Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Cyborg Able-ism: Critical Insights From the Not So ‘Uncanny Valley’ of Japan (September 14, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42726 42726-9651129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:43:41 -0400 2017-09-14T11:30:00-04:00 2017-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo Caption: Jennifer Robertson in a HAL exoskeleton climbing a staircase at Cyber Studio, Tsukuba, Japan (November 2015).
Medieval Lunch. Cultures of the Medieval City in Asia (September 19, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43659 43659-9829804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:45:36 -0400 2017-09-21T11:30:00-04:00 2017-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Steven Geofrey Braun
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (September 21, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44101 44101-9886074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own seasonal Ikebana arrangement with guidance by a certified instructor. Cost: $20, which covers flowers and instructor. Please bring your own containers. No experience needed. Reservations required. Info: a2ikebana@gmail.com.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:12:10 -0400 2017-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T14:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 27, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42426 42426-9601972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:44:03 -0400 2017-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Detroit & Regional Japan
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | The Center for Japanese Studies - A 70 Year Legacy of Engaged Learning (September 28, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41959 41959-9497500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Robert Hall, the first director of the Center for Japanese Studies, once remarked: "For both faculty and student, the study of an area on the spot will do more than anything to demonstrate the essential unity, in actual life, of the knowledge encompassed by the different disciplines." In the seventy years since Hall founded CJS, this twin commitment to engagement and interdisciplinarity has never ceased to guide the Center's work. This panel event will convene several Center faculty to discuss CJS's long history of engaged scholarship, beginning with the historic Okayama Field Station in 1950 and continuing to the present day in the form of CJS's various study abroad, service-learning, and internship programs.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:36:44 -0400 2017-09-28T11:30:00-04:00 2017-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion A 70 Year Legacy of Engaged Learning
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 29, 2017 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42519 42519-9609331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

An experiential workshop co-hosted by the Michigan Architecture Prep Program and Makigumi LLC. Join us as we delve into the basics of community design practice as applied to Ishinomaki, Japan--a community devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. What are the principles of community design? How might we think of adapting the practices applied in Ishinomaki to communities in Detroit?

Registration is required and lunch will be provided, 11am-noon.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-design-in-detroit-regional-japan-tickets-36802808190

Need transportation from Ann Arbor? Please complete this form.: https://goo.gl/forms/QrJ2fzVlwc6G8XjL2

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:45:25 -0400 2017-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Community Design in Detroit & Regional Japan
CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 29, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42570 42570-9611994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

An experiential workshop co-hosted by Revival Detroit LLC and Makigumi LLC. Join us as we discuss the challenges of real estate vacancy in northwest Detroit's Weatherby neighborhood and in Ishinomaki, Japan--a community devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. What steps are local organizations taking to repurpose vacant properties? How do local organizations engage in redevelopment that is not only economically-sound, but also equitable and inclusive of diverse community voices?

Registration is required.

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:49:23 -0400 2017-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Real Estate Vacancy in NW Detroit & Regional Japan
Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan (September 29, 2017 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42571 42571-9611995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Registration is required. Light refreshments will be served.

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

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

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

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

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

Lunch served at noon.

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

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

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

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

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

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:14:19 -0400 2017-09-30T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Youth IT Education in SW Detroit & Regional Japan
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Exploring Classical Mokuhanga Printmaking Using Laser-engraving and Bit-map Data (October 5, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/41934 41934-9495455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Endi Poskovic's creative practice in printmaking considers a range of technologies of reproduction as a way to explore certain characteristics of graphic image: translation, multiplicity, seriality. Through his visual work, Poskovic seeks to construct representations that suggest broader themes of exile, memory and reconciliation.

For many years, Poskovic produced his multi-plate color woodcut prints utilizing mostly traditional hand-carving to produce large scale mokuhanga prints. In recent years, Poskovic has expanded his practice to use both established and non-traditional methods, combing classical Japanese carving with laser engraving-printing from bit-map data files. For this presentation, Poskovic will discuss his "Dream Series" of color woodcut prints and the research conducted at the Mokuhanga Innovation Lab in Tokyo. He will share the results of his research into new technologies and how they intersect with traditional methods, as well as present mokuhanga tools, washi paper, finished woodcut prints, and other works in progress.

