Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Maverick or Modern: Gong Zizhen (1792 -1841) and the Origins of Buddhist Studies (January 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80214 80214-20601990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

While Gong Zizhen (1792-1841) has been acclaimed as a patriotic poet and a prophet of revolutions and modernity in China, his Buddhist thoughts and practices have often been either overlooked or misunderstood. Why did Gong profess his devotion to Tiantai Buddhism in particular, and yet why did he choose to criticize the Lotus Sutra, the most sacred scripture for Tiantai? This research investigates Gong's unique Buddhism in relation to modern religiosity and modern Buddhist Studies.

Dr. Lang Chen is a research fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Before joining the University of Michigan, she was an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her PhD in religious studies at Yale University and worked as a postdoctoral fellow for the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. She is working on her book project on Tiantai Buddhism in late imperial China.

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_P3rfxwFTSnCwLuda2G6lyg

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:17:08 -0500 2021-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Lang Chen, Research Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
COVID-19 vaccine administration in the US and China: Policy, practice and perceptions (January 22, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80479 80479-20728299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UMMS Global REACH

The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has differed considerably from the approaches taken in China. Now that vaccines are becoming available. The approaches each country is taking to vaccination policies also seem to differ. Please join us for a conversation among trusted partners at UM and in China on the approaches that are being planned in the respective countries.

UMMS Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives Joseph C. Kolars will moderate the discussion, featuring Hai Fang, from Peking University Health Science Center, and Michigan Medicine' Sandro Cinti.

A Professor at the China Center for Health Development Studies, Dr. Fang, PhD, is a renowned health economist. His research areas include health economic evaluation, vaccine economics, and health policy.

A leading expert on HIV clinical research as well as emerging infectious diseases, Dr. Cinti, MD, is a co-chair of the a multidisciplinary task force responsible for devising and overseeing Michigan Medicine’s vaccination strategy.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:50:33 -0500 2021-01-22T07:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UMMS Global REACH Livestream / Virtual COVID-19 vaccine administration in the US and China
Chinese 1 (January 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79986 79986-20525410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course places emphasis on basic and fundamental Chinese. By using analytical and systematic ways to introduce Chinese characters, sentences, structures, patterns and templates, etc.

At the end students should be able to replace subject, verb and object to make sentences they would like to say or carry on conversation.

This study group led by Angela Yang will meet Mondays beginning on January 25 through May 10.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:12:27 -0500 2021-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Indigenous Voices, Global Echoes: Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature and the ‘Transnational Tribal Solidarity’ (January 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80183 80183-20594124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Home to fifty-five officially recognized ethnic minority groups, China has witnessed a vibrant blossoming of multiethnic literature produced by its non-Han groups in the reform era. In Western scholarship, such multiethnic literary voices have remained largely silent and understudied. Drawing from her first book manuscript, in this talk, Dr. Zhang will offer a critical and timely introduction to Chinese ethnic minority literature from a global perspective. Particularly, she will demonstrate how literature produced by ethnic groups of southwest China seeks to forge a "transnational tribal solidarity:" minority poets articulate their connections to Native American cultures and Latin American literary influences. Rooted in both indigenous traditions and transnational cultural imagination, contemporary Chinese minority literature is vital for scholars of China and global multiculturalism to understand the movements, interactions, and negotiations taking place between indigenous/ethnic communities, the nation, and transnational forces in our increasingly interconnected world.

Yanshuo Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her current book manuscript, tentatively titled "Beyond Minority: The Qiang and Ethno-national Imagination in Modern China," is an innovative interdisciplinary project that combines anthropological field research in the ethnic regions of southwest China with close reading of previously under-studied minority cultural articulations in contemporary China. Dr. Zhang's articles have appeared or will appear in positions: "asia critique," " Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature," "Heritage and Society," among other journals. She received her PhD in Chinese Literature and Culture from Stanford University and grew up in China's multiethnic Sichuan Province.

Zoom webinar, attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7HcSZv1IQF-hC0mcsJw-xg

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:41:22 -0500 2021-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yanshuo Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (February 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80370 80370-20711698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? This talk, based on Professor Lindtner’s most recent publication "Prototype Nation" (Princeton University Press, 2020), offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. With historical precision and ethnographic detail, Professor Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–08, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation.

