Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. [CANCELLED]. CSEAS Lecture Series. Islamizing a Sacred Hindu-Javanese Text: The Story of Jimat Kalimasada in Javanese Wayang Puppet Play (April 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70971 70971-17760244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Sumarsam, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University

Before the arrival of Islam, Javanese people had lived in Hindu–Javanese hybrid culture. The Islamization of Java has given rise to not only the expansion of different groups of people with diverse syncretistic religion and culture, but also rich variations in the content and context of Java-Islamic cultural performance genres and ideologies. Believing in the performing arts as one of the major venues for the blending of beliefs and practices, my presentation discusses a particular wayang story, Jimat Kalimasada, to show the complex processes of religious and cultural transformation from Hindu-Javanese to Islam-Javanese world of view.

Sumarsam has played Javanese gamelan since childhood. He is also a keen amateur dhalang (puppeteer) of wayang puppet play. He holds a BA degree from Akademi Seni Karawitan Indonesia, MA from Wesleyan, and PhD from Cornell. Currently holding the status of Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, he has taught at Wesleyan since 1972. His research on the history, theory, and performance practice of gamelan and wayang, and on Indonesia-Western encounter theme has resulted the publication of numerous articles and two books: Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java (1995) and Javanese Gamelan and the West (2013).

Sumarsam's recent research focuses on the intersections between religion and performing arts, examining discourses of transculturalism, the performing arts, and Islam among the Javanese. He is the recipient of a number of fellowship grants and awards, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies fellowship (2016-17), Indonesian Bintang Satyalencana Cultural Award (2017), the International Gamelan Festival Literacy Award (2018), and Yale Institute of Sacred Music Fellowship (2019-20). He was recently named the 2018 honorary membership of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:00 -0400 2020-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
[CANCELLED]. CSEAS Performance. Nonthuk's Duty (April 9, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72445 72445-18007178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The Moradokmai Theatre Community of Thailand

A dramatization of the story of Nonthok, one of the most beloved episodes from the Thai epic, the Ramakien. Nonthok serves as foot-washer to the celestial angels, who tease him about his duties. He gets a magic finger from the higher God to protect himself, but ends up misusing it. The moral of the story: if everyone does their duty, the world will be safe and sound.

The Moradokmai Theatre Community is affiliated with a home school by the same name; the group is touring the U.S. to raise awareness of the needs of the elderly and disabled in its community.

Organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies; cosponsored by the Center for World Performance Studies and the Department of Asian Languages and Culture.

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Performance Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:29:27 -0400 2020-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Performance patajara_poster
The MIRS Advantage: Masters in International and Regional Studies (June 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74975 74975-19118432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required at http://myumi.ch/v2jDR.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:49:44 -0400 2020-06-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-29T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS Info Session
The MIRS Advantage: Masters in International and Regional Studies (July 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74975 74975-19118433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Join MIRS advisor Charlie Polinko for an informational webinar for the Masters in International and Regional Studies Program. Charlie will present on topics related to the program structure, admissions requirements, funding and financial aid, specialization tracks, and dual-degree opportunities for students interested in applying for the Fall 2021 term. Registration is required at http://myumi.ch/v2jDR.

The Masters in International and Regional Studies combines an interdisciplinary curriculum, deep regional/thematic expertise, rigorous methodological training, and international experiences to enable students to situate global issues and challenges in their cultural, historical, geographical, political, and socioeconomic contexts and to approach them in diverse ways. MIRS is designed to prepare students for global career opportunities, whether in academia, private, or public sectors.

MIRS builds on the strengths of the International Institute’s interdisciplinary centers and programs. Our centers and programs rank among the nation’s finest in their respective fields of study; five have been designated as U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers. Students have the unique option of pursuing either a regional or thematic track with multiple specializations anchored in one of our centers or programs.

Specializations include:
African Studies
Islamic Studies
Chinese Studies
Japanese Studies
Middle East and North African Studies
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
South Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies

For additional information, contact MIRS-Info@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:49:44 -0400 2020-07-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS Info Session
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-05T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
Identifying Emergency Funds and How to Advocate for Making Room in Your Financial Aid Package (September 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75507 75507-19513173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Advance registration is required; look for the Zoom link at the bottom of your confirmation email after registering.

This session will provide information about how you can seek emergency funds should you experience an emergency situation or one-time, unusual, unforeseen expense while in school. Information about the types of situations that qualify for emergency funds and where to seek funding will be covered during this presentation.

RSVP HERE: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/identifying-emergency-funds-and-how-to-advocate-for-making-room-in-your-financial-aid-package

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:02:34 -0400 2020-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual A jar of spilled change
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-13T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 17, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19711221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-17T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 18, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Mini-Symposium. Press Freedom and the Pandemic in Duterte’s Philippines: Views from the Ground Up (September 18, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76389 76389-19711157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

*This webinar is open to the public. Please register at: http://myumi.ch/7ZNg0*

*Supplementary reading materials for this event are available: http://myumi.ch/dONEB*