Endi Poskovic was educated in Yugoslavia, Norway, and the United States. His graphic works have been exhibited worldwide and have brought him many notable awards and honors, including grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the United States Fulbright Commission, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Norwegian Government, the Camargo Foundation, the Flemish Ministry of Culture, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Art Matters Foundation, among others. Museum collections which hold works by the artist include the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Harvard University Fogg Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Jincheon Art Museum, South Korea and others. Poskovic is Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Aug 2017 08:16:18 -0400 2017-10-05T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Endi Poskovic
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Visible Rhymes, Inaudible Echoes: Script and Sound in the Sinitic Poetry of Modern Japan (October 12, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42778 42778-9661713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:00:50 -0400 2017-10-12T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Matthew Fraleigh, Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis University
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Brazil and 'Modern Japanese Literature' (October 19, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42799 42799-9661733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

It is not well known that Brazil is home to the largest number of persons of Japanese descent outside of Japan itself, with a population that likely exceeds that of the United States. Still less known is the fact that this population possesses a century-long history of not only consuming Japanese-language literature, but also producing it. This talk will present a brief overview of this history, with a focus on its early decades (1908-1941), and then consider ways that this history prompts us to reconsider many of the tacit and explicit presumptions that underlie the field of modern Japanese literature.

Edward Mack teaches modern Japanese literature and film at the University of Washington. His book, _Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature_, examines the relationship between the concept of a national literature and the publishing industry. His current project is on the reading and writing of literature in the Japanese immigrant community in Brazil prior to the Second World War.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:34:04 -0400 2017-10-19T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Edward Mack, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Washington
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (October 19, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44118 44118-9886092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own seasonal Ikebana arrangement with guidance by a certified instructor. Cost: $20, which covers flowers and instructor. Please bring your own containers. No experience needed. Reservations required. Info: a2ikebana@gmail.com. Presenter: Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:19:25 -0400 2017-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T14:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
Lunch and Learn: Intern Abroad with CRCC Asia (October 20, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45702 45702-10262639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 2:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

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

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

Session attendees receive 10% off program fees.

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Presentation Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:39:33 -0400 2017-10-20T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Presentation CRCC Asia
CJS Thursday Lecture | Dynasties and Democracy in Japan (October 26, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42801 42801-9661741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:57:27 -0400 2017-10-26T11:30:00-04:00 2017-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion David M. Smith, Assolciate Professor in the Department of Government, Harvard University
Interested in teaching and working in Japan after graduation? (November 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46260 46260-10421262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:05:16 -0400 2017-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Careers / Jobs Jet Program
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Celebration of Life (November 2, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42802 42802-9661743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

This event is cosponsored by the Detroit Institute of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:33:18 -0400 2017-11-02T11:30:00-04:00 2017-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Tomoko Konno, Ceramicist
Asian Languages and Cultures Info Session (November 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45099 45099-10084364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

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

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

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Other Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:34:02 -0400 2017-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other Flyer
Info Dinner | Careers & Internships at Continental Automotive Japan (November 8, 2017 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46346 46346-10464023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please join us for an information session on careers and internships at Continental Automotive Japan in Yokohama. This is an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students at the U-M College of Engineering. The session will be led by Kunizo Oka, Continental Automotive Japan Business Center Head & Ross MBA '01.

The session will consist of an informal dinner, an overview of Continental Automotive (open to all engineering students), and an overview of the J Drive Internship program at Continental Automotive.

Please note that all engineering students are welcome to attend the info sessions, but that the J Drive Internship Program is intended for Japanese speakers only.

RSVP REQUIRED. Dinner from Zingerman's will be served.

RSVP DEADLINE: FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/XGzUTI0LlEwt5y1J3

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:23:28 -0400 2017-11-08T17:30:00-05:00 2017-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Center for Japanese Studies Careers / Jobs Car
CJS Conference | The University of Michigan and Japan's Auto Industry - An Enduring Partnership (November 9, 2017 9:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46179 46179-10409862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 9:45am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

Free and open to the public.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:12:27 -0400 2017-11-09T09:45:00-05:00 2017-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium The University of Michigan and Japan's Auto Industry - An Enduring Partnership
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Ainu Indigenous Modernity in Settler Japan (November 16, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42834 42834-9664416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:00:49 -0400 2017-11-16T11:30:00-05:00 2017-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ainu Indigenous Modernity in Settler Japan
Center for World Performance Studies | PERFORMANCE TALKS: adaptation (November 16, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45747 45747-10273913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Kaoru Watanabe went from being culturally "American," playing classical music as a child in St. Louis and studying jazz flute and saxophone at the Manhattan School of Music, to being a member of the globetrotting Japanese taiko drumming ensemble Kodo and becoming a leading specialist in the bamboo shinobue flute. He now lives back in New York, creating his own genre of music that reflects the entirety of his musical and cultural experiences and collaborating with artists like pianist Jason Moran, filmmaker Wes Anderson and Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkroad Ensemble.

For his talk at the Residential College, Watanabe will address the unending series of adaptations he's dealt with through this journey and reflect on how it has affected his art.

Watanabe also performs at Kerrytown Concert House on Tuesday, 11/14 at 8pm.

