urban thinkers for a wide-ranging discussion on China’s cities of the future. For decades, China’s planners focused on tearing down the old, and building the new in order to fuel the nation’s rapid development. Glistening cities rose, while psychological and social costs took a back seat. Today, as China struts more confidently on the world stage, its architects are reaching back to Chinese tradition to reinvent urban planning—and redefine what it means to be modern. Speakers include LRCCS Associate Director Lan Deng, Professor of Urban Planning, Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Shuishan Yu, Associate Professor of Architecture and Affiliate Associate Professor of Music at Northeastern University; Wang Hui, Principal Architect and Co-founder of URBANUS Architecture & Design Inc.; and Xu Lei, Chief Architect and Director of the Yihe Architectural Design and Research Center of the China Architecture Design and Research Institute.

Please register in advance here: https://www.chinainstitute.org/event/architecture-with-chinese-characteristics-how-the-past-is-driving-new-ideas-for-chinas-future-cities/

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:49:00 -0400 2021-10-27T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-27T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual In Search of China's Soul ~ WebinART | Architecture with Chinese Characteristics: How the Past is Driving New Ideas for China's Future Cities
Slavic Colloquium — Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin (Slavic PhD students) (October 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88625 88625-21656213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Slouching Towards Sevastopol: Tolstoy and Writing the Crimean War
with Sara Ruiz and Valentin Rasputin and the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life with Michael Martin:

This presentation features Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin, Ph.D. students in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Sara will argue that Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Stories enact a performance of a war story that is purposefully contradictory and deeply ambivalent in regards to the societal function and meaning of an individual soldier’s wartime experience. Michael examines how Valentin Rasputin’s body of work is centrally concerned with the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life. While his later output paints a Russo-centric image of the region, his early works betray a much less stable notion of local belonging rooted in a personal, rather than cultural, connection. This colloquium is organized by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:30:17 -0400 2021-10-28T18:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation Colloquium with Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin
CJS Lecture Series | Judging Inequality: Japan in Comparative Perspective (October 28, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84107 84107-21620255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note the 7pm (in Ann Arbor) start time for this lecture.

When and how does economic inequality become salient to have a meaningful effect on political attitudes and behavior? What are the mechanisms? The presentation will explain how people define and judge economic inequality, which in turn shapes political outcomes such as redistributive preferences and democratic discontent, with a focus on Japan and other advanced democracies.

Yeonju Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study at Waseda University, Japan. She is also affiliated with the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion at Harvard University. Her research examines the nexus between capitalism and democracy with a focus on the political origins and consequences of economic development and inequality in comparative perspective. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School.

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

Please register for this zoom workshop here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vm2q0a96RJiIjBz-21Ezgg

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:39:24 -0400 2021-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yeonju Lee, Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Weighing the Matter of Water in the Imperial Politics of Han China (November 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85307 85307-21626209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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The Great Wall of China is an iconic and salient reminder of China’s long history of empire building. When there are no recoverable walls or big infrastructures to speak of, what is an archaeologist of empires to do? This presentation considers what the political might look like in light of material ruins of a more pedestrian kind and as represented by ongoing excavations of drinking wells in colonial sites in Yunnan China. What can these artifacts tell us about the materiality of water and how environmental knowledge is produced?

Alice Yao is an anthropological archaeologist who received her PhD from the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan in 2008. An associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, she is the author of "The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China: An Archaeological History from the Bronze Age to the Han Empire" (Oxford University Press) and the forthcoming monograph, “Archaeologies of the Han Empire” (Cambridge University Press), co-authored with Wengcheong Lam. Her fieldwork uses material and paleoenvironmental records to examine Bronze Age political systems in Yunnan, early foundations of the Southern Silk Roads, and Han colonial expansion.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Oct 2021 10:47:20 -0400 2021-11-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Alice Yao, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa (November 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85158 85158-21625662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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Claus will discuss her recent ethnography that details the decade-long transformation in transnational conservation at an Okinawan field station. In shifting from more traditional distancing practices to a “conservation-near” approach, transnational conservationists together with islanders created an unusually inclusive, experiential, and collaborative form of conservation in Okinawa’s coral reefs. The resulting projects were as consequential for conservationists as they were for islanders.

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology American University, DC. Affiliated faculty, Department of Environmental Studies

Professor Claus has also served as: Researcher Kyoto University Research Institute of Humanity and Nature, Japan; Co-Instructor/Teaching Fellow Yale University, New Haven, CT; Social Scientist World Wildlife Fund, Washington DC; Japanese Interpreter Paradise Cruise, Ltd., Honolulu, HI; Assistant Dean Concordia Japanese Language Villages, Dent, MN; and Program Coordinator/Instructor Okinawa Hands-On NPO, Okinawa Japan.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:21:03 -0400 2021-11-04T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual C. Anne Claus, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, American University, Washington DC
EIHS Lecture: Women in Post-311 Disaster Japan and the Politics of Recovery (November 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85457 85457-21626476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: This event will take place via Zoom webinar. Register here: https://myumi.ch/xm1G9

Description: In the disruption caused by any disaster, there is always the possibility of new forms of political engagement. Out of chaos can come anger and sometimes new forms of action around the recognition of grievances that have become more obvious. In the best of possible cases, actors form new alliances and collective goals, as well as strategies to reach those goals. Under these conditions, “recovery” can take ambiguous meanings because recovery often means a return to an older state of affairs, the state of affairs that led to the disaster in the first place, and maybe even the suppression of these new politics. Showing video clips from the largest collection of digital video narratives of the 2011 triple disasters in northern Japan (Voices from Tohoku), Professor Slater will point to the important intersection between politics and recovery in two ways as experienced by women in the area. First, he will look at the top-down efforts by the Japanese state to “manage” the immediate recovery period (the politics of recovery) and then later on, the way in which different groups of Japanese women sought to recover some sense of political agency as raw emotions of 2011 faded into the 10-year anniversary of the disaster (the recovery of politics).

Biography: David H. Slater is a professor of cultural anthropology at Sophia University, Tokyo. His research interests include capitalism, youth, labor, semiotics, and urban space. Recently, his work has focused on the 3.11 Tohoku disasters. He is archiver and curator of Voices from Tohoku: Digital Archive of Disaster, Recovery and Mobilization, the largest collection of digital oral narratives of the 3.11 triple disasters (https://tohokukaranokoe.org/).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Oct 2021 08:47:59 -0400 2021-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion
"The Fortunes" by Peter Ho Davies (November 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85051 85051-21625508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Peter Ho Davies novel “The Fortunes” has been aptly described as “sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured.” “The Fortunes” expands the notion of a multigenerational novel by moving beyond the saga of a single family to the story of Chinese Americans beginning in the 1860’s - - - Ah Ling, a laundryman and railway worker in the1860’s; Anna May Wong a film star in 1920’s and 30’s; Vincent Chin, a young man beaten to death by two auto workers in Detroit in 1982; and finally, a Chinese American and his wife who travel to China to adopt a baby girl.

Joyce Carol Oates describes it as “A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty…”

The Times Literary Supplement said The Fortunes “Should take its place as a seminal, defining text on the Chinese-American experience.”

“The Fortunes” was a New York Times Notable Book, won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Chautauqua Prize, and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Peter Ho Davies is a contemporary writer of Welsh and Chinese descent. He was born and raised in Coventry, England. He studied physics at Manchester University and then English at Cambridge University. In 1992, he moved to the United States to study in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University.

He has taught at the University of Oregon and at Emory University and is currently the Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature in the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novels “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself” (2021), “The Fortunes” (2016) and “The Welsh Girl” (2007), as well as the story collections “The Ugliest House in the World” (1997) and “Equal Love” (2000).

He has won numerous prizes for his short stories as well as his novels. Professor Davies lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and son.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 14:09:46 -0400 2021-11-05T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Reads
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | When Campaign-Style Enforcement Meets Local Strategic Compliance: The Case of National Affordable Housing (November 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84788 84788-21624975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/BoOY1

Campaign-style enforcement is often touted in China as a uniquely effective mechanism to ensure local implementation of national policies. Typically seen in regulatory policies but later extended to social policies, campaign-style enforcement features strong political mandates with numeric targets, massive mobilization of fiscal and administrative resources, and political performance evaluation rooted in China’s hierarchical governmental system. Dr. Liu and her research collaborators’ mixed-method analysis of the national affordable housing mandate during the Twelfth-Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) reveals a nuanced process in which cities adapt the top-down housing mandate to local conditions, thereby leading to a diversity of compliance strategies adopted by local governments.

