Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CJS Noon Lecture Series | An Exploration of Japanese Game Audio (September 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66264 66264-16725775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Quite possibly the primary means that most Americans have encountered Japanese culture, if not by food, is through video game music. Japanese composed themes and game audio techniques from the 70s and 80s are still used in modern games and even played in concert halls. This music has become one of Japan’s most notable exports to the world. In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will lead a journey through some of the most famous and influential video game music that he enjoyed during his childhood in the early days of game audio, and then turn to more recent topics, including recent research on the influence of video game music on piano study in Japan.

Matthew Thompson, DMA — collaborative piano, is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. As a pianist, Thompson has performed with operatic celebrities like Thomas Hampson, Golden Mask winner Vince Yi, and musical theatre gurus like Tony Award winner, Gavin Creel. Equally comfortable collaborating with instrumentalists, Thompson’s most recent recording project, Japonica, is comprised of Japanese composed oboe/piano duos with recent U-M alumnus, Dr. Alex Hayashi. Thompson’s research interests in game audio pedagogy have garnered international attention; he presents regularly nationally and serves on the advisory board for GameSoundCon and a committee member for the North American Conference on Video Game Music.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 08:38:31 -0400 2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
CWPS Performance Talks | Tom Lee (September 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64831 64831-16458981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Center for World Performance Studies visiting puppet artist Tom Lee will present a special workshop exploring Japanese traditional puppetry techniques that have had an enormous influence on world puppetry performance. Following a short talk on bunraku-style puppetry, participants will have a hands-on opportunity to handle traditional Japanese puppets and draw back the curtain on how these beautiful puppets are brought to life through skillful puppetry technique. Tom Lee has appeared as a puppeteer in War Horse at Lincoln Center Theatre and Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera, in addition to extensive work in Japan with his mentor, Koryu Nishikawa V.

Presented in partnership with CMAP Detroit and the Ann Arbor District Library. Co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:31:44 -0400 2019-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Workshop / Seminar Tom Lee Workshop
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Ann Arbor and Hikone: 50 years of Sister-City Relationship (September 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66943 66943-16787732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Mayor Taylor and guests will discuss the history and importance of the Ann Arbor - Hikone Sister-City relationship, the AAPS-Hikone exchange program, and the August 2019 Goodwill Mission to Shiga and Hikone.

The guests include Hikone's beloved, popular mascot Hikonyan!

Mayor Taylor was elected in November 2014, after three terms representing the Third Ward on Ann Arbor City Council.

Professionally, Mayor Taylor is a corporate/commercial and estate planning attorney. He is a partner in the Ann Arbor law firm of Hooper Hathaway, where his practice focuses on the representation of local and regional businesses, individuals, and non-profits.

Mayor Taylor has earned four degrees from the University of Michigan. During his years at the University of Michigan, Mayor Taylor served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Law Review and as president of the Inter-Cooperative Council, a 550-member housing cooperative.

Active in the community prior to holding elected office, Mayor Taylor has served on the Board of Directors of non-profits including 826michigan and FestiFools, and has performed with numerous local choirs and community theaters.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:36:46 -0400 2019-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Christopher Taylor, Mayor, City of Ann Arbor
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (September 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64754 64754-16442918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own Ikebana arrangement with help from certified instructor. Email 2 weeks prior for e-invite. a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Attendance limited to 25.

Presented by Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:52:58 -0400 2019-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T14:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Working on a High Energy Experiment in Japan (September 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65578 65578-16619774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

During the last twelve years I have been working on a High Energy Experiment (HEP) in Tokai, Japan. In this lecture I will summarize the significant accomplishments Japanese physicists have made in this field. I will describe the current HEP program in Japan, and then talk about the experiment I have been working on.

I was a graduate student at Yale University and worked on an experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory. I was a postdoc at the University of Chicago before moving to Michigan in 1989. I have worked on experiments at Fermilab near Chicago, CERN in Switzerland, and JPARC in Japan. I was Chair of the Physics Department and Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:29:41 -0400 2019-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Myron Campbell, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Is Japanese Trade Policy Finally Proactive? Japan’s Multilateral Leadership in TPP (October 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65008 65008-16501310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Since the 1980s, Japan’s foreign policy, including its trade policy, has been known to be “reactive.” Subsequent studies have modified this rather monotonic characterization, but to date, no one has found that Japan is willing and able to take a strong leadership role in a multilateral setting. By historical standards, however, Japan’s leadership in concluding TPP-11 negotiations was rather remarkable. Is Japan finally proactive? It will be demonstrated that Japan found itself in an unusual set of circumstances in TPP-11 and that one cannot generalize from this episode that Japan is now a proactive international player.