For more information, contact cwps.information@umich.edu

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:34:29 -0400 2017-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T17:15:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Workshop / Seminar Kaoru with flute
CJS Conference | Spies, Prisoners, and Farmers: The Origins of Japanese Studies at Michigan (November 29, 2017 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46839 46839-10647802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 10:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Visit the conference website here for the full schedule: https://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/cjs-70-conference-series/spies--prisoners--and-farmers---the-origins-of-japanese-studies-at-michigan.html

In 1947, Professor Robert B. Hall became the founding director of the Center for Japanese Studies. Just three years earlier, at the height of the Pacific War, he was director of something very different: U.S. intelligence operations against Japan. From Kunming, Hall worked with the Chinese Communist Party to turn captured Japanese soldiers into spies who would infiltrate the Japanese home islands. His office was frequented by a young man named Ho Chi Minh, who liked to read the Time magazines in the lobby. Ho demanded that Hall recognize his organization, the Viet Minh, in its fight against Japan.

Meanwhile, the Army had turned Ann Arbor into the base of its Japanese language program. In the halls of East Quad, formerly interned Japanese-Americans were tasked with teaching Japanese to the officers who would oversee the postwar occupation. Every afternoon, these student-soldiers marched down State Street to commands shouted in Japanese.

A day-long conference, Spies, Prisoners, and Farmers: The Origins of Japanese Studies at Michigan will trace how the twin legacies of Robert B. Hall and the Army Intensive Japanese Language School laid the foundation for the creation of the Center for Japanese Studies and its historic Okayama Field Station.

Free and open to the public.

Presented in partnership with the National Museum of Japanese History and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:28:41 -0500 2017-11-29T10:30:00-05:00 2017-11-29T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Spies, Prisoners, and Farmers: The Origins of Japanese Studies at Michigan
Graduate Student Workshop: Connoisseurship in Researching Japanese Early-modern Painting (November 29, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46053 46053-10356058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This workshop requires an advanced reading level of Japanese. Please register to participate. Due to the venue, only ten participants can be accommodated so registration is on a first come, first serve basis.

Using works from UMMA's collection, Professor Paul Berry (Kansai Gaidai University, Japan) will conduct a hands-on workshop on the connoisseurship of early-modern Japanese paintings. Focusing especially on close viewing and reference materials, the workshop incorporates Japanese sources and text on the objects.

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

The workshop is funded in part by the Japanese Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquium.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:21:37 -0400 2017-11-29T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar umma
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Impending Cultural Collapse? - Current Transformations in Japan’s Traditional Art Markets (November 30, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42837 42837-9664417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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

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

Free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:15:19 -0500 2017-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar barbed wire
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Eating Contests in Early Modern Japanese Entertainment Media (December 7, 2017 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42854 42854-9672379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:59:57 -0400 2017-12-07T11:30:00-05:00 2017-12-07T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) “Peace, Joy, and the Price War Between Sake and Sweets” (Taiheiki mochi sake tatakai) produced between 1843-46
The Premodern Colloquium. The Agreed Upon Counterfeit: Forgery Culture and Documentary Authenticity in Medieval Japanese Society (December 10, 2017 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43879 43879-9852278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 10, 2017 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its thirty-eighth year. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discuss work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles, and dissertation chapters.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:07:04 -0400 2017-12-10T15:30:00-05:00 2017-12-10T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-18T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-18T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-19T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-19T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-20T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-21T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-22T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-23T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-24T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-25T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-26T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-26T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-27T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-27T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-29T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-29T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-30T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-30T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (December 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10801999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2017-12-31T08:00:00-05:00 2017-12-31T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-01T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-01T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-02T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-02T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-03T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-03T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-04T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-04T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-05T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-05T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-06T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-06T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-07T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-07T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-08T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-09T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-09T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 10, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-10T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 11, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-11T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | The Economy of Fear in Nineteenth-Century Japan (January 11, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47186 47186-10813703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:25:42 -0500 2018-01-11T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-11T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion David L. Howell, Professor of Japanese History and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages, Harvard University
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 12, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-12T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 13, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-13T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-13T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 14, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 14, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-14T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-14T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 15, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-15T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-15T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 16, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-17T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Care as Labor, Care as Ethics: Feminism and the Documentaries of Kamanaka Hitomi (January 18, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47472 47472-10929754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:31:34 -0500 2018-01-18T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Margherita Long, Associate Professor, East Asian Language & Literature, UC Irvine
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (January 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46610 46610-10566960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 08 Nov 2017 09:57:22 -0500 2018-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 2018-01-18T14:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-19T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-21T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-22T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-24T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Magic Numbers in Shinto Rituals and Music (January 25, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48084 48084-11180645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:20:22 -0500 2018-01-25T11:30:00-05:00 2018-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion William Malm, Professor Emeritus of Music (Music History and Musicology) U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-26T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-28T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (January 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2018-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | A History of Distant Reading in Japan (February 1, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47217 47217-10821993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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