Zhilin Liu is Associate Professor and the Director of the Public Policy Institute in the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing. She received her PhD in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University in 2007, as well as her Masters Degree in Urban Geography (2002), and Bachelor Degree in Urban and Regional Planning (1999) from Peking University. Her main research interests are in urban governance, housing policy and community development, sustainable urbanization, rural-to-urban migration, institutional theory and multi-level governance. She has published widely in English peer-review journals, including Urban Studies, Cities, Urban Affairs Review, Housing Studies, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Policy Sciences, and numerous Chinese academic journals. She currently serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis and a member of the Board of Directors for the International Association of China Planning.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:24:51 -0400 2021-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Zhilin Liu Associate Professor and Director, Public Policy Institute, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Health Policy Research Using CVFS/ISER-N Infrastructure (November 10, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85337 85337-21626250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 5: Health Policy Research Using CVFS/ISER-N Infrastructure
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Yubraj Acharya

The webinar is targeted to doctoral students and junior researchers in development economics/health economics intending to conduct their research using the CVFS/ISER infrastructure. I will share experience from a recent field experiment among health workers, focusing on resources on research administration available at ISER. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrc-upqj4pHtKxK1qRZWxg3TDlfFgZn_xM

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:30:12 -0400 2021-11-10T14:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
CJS Lecture Series | Japanese Contemporary Literature: Perspectives and Aporia in the Global 21st Century (November 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84202 84202-21620758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that the start time here is 12:00 pm Ann Arbor time and 6:00 pm, Paris, France.

In this lecture, we examine how Japanese Contemporary Literature faces new challenges of the 21st Century, through time, space and institutional paradigms. At this very moment when the writing/reading frames are competing with the image and digital shifts, Japanese Contemporary Literature needs to reinvent new devices linked on one hand with global reception, and on the other hand with the experience and representation of tragedies, especially and recently The Great East Japan Disaster (2011). We shall question these dynamics at work.

Cécile Sakai, Professor at Paris University, member of the Center for Researches on East Asian Civilizations (CRCAO, UMR 8155), is a specialist of Japanese Modern Literature, working on the Sociology of Literature, Poetics, and Translation Studies. She has published papers and books on Popular Literature and on Kawabata’s Poetics.

She has co-edited (with Corinne Quentin) a collection of Japanese essays and fictions on the Great East Japan Disaster : L’archipel des séismes – Ecrits du Japon après le 11 mars 2011, Editions Philippe Picquier, March 2012. Among other co-editions : Edogawa Ranpo ou les méandres de la littérature policière, Editions Le Lézard Noir, 2018, and Pour une autre littérature mondiale – La traduction franco-japonaise en perspective, Editions Philippe Picquier, Feb. 2021.

She has also published about 20 translations of works by Kawabata Yasunari, Tanizaki Jun.ichirô, Kôno Taeko, Enchi Fumiko, Tsushima Yûko, Abe Kôbô, etc.

Please register for the Zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AGIl1DuiR-mTRWFWriOCpA

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:34:29 -0400 2021-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Cécile Sakai, Professor, Paris University, France
Mongolia: From the Capital to the Gobi Desert (November 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85048 85048-21625505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join photographer, Ann O’Hagan, for a visual journey through the highlights of Mongolia, a developing Asian country sandwiched between Russia and China. Once under the yoke of China then Russia, the republic transitioned to independence and democracy during a bloodless revolution in 1990.

View ancient and modern architecture in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Take in beautiful snowcapped mountain landscapes, Lake Khovsgol on the Siberian border, and the Flaming Cliffs of the Gobi Desert.

Learn about the herding life of nomadic people and explore their countryside accommodations called gers, known as yurts in Russia. Experience the cultural reverence for Genghis Kahn and his warrior horsemen who established the largest land empire the world has ever known.

Through the camera lens, you’ll glimpse everything from Buddhist temples and shamanistic rituals to bands of horses and dromedary camels.
Don’t miss this opportunity for a photographic tour from the comfort of your living room.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed prior to the event.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:48:51 -0400 2021-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
CSAS Lecture | The Modern Cosmopolis: Sovereignty, Cosmology and the Extrapolitical (November 12, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85974 85974-21630632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 4:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Sheldon Pollock’s vision of a “Cosmopolis,” a vision of power (and culture) transcending, and encompassing, particular systems of rule and power, has shaped extensive efforts by historians of South Asia to delineate other cosmopolises, notably the Persian cosmopolis that encompassed the Mughal empire. This presentation uses this concept to rethink the nature of modernity, particularly with respect to sovereignty, politics, and control over nature. The talk will begin with a discussion of the history of large-scale water control in the British colonial period as an entrée into a discussion of the ways that modern sovereignty has developed at the intersection between new forms of state political power and cosmological visions of the “extrapolitical,” that is, power flows conceived as transcending the category of politics itself. Shaped not only by developing scientific explanations of energy flows in the universe, but also by the distinctive understandings of human consciousness underlying this modern cosmological vision, the concept of the “extrapolitical” has been central to modern sovereignty. But such conceptions of sovereignty, as in earlier cosmopolises, have always played out at the intersection between the “extrapolitical” and the realities of worldly politics and power. The talk will include a brief excursion into Big History to discuss how some historians have increasingly attempted, with limited success, to bring the narratives of politics and of the “extrapolitical” together.

David Gilmartin is Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University. His research interests focus on the intersections between the history of British imperialism in South Asia and the development of modern politics, environment, and forms of rule. His most recent books are *Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History* (2015), examining the intersection between modern environmental and political history, and *South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power* (2020), co-edited with Pamela Price and Arild Ruud. His current research focuses on the legal history of India's electoral institutions as they have evolved from a colonial past, and on the ways these institutions have changed in relation to evolving visions of the people’s sovereignty. Earlier works include, *Civilization and Modernity: Narrating the Creation of Pakistan* (2014); *Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia*, co-edited with Bruce Lawrence (2000); and *Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan* (1988).

Please register in advance for this zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUod-irqzIvE9V08VP6lbJYnrR0Pf0CtTfw

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:33:28 -0400 2021-11-12T16:30:00-05:00 2021-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual David Gilmartin, Department of History, NC State University
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Framing China: Visual Technologies, Missionary Modernity, and Transnational Visions in Sino-US Encounters (November 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84789 84789-21624976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/qgMwy

Cameras and visual technologies accompanied American missionaries as they undertook cultural, political, and religious projects in Republican China through the first years of the People’s Republic. These evolving visual practices and products, however, ultimately escaped their missionary mold and entered global imaginations, coloring American views of modern China alongside Chinese engagements with the world. In this talk, Professor Ho explores intersections between image-making, contested identities, and transnational ways of seeing – many of which transformed 20th century Sino-US encounters on both sides of the lens.

Joseph W. Ho is Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of the Prentiss M. Brown Honors Program at Albion College, as well as a Center Associate at the LRCCS. His research concerns transnational visual culture, histories of photography and film, global Christianity, and Sino-US experiences in modern East Asia. Professor Ho is the co-editor of "War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938" (Lehigh University Press, 2017) and the author of "Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China" (Cornell University Press, 2021).

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:27:58 -0400 2021-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Joseph W. Ho, Assistant Professor of History, East Asian History, Albion College
Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series: Jen Shyu (November 16, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89034 89034-21660282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments and Center for World Performance Studies present a talk by groundbreaking vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and dancer Jen Shyu. For this talk, Shyu will discuss her previous ethnographic research and her use of non-western musical instruments in composing and performing, including the Japanese biwa and Taiwanese moon lute.

Jen Shyu ("Shyu" pronounced "Shoe" in English, Chinese name: 徐秋雁, Pinyin: Xúqiūyàn) is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 United States Artists Fellow, 2016 Doris Duke Artist, and was voted 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star Female Vocalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, Shyu is widely regarded for her virtuosic singing and riveting stage presence, carving out her own beyond-category space in the art world. She has performed with or sung the music of such musical innovators as Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Bobby Previte, Chris Potter, Michael Formanek and David Binney. Shyu has performed her own music on prestigious world stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rubin Museum of Art, Ojai Festival, Ringling International Arts Festival, Asia Society, Roulette, Blue Note, Bimhuis, Salihara Theater, National Gugak Center, National Theater of Korea and at festivals worldwide.

A Stanford University graduate in opera with classical violin and ballet training, Shyu had already won many piano competitions and performed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto (3rd mvmt.) with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra by the age of 13. She speaks 10 languages and has studied traditional music and dance in Cuba, Taiwan, Brazil, China, South Korea, East Timor and Indonesia, conducting extensive research which culminated in her 2014 stage production Solo Rites: Seven Breaths, directed by renowned Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho. Shyu has won commissions and support from NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MAP Fund, US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship from Japan-US Friendship Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works, Exploring the Metropolis, New Music USA, Jazz Gallery, and Roulette, as well as fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Asian Cultural Council, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Korean Ministry of Sports, Culture, and Tourism.