Keisuke Iida is a Professor in the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. His recent publications include Japan’s Security and Economic Dependence on China and the United States. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and formerly taught at Princeton University and Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:33:24 -0400 2019-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Is Japanese Trade Policy Finally Proactive? Japan’s Multilateral Leadership in TPP
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64876 64876-16483057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Learn about 140 programs in over 50 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your major/minor requirements. CGIS has programs ranging from 3 weeks to an academic year! Meet with CGIS advisors, staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office, CGIS
Alumni, and other on-campus offices who can help you select a program that works best for you.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:41:18 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival PHOTO
Crisis in the Alliance? Tension in the Japan-South Korea Relationship and Implications for US Foreign Policy (October 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67810 67810-16952006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Panelists: Celeste Arrington (George Washington University)
Gi-Wook Shin (Stanford University)
Yuki Tatsumi (Stimson Center)
Dan Slater (University of Michigan)

Sponsor: Korea Foundation

Cosponsors: UM Center for Japanese Studies, UM International Institute, UM Nam Center for Korean Studies

Abstract:
The relationship between Japan and South Korea has often been fraught with tensions reflecting their complicated history going back centuries. In the modern era, Japan’s colonization of Korea and its legacy have marred the bilateral relationship despite their shared values as the two most advanced democracies in the region and their status as the most important allies of the U.S. in East Asia. In the last couple of years, the tension has reached a boiling point as the two countries began to discard various agreements in trade, security, and other areas. Meanwhile, the US government sat on the sidelines for the most part, seeming to play a less proactive role than in the past. In the context of trade conflict with China, nuclear developments in North Korea, and growing assertiveness of Russia in the region, further deterioration of Japan-South Korea relations would be detrimental not only to the two countries but also to the U.S. and other players in the Asia-Pacific region. In this panel discussion, experts of the region will offer their views on the current tensions in the region and their implications for the regional politics and U.S. foreign policy.

Mission of the Korea Foundation:
Since its inception in 1991, The Korea Foundation aims to connect people to people and serve as a bridge between Korea and the global community through a diverse array of academic and cultural programs and activities.
As a lead public diplomacy institution of Korea, the Korea Foundation has over the past two decades tried to explore timely avenues to reach out general public by organizing insightful lectures and intellectual events on regional as well as global issues that are the focus of public attention.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 08:40:47 -0400 2019-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Crisis in the Alliance? Tension in the Japan-South Korea Relationship and Implications for US Foreign Policy
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reeking of Mud: Japanese Counter-Culture in the 1960s and '70s (October 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65158 65158-16541461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The 1960s and '70s were a time of rebellion and counterculture in Japan, as was true in the US. I will highlight some of the specifically Japanese aspects: the underground dance and theater, the student politics, the protests against the Vietnam War, the radical cinema. In many ways, the counterculture was a rediscovery of Japanese traditions. After a century of Westernization and a rather fossilized high classical culture, artists were going back to the erotic and often dark roots of pre-modern popular culture, hence the title: Reeking of Mud.

Ian Buruma studied Chinese at Leyden University, and cinema at Nihon University College of Arts, in Tokyo. He lived in Japan from 1974 to 1980. He worked in Tokyo as a photographer, filmmaker, and journalist. He has worked as a writer and editor in Hong Kong, London and New York, and contributed to many papers and magazines, including the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker. His latest book is a memoir, entitled "A Tokyo Romance".

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This event is cosponsored by the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2019-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights, Democracy and Journalism, Bard College, NY.
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (October 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64772 64772-16444929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own Ikebana arrangement with help from certified instructor. Email 2 weeks prior for e-invite: a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Attendance limited to 25.

Presented by Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:26:32 -0400 2019-10-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T14:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
The Past, Present, and Future of Social Science Data Preservation and Dissemination in Japan (October 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68129 68129-17011969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Yukio Maeda, Professor of Political Science at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, will outline past practices and the present situation in social science data preservation and dissemination in Japan. He will explain the new initiative by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), “Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:58:14 -0400 2019-10-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T11:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Prime Minister and Public Opinion in Japan (October 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66265 66265-16725776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Approval ratings in public opinion polls are the most important power resource for prime ministers in contemporary Japanese politics. However, this is a relatively new political phenomenon. In this lecture, I provide a brief overview of the changes in the role of prime ministers and the power of public opinion over the past fifty years. I also show how changes in methodology and more frequent polls further accelerated prime ministers’ dependence on their approval ratings. Finally, using available survey data, I demonstrate how much the impact of prime ministerial approval on individual voting behavior has increased over time.

Professor Maeda earned his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan in 2001. His research interests include (1) public opinion, (2) methodologies in survey research, and (3) data sharing in the social sciences. He has worked for the Japanese committees for many international surveys, including the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, and World Value Survey.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:05:07 -0400 2019-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yukio Maeda Professor, Inter-faculty Initiative in Information Studies / Institute of Social Science University of Tokyo
A/PIA Studies Fall Social (October 24, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67845 67845-16960477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Join us for dinner, mingle with friends and faculty, and learn about the A/PIA Studies program!

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Reception / Open House Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:09:37 -0400 2019-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Reception / Open House Flyer
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Put to the Test: HIV/AIDS, Japan and Sexual Citizenship (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64524 64524-16386875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Beginning with the recounting of his personal experience of undergoing an involuntary HIV test in Japan in 2016, Treat explores recent work on abjection by LGBT scholars and its intersection with recent critiques of the concept of sexual, or "intimate," citizenship and social activism based on it. Literary works to be discussed include HIV+ poet Hasegawa Takeshi’s Confessions of Bearine de Pink (2005) and Japan’s first cell phone novel, Yoshi Yū's Ayu no monogatari (2002).

John Whittier Treat is Emeritus Professor in the Department of East Asia Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He is the author of Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb; Great Mirrors Shattered: Orientalism, Japan and Homosexuality; and The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature.