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

Free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:36:43 -0500 2018-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2018-02-01T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Pflugfelder
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Asian Languages Fair (February 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48075 48075-11177994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

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

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

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Fair / Festival Wed, 24 Jan 2018 15:00:35 -0500 2018-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival flyer
EIHS Workshop: Public/Private Selves: (In)visibilities, Identities, and Communities (February 2, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47887 47887-11043645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This panel engages themes from Gregory Pflugfelder’s article “The Nation-State, the Age/Gender System, and the Reconstitution of Erotic Desire in Nineteenth-Century Japan.” Moving from late medieval Japan to colonial Lima and finally 1960-70s Italy, presenters discuss various ways in which material and visual signifiers shape personal and communal identities. Dr. Pflugfelder will provide a brief discussion of the article prior to presentations. Pre-reading is encouraged but not necessary. The article is available at: www.jstor.org/stable/23357429.

Featuring:

Gregory Pflugfelder (speaker; Associate Professor; East Asian Languages and Cultures, History; Columbia University)

Robert Morrissey (panelist; Graduate Student, History of Art, University of Michigan; "Dress and the Divine: Late Medieval Representations of Chigo Daishi")

Ximena Gómez (panelist; Graduate Student, History of Art, University of Michigan; "Caboverdes and Criollos: Confraternal Art and the (In)Visibility of Afroperuvian Ethnic Identity in Early Colonial Lima")

Alessio Ponzio (panelist; Graduate Student, History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan; "Ermanno Lavorini: How an Alleged Case of Pedophilia Galvanized Homophobia and Homosexual Self-awareness in 1969 Italy")

Hitomi Tonomura (chair; Professor; History, Women's Studies; University of Michigan)

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

Photo: "Memories from the invisible" (August Brill, CC BY 2.0).

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:14:10 -0500 2018-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2018-02-02T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Workshop Graphic
CJS Special Lecture | Japan-U.S. Relations in the Changing World: North Korea, China, and America First (February 2, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48732 48732-11297749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:17:41 -0500 2018-02-02T18:30:00-05:00 2018-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Naoyuki Agawa, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Doshisha University
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Film Series | The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (February 5, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49490 49490-11464942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:27:58 -0500 2018-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Identity Politics in Japan (February 8, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47159 47159-10802663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In 1969, Japan launched a massive subsidy program for the "burakumin" outcastes. The subsidies attracted the mob, and the higher incomes now available through organized crime compensated those burakumin who abandoned the legal sector for criminal careers. In the process, the subsidies gave new support to the tendency many Japanese already had to equate the burakumin with the mob.

The government ended the subsidies in 2002. Eric Rasmusen and I explore the effect of the termination by merging 30 years of municipality data with a long-suppressed 1936 census of burakumin neighborhoods. First, we find that outmigration from municipalities with more burakumin increased after the end of the program. Apparently, the higher illegal income generated by the subsidies had restrained young burakumin from joining mainstream society. Second, we find that once the mob-tied corruption and extortion associated with the subsidies neared its end, real estate prices rose in municipalities with burakumin neighborhoods. With the subsidies gone and the mob in retreat, other Japanese found the formerly burakumin communities increasingly attractive places to live.

Mark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in Miyazaki, attending public schools for K-6. He returned to the U.S. for college. Before attending law school, he studied Japanese history at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan. Ramseyer graduated from Harvard Law School in 1982. He clerked for the Hon. Stephen Breyer (then on the First Circuit), worked for two years at Sidley & Austin (in corporate tax), and studied as a Fulbright student at the University of Tokyo. After teaching at UCLA and the University of Chicago, he came to Harvard in 1998. He has also taught or co-taught courses at several Japanese universities (in Japanese). In his research, Ramseyer primarily studies Japanese law, and primarily from a law & economics perspective. In addition to a variety of Japanese law courses, he teaches the basic Corporations course.

Cosponsored by the U-M Law School.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:52:36 -0500 2018-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion J. Mark Ramseyer; Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies; Harvard Law School
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Special Lecture | Japanese Economy: Successful Recovery, Challenges, Foreign Policy, and US Relations (February 9, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/48734 48734-11297750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

Cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit .

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:28:04 -0500 2018-02-09T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Shujiro Urata, Dean and Professor of Economics, Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 10, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 11, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Guided Tour - Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters and New at UMMA: Paul Rand (February 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48818 48818-11308906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:19:51 -0500 2018-02-11T14:00:00-05:00 2018-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Ikko Tanaka, 'Nihon Buyo' (Japanese traditional dance), 1981, offset print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion, 2017/2.25. © Ikko Tanaka/licensed by DNPartcom, 2017
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 12, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Film Series | Rashomon (February 12, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49552 49552-11476263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:19:55 -0500 2018-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Rashomon
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 13, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 14, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-14T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-14T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 15, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-15T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Imperial Japan and the Nature of Borders in Occupied Inner Mongolia (February 15, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47716 47716-11002098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:02:58 -0500 2018-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2018-02-15T14:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 16, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-16T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-17T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-18T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-19T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Film Series | Seven Samurai (February 19, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49554 49554-11476264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:24:30 -0500 2018-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-19T22:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Seven Samurai
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-20T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-21T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | A Woman’s Network in Japan around 1800 (February 22, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47187 47187-10813705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:48:37 -0500 2018-02-22T11:30:00-05:00 2018-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Network Visualization
Photography Tour of Japan with Carlos Diaz (February 22, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46615 46615-10566965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Carlos Diaz, who is a professor of photography at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, shares photographs and reflections on his 2015 trip to Japan.
Presenter: Ann Arbor Bonsai Society

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Presentation Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:08:01 -0500 2018-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-22T21:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Presentation
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-24T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Film Series | Throne of Blood (February 26, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49555 49555-11476265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:34:50 -0500 2018-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2018-02-26T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Throne of Blood
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-27T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-27T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (February 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2018-02-28T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-02T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-03T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-03T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-04T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-05T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-05T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Film Series | The Hidden Fortress (March 5, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49557 49557-11476268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 5, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:46:19 -0500 2018-03-05T19:00:00-05:00 2018-03-05T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening The Hidden Fortress
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-06T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-06T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
US-Japan Relations: Past, Present, and Future (March 8, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50051 50051-11630734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 8, 2018 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Welcome & Introductory Remarks (10:00am)

Kiyoteru Tsutsui, University of Michigan

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

Facilitator: Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan

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

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

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

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

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

Facilitator: Alan Deardorff, University of Michigan

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

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

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

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

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

Facilitator: Melvyn Levitsky, University of Michigan

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

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

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

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

Concluding Remarks (5:45pm)

John Ciorciari, University of Michigan

Reception (6:00-7:00 pm)

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

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 02 Mar 2018 08:58:57 -0500 2018-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2018-03-08T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium US-Japan Relations: Past, Present and Future
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
UMMA Dialogue: Think Japan, Act Global: Japanese Graphic Design in the Postwar Period (March 9, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49487 49487-11464939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 9, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This program is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served.
In the 1980s, Japan’s strong trade surplus and currency were causing friction and antagonism overseas. In response, three renowned Japanese artists—Ikko Tanaka, Shigeo Fukuda, and Kazumasa Nagai—took on the challenge of changing Japan’s global image through graphic design. These designers, and others like them, were passionate about fostering creative relationships with the international design community to enrich their theoretical and artistic practice and create an exchange with lasting impacts across geographic boundaries. On the occasion of the UMMA exhibition 'Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters,' and to commemorate the gift of nearly 100 posters by the three artists from the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion, UMMA’s Curator of Asian Art, Natsu Oyobe, will talk with Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, graphic designer and professor at the Stamps School of Art and Design, about the significance of these artists and their global exchange in the field of graphic design, as well as, take a closer look at the powerful language of simple forms, vivid color, and humor that they employed to foster a deeper understanding of the different faces of Japan and its long cultural history.

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

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Presentation Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:16:52 -0500 2018-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 2018-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Ikko Tanaka, 'Nihon Buyo' (Japanese traditional dance), 1981, offset print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion, 2017/2.25. © Ikko Tanaka/licensed by DNPartcom, 2017.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 10, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 10, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2018-03-10T20:00:00-05:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media (March 11, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 47148-10802069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 11, 2018 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

A Japanese native, now living in Royal Oak, Michigan, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people.

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Exhibition Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:39:05 -0500 2018-03-11T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-11T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Lost & Found by Hiroko Lancour, photo by Tim Thayer. High resolution version available upon request.
Guided Tour - Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters and New at UMMA: Paul Rand (March 11, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48818 48818-11464940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 11, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:19:51 -0500 2018-03-11T14:00:00-04:00 2018-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Ikko Tanaka, 'Nihon Buyo' (Japanese traditional dance), 1981, offset print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion, 2017/2.25. © Ikko Tanaka/licensed by DNPartcom, 2017
CJS Film Series | Yojimbo (March 12, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49562 49562-11476275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 12, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:53:17 -0500 2018-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Yojimbo
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Embodied Memory and Affective Imagination: Experiencing Food Allergies in Contemporary Japan (March 15, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47162 47162-10802665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 15, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

Cosponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society Program.