Shyu has produced seven albums as a leader, including the first female-led and vocalist-led album Pi Recordings has released, Synastry (Pi 2011), with co-bandleader and bassist Mark Dresser. Her critically acclaimed Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi 2015) landed on many best-of-2015 lists, including those of The New York Times, The Nation, and NPR. Her latest album Song of Silver Geese (Pi 2017) is receiving rave reviews and was also included on The New York Times’ Best Albums of 2017.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:44:00 -0500 2021-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Livestream / Virtual Photo credit: Steven Schreiber
A/PIA Opportunity Fair (November 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89262 89262-21661611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: South Quad
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

In-person or through Zoom
Join us on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, from 7-8:30pm EST for A/PIA Opportunity Fair!
Learn about A/PIA Studies courses being offered in the Winter 2022 semester and hear from organizations doing advocacy and activist-oriented work in the A/PIA community all while enjoying dinner from Earthen Jar.
Join us in person at the Yuri Kochiyama Lounge in South Quad (600 E. Madison) or tune in via Zoom at tinyurl.com/APIAOppFair.
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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:30:05 -0500 2021-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T20:30:00-05:00 South Quad Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Social / Informal Gathering APIA Opportunity Fair 2021
CJS Lecture Series | The Massacre and the Conspiracy: Locating the Japanese Diaspora in Seventeenth Century Southeast Asia (November 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84106 84106-21620254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In 1621, Japanese soldiers participated in a massive Dutch East India Company invasion of the Banda islands in Southeast Asia. Pressed into service as executioners, they were involved in the opening act of a violent campaign to pacify a key territory in the Dutch empire. Just two years later, Japanese soldiers found themselves facing the executioner’s blade as they were accused of plotting against the Company on the nearby island of Ambon. These two episodes in 1621 and 1623 encapsulate the Dutch East India Company’s shifting relationship with the Japanese recruits that it transported to Southeast Asia to wage war on its behalf. This talk will explore the Company’s short-lived experiment with recruiting Japanese military labor and how this can be located within the wider history of the Japanese diaspora in seventeenth century Southeast Asia. In the last part of the talk, I will turn to examine the surprising resilience of Japanese communities both in the Dutch overseas empire and more generally across the region.

Adam Clulow is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia University Press, 2014), which won multiple awards including the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History from the American Historical Association, and Amboina, 1623: Conspiracy and Fear on the Edge of Empire (Columbia University Press, 2019). He is creator of The Amboyna Conspiracy Trial, an online interactive trial engine that received the New South Wales Premiers History Award in 2017, and Virtual Angkor with Tom Chandler, which received the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History and the 2021 Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize from the Medieval Academy of America.

Please register for this zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B9t1CWWgRaqLTYF_ssg3ag

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Nov 2021 13:11:38 -0500 2021-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Adam Clulow, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Jen Shyu (November 18, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88925 88925-21659070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 7:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Thursday, November 18 | 7:30pm
Free and open to the public.

*Composition, vocals, piano, sound design, Japanese biwa, Taiwanese moon lute, dance by Jen Shyu*
*Directed by Alexandru Mihail*

Space limited. Seating first come first served. Guests entering the Keene must provide proof of vaccination, complete a health questionnaire and wear a face cover - no exceptions.

Center for World Performance Studies will host groundbreaking vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and dancer Jen Shyu for an artist residency, including a performance of her new multilingual multimedia show Zero Grasses. In this mythical monodrama, Shyu effortlessly weaves together music, monologue and video projection, tracing the threads of her life to explore the painful terrain of expectation, ambition, longing and love. A performance of the piece will take place at East Quad Keene Theater on Thursday, November 18 at 7:30pm, and is free and open to the public.

Zero Grasses was commissioned by John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning series and premiered in October 2019 at National Sawdust. It is sung in English, Taiwanese, Tetum of East Timor, Korean, Javanese, and Indonesian. The work features Shyu’s original music as well as some traditional music from these countries, with movement and installation art that carry the essence of these specific vocal and dance traditions. Shyu will accompany her voice with Taiwanese moon lute, gayageum, piano, violin, dance, and electronics.

Jen Shyu ("Shyu" pronounced "Shoe" in English, Chinese name: 徐秋雁, Pinyin: Xúqiūyàn) is a groundbreaking, multilingual vocalist, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 United States Artists Fellow, 2016 Doris Duke Artist, and was voted 2017 Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star Female Vocalist. Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, Shyu is widely regarded for her virtuosic singing and riveting stage presence, carving out her own beyond-category space in the art world. She has performed with or sung the music of such musical innovators as Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Vijay Iyer, Bobby Previte, Chris Potter, Michael Formanek and David Binney. Shyu has performed her own music on prestigious world stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rubin Museum of Art, Ojai Festival, Ringling International Arts Festival, Asia Society, Roulette, Blue Note, Bimhuis, Salihara Theater, National Gugak Center, National Theater of Korea and at festivals worldwide.

A Stanford University graduate in opera with classical violin and ballet training, Shyu had already won many piano competitions and performed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto (3rd mvmt.) with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra by the age of 13. She speaks 10 languages and has studied traditional music and dance in Cuba, Taiwan, Brazil, China, South Korea, East Timor and Indonesia, conducting extensive research which culminated in her 2014 stage production Solo Rites: Seven Breaths, directed by renowned Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho. Shyu has won commissions and support from NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MAP Fund, US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship from Japan-US Friendship Commission and National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works, Exploring the Metropolis, New Music USA, Jazz Gallery, and Roulette, as well as fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Asian Cultural Council, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Korean Ministry of Sports, Culture, and Tourism.

Shyu has produced seven albums as a leader, including the first female-led and vocalist-led album Pi Recordings has released, Synastry (Pi 2011), with co-bandleader and bassist Mark Dresser. Her critically acclaimed Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi 2015) landed on many best-of-2015 lists, including those of The New York Times, The Nation, and NPR. Her latest album Song of Silver Geese (Pi 2017) is receiving rave reviews and was also included on The New York Times’ Best Albums of 2017.

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Performance Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:50:42 -0400 2021-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 2021-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Performance Photo credit: Wolf Daniel Courtesy of Roulette Intermedium
Why Asian Studies? ALC Undergraduate Information Session (November 19, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89051 89051-21660335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

Register at myumi.ch/w1DnG

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:33:21 -0500 2021-11-19T12:30:00-05:00 2021-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Event Poster with Info from Description
CSAS Lecture | Scaffolding of the Rule of Law: Legal Violence, Policing, and Scientific Interrogations in India (November 19, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85617 85617-21627794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

On Aug 8, 2021, the Chief Justice of India stated: “The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the highest in Police Stations. Custodial torture and other police atrocities are problems that still prevail in our society,” thereby reiterating the need to focus on how police violence and torture exist in democracies. This talk will broadly be based on Lokaneeta’s recent book *The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India* (Univ of Michigan,2020). The book explores the workings of law, science, and policing in the everyday context to generate a theory of state power and legal violence, challenging the monolithic frameworks about this relationship. Based on cases and interviews with lawyers, police, and forensic psychologies in five Indian cities, Lokaneeta provides insights into a police institution that is founded and refounded in its everyday interactions between state and non-state actors. The postcolonial Indian police have often been accused of using torture in both routine and exceptional criminal cases, but they, and forensic psychologists, have claimed that lie detectors, brain scans, and narcoanalysis (the use of “truth serum,” Sodium Pentothal) represent a paradigm shift away from physical torture; most state high courts in India have upheld this rationale. Attention to truth machines reveals the texture of violence experienced by certain sections of the population, even under the rule of law, especially in terror related cases. Jinee Lokaneeta argues that the attempt to replace physical torture with truth machines in India fails because it relies on a confessional paradigm that is contiguous with torture. Theorizing a concept of Contingent State, this book demonstrates the disaggregated, and decentered nature of state power and legal violence, creating possible sites of critique and intervention.

Jinee Lokaneeta is Chair and Professor in Political Science and International Relations at Drew University, New Jersey. She did her Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She completed her bachelors, masters & Mphil at Delhi University & taught at Kirori Mal College. Her areas of interest include Law and Violence, Critical Political and Legal Theory, Human Rights & Interdisciplinary Legal Studies. Her most recent book *The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India *(University of Michigan Press, Orient Blackswan, 2020) was the co-winner of the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. She is the author of *Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India* (New York University Press, 2011, Orient Blackswan 2012) and the co-editor with Nivedita Menon and Sadhna Arya of *Feminist Politics: Struggles and Issues*. Delhi: Hindi Medium Directorate, 2001. She has published articles in *Economic and Political Weekly, Theory and Event, Law, Culture & Humanities*, and *Studies in Law, Politics & Society*.

Please register in advance for this zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcO-vqzwoHNbt--pNRbYvFEyhlC5sHxSo

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:55:29 -0400 2021-11-19T16:30:00-05:00 2021-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Jinee Lokaneeta, Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations, Drew University
Nam Center Colloquium Series | ‘Willing to be Pushed to the Limit’: Totalising Power and Individual Agency within the K-elite Sport Development Regime (November 30, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87670 87670-21644964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/7Zd7Y

Cosponsored by the School of Kinesiology

Elite sporting culture in South Korea is often regarded as the last hangover from the authoritarian military regimes in the 1960-80s – a spatiotemporally extended barrack ridden with collectivism, strict hierarchy, violence, misogyny and patriotic ideologies, etc. The country’s state-sponsored elite athlete fostering system is still likened to ‘Silmi-do’, a remote island where a military special force was trained to invade Pyongyang in the 1960s, owing to the nature of the system, including its coercive training, cultural isolation and failure in protecting athletes’ human rights. Perhaps a more sociological edition of this line of public discourse can be sought from Goffman’s total institution (1961) given the degrees of batch living and time-tabled control over athletes’ daily routines, especially considering the year-round camp training practice from an early age towards the national training centre, formerly notorious for its overly harsh training regimen.