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Image credit: Masami Teraoka, Geisha and Fox (1988)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:19:40 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Masami Teraoka, Geisha and Fox (1988)
Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68925 68925-17197030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are excited to invite you to the Global Theories of Critique's second event of the academic year, with our theme for this year being "On the Failed and Marginal," focusing on the excluded and undermined from and in Euro-American histories. Challenging these histories or going against and beyond them demands an interrogation of the space from which we think, write, and act: the university and its various arms. Following this thinking, our second event will be a workshop on "Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity" with Professor Reginald Jackson, to be held on Thursday, Oct. 31st, 4-6 pm, room 1014 Tisch Hall, dinner included.

Professor Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at U of M's department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and has been long committed to thinking and practicing knowledge production in relation to solidarity with the marginalized and forgotten, within both the university's own space and its many outsides. As such, ahead of this event, we recommend reading Professor Jackson's recently published article, titled "Solidarity's Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy," along with two theoretical pieces he is in engaging with. All readings are available here, and we recommend reading them in this order:

Readings, “The Idea of Excellence”
Jackson, “Solidarity’s Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy”
Moten and Harney, “The University and the Undercommons” (optional)

Additionally, if you plan on attending this event, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zWJXZZnlGwM1-MIwVj7GNA5DZ_vnK-KvGxWzV26Is898Vw/viewform. We would also very much appreciate circulating this invite with any student, department or anyone else who might be interested in this event.

This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:08:10 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Professor Reginald Jackson
CJS Noon Lecture Series | History of Furigana (November 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64206 64206-16212194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

See also: November 9th, Sat. 13:30 - 15:00, Asia Library Seminar Room, Hatcher Graduate Library, 4th floor, "Conversation with Professor Konno" (in Japanese language) Open to the public.

Furigana has its origins in Chinese documents and started to be used in Japan around the 10th century. Furigana was used to indicate the pronunciations of various Kanji (Chinese characters).

When Japanese people began to use Kanji to express both Chinese and Japanese characters, they began to adopt Kanji even when they express Japanese words.

Although Furigana, as phonetic characters, could express Japanese words, Chinese characters continued to be used because a significant amount of Chinese words had already become enrooted within the Japanese lexicon. Both Chinese characters, which are ideographic characters, and Furigana, which are phonetic characters, were used in the Japanese language. This lecture covers the development and the influence of Furigana as “linguistic phenomenon" in Japanese literary history.

Professor Konno’s specialty covers the history of the Japanese language from the 7th century to medieval to early modern period (Muromachi to Meiji period). His methodology is to find the common practice within the Japanese language during different periods of history and the language usage in art and everyday culture. His lecture is planning to focus on the development of KANA and the usage of FURIGANA and its influence on the literary expression found in various publications and art. His lecture should be of interest for both academic and layman audiences who are interested in Japanese Studies. His lecturer at Michigan should be informative for community members interested in Japanese culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:08:45 -0400 2019-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Shinji Konno, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Seisen University, Tokyo
Access Internships in Asia & Europe! (November 14, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67001 67001-16794261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Interested in interning in Asia or Europe next summer? Join the International Institute to learn about our Internship Initiatives, funding opportunities, and how to apply. Meet past interns to hear stories of their experiences abroad & get advice on living and working abroad!

RSVP here: http://myumi.ch/pdGoe
Light refreshments will be provided.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to jcnnifer@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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Meeting Thu, 07 Nov 2019 10:57:11 -0500 2019-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T19:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Meeting Access International Internships
Why Asian Studies? (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67445 67445-16855677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and language programs. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor and ask questions specific to them. Representatives from Newnan Advising and CGIS will also be present!

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) is a center for the exploration of the humanities of Asia, where students are invited to cross the boundaries of nations and of disciplines in order to develop two vital qualities: a deep knowledge and a broad global perspective.

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

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/undergraduates/informationsessions.html

We hope to see you there!

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Other Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:21:03 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other Info Session Flyer
CJS Special Presentation | Invitation to Kabuki: Lecture and Performance by Actor Kyozo Nakamura (November 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69417 69417-17318582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Kabuki, a 400-year old Japanese form of theater, is known for its fantastically colorful stage, dramatic stories, and utterly beautiful men and women played by an all male cast. Still popular in modern day Japan, kabuki performers are specially trained from a young age to faithfully copy their predecessors’ forms and styles until they have the skills to develop their own styles. Join us for a dynamic lecture and demonstration with veteran onnagata (actor specializing in female roles), Kyozo ​Nakamura. Mr. Nakamura​ will introduce the basics of male and female acting in kabuki and talk about his own path to become an accomplished actor. The audience will also begin their kabuki performance training, copying Nakamura's movements in an interactive call and response.

This program is presented in conjunction with "Copies and Invention in East Asia," an exhibition which highlights the creative possibilities of copying as an artistic practice (co-sponsored by CJS). Following the performance, the gallery will be open to enjoy.

This program is co-presented by the Center for Japanese Studies and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:36:12 -0500 2019-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Center for Japanese Studies Presentation Kyozo Nakamura, Kabuki Actor
CJS Noon Lecture Series | On Listening: Murakami Haruki and the Prejudices of Global Literature (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65013 65013-16501312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Murakami Haruki is exceptional in many ways, among them the extent of the popularity his works have achieved in translations around the world, and the persistence with which critics have framed this very popularity as an index of his failure to be “Japanese” enough. This talk will use Murakami as a case study to propose a shift in the way we understand the structure of literature as a global phenomenon and the position of writers in it, and to try and bridge the gap that has emerged between the values implicit in discussions of literature as a global phenomenon and those that often govern the teaching of literature in American contexts.