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

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:18:25 -0500 2018-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 2018-03-15T14:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Film Series | Sanjuro (March 19, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49570 49570-11476279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In this companion piece and sequel to “Yojimbo,” jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
Written & Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:48:52 -0500 2018-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-19T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Sanjuro
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 20, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-20T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
The Security Situation in Northeast Asia (March 20, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51157 51157-12007288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: International Policy Center

In this public talk, Vice Admiral Ota will discuss pressing issues in Northeast Asian security, including current tensions surrounding North Korea, China’s military posture, territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas, and how Japan is preparing to deal with each of these matters.


Vice Admiral Fumio Ota is a former Director of Japan’s Defense Intelligence Headquarters, served in the Japanese navy for over 10 years as a Commanding Officer, and served as Defense and Naval Attaché at the Japanese Embassy in Washington. He was responsible for preparing Japan’s White Paper on its defense strategy in 1987 and while Director of Japan’s Defense Intelligence HQ was responsible for intelligence briefings to the Japanese prime minister. Vice Admiral Ota is a graduate of Japan’s National Defense Academy, and has a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University. He served as a professor at the National Defense Academy as well as Japan’s National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, and is currently serving as a planning committee member at the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals which supports the Japanese government with its national security strategies. He has authored more than 10 books in Japanese and English on Japan’s security and defenses.



This event is co-sponsored by the International Policy Center and Center for Japanese Studies.

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Presentation Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:46:42 -0400 2018-03-20T11:30:00-04:00 2018-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) International Policy Center Presentation
Film Series | Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (March 20, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50660 50660-11847606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The first in a series of six films in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the film tells the story of Ogami Itto, a wandering assassin for hire who is accompanied by his young son, Daigoro. Based on the manga
by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:36:50 -0500 2018-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-20T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 21, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Film Series | Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (March 21, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50667 50667-11847611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

While wandering through the wilds of Japan with his 3-year-old son, Daigoro, (Akihiro Tomikawa), assassin-for-hire Ogami Itto (Tomisaburô Wakayama) finds his next assignment — he’s hired to kill a merchant intent on revealing corporate secrets. On Ogami’s tail, however, is a trio of female ninjas who have been sent to kill him and his son. When Ogami is wounded in battle, the toddler rises to the occasion and helps nurse his father back to health in time for a second sword fight. Based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:33:10 -0500 2018-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-21T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 22, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Film Series | Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (March 22, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50673 50673-11847612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 22, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami’s son, and sees his chance for revenge.Based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:36:36 -0500 2018-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 23, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Asian Languages and Cultures Info Session (March 23, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50459 50459-11771164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

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

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

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Other Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:26:04 -0500 2018-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other flyer
Film Series | Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (March 23, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50675 50675-11847613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 23, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by the yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain. Based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:39:00 -0500 2018-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 24, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Film Series | Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (March 24, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50676 50676-11847615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 24, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Five swordsmen hire Ogami, each revealing a portion of his mission as they are defeated in this fifth entry in the Lone Wolf and Cub series. After defeating the swordsmen, Ogami discovers his mission is to save a clan’s honor by killing its royal family. Based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:45:30 -0500 2018-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-24T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Film Series | Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (March 25, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50677 50677-11847616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 25, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out. Based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:47:41 -0500 2018-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-26T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Film Series | Red Beard (Akahige) (March 26, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49572 49572-11476281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto (Yûzô Kayama) is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard (Toshirô Mifune). Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute (Terumi Niki) rescued from a local brothel.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:25:26 -0500 2018-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2018-03-26T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Red Beard (Akahige)
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 28, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-28T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 29, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Childbirth and the Arts of Judgment in Medieval Japan (March 29, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47262 47262-10855073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The organization of childbirth in elite households of medieval Japan (1185–1336) required serious planning and decisive orchestration. Although the initial preparations for an imperial consort’s labour could take several months, what were to unfold inside the secluded birth chamber could easily escalate into both medical and ritual emergencies and necessitate a swift response from the consort’s female and male relatives, ritual specialists, physicians, and midwives. Based on recently discovered medieval Buddhist manuscripts, visual sources, diaries, and court protocols, this talk will focus on the “gendered choreographies” taking place inside and outside the birth chamber and the actions of people who inhabited such spaces during the tense moments of royal consort’s labour.

Anna Andreeva (PhD, Cantab.) is a research fellow at the University of Heidelberg. She is the author of Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan (Harvard Asia Center, 2017) and a co-editor of Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions (Brill, 2016).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Mar 2018 08:23:09 -0500 2018-03-29T11:30:00-04:00 2018-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion US-Japan Relations: Past, Present and Future
APIA Documentary Screening: "And Then They Came For Us" (March 29, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50570 50570-11805187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Please join us for a free screening of, "And Then They Came For Us." Donna Nagata of Pychology and Matthew Stiffler of Arab & Muslim American Studies will make opening remarks. This event is free and open to the public. Popcorn and soda will be provided.