However, this 20th century view of strong institutional control and passive agency seems outdated as it fails to capture the ways in which contemporary athletes engage with the elite sport development regime (ESDR). While there certainly remains a higher degree of totalising power (e.g., isolated time-commitment towards gruelling training) in the ESDR, individuals are not forced or ‘culturally doped’ to enter and reside within the regime. They voluntarily decide to join the regime in pursuit of success in society in their own ways, akin to the members of what Scott (2010) termed ‘reinventive institutions’ in which individuals attempt to construct an elevated social self and status. Informed by Scott’s (2010) contrast between total and reinventive institutions, this talk presents a (re-)conceptualisation of South Korea’s elite sport development system. Utilising data from a qualitative study on young South Korean performance athletes, the presentation (1) discusses the relative balance between institutional coercion and voluntaristic agency manifested within the ESDR and (2) compares the balance with those in other institutions of K-society (e.g., K-pop, K-universities, K-companies, etc.) as a way of exploring whether the ESDR is the last bastion of the erstwhile totalising culture or the epitome of reinventive institutions on the rise.

Minhyeok Tak is Lecturer of sport management in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. His research focuses on integrity issues in sport, such as sports betting, match-fixing and athlete safeguarding. Minhyeok is currently working on an IOC-funded project on abuse issues in sport, entitled ‘Is Safe Sport incompatible with high performance? Contextualising safeguarding policies within the South Korean elite athlete development system.’

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:01:05 -0500 2021-11-30T16:30:00-05:00 2021-11-30T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Minhyeok Tak, Lecturer, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University (UK)
Genetic Study Design in CVFS (December 1, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85338 85338-21626251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 6: Genetic Study Design in CVFS
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Colter Mitchell

This webinar will provide an overview of the design of the genetic data in CVFS, planned research activities, and potential uses. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctdOChrj4rGN3gN0TKhn3r6F1bAMYUyA3A

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:33:56 -0400 2021-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | (Indian) Animals Are Good to Think With (December 3, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85618 85618-21627795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Ancient and medieval Indian literature, both religious and secular, is saturated with animals—animal fables, animal transformations, animals as instructors or instructive exempla, animals reflecting human characteristics in a mirror that is not always flattering to the humans so reflected. Much of the animal lore of the Classical period is familiar to most people with even a passing interest in India, but this talk will explore some lesser known examples, especially from the earlier, Vedic period. It will highlight the accuracy of the field observation of animal physiology and behavior and the clever application of this field observation to the particulars in the human sphere. Among the topics treated will be frog mating, hyena physiology, and rhinoceros toes.

Stephanie Jamison received her PhD in Linguistics from Yale University in 1977, specializing in historical and Indo-European linguistics. Since 2002 she has been Professor (Distinguished Professor 2014) of Asian Languages and Cultures and of Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

She publishes widely in Indo-Iranian and Indo-European linguistics, poetics, ritual, mythology, and law, with special focus on Vedic Sanskrit. With Joel Brereton, she produced the first complete English translation in over a century of the oldest Sanskrit text, the Ṛg Veda: *The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India* (Oxford Univ. Press. 2014).

Please register in advance for this zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtc-2qrzIrGNeCviBGGnPJECi-Z8zmr2Bo

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:43:28 -0400 2021-12-03T16:30:00-05:00 2021-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Stephanie Jamison, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA
STS Speaker. Science-in-Vivo: Experimental Methods for the 'Bananapocalypse (December 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86398 86398-21634172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race Four is a deadly soil-borne fungal disease that has stumped the global banana industry. While pesticides are systematically employed to control the spread of disease on plantations, the failures to develop a chemical control for Fusarium Wilt has exposed the paradigm limits of conventional agricultural science. In this talk, I introduce the notion of ‘science-in-vivo’, a method of experimentation that has emerged in the context of Philippine banana plantations ravaged by the ‘incurable’ fungal disease. Literally ‘science within the living body’, the method combines secular and non-secular thought, and gathers human, nonhuman, and extrahuman forces in ways that break down some of the hegemonic antagonisms that define plantation life. I argue that renewed scientific sensibility offers a way to expand local strategies for transformative activist praxis in a sector where political horizons have only narrowed. The method was inspired, originally, by a series of God-given dreams about microbes in the forests of southern Mindanao.

Bio: Alyssa Paredes is LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she will be Assistant Professor in 2022. Her research concerns the human, environmental, and metabolic infrastructures of transnational trade between the Philippines and Japan. Her first book project, preliminarily titled Bananapocalypse: Plantation Commodities and the Conceit of Ecological Externality, identifies the conventions of crop science, agrochemical regulation, market segmentation techniques, and food standards as arenas where actors contend over the commodity chain’s production calculus. Her work appears in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, the Journal of Political Ecology, the Journal of Material Culture, as well as in edited collections such as Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene (Stanford, 2020), The Promise of Multispecies Justice (Duke, forthcoming 2022), and the Japanese-language volume 甘いバナナの苦い現実 [The Bitter Reality of Sweet Bananas] (Commons, 2020). She holds a PhD with distinction from Yale University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Nov 2021 08:59:04 -0500 2021-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 2021-12-06T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion A scientist in vivo. Photo by Isidro
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | A Vineyard Garden in the Afterlife: The Shi Jun/Wirkak Tomb (580 CE) and Viticulture on the Silk Road (December 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84936 84936-21625310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/Gk4pp

This talk discusses visual representations of vineyard gardens in 6th-century China. By focusing on the sarcophagus of Shi Jun or Wirkak (494-579 CE), a Sogdian immigrant from Central Asia, it explores a range of issues related to viticulture and wine making on the Silk Road, including the spread and transformation of Dionysian motifs, the entanglement between Buddhism and wine culture, and above all, the association of vineyard gardens with paradise.

Jin Xu is an assistant professor of Art History and Asian Studies at Vassar College. He received his PhD in art history at the University of Chicago. His research has been focusing on religious and cultural exchanges on the Silk Road as reflected in Chinese art during the sixth and seventh centuries AD. His articles appear in journals such as the Burlington Magazine, the Journal of Asian Studies, and the Sino-Platonic Papers. Currently he is writing a book manuscript titled “Beyond Boundaries: Sogdian Sarcophagi and the Art of an Immigrant Community in Early Medieval China.”

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:00:41 -0400 2021-12-07T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jin Xu, Assistant Professor Art History and Asian Studies, Vassar College
CJS Lecture Series | Creation of and Participation in Networks: Visiting the Japan Biographical Database (December 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84239 84239-21620796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please take note of the 7pm (Ann Arbor time) starting time.

For the edited volume Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan (University of Michigan Press, 2020) ten scholars gathered to identify and examine women’s involvement in networks. With the aim to heighten awareness of the gendered history of research on networks, all ten authors thus placed women in the center of their analyses. The result paints a heterogeneous picture which preempts the determination of one simple network pattern or a uniform type of networks particular to “women.” Rather the diversity indicate that not gender alone but many other factors play into the individual’s form of participation in networks. In the presentation, I take this specific result of the volume further by making a comparison of the involvement in networks by a husband and a wife: Rai Shizu and Rai Shunsui. I do with the help of the visualization tools of the Japan Biographical Database.


Bettina Gramlich-Oka is Professor of Japanese History at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University. Some of her publications include Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (Brill, 2006) and the coedited volume Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan (Brill, 2010). In the past years, her research centers on the exploration of networks of the Rai family from Hiroshima during the Tokugawa period. The development of the online Japan Biographical Database (https://proxy.qualtrics.com/proxy/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjbdb.jp%2F&token=cC8PSwwI5mKuO7eTtsIPENF1WA0Jspur9zV%2B3UAd1Ig%3D) is part of this endeavor, as well as the coedited volume with Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko, Sugano Noriko, Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Gramlich-Oka is currently the chief editor of Monumenta Nipponica

Please register for the Zoom event here:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Fhy9la3qQSyAk8yeM7hKhg

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:15:36 -0400 2021-12-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-12-09T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Professor of Japanese History, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Japan
Addressing Discrimination in the Asian Diaspora (December 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89343 89343-21662063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This event is intended for K-14 Educators.

Free to participate via Zoom!

Just fill out the Google Form: https://bit.ly/umicheastasia21

What are the Asian and Asian-American discrimination issues that students, teachers, and individuals are struggling to understand in today’s globalized world? How do teachers interweave the politics of immigration into world history and civics curriculum? What makes a place a home for someone, and how do we build on the storyscapes of the under-written histories of anti-Asian racism and Asian-American identity?

Removing the screen from “over there,” experts in Area and Asian-American studies will explore identity, immigration and nationality and provide a discussion forum for applying these ideas into classroom use. Content covered will include snapshots from mid-19th century-20th century histories of China, Japan and Korea; the push-pull factors for immigration; exclusionary immigration policies; and the nuances of Asian American identity. Insights will be made into Asian-ness as well as “Asian-Americanness,” with one of the takeaways being the “hyphen" in hyphenated ethnicities, the middle ground to individuality and self.

FORMAT:

A virtual learning event through morning mini-talks followed by conversation/Q&A and an afternoon collaborative discussion forum bracketed according to grade level.

Suggestions for pre-workshop reading will be available.

Resources and books available through the U-M Books for Peaceful Purposes Grant.