Michael Emmerich is Professor of Japanese literature at UCLA and Director of the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. His books include The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature; Tentekomai: bungaku wa hi kurete michi tōshi; Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers; and New Penguin Parallel Texts: Short Stories in Japanese.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:21:14 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion On Listening: Murakami Haruki and the Prejudices of Global Literature
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (November 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64788 64788-16444946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own Ikebana arrangement with help from certified instructor. Email 2 weeks prior for e-invite: a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Attendance limited to 25.

Presented by Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:31:09 -0400 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Futurity and the Transhuman in Millennial Japan: The Case of Picturebooks (December 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67284 67284-16831258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This talk looks to an unexpected avant-garde—picturebooks—for visions of possibility in millennial Japan. In particular it explores how two illustrator-auteurs, Miroco Machiko (b. 1981) and Arai Ryōji (b. 1956), de-center the human to picture forth a fecund, transhuman multiverse. Both artists operate within a strong postwar tradition of picturebook art, which derives a sense of freedom from its association with youth and play. Here style, far from being merely decorative, shapes our worlds and the possibilities we see in them.

Heather Blair is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Her research focuses on lay religiosity and questions of how visual culture and religion intersect in Japan. Her publications include Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan (2015) and articles in venues such as Monumenta Nipponica, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, and Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. She is currently working on a monograph with the provisional title The Gods Make You Giggle: Finding Religion in Japanese Picturebooks.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:09:20 -0400 2019-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Heather Blair, Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
Engaging Images: Art History and Anthropology in Conversation (December 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66190 66190-16719579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: History of Art

A symposium in honor of Jennifer Robertson and Celeste Brusati.

SPEAKERS:

Art and/as "Historical Ethnography"
Julie Hochstrasser - University of Iowa

In which an art historian reflects upon the role of anthropology in her scholarship on the seventeenth-century Dutch across the course of her career, pausing to dwell upon several case studies in greater depth. Explores the notion of "historical ethnography" in several respects: examples of early modern artists as proto-ethnographers, and on the other hand, the art historian herself as ethnographer, tackling subjects doubly distanced, both culturally and temporally.

"Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan's Past"
Laura Miller - University of Missouri, St. Louis

Who was considered to be a beautiful man or a gorgeous woman in Japan’s ancient period? What did an attractive Edo samurai or courtesan look like? When contemporary popular culture producers set out to create manga, anime, film and TV series set in historical eras, they often find that the beauty standards of long ago are quite different from contemporary reader and viewer standards. Rather than try to represent historically accurate appearance, artists and writers meld some aspects of historic fashion with recent ideals for body and facial types. This presentation will feature several reimagined historical figures who are represented by actors, cosplayers, or drawn characters who reflect today’s beauty ideology rather than those of the periods they are portraying. Although some efforts are made to depict the costumes and hairstyles of the period, the desire to cater to current beauty norms dominates these productions.

"Lodging/Dwelling/Painting in Elizabethan England"
Elizabeth Alice Honig - University of Maryland, College Park

From the Old Testament to Heidegger and beyond, the concept of “dwelling” has been freighted with significance. It has meant belonging and being chosen, shared community and special entitlement, a state of mind as well as one of physical habitation, the possession of selfhood and of a perspective on the world. This paper explores “dwelling” in Renaissance England, particularly considering those who lack that privilege. It takes as its foci first, a set of Elizabethan wall paintings at Pittleworth Manor that depicts the story of rich Dives and the roaming beggar Lazarus; and second, the prison run by Pittleworth’s recusant owner, which became a kind of dwelling-place for imprisoned Catholics.

"Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan"
Gennifer Weisenfeld - Duke University

An army of schoolgirls march through Tokyo, their faces an anonymous procession of gas masks. Photographer Horino Masao’s Gas Mask Parade, Tokyo from 1936 is one of the most iconic images of the anxious modernism of 1930s Japan. It reveals the vivid yet prosaic inculcation of fear in Japanese daily life through the increasingly pervasive visual culture of civil defense. Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in late 1931—the beginning of its Fifteen-Year War—marks the onset of a period of intense social mobilization and militarization on the home front as the war zone expanded on the continent and throughout the Pacific. Surveillance, secrecy, darkness, defensive barriers, physical security, and prophylaxis all became standard visual tropes of national preparedness and communal anxiety. Still, amidst this anxiety, a culture of pleasure and wonder persisted, a culture in which tasty Morinaga-brand caramels were sold to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and popular magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashions to marvelous futuristic wartime weapons. The visual and material culture of civil air defense or bōkū titillated the senses, even evoking the erotic through the monstrously enticing gas mask figures marching through the streets.

Prevailing scholarship portrays the war years in Japan as a landscape of privation where consumer and popular culture—and creativity in general—were suppressed under the massive censorship of the war machine. Without denying the horrors of total war, this understanding of the cultural climate needs revision. Pleasure, desire, wonder, creativity, and humor were all still abundantly present. Humanity persisted in its complexity. Therefore, by grasping the full nature of wartime’s all-encompassing sensory and compensatory enticements, the dangers of its mix of sacrifice and gratification are unmasked

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:57:23 -0500 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) History of Art Conference / Symposium poster
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (December 12, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64791 64791-16444949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own Ikebana arrangement with help from certified instructor. Email 2 weeks prior for e-invite: a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Attendance limited to 25.