About the Film:
Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Featuring George Takei and many others who were incarcerated, as well as newly rediscovered photographs of Dorothea Lange, And Then They Came for Us brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out against the Muslim registry and travel ban. Knowing our history is the first step to ensuring we do not repeat it. And Then They Came for Us is a cautionary and inspiring tale for these dark times. Please partner with us to share this critical story.

"It was a failure of American democracy, and yet because most Americans are not aware of that dark chapter of American history, it's about to be repeated."
- George Takei, Actor and Activist

Read more about the film and watch the trailer here: https://www.thentheycamedoc.com/

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Film Screening Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:12:33 -0500 2018-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-29T18:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Film Screening Film Poster
Bonsai Juniper Styling Workshop (March 29, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46627 46627-10566977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 29, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Tyler Sherrod of Dogwood Studios in North Carolina demonstrates how to style a deciduous tree. Tyler has studied with Boon Manakitivipart in California, and apprenticed with Shinji Suzuki in Japan. Cost: $80, limited to 8 participants. Info: annarborbonsaisociety@gmail.com.
Presenter: Ann Arbor Bonsai Society

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Class / Instruction Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:30:34 -0500 2018-03-29T17:30:00-04:00 2018-03-29T21:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 30, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 30, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (March 31, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 31, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2018-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Migrant Stories (March 31, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51402 51402-12098137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 31, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Tricontinental Solidarity Network

The event will feature performances in the form of poetry, storytelling and spoken word by women of color students from UM. We aim to create a space where race, migration and sexuality form the overarching themes of the performances.
Our keynote speaker is Professor Ather Zia, anthropologist and poet, who works on Kashmir and teaches at the University of Northern Colorado.

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Performance Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:41:33 -0400 2018-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 2018-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Tricontinental Solidarity Network Performance Migrant Stories Event details!
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 1, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 1, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 2, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Film Series | Kagemusha (April 2, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49573 49573-11476282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief (Tatsuya Nakadai) who is recruited to impersonate Shingen (also Nakadai), an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:28:52 -0500 2018-04-02T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-02T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Kagemusha
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 3, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 4, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 5, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-05T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Dancing Ground Zeroes in Japan and the United States: Eiko & Koma’s Transnational Choreographies of the Nuclear (April 5, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47216 47216-10821992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Since their 1979 dance, Fission, the New York based, award-winning Japanese/American choreographers Eiko & Koma have made a series of dances that critically engage nuclear issues. Evoking the ground zeroes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Trinity, New Mexico; New York City; and most recently Fukushima, dances such as Land, Offering, Fragile, and Eiko’s solo project A Body in Places create complex transnational geographies between Japan and the U.S. and raise questions of mutual implication in the nuclear age. Contrary to the nuclear discourse bound to butoh that fixes the post-nuclear firmly in the past, Eiko & Koma’s engagement with the nuclear invites audiences to perceive the ongoing repercussions of nuclear disasters.

Rosemary Candelario, Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Woman’s University, specializes in the Japanese avant-garde movement form, butoh. She is the author of Flowers Cracking Concrete: Eiko & Koma's Asian/American Choreographies (Wesleyan University Press 2016) and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (forthcoming 2018). She has studied, taught, and performed butoh across the United States and around the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:38:09 -0400 2018-04-05T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Eiko in Fukushima, 25 July 2014 Momouchi No. 332 Photo by Wm Johnston
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 6, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Sacred Scriptures in a Secular Society: Hand-copying Buddhist Texts in Japan (April 6, 2018 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/51330 51330-12055411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 6, 2018 9:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In Japan, the copying of Buddhist texts by hand is done by religious and non-religious people alike. This meditative activity cultivates inner focus and attention. But the vital practice of hand-tracing religious texts - whether with brush, pen, or electronic device - is little known outside Japan.

This symposium introduces shakyō, the living tradition of copying Buddhist texts by hand. The two morning lectures will survey the uninterrupted production of shakyō from the 8th century through the 20th century. In the afternoon, the focus will shift to how shakyō is practiced today in Japan, including a hands-on opportunity for participants to copy a short Buddhist text themselves.