Looking forward to another amazing interactive day of knowledge, expertise and networking... the outreach team at TVI East Asia Centers, University of Michigan

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 01 Dec 2021 15:54:48 -0500 2021-12-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-11T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual 2021 U-M East Asia Workshop | Addressing Discrimination in the Asian Diaspora
Discussion of High Impact Research Topics in Global Population Research (December 15, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85339 85339-21626252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 15, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 7: Discussion of High Impact Research Topics in Global Population Research
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: SPE Program Team

This webinar will feature investigators discussing high priority topics for new global population health research. Discussion will include the potential of CVFS being used to address these topics, as well as other global population health data resources. We will also discuss the potential of proposals to NIH for funding to launch new research on these topics. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpcO2rrz4vGdH_MismMAIU7j0yKB5qlbuc

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:38:15 -0400 2021-12-15T14:00:00-05:00 2021-12-15T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Nepal mountains
CSAS Lecture | Bombay Cinema and the Caribbean: Rhythmic Flows and Cultural Migrations across Creolized Geographies (January 7, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85912 85912-21630467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 7, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Registration is required for this Zoom event. Please do so here: https://myumi.ch/Qeeqw

Scholarship on Indian cinema has focused mainly on the subcontinent and the newer, so-called “First World diasporas” of Europe and North America. An older diaspora was created in the 19th century through the transportation of nearly two million Indians to the Caribbean and elsewhere as indentured labor. The mixing of African- and Indian-diasporic cultures in Trinidad, Suriname, and Guyana has produced a dazzling mélange of hybrid visual, performance, and sonic forms, many of which are centrally informed by popular Indian cinema, a key cultural presence in the region since the 1930s.

Through the case study of an Indian performing duo, Babla and Kanchan, whose film music shows were wildly popular in the Anglophone Caribbean in the 1980s, this talk examines the pulsating energies of cultural traffic between the Caribbean and the Bombay film industry, mapping multi-directional, transoceanic creolization across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. A little-known circuit of orchestra performers carried reverberations from their Caribbean shows to produce innovations in the aural scape of India’s film capital, Bombay, which appropriated chutney and soca songs in its blockbusters.

I employ a transregional mode of analysis that considers the interplay of spatial scales between the local, national, and global, as well as the temporal scales of empire, slavery, indenture, and postcoloniality to understand how the movement of commodities, capital, and labor produce certain cultural circuits and film industrial formations. The traffic of labor and culture across oceanic media pathways are embodied in film music orchestras like Babla and Kanchan’s that carry sonic and kinetic practices across regions, languages, and Black and brown racial identities, producing as it were, a cinematic cosmopolitanism from below. Studying cinema’s intermedial networks between and across Bombay and the Caribbean illuminates the multi-sited enfoldings of transcultural, transregional exchanges that extend and enrich conversations on race, media, and identity.

Usha Iyer is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Their book, *Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema* (Oxford University Press, 2020), examines constructions of gender, stardom, sexuality, and spectacle in Hindi cinema through women’s labor, collaborative networks, and gestural genealogies to produce a corporeal history of South Asian cultural modernities. Their next project studies the affective engagements of Caribbean spectators with Indian cinema and the impact of Caribbean performance forms on Indian film industries. Dr. Iyer is Associate Editor of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Their essays have appeared and are forthcoming in *Camera Obscura, South Asian Popular Culture, Figurations in Indian Film*, and *The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory*, among others.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:21:55 -0500 2022-01-07T16:30:00-05:00 2022-01-07T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS Lecture | Bombay Cinema and the Caribbean: Rhythmic Flows and Cultural Migrations across Creolized Geographies
Korean Cinema NOW | Escape from Mogadishu/모가디슈 (January 8, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90410 90410-21670715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 8, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2021 | 121 Minutes | Ryoo Seung-wan

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

Dramatically constructed based on a true story: as civil war rages in Mogadishu, rival North and South Korean diplomats are left trapped. With no aid from either government, their only shot at survival may require uniting with bitter adversaries to escape.

Watch the Trailer: https://www.wellgousa.com/films/escape-from-mogadishu

PLEASE NOTE: Starting Jan. 6, 2022 the Michigan & State Theaters will require proof of full COVID vaccination for ALL patrons over the age of five. Masks are required for all attendees and temperatures will be checked upon entry.

Click here to learn more about COVID safety at the MTF: https://michtheater.org/covid-safety-plan

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:06:40 -0500 2022-01-08T13:00:00-05:00 2022-01-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Escape from Mogadishu/모가디슈
Pursuing Global Health Equity: Perspectives from China & the US (January 10, 2022 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90108 90108-21667905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 10, 2022 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UMMS Global REACH

Presented by the Michigan Medicine-Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC) Joint Institute, this session will spotlight PKUHSC’s Department of Global Health as well as the new U-M Center for Global Health Equity, which is co-sponsoring the event.

Confirmed speakers from Peking University include experts on climate change, health education, and aging.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:24:05 -0500 2022-01-10T07:00:00-05:00 2022-01-10T08:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UMMS Global REACH Livestream / Virtual Headshots of confirmed speakers. From Peking University’s School of Public Health: Fuqiang Cui, Hui Lin, Yanan Lou, and Zhenyu Zhang. And from U-M: Ann Chih Lin, Joseph Kolars, and John Ayanian.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-10T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-12T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Child Health Data in the CVFS (January 12, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85340 85340-21626253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 8: Child Health Data in the CVFS
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Emily Treleaven

This webinar will give an overview of previous data collections of child health measures, child health outcomes among the CVFS sample, and compare child health indicators in the CVFS sample to the broader population of Nepal using Demographic and Health Survey data. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqd-uprzIvHtapbdIOc1dQtiZmplrODd9k

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:42:30 -0400 2022-01-12T14:00:00-05:00 2022-01-12T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-13T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Too Young to Run? Voter Evaluations of the Age of Candidates (January 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89290 89290-21661821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: Due to updated guidance from the University in regards to the Covid Policy, this lecture will be only in a webinar format . Please register here to attend: https://myumi.ch/d99yG

In Japan, as in most countries, elected officials tend to be older than most of the constituents they represent. Is this because voters generally prefer older politicians to younger ones? In this study, we manipulate the photos of hypothetical candidates via age regression and progression software in a survey experiment to examine age biases and stereotypes among Japanese voters.

Charles McClean is the Toyota Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan’s Center for Japanese Studies. His research focuses on the politics of age and aging, political institutions, social welfare, representation, and local politics. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from UC San Diego, an M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia from Harvard University, and a B.A. in International Relations and Japanese from Tufts University.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required if you intend to participate virtually. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email. Webinar registration link to be announced. The Center for Japanese Studies will follow state, local, and University of Michigan guidelines for in-person events.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:57:52 -0500 2022-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-13T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Charles McClean, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Korean Cinema NOW | Hostage: Missing Celebrity/인질 (January 15, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90409 90409-21670713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 15, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2021 | 94 Minutes | Pil Gamseong

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

After a film premiere, a famous actor is kidnapped in the middle of Seoul. Thinking it is a prank, the actor is relaxed, but when he faces cruelty, he realizes the gravity of the situation. He tries to find an escape route as kidnappers demand a huge ransom within 24 hours. Then the struggle begins, which is very different from what he has seen in films.

Watch the Trailer: https://youtu.be/Rqudr-xrzPA

PLEASE NOTE: Starting Jan. 6, 2022 the Michigan & State Theaters will require proof of full COVID vaccination for ALL patrons over the age of five. Masks are required for all attendees and temperatures will be checked upon entry.

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:07:18 -0500 2022-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2022-01-15T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Hostage: Missing Celebrity/인질
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-17T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
LRCCS MLK Event | Black Lives and Asian Medicine (January 17, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90515 90515-21671210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 17, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Zoom Registration Link: https://myumi.ch/DJwwy

After the death of George Floyd, practitioners of traditional Asian medicine began to examine some of the racist biases that affected their own field. It quickly became apparent that the contributions of Black communities to both the practice and popularization of Asian medicine were missing from the histories that most practitioners know. Yi-Li Wu, associate professor of history and women's and gender studies and faculty associate at LRCCS, will discuss the role that the Black Panther Party and the Black Acupuncturist Association have played in bringing alternative Asian medical treatments to the United States. She will also discuss the process of self-reflection and study that led the journal, Asian Medicine, to critique its own racialized dynamics and commit to producing a special issue on this subject.
 
Yi-Li Wu is the author of *Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China* (UC Press). She holds a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in international relations and a PhD in history from Yale University. She was a faculty member at Albion College for thirteen years and subsequently a researcher with the EASTMedicine group at the University of Westminster (UK). Her publications on society, culture, and the body in late imperial China have examined breast cancer, medical iconography, forensics, bone setting, the circulation of Chinese medicine in Korea, and Chinese views of European medicine. She is completing a monograph on the history of medicine for injuries and wounds in China, using this subfield of literate medicine to explore how experiences of the material and structural body shaped the development of Chinese medical thought.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 08:44:53 -0500 2022-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 2022-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion LRCCS MLK Event | Black Lives and Asian Medicine
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-18T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 19, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Japan's U.S. Investment Dynamic: A New Look at the U.S. - Japan Economic Relationship (January 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90472 90472-21671099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: Due to updated guidance from the university in regards to the COVID policy, this lecture will be only in a webinar format. Please register here to attend: https://myumi.ch/xdd15

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required if you intend to participate virtually. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email. The Center for Japanese Studies will follow state, local, and University of Michigan guidelines for in-person events.

