Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CSAS Film Series | Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director (March 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82550 82550-21116098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:11:02 -0500 2021-03-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director
Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest (March 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77488 77488-21034701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:44:47 -0500 2021-03-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest
CSAS Lecture Series | The Price of Acceptability: On South Asian Inclusion and Exclusion in the US (March 12, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76261 76261-19679593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrc-qorDkuE9VBv2d12jFx7naYiR9Vowtb

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 11:30:13 -0500 2021-03-12T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Vivek Bald, Comparative Media Studies, MIT
Alumni Networking | The Society for Asian Studies Students (March 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83077 83077-21266959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

Register for the event at tinyurl.com/sassalumni

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:08:05 -0400 2021-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Yellow Background Featuring Photos of Julia Shiota and Elise Huerta
CSAS U-M Pakistan Conference Keynote | Glimpsing History through Literature's Window: Religious Sentiments, Emotional Styles, Punjabi Poets (April 3, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83276 83276-21330361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:50:30 -0400 2021-04-03T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Jamal J. Elias, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
LACS & CSAS Conversation: Madam Vice President: Navigating South Asia and the Caribbean | A virtual roundtable on Vice President Kamala Harris and the boundaries of identity, politics, and belonging across South Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83434 83434-21377669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free and open to the public. Registration is required: http://myumi.ch/4pE97

Moderator:
Dr. Supriya Nair, Professor of English, University of Michigan

Panelists:
Ambassador Susan D. Page, Professor of Practice, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Professor from Practice, Law School, University of Michigan

Dr. Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University

Dr. Rupert Lewis, Emeritus Professor in Political Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica

The Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies present a virtual roundtable on Vice President Kamala Harris and the boundaries of identity, politics, and belonging across South Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean.

Kamala Harris inhabits multiple identities that are often seen as separate or non-legible within the same frame (South Asian/South Asian American, Black, Caribbean). What does her Vice Presidency mean vis-a-vis these identity categories? How does Kamala Harris help bridge South Asia and the Caribbean, making visible connections that evade our commonplace understandings of people and places? This event seeks to discuss these themes as well as how we understand Kamala Harris as an international and domestic figure and how international and domestic politics and concerns are deeply intertwined.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:23:57 -0400 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion LACS/CSAS Event
Globally Engaged Career Panel (April 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83274 83274-21330358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moderators:

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

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


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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:24:55 -0400 2021-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Lecture / Discussion event_image
CSAS Lecture Series | The “Public” of Public Humanities: A Conversation about the University and Its Outside (April 15, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83629 83629-21444314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

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

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

Cosponsored by the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:30:29 -0400 2021-04-15T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Anupama Rao, TOW Associate Professor of History, Barnard and MESAAS (Columbia)
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
II Roundtable on Afghanistan (September 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86158 86158-21631751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Open and free to the public. Register at https://myumi.ch/v2dd3

This roundtable will discuss the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, what it means for the future of Afghanistan, and its broader implications for both the region and combatting terrorism.

Speakers:
Antonio Giustozzi is a visiting scholar at King’s College London and the author of numerous works on the Taliban and Afghan state-building, including the acclaimed *Taliban at War: 2001-2018*. He holds a PhD from the LSE (International Relations) and a BA in Contemporary History from the University of Bologna. He was at the Crisis States Research Centre (LSE) until January 2011. He served with UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan) in 2003-4.

Ambassador Susan D. Page is a professor of practice in international diplomacy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy's Weiser Diplomacy Center, and a professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School. She has deep expertise in international relations, particularly in Africa, and served in numerous senior-level roles such as the first U.S. Ambassador to newly independent South Sudan and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.

Javed Ali is an associate professor of practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He is a former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, with over 20 years of professional experience in national security and intelligence issues in Washington, DC. He served in the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he also held senior positions on joint duty assignments at the National Intelligence Council, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the National Security Council.

Pauline Jones is professor of political science and director of the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC). Her work has contributed broadly to the study of institutional origin, change, and impact, on the former Soviet Central Asia. Currently, she is engaged in two major research projects. One explores the influence of religion on political attitudes and behavior in Muslim majority states with an emphasis on the relationship between religious regulation, religiosity, and political mobilization. The other focuses on identifying the factors that affect the extent to which people comply with public health directives in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. She has published articles in several leading academic and policy journals, including the *American Political Science Review* and *Foreign Affairs*, and is the author (or co-author) of five books; most recently, *The Oxford Handbook on Politics in Muslim Societies* (Oxford University Press 2021).

Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For almost four decades, Professor Cole has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context in works such as his recent *Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires *(2018) and written extensively on Egypt, Iraq, and South Asia. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Informed Comment blog and has appeared widely on media, including the PBS News Hour, the Today Show, Rachel Maddow, the Colbert Report, Democracy Now! and many others.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact murphyev@umich.edu.
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Co-Sponsors: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:27:07 -0400 2021-09-07T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-07T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Lecture / Discussion II Roundtable on Afghanistan
PICS Career Event. Humanitarian and International Development Careers with Mercy Corps (October 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85773 85773-21628980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:39:41 -0400 2021-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual Michelle LeMeur, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director, Mercy Corps Nepal
Why Asian Studies? ALC Undergraduate Information Session (November 19, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89051 89051-21660335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

Register at myumi.ch/w1DnG

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:55:29 -0400 2021-11-19T16:30:00-05:00 2021-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Jinee Lokaneeta, Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations, Drew University