Silvia Lindtner is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information. She researches, writes and teaches about DIY (do-it-yourself) maker culture, with a particular focus on its intersections with manufacturing and industry development in China. Drawing on her background in interaction design and media studies, she merges ethnographic methods with approaches in design and making. This allows her to provide deep insights into emerging cultures of technology production and use, from a sociological and technological perspective.

Together with Anna Greenspan (NYU SH) and David Li (XinCheJian), Silvia Lindtner is also the co-founder of the Research Initiative Hacked Matter. Hacked Matter. It has, since its inception in 2011, organized a series of workshops, lectures, public panel discussions as well as hands-on engagements with questions of DIY making, manufacturing, and innovation ecosystems.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wJ0Z2eYHQ6GWAu1oqDbkeA

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:24:40 -0500 2021-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Myth-Busting the History of Chinese Medicine: Going Beyond the "Function, Not Structure" Stereotype (February 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80369 80369-20711696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk will challenge the widely-held stereotype that Chinese doctors were historically interested in the body's dynamic functions, but indifferent to its anatomical structures. Using examples drawn from the history of Chinese traumatology during the 7th to 18th centuries, Dr. Wu will discuss the place of the physical and material body in Chinese medical thought and show how awareness of body structure was in fact intertwined with understandings of function.

Yi-Li Wu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research investigates the intersections of society, culture, and the body in the history of Chinese medicine, with special emphasis on the late imperial period (16th to 19th centuries). Her publications include “Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China” (University of California Press, 2010), as well as articles on medical illustration, forensic medicine, bone setting, breast cancer, and Chinese views of Western anatomical science. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the history of traumatology in China.

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_0ZIEkctzSKenwbE2FHcxEA

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:18:46 -0500 2021-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Myth-Busting the History of Chinese Medicine: Going Beyond the "Function, Not Structure" Stereotype
International Institute Conference on Arts of Devotion (March 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81757 81757-20951378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:00:09 -0500 2021-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Conference / Symposium II Conference on Arts of Devotion poster
Charles Correa International Lecture: Xu Tiantian (March 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82206 82206-21052541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Xu Tiantian is the founding principal of DnA _Design and Architecture. She has received numerous awards such as the WA China Architecture Award in 2006 and 2008, the Architectural League New York’s Young Architects Award in 2008, the Design Vanguard Award in 2009 by Architecture Record and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architect in 2019. She has built a number of projects, such as Songzhuang Art Center and Ordos Art Museum. In the past years she has been engaged extensively in the rural revitalising process in Songyang County, China. Her groundbreaking “architectural acupuncture” is a holistic approach to the social and economic revitalization of rural China and has been selected by UN Habitat as the case study of Inspiring Practice on Urban-Rural Linkages. Xu Tiantian received her masters in architecture and urban design from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her baccalaureate in architecture from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

DnA_Design and Architecture is an interdisciplinary practice addressing our contemporary living environment, both physical and social, from scales small to large. Our approach to projects starts with research and discussion on context, program, and their interaction, which we believe are the fundamental elements, or the dna, that will define design and architecture, to adapt, engage, and contribute to our society of multiplicity and complexity. Context, program, and their potential relationship, will cultivate architecture into a multidimensional expression and generate new experiment and exploration for users. Architecture will continue to influence and inspire our contemporary life.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:05:04 -0500 2021-03-04T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Livestream / Virtual Xu Tiantian
Chinese in the Kitchen (March 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82827 82827-21179593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Amy Qian Liu and Miranda Brown are preparing a proposal for a co-taught class, "Chinese in the Kitchen." This class is intended to provide students with an immersive learning experience both inside of the traditional classroom and in the kitchen. Class content will focus on linguistic as well as cultural proficiency, with the goal of enabling students to develop the vocabulary necessary not only for cooking, but also describing regional cuisines and conducting themselves in business, family, and social settings -- in Chinese. Topics will range from the structure of the Chinese meal; the history of various staples (wheat, millet, rice); regional differences in cuisine; religious diversity within China; the role of food connoisseurship in Chinese culture.