Japan is #1. That's right, Japanese companies are the leading foreign direct investor in the United States (2020). The velocity of U.S. based Japanese investment has gradually unfolded into a singular economic phenomenon. Unnoticed by the media, yet greatly supported by state and local governments, who have witnessed and consistently supported this virtuous cycle of manufacturing expansions of Japanese businesses in America's communities. By obtaining an understanding of the depth of Japanese direct investment in the U.S., one will obtain deeper insights of the bilateral relationship and thereby a more holistic perspective of the Japan - U.S. economic relationship.

Since 2017, Ralph Inforzato has been Chief Executive Director of JETRO Chicago. As Chief Executive Director, he oversees JETRO Chicago’s activities designed to facilitate trade and investment between Japan and 12 Midwestern states served by JETRO Chicago. Prior to his new position, Mr. Inforzato served as Executive Director, Business Development for JETRO Chicago. In this position he worked to implement JETRO’s team based projects to directly engage in assisting US business expansion to Japan. He initiated in-bound and out-bound technology collaboration for US & Japanese small and medium sized companies, which resulted in numerous business agreements. He also sustained the relationships that JETRO Chicago has with business, state government and university leaders.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:59:40 -0500 2022-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-20T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ralph A. Inforzato, Chief Executive Director JETRO Chicago
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 20, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 20, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-25T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
EVENT CANCELED - Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Origins of Korean Cuisine: Prehistoric Foodways from Foraging to Farming (January 25, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87774 87774-21645841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

This event has been canceled and we hope to reschedule at a later date.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA).

Please note: This session will be held in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email.

Zoom registration at: https://myumi.ch/Axw7x

ResponsiBLU verification is required to attend the lecture in person: https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in

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

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

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Jan 2022 11:08:44 -0500 2022-01-25T16:30:00-05:00 2022-01-25T17:45:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Gyoung-Ah Lee, Associate Professor, University of Oregon
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 26, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-26T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-26T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
“Remembering my Father Fred T. Korematsu and Furthering His Civil Liberties Legacy” (January 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90353 90353-21670447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Karen Korematsu is the Founder and Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute. She and the Institute are devoted to furthering the memory of Fred Korematsu, the case Korematsu v. the United States, a case said to be a “civil liberties disaster”, and for advancing civil rights and civil liberties, equity and justice.

Fred T. Korematsu was one of many American citizens of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated during World War II. He is famous for his defying the government’s order to report to an assembly center. Fred Korematsu appealed his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him in 1944. Years later, his conviction was vacated by the U.S. District Court of Northern California. Fred’s courage and activism were recognized by his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Clinton in 1998. Fred T. Korematsu is the first Asian American honored by a state for a day in his name.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:55:21 -0500 2022-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-27T13:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Korematsu Poster
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 27, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-27T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CSAS Lecture | Spatializing Islam during the Early Cold War: the ‘Ahmadi Question’ in the Munir Kayani Report and Pakistani Literature (January 28, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85913 85913-21630468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Please register in advance for this Zoom event. Registration is here: https://myumi.ch/V77MN

With reference to several fictive and non-fictive texts, this talk explores how Ahmadis, classified as “non-Muslims,” have occupied and moved through space in Pakistan. I focus primarily on Manto’s “Letters to Uncle Sam” and the Government of Pakistan’s Munir-Kayani Report on the Punjab Disturbances of 1953, both published in Pakistan’s early years, which are, of course, also the early years of the Cold War, and briefly move through the following decades with references to Nadeem Aslam’s 2013 novel, *Season of the Rainbirds*, and Uzma Aslam Khan’s 2018 short story, “My Mother is a Lunar Crater.” My argument is that spatial analyses of textual representations of non-Muslim identities in fictive and non-fictive texts illustrate how Pakistan was engaging in state-making and nation-making simultaneously to define spaces themselves—indeed using the trappings of a religiously-exclusionary nationalism to bolster state operations and claim space—during these years. By taking a spatial turn—that is, by attending to the territorialization or geospatialization of Islam in Pakistan—I extend Sadia Saeed’s work on how the eventual constitutional exclusion of Ahmadis from the Muslim community in Pakistan contests the assumption the “processes of nation building occur independently of the construction of state institutions” (132). Saeed’s analysis concerns itself with how the Pakistani state inflected and took shape from “a new definition of the national community by equating the nation with Islam[,]” a move that, in Saeed’s view, led to the “construction of new social imaginaries” (133). I’m interested in how these imaginaries take material form, and, in doing so, I maintain Saeed’s impulse but shift the focus to better understand how the conflation of “Muslim” and “Pakistani” operates in place, both intra-nationally and internationally. The Cold War and its aftermath serve as the international context in which I attempt to situate Pakistan’s domestic moves vis-à-vis the Ahmadiyya community. From Jinnah’s purposeful citation of George C. Marshall in his address to the Constituent Assembly on 11 August 1947 and US Information Service’s proposal to Manto in the early 1950s to Bhutto’s and Zia’s explicit legal exclusions of Ahmadis in the 1970s and 1980s, respectively, I trace parallels between Pakistan’s internal and international dynamics to highlight the ambient conditions bringing together Cold War geopolitics and certain iterations of Pakistan’s efforts to define “Islam.”

Saeed, Sadia. “Pakistani Nationalism and the State Marginalisation of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan.”
*Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism* 7.3 (2007): 122-152.


If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 20 Jan 2022 10:07:58 -0500 2022-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2022-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Photo by Ryan Frederick
Korean Cinema NOW | Days of Green/청산, 유수 (January 29, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90412 90412-21670717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 29, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2020 | 90 Minutes | Shin Dong-Il

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

A taxi driver on the run from loan sharks and a woman who has just ran out of her father's funeral unexpectedly end up on a journey together.

Watch the Trailer: https://youtu.be/H19uhJ-rmM8

PLEASE NOTE: Starting Jan. 6, 2022 the Michigan & State Theaters will require proof of full COVID vaccination for ALL patrons over the age of five. Masks are required for all attendees and temperatures will be checked upon entry.

Click here to learn more about COVID safety at the MTF: https://michtheater.org/covid-safety-plan

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:07:45 -0500 2022-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 2022-01-29T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Days of Green/청산, 유수
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea (January 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89830 89830-21665907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
Jatin Dua, University of Michigan, Anthropology

Monday, Jan. 31, The Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.

Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/95385019774?pwd=N0I1THZGYlQwZi9UT2Q5dFlXSEttdz09
Passcode: 520095
Meeting ID: 953 8501 9774

Abstract:
Shipping plays a crucial role in global circulation and geopolitical imaginaries of mobility. Approximately 90% of the world’s imports and exports travel by sea on some 93,000 merchant vessels, operated by 1.25 million seafarers, carrying almost six billion tons of cargo. This global circulation, however, is dependent on navigating a variety of chokepoints—narrow straits, ports, and other geographic locales that ‘choke’ the seemingly frictionless flow of global shipping. Focusing on ports and shipping lanes in the Bab-el-Mandeb, a narrow strait that separates Africa from Asia and connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, this talk explores the generative power of chokepoints. Beyond the problem of lag, I argue for understanding chokepoint politics—a mode of politics and place-making built on channeling circulation.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:01:13 -0500 2022-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-01T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 2, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-02T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Japan: People, Society, Tradition and its Relations with the US (February 3, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89291 89291-21661822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 3, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: Due to updated guidance from the university in regards to the COVID policy, this lecture will be only in a webinar format. Please register here to attend: https://myumi.ch/gNN8R

Japan, being an island country, is geographically isolated from the rest of the world and hence has developed homogeneous society and very unique culture and tradition. Relatively crowded society makes Japanese people value harmony, be respectful and humble. The US has consistently been the most important and popular country for Japan.

Yusuke SHINDO, a career diplomat of Japan, joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1986. At the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, he was, among others, in charge of economic development assistance, trade negotiations, climate change and arms control. He served several overseas postings such as Saudi Arabia, Germany, Los Angeles, Indonesia, Geneva and Pakistan. In July of 2021, he moved to Michigan from Pakistan as Consul General of Japan in Detroit.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:00:29 -0500 2022-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-03T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Japan: People, Society, Tradition and its Relations with the US
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 3, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Korean Cinema NOW | Miracle/기적 (February 5, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90414 90414-21670789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 5, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2020 | 117 Minutes | Lee Jang-hoon

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

"The Miracle" is a fictional movie based on a true story. Based in the 1980s, the film tells the story of Jun Kyung, the math prodigy high school student. He and his older sister live in the roadless countryside of North Gyeongsang Province. With the help of his girlfriend Ra Hee, Jun Kyung works together with Bo Kyung and the village people to create a train station.

Watch the Trailer: https://youtu.be/jwoQ04LDMUY

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:08:12 -0500 2022-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-05T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Miracle/기적
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 12:00pm
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Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown (February 8, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86191 86191-21632073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note: This session is planned to be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/517Dp

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology.

In the past ten years, China has rapidly emerged as South Korea’s most important economic partner. With the surge of goods and resources between the two countries, large waves of Korean migrants have opened small ethnic firms in Beijing’s Koreatown, turning a once barren wasteland into one of the largest Korean enclaves in the world. The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown is an in-depth ethnographic study that investigates how Korean Chinese cultural brokers, South Korean entrepreneurs, and South Korean expats negotiate their class and ethnic identities in their everyday lives in the enclave.