Presented by Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:38:12 -0400 2019-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T14:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Religion and Politics in Japan: Mapping a Shifting Terrain (January 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69650 69650-17376502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In Japan today, a wide range of religious actors are now shaping educational curricula, social policies, and defense postures promoted by Prime Minister Abe Shinzō and his governing coalition. So profound is religious influence on the coalition that one cannot understand Japanese politics without understanding its religious dimensions. In this talk, McLaughlin will draw on his ongoing ethnographic research on Shinto-, Buddhism- and Christian- aligned participants within Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference), as well as his work within the Buddhist lay organization Soka Gakkai and its affiliated party Komeito, to bring to life religion-inspired people who compete to guide Japanese policymaking.

Levi McLaughlin is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University. He is co-author of Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan (IEAS Berkeley, 2014) and author of Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawai`i Press, 2019). Currently, he is the 2019-2020 Toyota Visiting Professor in the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:01:53 -0500 2020-01-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Levi McLaughlin, 2019-2020 Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan and North Carolina State University
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Rashômon (January 9, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70763 70763-17642235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:23:23 -0500 2020-01-09T19:30:00-05:00 2020-01-09T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Rashômon
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Hired to be Overheard: Resonances of Chindon-ya in Contemporary Japan (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69568 69568-17366248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a business by parading through neighborhood streets in Japan. Against the background of long-term economic downturn, growing social precarity, and nuclear anxiety, Abe’s recently published book investigates how this seemingly outdated means of advertisement has recently gained traction as an aesthetic, economic, and political practice after decades of inactivity. Drawing on the book, this presentation will address the central analytic hibiki (resonance), which highlights the processes in which chindon-ya’s sound is designed to elicit an affective response from a listener who simply “overhears” chindon-ya in public spaces.

Marié Abe is Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University. Broadly speaking, her scholarship explores the intersection of sound, space, and sociality, bridging sound studies and cultural human geography. Her recent projects examine the politics of sound in social movements, in the contexts of anti-US military movements in Okinawa and post-3.11 Japan, as well as the musical and historical affinity between Japan and Ethiopia in the 20th century.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:42:21 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Marié Abe, Associate Professor of Music, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Boston University
Mary Kamidoi: My journey from Stockton, through the WWII Rohwer Internment Camp, to Michigan (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69832 69832-17433860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Mary Kamidoi recalls her childhood in Stockton, California, her memories of internment camp life in the Rohwer (Arkansas) internment camp, and enduring anti-Japanese and anti-Asian discrimination upon her arrival in Michigan.

Mary Kamidoi serves as Treasurer of Japanese American Citizens League-Detroit Chapter, as Treasurer of American Citizens for Justice, and is the trustee for the Japanese American Citizens League-Detroit Chapter's scholarship program.

This event is free and open to the public and organized in association with AMCULT 301-001: "A/PIA in the Civil Rights Movement"

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:45:24 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T11:20:00-05:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
CJS Noon Lecture Series | China-Japan-US Trilateral Relationship on East Asia Order: History and Prospects (January 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69572 69572-17366251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The trilateral relationship among China, Japan and the United States has generally been stable, and it explained the regional order in East Asia since the 1970s. Now, however, the fundamental conditions of the trilateral relationship are changing because of a shift in the balance of power, a loss of confidence on American diplomacy, US-China competition and the overwhelming importance of the Chinese economy. How will a change in the relationship between Japan, the United States and China affect the order of Asia? What does improving Japan-China relations mean? Is the Japan-U.S. relationship still strong?

Ryo Sahashi is an Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. Dr. Sahashi specializes on international politics in East Asia. He serves as Research Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange, and has been Visiting Associate Professor, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. He received his BA from International Christian University and his PhD from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He also studied at the Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:09:40 -0500 2020-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Ugetsu (January 23, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70764 70764-17642236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

During 16th century civil wars, village potter Masayuki Mori (Rashomon, The Bad Sleep Well, Floating Clouds) decides to follow the money and leave wife Kinuyo Tanaka behind to sell his wares in town, there to be seduced by ghost princess Machiko Kyō. But when the spell is finally broken, he returns to a devastated village. Adapted from Akinari Ueda’s 1776 collection of tales of the supernatural — and a de Maupassant story. This film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi was a Venice Silver Lion winner and for many years a regular on Ten-Best-of-All-Time lists.

Cinematographer: Kazuo Miyagawa

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:39:06 -0500 2020-01-23T19:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Ugetsu
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71590 71590-17842696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The Seto Inland Sea region was the center for much of Japan’s late medieval (14th – 16th c) period’s commercial activity, yet few documents detailing the organization of those trade networks remain – if indeed they were ever written. Using geospatial analysis (GIS) of evidence from written and archaeological records, it becomes possible to trace the flow of goods and people within the Inland Sea region. The environment and geography are central players in this story, affecting the trade routes, networks, and even shipping practices that develop during the late medieval period.

Michelle Damian is an Assistant Professor of History at Monmouth College, IL (USA). She has published chapters in several edited volumes and articles in Japan Forum and Education About Asia. She is also on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Museum of Underwater Archaeology (http://www.themua.org).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:46:42 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
Continuing Korematsu: Our Fight in the Trump Era (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72117 72117-17939981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association

January 30th is the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, one of the most blatant forms of racial profiling in US history, which led to the forced removal and incarceration of over 120,000 American citizens and residents on the basis of being ethnically Japanese. Fred T. Korematsu was one of many who refused to be incarcerated, and was arrested. A national civil rights hero, Fred Korematsu appealed his case to the Supreme Court. Although the Supreme Court ruled against him in 1944, in 1983 his conviction was overturned in a coram nobis proceeding where Fred Korematsu addressed the court, saying, “I would like to see the government admit they were wrong, and do something about it so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.”

