Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CHOP Film: "Long Time No See, Wuhan" (September 30, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77708 77708-19907676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note that the webinar will be held through Zoom Video Conferencing*

61 minutes; narration in Japanese with conversations in Mandarin; Chinese and English subtitles. Directed by Takeuchi Ryo, a Japanese filmmaker living in China. The film follows the stories of ten families in Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first detected, as residents process their experiences of the outbreak during and after the COVID-19 lockdown.

The event will be followed with Q&A and moderated by LRCCS Director and Professor of Psychology, Twila Tardif.

See the LRCSS website for more pandemic-related webinars: U.S.-China Covid 19 Crisis Briefs and The Covid Impact on Chinese Studies Students.

Register Here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MquGLy7XTCWAV0kA8cNQvw

CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) is a movie/discussion series which provides selected documentary films that view greater China through the lens of everyday life as well as overseas Chinese, immigrants and travellers' experiences--those slices of reality touching on transitional/ transcultural events and memories.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:24:31 -0400 2020-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHOP Film: "Long Time No See, Wuhan"
ALC Preview Event (Virtual) (October 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74919 74919-19079190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

*Due to COVID-19, all events will be held virtually.

The University of Michigan Asian Studies Ph.D. program invites juniors, seniors, recently graduated, or Master's students to participate in a series of virtual events to learn about our graduate program. We are eager to recruit students who will contribute to our department's mission of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in Asian Studies.
This event is a department funded opportunity to explore graduate education at the University of Michigan. Invited participants will take part in an admissions workshop, get acquainted with area studies resources such as the U-M Asia Library and International Institute, meet with world-renowned U-M faculty and current graduate students, and learn about fellowships and other resources offered by the Rackham Graduate School. During preview weekend, students will learn about:

the admissions process
fully-funded graduate programs
developing a research project
advanced language training
selecting a faculty advisor
what graduate school is like and how it all works

*Eligibility*

Please apply if you are a US citizen, permanent resident, or a DACA recipient. To qualify for this program, you must also meet one or more of the following criteria: 1) come from an educational, cultural, or geographic background that is underrepresented in graduate study in Asian studies; 2) have demonstrated a sustained commitment to diversity in the academic, professional, or civic realm, specifically efforts in the U.S to reduce social, educational, or economic disparities based on race, ethnicity, or gender, or to improve race relations in the U.S.; 3) have experienced financial hardship as a result of family economic circumstances; 4) are a first generation U.S. citizen or are the first generation in your family to graduate from a four-year college or university.
If you are interested in exploring the graduate program in Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, but do not meet the eligibility criteria to participate in Fall Preview Weekend, please reach out to us at alc-gradservices@umich.edu! We would be happy to answer your questions regarding the application process and academic life in the department.



Questions? Contact alc-gradservices@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:23:08 -0400 2020-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Preview Weekend - October 8-9 2020
Course Backpacking for Winter 2021 (November 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79238 79238-20233432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Interested in K-Pop, Postwar Japan, or the Lotus Sutra? Come to SASS’s course backpacking session to learn more about the opportunities that the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) offers!
If you have any questions about the process of backpacking or registration, or simply interested in learning about the fun courses offered by the ALC department, this is the event for you! Asian Studies students will be there to share their past experiences with various culture and languages classes as well as offer advice about course selection. It will be a good opportunity to connect with others in your major/minor and make new friends :)
This event will take place during our general meeting time, from 7-8PM on Wednesday,
November 11th. We look forward to meeting you then!

Zoom Meeting ID: 977 6496 8069
Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97764968069

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:45:48 -0500 2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Orange Background with Black text - information on time and meeting description
CJS Lecture Series | At the Crossroads of Peace and Coexistence: Documenting the Lives of Japanese Wives of Korean Repatriates (February 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79394 79394-20294472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 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.

Korean photographer Kim Jong Wook has spent the last seventeen years taking photographs of elderly Japanese women who married Korean men during the colonial period (1910-1945), accompanied their husbands’ repatriation to Korea, and remained in Korea after liberation in 1945. These women were housed in Nazareth Nursing Center in Gyeongju, which served as a shelter. As spouses from the former colonizing power, Japanese women in postwar Korea often became targets of both misogynic and ethnic violence and were not afforded social or domestic protection. Nazareth provided a permanent home for these women, where Kim built close relationships with them to gain enough access to take photographs of their portraits and daily lives. These photographs, alongside their oral testimonies, provide material that highlights the overlooked history of Japanese women during and after post-liberation repatriation.

Kim Jongwook is a freelance documentary photographer who was based in Gyeongju since 1987. Kim’s documentary photo project on the Japanese wives of Korean repatriates was featured in BBC (2019) and Hankyoreh Newspaper in Korea (2017). He presented the same project at Hiroshima University (2017) and the Jeonju International Festival in Korea (2014). Kim received his Ph.D from Kyeongju University for his research on this topic. Kim currently operates the Kim Jong Wook Photography Research Institute in Gyeongju.

Registration is required. Please do so here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QHReUvkBT4mVe6llrhATvA

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, 18 Dec 2020 14:14:13 -0500 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Noon Lecture Series | At the Crossroads of Peace and Coexistence: Documenting Life of Japanese Wives of Korean Repatriates
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
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
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