The book engages with the growing literature on diasporic Koreans who have started to form stronger transnational ties with South Korea following the government’s efforts to build a more global Korean polity as a strategy to galvanize its faltering economy in the late 1990s. It diverges from past studies of the Korean diaspora, however, by stressing the role of corporate interests and multinational firms in shaping not only inequality on a global scale, but also notions of ethnic belonging in overseas communities. The book argues that the power of the chaebol extends far beyond shaping labor relations and income inequality. South Korean conglomerates are powerful precisely because they shape spaces of interaction, and have privileged access to the moral and cultural resources that mold how Koreans view and negotiate their identities. Along these lines, The Cost of Belonging demonstrates the persisting impact that physical spaces have in shaping the social and economic lives of migrants in this global era.

Sharon J. Yoon is Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and is an ethnographer who has conducted in-depth fieldwork in Korean diasporic communities in Seoul, Beijing, and Osaka. Prior to joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Yoon was a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at the Graduate School of Human Sciences at Osaka University, and an assistant professor in the Department of Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Blakemore-Freeman Foundation, and her work has been published with the International Journal of Sociology, Korea Observer, Korean Journal of Sociology, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Politics and Society. In addition to her academic research, she has worked with think-tanks such as the Korea Economic Institute and the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, as well as local grassroots organizations in Asia.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:16:04 -0500 2022-02-08T16:30:00-05:00 2022-02-08T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Sharon Yoon, Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, University of Notre Dame
Studying Women’s Employment in Chitwan: Seasonal Work History Calendars (February 9, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85342 85342-21626255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 10: Studying Women’s Employment in Chitwan: Seasonal Work History Calendars
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenter: Sarah Brauner-Otto

This webinar will describe the process of developing the seasonal work history calendars used to study women’s employment in the CVFS and will provide some illustrations of how to analyze these data alone and in combination with other CVFS components. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpd-yhqDssGdJq-kASxS6dz-vJ3YTBhr1Q

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:51:52 -0400 2022-02-09T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 9, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 10, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CSAS Lecture | Market Futures: On Capital and Resistance in India Adda, Davos (February 11, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86115 86115-21631586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Please register in advance for this Zoom event. Registration is here: https://myumi.ch/1nnA8

The spectacular assembly of the global elite at the World Economic Forum, Davos is a brief moment when the powerful networks of capital become visible. It is here we witness the “India Adda”, an investment pavilion where India performs its cultural difference—adda, a place or assembly of people—as a modern, investor-friendly India, albeit an India rooted in tradition. Taking Adda, Davos as a global theatre of commerce, I address the shifting state-capital power dynamics in post-liberalization India. I specifically focus on how the language of anti-colonial resistance came to be incorporated in the service of Indian capital in the world of free markets.

Ravinder Kaur is a historian of contemporary India. She is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her most recent work is “Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India” (Stanford University Press, 2020 and Harper Collins, 2021).

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:56:37 -0500 2022-02-11T16:30:00-05:00 2022-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Ravinder Kaur, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
"People, Paper, Cloth: Mixed Courtrooms and Materiality in Colonial Indonesia" (February 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87363 87363-21641517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Nineteenth and early-twentieth century photos of mixed law courts (landraad) in colonial Indonesia display spaces that were transformed into legal arenas using a plurality of materials. Thick lawbooks, papers piling up, the black gown of the judge, but also a green tablecloth, payongs, a Quran, forbidden patterns on batik, hats, hybrid uniforms, invisible amulets and more. This talk offers a distinct way to think about legal pluralism through exploring the visual dimensions of law making in a colonial context. Beyond merely staged curiosities, the materials in the landraad photos show a courtroom where different actors were signaling distinct messages to multiple audiences. Studying these objects, with their visible and invisible messages, provides insight into the various layers of (mis-)communication that were inherent to the mixed courtroom. Filled with people, paper, cloth as well as a plurality of languages, symbols, political interests, and legal cultures, this was a courtroom where objects often spoke louder than words.

Sanne Ravensbergen is a cultural historian of law in colonial Indonesia. Her interdisciplinary research connects the study of legal pluralism, materiality, and Dutch empire in the Indian Ocean world. She obtained her PhD in History from Leiden University in 2018. From 2018-2021, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on spatial and material encounters in law making tied to colonial commissions of inquiry in South- and Southeast Asia. She is the co-editor of Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World: Text, Ideas, and Practices (Routledge 2021) and has published articles and book chapters on colonial legal cultures in Indonesia and the postcolonial legacies of Dutch empire. She is currently a lecturer in the Museum Studies program at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:19:21 -0400 2022-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 16, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-16T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-16T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Dancing in a Swirl of Imagery: A History of Butô Book Talk (February 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89294 89294-21661824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: Due to updated guidance from the university in regards to the COVID policy, this lecture will be only in a webinar format. Please register here to attend: https://myumi.ch/rqqkA

Butô is one of the most important performing arts of the latter half of the 20th century. In this talk, I will consider some of the most important names in the first and second generation of butô with a special emphasis on the techniques the artists used to create new movements and achieve an unprecedented depth of performance. The the talk will open out into a consideration of the place of butô in a global history of the integration of the body-mind.

Bruce Baird teaches Japanese studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a focus on butô, Japanese intellectual history, and new media studies.

Cosponsored by the Center for World Performance Studies.

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required if you intend to participate virtually. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email. Webinar registration link to be announced. The Center for Japanese Studies will follow state, local, and University of Michigan guidelines for in-person events.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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, 15 Feb 2022 09:26:12 -0500 2022-02-17T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Bruce Baird, Associate Professor, Director, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Program Director, Japanese Language & Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 17, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Korean Cinema NOW | Sinkhole/싱크홀 (February 19, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90415 90415-21670790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 19, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2021 | 117 Minutes | Kim Ji-hoon

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

A working class family move into a new condo purchased after 11 years of hard work. They throw a housewarming party to show his co-workers when overnight a heavy downpour creates an extremely deep sinkhole that engulfs the entire building.

Watch the Trailer: https://youtu.be/gS9Pogr35K4

PLEASE NOTE: Starting Jan. 6, 2022 the Michigan & State Theaters will require proof of full COVID vaccination for ALL patrons over the age of five. Masks are required for all attendees and temperatures will be checked upon entry.

Click here to learn more about COVID safety at the MTF: https://michtheater.org/covid-safety-plan

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:08:36 -0500 2022-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Sinkhole/싱크홀
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Hardship and Hard Work: Son Preference Attitudes among Highly Educated Urban Chinese Women (February 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90731 90731-21677132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Hardship and Hard Work: Son Preference Attitudes among Highly Educated Urban Chinese Women
by Yun Zhou
Monday, February 21
12-1:10 pm ET via Zoom

Abstract:
Extensive research on son preference in China has predominantly focused on rural and rural-to-urban migrant populations. Son preference attitudes among other demographic groups have received little attention. Drawing on 70 in-depth interviews with highly educated urban Chinese women, I examine whether son preference attitudes persist among this previously under-explored group—and if yes, why. I discover a lasting preference for sons among women who otherwise support gender egalitarianism. I elucidate two distinct logics—the gendered hardship and hard work—that underpin this seeming paradox: Invoking their own experiences of gender inequality, these women articulate their son preference as a desire to shield their children from gendered hardship. They view raising daughters amidst pervasive gender discrimination as emotionally taxing hard work. I illustrate the nuanced reasoning—beyond the devaluation of girls—that underlies highly educated urban Chinese women’s son preference attitudes. I further demonstrate that despite the nuance, such reasoning ultimately does not disrupt entrenched patriarchal familial expectations that favour boys over girls and holds behavioural implications for second-birth outcomes.

Bio:
Yun Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Trained as a social demographer, Zhou’s research examines social inequality and state-market-family relations through the lens of gender, marriage, and reproduction. Intersecting the studies of population and politics, Zhou's current project investigates the demographic, political, and gendered consequences of China's recent ending of the one-child policy. Zhou received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 2017. She completed her postdoctoral training (2017-2019) as a Postdoctoral Research Associate of Population Studies at the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:40:14 -0500 2022-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Glitches in Art Historical Flow, ca. 1750 (February 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90969 90969-21675112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The history of ink painting in early modern China is often told as a history of uninterrupted lineages and seamless transmission through time. There were, however, passages in that history when transmission was not so certain, and artists developed modes of painting that put under pressure teachings and standards inherited from the past. This was the case of Zheng Xie (1693-1765) whose monochrome ink orchids were conceived as a string of tiny but effective disruptions of the technical and aesthetic principles of monochrome ink painting. Focusing on Zheng Xie’s late production, this talk explores what glitches, errors, and flaws tell us about mid-Qing artists’ attitudes toward the legacy of the past and the value they assigned to defective hands and imperfect tools to engage with a crumbling world.