In 2014 and again in 2019, the US government attempted to reopen the Fort Sill camp to incarcerate migrant children from Latin America; Fort Sill was previously used as a concentration camp where Native Americans and Japanese Americans were detained. In June 2017, ICE agents raided and arrested Iraqi families in the Detroit area, leading to the ACLU’s lawsuit, Hamama v. Adducci. Raids on Iraqi families have continued into 2019.

On January 30th, APALSA's Political Action Committee, in partnership with the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission and Stop Repeating History would like to invite you to attend a screening of the documentary Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 by Jon Osaki, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A led by University of Michigan Law student Kevin Luong.

This event features incredible guest speakers: Dr. Karen Korematsu, Don Tamaki, Aamina Ahmed, Mary Kamidoi, and Michael Steinberg. Free and open to the public. Food from Curry On will be provided with RSVP: bit.ly/2tfDsnu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:49:48 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Asian Pacific American Law Students Association Lecture / Discussion Korematsu Day Poster
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji) (January 30, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70765 70765-17642237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignified resignation to life’s shifting currents and society’s modernization. Though the widower Shuhei (frequent Ozu leading man Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure from their home. As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master’s films, An Autumn Afternoon is one of cinema’s fondest farewells.

Cinematographer: Yûharu Atsuta

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056444/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:38:42 -0500 2020-01-30T19:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Sanma no aji
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics (February 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70096 70096-17530444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Over the last hundred years, the idiom of the tea bowl (chawan) has become increasingly significant for makers, collectors, historians, and the general public in Japan. Tea bowls function as important modern signifiers of tea ceremony praxis, national aesthetics, and a perceived shared affinity for ceramics. This lecture will trace the rise of the tea bowl in Japan from the 1920s onward, considering its status in terms of core aspects of modern Japanese ceramics—materiality, tactility, revivalism, rebellion, and global presence. Within the vast field of modern Japanese ceramics, the tea bowl provides a means to index key production and reception values.

Meghen Jones is Division Head /Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies at Alfred University. She recently co-edited with Louise Cort Ceramics and Modernity in Japan and is currently curating for the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum an exhibition titled Path of the Tea Bowl.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:36:28 -0500 2020-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Harakiri (February 6, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70766 70766-17642238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to commit ritual suicide on the property. Iyi’s clansmen, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for a new position, try to force his hand and get him to eviscerate himself—but they have underestimated his beliefs and his personal brand of honor. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, Harakiri, directed by Masaki Kobayashi is a fierce evocation of individual agency in the face of a corrupt and hypocritical system.

Cinematographer: Yoshio Miyajima

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:40:48 -0500 2020-02-06T19:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Harakiri
Nam Center film presentation | Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue (February 17, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72725 72725-18068360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Director Miki Dezaki will lead a Q & A after the film!

Shusenjo is one of the most controversial films in the last decade, inspiring both lawsuits and bomb scares and death threats. It delves deep into the most contentious debates and uncovers the hidden intentions of the supporters and detractors of comfort women. Most importantly it finds answers to some of the biggest questions for Japanese and Koreans: Were comfort women prostitutes or sex slaves? Were they coercively recruited? And, does Japan have a legal responsibility to apologize to the former comfort women?

The “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical evidence, the validity of oral testimony, the number of victims, the meaning of sexual slavery, and the definition of coercive recruitment. Credibility, legitimacy and influence serve as the rallying cry for all those involved in the battle. In addition, this largely domestic battleground has been shifted to the international arena, commanding the participation of various state and non-state actors and institutions from all over the world.

About the Director: Miki Dezaki is a Japanese-American director and graduate of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. He worked for the Japan Exchange Teaching Program for five years in Yamanashi and Okinawa before becoming a Buddhist monk in Thailand for one year. He is also known as “Medamasensei” on Youtube, where he has made comedy videos and videos on social issues in Japan. His most notable video is “Racism in Japan,” which led to numerous online attacks by Japanese neo-nationalists who attempted to deny the existence of racism and discrimination against Zainichi Koreans (Koreans with permanent residency in Japan) and Burakumin (historical outcasts still discriminated today). Shusenjo is his directorial debut.

Presented in Japanese, Korean and English with English subtitles.

Join us for a post-film discussion with the film’s director, Miki Dezaki.

“A Filmmaker Explored Japan’s Wartime Enslavement of Women. Now He’s Being Sued.” – The New York Times

“Documentary juxtaposes both sides of contentious debate on ‘comfort women’” – The Japan Times

Special prices apply. Gold cards not admitted free. Tickets can be purchased here: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=656151~c76be4f4-22b5-4bed-a89c-7def863b8c53&

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Film Screening Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:08:30 -0500 2020-02-17T19:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reading Medieval Ruins: A Material History of Urban Life in 16th-Century Japan (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69651 69651-17376503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The city of Ichijôdani served as the capital of Echizen Province for approximately one century during Japan’s late medieval period. It was a vibrant and successful urban center built around the residential complex of a warlord (daimyo) who had seized power in the civil wars of the late 15th century. This presentation will introduce the history and archaeology of the city and its residents, then consider the implications of its complete destruction in 1573 as part of Japan’s “unification” process.