During the colloquium, Amy and Miranda will introduce the design and aims of the course, and open a dialogue with faculty about the challenges. They also hope to solicit feedback and suggestions from the faculty.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:49:13 -0500 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual
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
Globally Engaged Career Panel (April 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83274 83274-21330358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

An open Q&A will follow! Registration is required: https://myumi.ch/Xew9R

Join the International Institute for a virtual conversation with a panel of distinguished professionals, all graduates of U-M area studies programs, who have pursued career paths with a global reach. Our panelists will share their stories and experiences, based on questions prepared in advance by U-M Masters in International and Regional Studies (MIRS) students. This event is open to anyone seeking new perspectives on globally engaged career paths and job search insights.

This event is funded in part by five (5) Title VI National Resource Center grants from the US Department of Education.

About the Panelists:
Emily Etue received an M.S. in Natural Resources and Environment and a Graduate Certificate in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan and spent almost a decade working throughout Asia, mainly in the Asia-Pacific Region. Now based in Texas, her private sector and international non-profit experience opened a network of connections that she actively works to maintain. Emily strongly believes in the power of networking and feels it is the key ingredient to finding a fulfilling career.

Frank Hennick is a Grants Manager at CAPI USA, a nonprofit that provides basic needs, jobs skills, and civic engagement services to immigrant and refugee communities in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro. Before joining CAPI, he worked with the Karen Organization of Minnesota (KOM), a nonprofit that provides human services to St. Paul’s growing community of Karen refugees from Burma and their children. He completed his M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2013 and his research focused on tensions between nationalism and the process of European integration, and how these tensions play out in education policy, public art and monuments, music, and journalism. He lives in St. Paul, where he remains involved with the Center for Victims of Torture and counts down days until the Brewers’ baseball season.

Evan Hoye works in Academic Services at the University of Michigan International Institute. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in 2015, double majoring in International Studies (Norms, Security, and Cooperation) and German, with a minor in Translation Studies. Prior to joining the International Institute, Evan served in a number of student services administration roles at the University of Michigan, including project management at the School of Information, stewarding the release and promotion of an educational app commemorating the University of Michigan’s 2017 Bicentennial Celebration.

Lydia McMullen-Laird is a journalist for WNYC radio in New York covering climate change and the environment. Previously, she lived in China and conducted research on a Fulbright Fellowship, worked in environmental law for the Natural Resources Defense Council and began her journalism career producing environmental videos. While studying at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, she interned at the American Embassy in Moscow. McMullen-Laird is also passionate about sustainable living and is the co-founder of the NGO Live Zero Waste.]

Moderators:

Sam Breazeale, MA Candidate in International and Regional Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Katherine Downs, MA Candidate in International and Regional Studies, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies; MSW Candidate in School of Social Work


Co-sponsors:
African Studies Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, International Institute, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Program in International and Comparative Studies, Residential College

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:24:55 -0400 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Lecture / Discussion event_image
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
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
Artificial Intelligence for Precision Health in the US and China (April 22, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83242 83242-21320454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UMMS Global REACH

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been fast growing in many fields all over the world. How has health data been utilized to develop AI for precision health and what are the challenges in different countries? Join leading data science experts from the US and China to hear their perspectives on the present and the future of AI in their respective countries. This event is part of the JI's Trusted Conversations roundtable series.

With Dr. Brahmajee Nallamothu (Michigan Medicine, UM Precision Health); Dr. Brian Athey (UM Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics); and Dr. Luxia Zhang (Peking University National Institute of Health Data Science).

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:30:40 -0400 2021-04-22T07:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UMMS Global REACH Livestream / Virtual Joint Institute Trusted Conversations: Precision Medicine
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
Shrinking Cities In the US and China: Challenges and Responses (July 27, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84652 84652-21624378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Economic transformation in both the US and China has created winners and losers in its respective society. While some regions are thriving, others have struggled. In this joint event organized by U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, US Heartland China Association, and U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, we have invited the leading experts on shrinking cities to explore the lessons learned from the post-industrial shrinking cities in both the U.S. and China and how both countries are learning to help the communities that are left behind in the face of technology and global changes.

Event website: https://usheartlandchina.org/projects-events/the-way-forward-webinar-series/shrinking-cities-in-the-u-s-and-china/

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IKfXRb_dTjOeOLf4uijh_w

Cosponsored by the US Heartland China Association, and the U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

This webinar is also a part of the celebration of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies’ 60th anniversary.