Zoom webinar registration at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Aqz73aUHScy8WtkDk28yhQ

Michele Matteini is Assistant Professor at New York University. He specializes on painting and antiquarian culture of the Qing period. His book, "A Ghost in the City: Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Beijing" is forthcoming later this year.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Feb 2022 10:44:23 -0500 2022-02-22T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Glitches in Art Historical Flow, ca. 1750
DAAS Africa Workshop with James McCann, Professor, Department of History, Associate Director for Development, African Studies Center Faculty Fellow, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, Boston University (February 22, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91287 91287-21677912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Abstract
Parables about humans and fish (and water as a medium), abound as cultural markers of power, gender, and stories that encompass narratives of politics as well. Water is a medium that sustains both belief and life. One of its characteristics is as a symbol of power and destiny. In the Upper Nile it carries meaning as a place (point of origin, the spring at Gish), a conduit for travel, a source of food and a link to spirituality. In Orthodox Christian belief it is an allusion to magical revelation, and spirituality and those meanings about human identities are ubiquitous at its source and in its flow. Yet, this is both a fish story and one that reveals conflicting identities of the modern world. It includes the sequencing of that adaptation to geological movement, and the efforts of human engineers to move, store, and redistribute Nile waters in that modern world. The project here is ostensibly a story about a fish, but one that narrates a deeper regional history of environmental and political change in one of the world’s most storied watersheds. This presentation explores symbols of the beliefs and substance of history as a setting for more current issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:40:42 -0500 2022-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
New CVFS Data on the Transition to Adulthood: Web Panel on Sensitive Topics and Hair-based Cortisol to Measure Stress (February 23, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85343 85343-21626256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This webinar series on the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) is about global and comparative population research. Sessions include measuring mental health, Covid-19, linking data, genetics, & migrant data.

Webinar 11:New CVFS Data on the Transition to Adulthood: Web Panel on Sensitive Topics and Hair-based Cortisol to Measure Stress
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
2-3pm EDT
Presenters: William Axinn, Dirgha Ghimire, Heather Gatny, Sabrina Hermosilla

During the 2021-2022 year CVFS is launching two innovative approaches to measurement of key experiences in the transition to adulthood. First, with support from an NICHD R01 to study the consequences of parental mental disorders on their children’s transitions to adulthood, CVFS is launching a new web-based panel survey of potentially sensitive topics, including sex, contraception, sexual assault, alcohol use, and substance use. Second, with support from an NICHD R21 CVFS will launch a large-scale collection and analysis of young adult respondent’s hair samples to measure biological indicators of chronic psychological stress.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

Registration is required for this event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAofuGsrD8vGNaAKLUxm-Be3aVG90WSOgS1

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Presentation Tue, 17 Aug 2021 14:56:09 -0400 2022-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation Nepal mountains
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 23, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Book Launch | *Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia* (February 24, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90945 90945-21674995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., book author, Leiden University; Vineet Thakur, moderator, Leiden University; Michael Barnett, discussant, George Washington University; Hitomi Koyama, discussant, Ritsumeikan University; Karen Smith, discussant, Leiden University; Samuel Moyn, discussant, Yale University; Dan Slater, discussant, U-M

Please join us in the virtual book launch of Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr’s latest book, *Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia,* published in November 2021 by the University of Michigan Press as part of the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Book Series.

Webinar: https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/68976948901
Passcode: AidImp21. (including period)

Save 30% discount code (UMF21) for purchasing the book via: https://www.press.umich.edu/12036762/aid_imperium.

Hosted by Leiden University, Netherlands.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:47:29 -0500 2022-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Aid Imperium discussion
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 24, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CJS Thursday Lecture | Rabelais, Rakugo and Me (February 24, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89357 89357-21662302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that the start time of this lecture is 7pm, Ann Arbor time.

Each culture has its official side and popular side. Beneath the serious Japan of the tea ceremony and Zen lies a hidden laughing Japan represented by rakugo, a comical monologue. As a pupil of a rakugo performer and as a novelist, I also have been a Rabelaisan from a young age. This presentation will show you how Japanese humor could be married with the western carnivalesque tradition.

Anna Ogino is Professor of French literature at Keio University. A specialist in the French 16th century, she earned her PhD from Sorbonne University. Her thesis on François Rabelais’s satirical eulogy has been published in Japan. As a novelist, she won the 105th Akutagawa Prize and is author of more than thirty books, sadly none of which is translated in English. She is also a disciple of rakugo master, Kingentei Basho 11th of this name. She once asked Basho in how many years she could be promoted to the rank of master. The answer was… in thirty years.

This event is cosponsored by the U-M Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

Zoom registration is here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6Rrx24yNRIWRXWVEOey9zA

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:24:09 -0500 2022-02-24T19:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Anna Ogino, Professor of French Literature, Keio University, Japan
CSAS Transnational Conference | In and Out of South Asia: Race, Capitalism, and Mobility (February 25, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92590 92590-21692667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

For full conference details see: https://myumi.ch/XVyAq

*How do ethnic, caste, and racial hierarchies in South Asia interact with those elsewhere as people, ideas, and goods move in and out?* *How are flows and networks of capital reconfigured within existing and new hierarchies of im/mobility?* *How might a focus on things/people/ideas that move “in and out” help us conceptualize new ways of imagining and engaging South Asia?*

Register for this Zoom event here: https://myumi.ch/Ek8Ge

These questions urge us to consider mobility and immobility anew. Global pandemics, surveillance regimes, and border fences engender old and new forms of captivity and incarceration throughout South Asia. At the same time analytical and conceptual frames for studying the region have sought to break out of the gilded cage of methodological nationalism and embrace regional and transregional spatial units, such as the recent turn towards Inter Asia, Africa-Asia, and the Indian Ocean. A rich and productive scholarship has emerged from this transregional turn, providing new vocabularies for understanding polity, economy, and sociality in South Asia and beyond.

This conference brings together a set of scholars and practitioners who are thinking across scale and time to explore the particular tension between mobility and immobility in shaping conceptual and methodological itineraries in and out of South Asia. Participants explore the histories and futures of race, caste, and capitalism in South Asia and beyond.

Conference Format:

In and Out of South Asia: Race, Capitalism, and Mobility will function in a new and innovative conference format. Our panelists have submitted their video presentations for pre-conference circulation. Their submissions can be accessed via this link: https://myumi.ch/M9kWR

We invite the audience to view these submissions in advance of the conference itself. On February 25-26, 2022, faculty discussants will provide mini-keynote opening and closing remarks and comments on the presentations. Audience members will then be invited to ask questions and engage with the panel.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:36:28 -0500 2022-02-25T09:00:00-05:00 2022-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium CSAS Transnational Conference | In and Out of South Asia: Race, Capitalism, and Mobility
CSAS Transnational Conference | In and Out of South Asia: Race, Capitalism, and Mobility (February 26, 2022 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92590 92590-21692668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 26, 2022 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

For full conference details see: https://myumi.ch/XVyAq

*How do ethnic, caste, and racial hierarchies in South Asia interact with those elsewhere as people, ideas, and goods move in and out?* *How are flows and networks of capital reconfigured within existing and new hierarchies of im/mobility?* *How might a focus on things/people/ideas that move “in and out” help us conceptualize new ways of imagining and engaging South Asia?*

Register for this Zoom event here: https://myumi.ch/Ek8Ge

These questions urge us to consider mobility and immobility anew. Global pandemics, surveillance regimes, and border fences engender old and new forms of captivity and incarceration throughout South Asia. At the same time analytical and conceptual frames for studying the region have sought to break out of the gilded cage of methodological nationalism and embrace regional and transregional spatial units, such as the recent turn towards Inter Asia, Africa-Asia, and the Indian Ocean. A rich and productive scholarship has emerged from this transregional turn, providing new vocabularies for understanding polity, economy, and sociality in South Asia and beyond.

This conference brings together a set of scholars and practitioners who are thinking across scale and time to explore the particular tension between mobility and immobility in shaping conceptual and methodological itineraries in and out of South Asia. Participants explore the histories and futures of race, caste, and capitalism in South Asia and beyond.

Conference Format:

In and Out of South Asia: Race, Capitalism, and Mobility will function in a new and innovative conference format. Our panelists have submitted their video presentations for pre-conference circulation. Their submissions can be accessed via this link: https://myumi.ch/M9kWR

We invite the audience to view these submissions in advance of the conference itself. On February 25-26, 2022, faculty discussants will provide mini-keynote opening and closing remarks and comments on the presentations. Audience members will then be invited to ask questions and engage with the panel.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:36:28 -0500 2022-02-26T08:30:00-05:00 2022-02-26T22:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium CSAS Transnational Conference | In and Out of South Asia: Race, Capitalism, and Mobility
Korean Cinema NOW | Hard Hit/발신제한 (February 26, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90417 90417-21670793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 26, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

2021 | 94 Minutes | Kim Chang-ju

Free | Open to the public | In Korean with English subtitles

Sung-Kyu (Jo Woo-Jin) works as a manager at a bank branch. he sets off to drive his kids to school and then go to work, but he receives a phone call without a caller ID. The caller tells him "when you get out the car, a bomb will explode."

Watch the Trailer: https://youtu.be/97ci-XxXjsQ

PLEASE NOTE: Starting Jan. 6, 2022 the Michigan & State Theaters will require proof of full COVID vaccination for ALL patrons over the age of five. Masks are required for all attendees and temperatures will be checked upon entry.

Click here to learn more about COVID safety at the MTF: https://michtheater.org/covid-safety-plan

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Film Screening Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:09:03 -0500 2022-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 2022-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Hard Hit/발신제한