Morgan Pitelka is Professor of History and Asian Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. His publications include Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice (2003); Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan (2005); What’s the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context (2007); and Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability (2016).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:04:55 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Morgan Pitelka, Professor of History and Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Tokyo Drifter (Tōkyō nagaremono) (February 20, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70767 70767-17642239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Director Seijun Suzuki’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors is equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima—an anything-goes, in-your-face rampage. Tokyo Drifter is a delirious highlight of the brilliantly excessive Japanese cinema of the sixties.

Cinematographer: Shigeyoshi Mine

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061101/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:41:31 -0500 2020-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Tokyo Drifter (Tōkyō nagaremono)
Language Fair (February 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72306 72306-17972528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

The Asian Languages Fair will be held in the Pond Room of the Michigan Union from 10:00am-2:00pm on Friday, February 21. We hope to see you there!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:36:48 -0500 2020-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival Language Fair Digital Signage
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rebirth, Recognition, Destiny, and the Theatrical in Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari (February 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69649 69649-17376501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The paradigm of reincarnation that is central to Hamamatsu chūnagon monogatari, a mid-11th century Japanese prose narrative, is metaphorically analogous to aspects of theater. The text subverts the reliability of visual cues for identification, dissociating the reincarnating being from its physical shell in a way that resembles the relationship between an actor and a role. Hamamatsu also de-emphasizes one’s agency in the karmic cycle, instead portraying it as an inevitable unfolding of narrative along predetermined paths, much like a script for a play. Through the presentation of reincarnation in these theatrical terms, the text produces a dimensional, layered subjecthood.

Terry Kawashima is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She specializes in literature and culture of the Heian and medieval periods in Japan (800-1500), with a particular interest in how texts envision and contribute to the construction of authority, legitimacy, and power in social, political, religious, and gendered arenas. She is the author of two books: Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan, about gendered discourses of marginalization in poetry and prose, and Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan, about narrative strategies of movement, such as representations of exile and divine travel. She is currently working on a project on tropes of rebirth in premodern and modern Japan.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us 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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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:10:27 -0500 2020-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Terry Kawashima, Professor and Chair Department of Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime) (February 27, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70768 70768-17642240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, this endlessly inventive film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the single-minded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty and violence.

Cinematographer: Masaki Tamura

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158714/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:42:20 -0500 2020-02-27T19:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime)
CANCELLED - CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in Plant Lifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan (with Tomohiro Machikita) (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69148 69148-17252911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

This paper examines how political, social, and economic regime changes affect the lifecycles of manufacturing plants exploiting Japan’s transition from a feudal regime to a modern regime in the late nineteenth century as a natural experiment. Using plant-level data for 1902, including the foundation year of each plant, we explored how the experience-size profiles of plants differ before and after the regime change. Plants were found to grow much faster after the regime change and the acceleration of growth after the regime change was much greater for the plants in exporting industries, industries intensively using steam power, and plants adopting a corporate form. These findings suggest that access to export markets, access to modern technologies, and availability of the modern corporate form were the channels through which the regime change affected the experience-size profile of plants.

Tetsuji Okazaki is Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He served as President of the International Economic History Association from 2015 to 2018. He has published extensively in major journals in economic history and economics, including Journal of Economic History and American Economic Review. His recent research interests include history of industrial organization and history of income distribution.

*This event is cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit*.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us 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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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:50:50 -0400 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Tetsuji Okazaki, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Tampopo (March 12, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70769 70769-17642241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges—our appetites. Interspersing the efforts of Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) and friends to make her café a success with the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster and glimpses of food culture both high and low, the sweet, sexy, and surreal Tampopo is a lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment, and one of the most mouthwatering examples of food on film ever made.

Cinematographer: Masaki Tamura

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:42:59 -0500 2020-03-12T19:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Tampopo
CANCELED: Why Asian Studies? (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73200 73200-18157927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and language programs. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor and ask questions specific to them. We will also be speaking about changes to the Asian Studies Major and the Asian Languages and Cultures Minor that are effective Fall 2020.

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) is a center for the exploration of the humanities of Asia, where students are invited to cross the boundaries of nations and of disciplines in order to develop two vital qualities: a deep knowledge and a broad global perspective.

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

Lunch will be provided.

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Other Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:55:03 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other Why Asian Studies?
Project Management Certification (March 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73563 73563-18261071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

Sunday, March 15 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, March 29 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, April 5 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)

The certification exam, administered by IPMA-USA is scheduled for April 26, 2020 (11:00 am) at the Ross School of Business, R-0320. Successfully passing the exam will yield IPMA's Level D certification (Certified Project Management Associate).

Over the last two years, all students who have taken the exam have passed!

Project Management is a powerful skillset to have in your toolbox as you look for full-time employment!

REGISTRATION: Please register through iMpact by clicking here:
http://myumi.ch/dO5Nl

NOTE: The $500 (for non-Tauber students) or $150 fee (for Tauber students) is non-refundable.

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact tauberinstitute@umich.edu or visit tauber.umich.edu.