ALL EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBowo9isHgBFPAJyCFDFw1VlU2xCYdlT3oj4NcvpTZVB8HuQ/viewform

9:30
Coffee and Light Breakfast

10:00
Copying Sutras in Premodern Asia: Technical, Ritual, and Human Dimensions
Bryan Lowe, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Religious Traditions of Japan and Korea, Vanderbilt University

11:30
Copying Buddhist Scriptures in Japan, From the Nineteenth Century Through the Twentieth
Micah Auerback, Associate Professor of Japanese Religion, University of Michigan

12:45
Lunch

2:00
Sutra-copying Today: Presentation and Hands-on Session
Dawn Lawson Head, Asia Library, University of Michigan

4:00
Reception
Asia Library Conference Room, 4th Floor
Hatcher Graduate Library, North

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:25:04 -0400 2018-04-06T09:30:00-04:00 2018-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Sacred Scriptures in a Secular Society: Hand-copying Buddhist Texts in Japan
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 7, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 7, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 8, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 8, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Guided Tour - Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters and New at UMMA: Paul Rand (April 8, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48818 48818-11885013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 8, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:19:51 -0500 2018-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Social / Informal Gathering Ikko Tanaka, 'Nihon Buyo' (Japanese traditional dance), 1981, offset print. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Gift of DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion, 2017/2.25. © Ikko Tanaka/licensed by DNPartcom, 2017
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 9, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 9, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-09T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Recent Work Screening w/ Yasuko Yokoshi & Gelsey Bell (April 9, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51670 51670-12190900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 9, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

A screening of recent performances by Yasuko Yokoshi, 2018 CJS visiting artist. Includes audience Q&A session with Yasuko Yokoshi & Gelsey Bell.

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Film Screening Wed, 04 Apr 2018 11:54:05 -0400 2018-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 2018-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Visiting Artist Yasuko Yokoshi, Dancer/Choreographer
CJS Film Series | Ran (April 9, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49574 49574-11476283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 9, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Akira Kurosawa co-wrote, directed, and edited this adaptation of Shakespeare’s KING LEAR-considered by some to be his “last great masterpiece.” In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other…and him.
Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:33:26 -0500 2018-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-09T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Ran
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 10, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 11, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Touchdown Japan (April 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51571 51571-12167548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Curious about what you need to know about everyday life and work culture when you land in Japan? Come to learn about the basics of living and working in Japan!

RSVP Here: https://umichlsa-csm.symplicity.com/students/index.php?mode=form&id=3233753a9a35931996e97ac80a49c397&s=event&ss=ws

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 02 Apr 2018 09:46:23 -0400 2018-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 North Quad LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar North Quad
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 12, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-12T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Murakami Haruki: Whatever Works (April 12, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47163 47163-10802666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Murakami Haruki's Japanese has a distinctly American "stink," but even English-influenced literary style such as his presents the translator with challenges that point to the ancient roots of the Japanese language.

Jay Rubin, Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature, Harvard University. Translator of Murakami Haruki, Natsume Sōseki, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, etc. Author of Injurious to Public Morals, Making Sense of Japanese, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, The Sun Gods, and Murakami Haruki to watashi. Editor of The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:26:12 -0500 2018-04-12T11:30:00-04:00 2018-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jay Rubin
Work-in-Progress Showing of shuffleyamamba w/ Yasuko Yokoshi & Gelsey Bell (April 12, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51682 51682-12190921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Work-in-progress demonstration of shuffleyamamba by Yasuko Yokoshi and Gelsey Bell. Followed by open discussion with the performers.

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Performance Wed, 04 Apr 2018 11:56:17 -0400 2018-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-12T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Center for Japanese Studies Performance Work-in-Progress Showing of shuffleyamamba w/ Yasuko Yokoshi & Gelsey Bell
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 13, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 13, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 14, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 14, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-14T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 15, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 15, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 16, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 16, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-16T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
CJS Film Series | The 47 Ronin Part 1 & 2 (April 16, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49576 49576-11476285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 16, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

Produced over a two-year period, Kenji Mizoguchi’s version of the oft-filmed Seika Mayama story The 47 Ronin was too big to be confined to a single film. Thus, it was released in two parts, each running between 105 and 115 minutes. The story begins in feudal Japan in December of 1701, when warrior leader Lord Asano is tricked into committing Hara-Kiri. Oishi, Asano’s loyal clansman, holds the wicked Lord Kira responsible. 14 months after Arano’s death, Oishi assembles 47 loyal Ronin (samurai) to exact vengeance. Director Mizoguchi abandoned his usual fascination with modern-day social problems in favor of epic patriotism (remember, the film was made while Japan was still winning World War II.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

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Film Screening Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:37:43 -0500 2018-04-16T19:00:00-04:00 2018-04-16T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening The 47 Ronin Part 1 & 2
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 17, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 18, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-18T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints (April 19, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50428 50428-11736623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 19, 2018 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:17:46 -0500 2018-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2018-04-19T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Strata by Mary Brodbeck, photograph by the artist. High resolution version available upon request.
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (April 19, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46632 46632-10566983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 19, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:41:16 -0500 2018-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 2018-04-19T14:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Workshop / Seminar