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, 20 Jul 2021 14:34:44 -0400 2021-07-27T20:00:00-04:00 2021-07-27T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Shrinking Cities In the US and China: Challenges and Responses
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Underrepresented Outperformers: Female Legislators in the Chinese Congress: A presentation of collaborative research by Yue Hou, Xinrui Feng and Mingxing Liu (September 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84724 84724-21624491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please register for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/0WKd9

Dr. Hou, and her research collaborators, present one of the first studies of the political behavior of female members of China's national legislature - the National People's Congress (NPC). Female legislators have consistently held about 20% of seats in the NPC in the past two decades because of a gender quota, but they sponsor about 44% of all legislative bills and more than half of bills relevant to women's rights and interests in the 12th NPC. Among sponsors, women on average sponsor more bills (4.8 bills) than men (3.1 bills). They propose three potential mechanisms that drive women's comparative productiveness: (i) women are more collaborative than their male colleagues; (ii) the gender quota and non-Communist Party quota produce a particularly active female group; and (iii) female leadership encourages female participation. They next analyze 2,365 bills submitted during the 12th NPC and show that female legislators are not only more engaged in women's issues; they are also disproportionately more active than men in the traditionally "male dominated'' areas including economics and finance, foreign affairs, rural affairs and environmental issues. Their findings suggest that a socialist legacy alone does not narrow the political gender gap; underrepresented regime outsiders (women) have strategically used the "double-quota'' system and collaborated to carve out a place to amplify their voices, outperform insiders, and shape the policy debate.

Yue Hou is the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences in the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also affiliated with Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Her research interests include political economy and authoritarian politics, with a regional focus on China. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Journal of Comparative Economics, Social Science Quarterly and China Leadership Monitor, and has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Review and South China Morning Post. Her first book, “The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China” (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2019), addresses the long-standing puzzle of how China’s private sector manages to grow without secure property rights. She also writes articles for Chinese media outlets including the Southern Weekly and Tencent ipress. She received her PhD in Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and BA in Economics and Mathematics from Grinnell College.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:57:42 -0400 2021-09-21T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yue Hou, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania
Professor Andy Ho, University of Michigan, Program in Organizational Studies & Department of Psychology (September 24, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86062 86062-21631255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Academic Center
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Researchers have used social dominance, system justification, authoritarianism, and social identity theories, to understand intergroup phenomena ranging from racial categorization to political movements. The result has been a growing understanding of how particular sociopolitical motives and contexts impact intergroup relations, without a unifying perspective to integrate these insights. Using research on multiracial categorization as a case study, I review evidence supporting each theory’s predictions concerning how monoracial perceivers categorize multiracial people that combine their ingroup with an outgroup, with attention to the moderating role of perceiver group status. I find most studies in the multiracial categorization literature cannot arbitrate between theories of intergroup relations and reveal additional gaps in the literature. To advance this research area, I introduce the Sociopolitical Motive x Intergroup Threat (SMIT) Model of Intergroup Relations that 1) clarifies which sociopolitical motives interact with which intergroup threats to predict categorization and 2) highlights the role of perceiver group status. Moreover, I consider how the SMIT model can help understand phenomena beyond multiracial categorization.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 13:46:00 -0400 2021-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 2021-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 Academic Center Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Academic Center
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
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
Cancer Immunology: Exploring Potential Collaborations Between Michigan Medicine and PKUHSC (December 14, 2021 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89924 89924-21666482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 14, 2021 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UMMS Global REACH

Leaders of the Joint Institute collaboration between Michigan Medicine and Peking University Health Science Center have identified cancer as a research priority for future collaboration. With participants logging in from Beijing and Ann Arbor, this panel discussion will explore the respective strengths of each institution, as well as opportunities for future joint research to ultimately benefit patients in both settings.

The virtual session will be moderated by Max Wicha, MD, Madeline and Sidney Forbes Professor of Oncology and Director of the Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery, and Ning Zhang, PhD, Professor at Peking University First Hospital and Associate Director at Peking University International Cancer Institute.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:03:44 -0500 2021-12-14T07:00:00-05:00 2021-12-14T08:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location UMMS Global REACH Livestream / Virtual Event Panelists
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
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
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
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