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B, and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

For more information,
Visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Connect via email to Diana Crossley dianak@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:07:18 -0500 2020-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T16:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
CANCELLED - CJS Noon Lecture Series | Queer Writing x Asia: Japanese, Taiwanese, and Asian American Literary Worlds (March 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69653 69653-17376504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

My paper begins by reflecting upon work by Li Kotomi (1989-), a Taiwanese author writing in Japanese about love between women and referencing both Japanese lesbian fiction and the iconic Taiwanese lesbian writer Qiu Miaojin (1969-1995). From Japanese and Taiwanese queer fiction, I then pivot to queer Asian American writing such as that by Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong (1988-), who uses Qiu’s lines to open his book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019). Through these texts, I address how “queer” figures into discourses of ekkyō bungaku (border-crossing literature), tongzhi literary tradition, and Asian American writing.

Grace En-Yi Ting specializes in queer feminist approaches to Japanese literary and cultural studies. She is working on a book manuscript titled *Minor Intimacies: Queerness, the Normative, and the Everyday in Contemporary Japan*. From 2018-2020, she is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow at Waseda University.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us 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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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:51:23 -0400 2020-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Ting, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programmes, University of Hong Kong
Project Management Certification (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73563 73563-18261072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

Sunday, March 15 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, March 29 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, April 5 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)

The certification exam, administered by IPMA-USA is scheduled for April 26, 2020 (11:00 am) at the Ross School of Business, R-0320. Successfully passing the exam will yield IPMA's Level D certification (Certified Project Management Associate).

Over the last two years, all students who have taken the exam have passed!

Project Management is a powerful skillset to have in your toolbox as you look for full-time employment!

REGISTRATION: Please register through iMpact by clicking here:
http://myumi.ch/dO5Nl

NOTE: The $500 (for non-Tauber students) or $150 fee (for Tauber students) is non-refundable.

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact tauberinstitute@umich.edu or visit tauber.umich.edu.

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B, and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

For more information,
Visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Connect via email to Diana Crossley dianak@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:07:18 -0500 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
Project Management Certification (April 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73563 73563-18261073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

Sunday, March 15 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, March 29 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, April 5 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)

The certification exam, administered by IPMA-USA is scheduled for April 26, 2020 (11:00 am) at the Ross School of Business, R-0320. Successfully passing the exam will yield IPMA's Level D certification (Certified Project Management Associate).

Over the last two years, all students who have taken the exam have passed!

Project Management is a powerful skillset to have in your toolbox as you look for full-time employment!

REGISTRATION: Please register through iMpact by clicking here:
http://myumi.ch/dO5Nl

NOTE: The $500 (for non-Tauber students) or $150 fee (for Tauber students) is non-refundable.

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact tauberinstitute@umich.edu or visit tauber.umich.edu.

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B, and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

For more information,
Visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Connect via email to Diana Crossley dianak@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:07:18 -0500 2020-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T16:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
CANCELLED - CJS Noon Lecture Series | What Motivates Skilled Workers to Emigrate from Japan? (April 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70097 70097-17530447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

Although the Japanese government has been promoting the acceptance of highly skilled foreign workers, the lack of skilled labor force in Japan is already at the critical level. Furthermore, the number of Japanese skilled workers (defined as those who have a university degree) moving overseas as permanent residents has been increasing. What motivates them to relocate to other countries permanently? As part of a research program aimed to understand demographic changes in Japan and their ramifications, we fielded a survey experiment to test hypotheses regarding the factors that motivate Japanese skilled workers to emigrate from Japan to other countries.

Yusaku Horiuchi is a Professor of Government and the Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on applying experimental designs and statistical methods to a range of empirical questions in political science. His substantive research interests include political behavior, public opinion, electoral institutions, and Japanese politics.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us 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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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:52:07 -0400 2020-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yusaku Horiuchi, Professor of Government and the Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies,Dartmouth College
Project Management Certification (April 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73563 73563-18261074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

Sunday, March 15 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, March 29 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, April 5 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)

The certification exam, administered by IPMA-USA is scheduled for April 26, 2020 (11:00 am) at the Ross School of Business, R-0320. Successfully passing the exam will yield IPMA's Level D certification (Certified Project Management Associate).

Over the last two years, all students who have taken the exam have passed!

Project Management is a powerful skillset to have in your toolbox as you look for full-time employment!

REGISTRATION: Please register through iMpact by clicking here:
http://myumi.ch/dO5Nl

NOTE: The $500 (for non-Tauber students) or $150 fee (for Tauber students) is non-refundable.

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact tauberinstitute@umich.edu or visit tauber.umich.edu.

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B, and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

For more information,
Visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Connect via email to Diana Crossley dianak@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:07:18 -0500 2020-04-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T16:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
Virtual Family Art Studio: Ann Arbor Japan Week (June 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74840 74840-19010222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Learn how to fold origami butterflies, boxes, and more with College of Literature, Science, and the Arts student Maiya Yu! While Maiya walks participants through the process of folding, Penny Stamps School of Art and Design student Emily Considine will lead a virtual exploration of the beautiful artwork in UMMA's collection and beyond, which will spark inspiration as you create!

Materials We recommend preparing ahead of time (for each participant): Two 6-8” squares of paper Three to six 2-3” squares of paper

Paper -- recommended paper types
Plain printer paper Notebook paper Origami paper Square sticky notes Magazine paper
We DO NOT recommend:
Construction paper Cardstock Cardboard
This program is offered in conjunction with U-M Center for Japanese Studies’ Ann Arbor Japan Week, June 14-20. For more information about additional activities, please contact the U-M Center for Japanese Studies.  

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:15:20 -0400 2020-06-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-06-18T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art