The Philippines’ response to the COVID19 pandemic is set against a backdrop of heightened antagonism against mass media, a hostile attitude toward popular dissent, and an upsurge of fake news mostly sympathetic to the government. When the virus began to take its toll in the first quarter of this year, President Rodrigo Duterte imposed what would turn out to be the toughest and longest lockdown in the world. His political allies in Congress then worked to enact Republic Act No. 11469, which authorized Duterte to exercise special emergency powers, including realigning the national budget, thus further weakening the institutional mechanisms for checks and balances. Congress also managed to pass an Anti-Terrorism Law at record speed, which critics consider as yet another opportunity to quell opposition, as can be gleaned from a spate of unresolved assassinations of political activists. The most palpable blow happened when the application for franchise renewal of ABS-CBN, the country’s biggest media network known to be critical of the Duterte administration, was denied by Congress after refusing to act on it initially. As these things unfolded, the Philippines keyed in the most number of COVID19 cases in Southeast Asia, coupled with its first economic recession in almost three decades and the highest unemployment rate in the region, with almost half of the adult population left without a job. A recent multibillion-peso corruption scandal at the government-owned insurer PhilHealth further compromised the already overburdened public health system. This virtual roundtable discussion seeks to make sense of the many overlaps from the ground up between the state of press freedom in the Philippines and the ongoing efforts of the Duterte administration to control the pandemic. Philippine-based resource speakers will get together in what promises to be a multifocal discussion on the social and legal circumstances informing a country’s response to a global health crisis.

Panelists:
José Manuel ‘Chel’ Diokno, human rights lawyer and founding dean of the De La Salle University College of Law.

Inday Espina-Varona, award-winning journalist, former chair of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, and former Knight International Fellow at Stanford University.

Carlos Conde, former journalist and researcher of Human Rights Watch, former Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center of the University Hawaii, and former fellow at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility.

Mike Navallo, lawyer and broadcast journalist and former Reham al-Farra Memorial Fellow at the United Nations.

Discussant: Odessa Gonzalez Benson, School of Social Work

Moderator: Allen Hicken, Political Science

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 11 Sep 2020 12:17:18 -0400 2020-09-18T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual webinar_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 19, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 19, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-20T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
WCED Panel. Democratic Survival in the Muslim World (September 22, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71586 71586-19719160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Moderator: Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani, WCED visiting associate, U-M, and overseas postdoctoral fellow, National University of Singapore.
Panelists: Jaimie Bleck, associate professor of political science, University of Notre Dame; Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Honorary Fellow, Alwaleed Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding, Georgetown University; Şebnem Yardımcı-Geyikçi, Assistant Professor of Politics, Hacettepe University, WCED visiting associate 2019-20; Mark Tessler, Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science, U-M.

Democracy has emerged in many Muslim-majority countries in recent decades; but like in many other parts of the world, Muslim-majority democracies have experienced substantial democratic erosion and confront a growing threat of total democratic breakdown. Amid these worrisome global trends, what are the common and specific challenges for democratic consolidation across Muslim-majority countries? Our panel brings together scholars working on the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and Southeast Asia to examine the prospects for democratic survival in the Muslim world.

The panel will be broadcast on Zoom. Registration is required at http://myumi.ch/Gkzvm.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@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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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:18:24 -0400 2020-09-22T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-22T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion fatih-yurur
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 25, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia (September 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77454 77454-19854036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

During the Fall Term, CSAS will make the documentaries from the 2020 Film South Asia film festival available to our community.

Following the agreement with the copyright holders, each film will be available for 12 hours, from 2 pm of the day, until 2 am the morning after.
Please register at: https://forms.gle/9BfAKE3QqvC5f5xi9

Friday, September 25, 2020
We Have Not Come Here to Die by Deepa Dhanraj, India, 78 mins

Friday, October 2, 2020
Scratches on Stone by Amit Mahanti, India, 66 mins + Listen by Min Min Hein, Myanmar, 13 mins

Friday, October 16, 2020
The Winter Tap by Aashish Limbu & Debin Rai, Nepal, 12 mins + Badshah Lear by Anant Raina, India, 61 mins

Friday, October 23, 2020
In Fact by Debalina Majumder, India, 51 mins + Chai Darbari by Prateek Shekhar, India, 29 mins

Friday, November 06, 2020
Facing the Dragon by Sedika Mojadidi, Afghanistan, 82 mins

Friday, November 20, 2020
Janani’s Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, India, 53 mins + Memoirs of Saira and Salim by Eshwarya Grover, India, 14 mins + And What is the Summer Saying by Payal Kapadia, India, 23 mins

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:08:12 -0400 2020-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-26T02:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Travelling Film South Asia 2020 Film Series
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 26, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 26, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 28, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 28, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 29, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
Center for Global Health Equity Introductory Seminar (September 29, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77700 77700-19901736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the Introductory Seminar for the Center for Global Health Equity, where we will discuss:
What is the purpose of the Center?
What has been our journey to date?
Where are we going?

Speakers Include:
Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD
Nancy Love, PhD
Joseph Kolars, MD
John Ayanian, MD, MPP
Laura Rozek, PhD
Andries Coetzee, PhD

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:32:00 -0400 2020-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Event Speakers
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (September 30, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia (October 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77454 77454-19854037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

During the Fall Term, CSAS will make the documentaries from the 2020 Film South Asia film festival available to our community.

Following the agreement with the copyright holders, each film will be available for 12 hours, from 2 pm of the day, until 2 am the morning after.
Please register at: https://forms.gle/9BfAKE3QqvC5f5xi9

Friday, September 25, 2020
We Have Not Come Here to Die by Deepa Dhanraj, India, 78 mins

Friday, October 2, 2020
Scratches on Stone by Amit Mahanti, India, 66 mins + Listen by Min Min Hein, Myanmar, 13 mins

Friday, October 16, 2020
The Winter Tap by Aashish Limbu & Debin Rai, Nepal, 12 mins + Badshah Lear by Anant Raina, India, 61 mins

Friday, October 23, 2020
In Fact by Debalina Majumder, India, 51 mins + Chai Darbari by Prateek Shekhar, India, 29 mins

Friday, November 06, 2020
Facing the Dragon by Sedika Mojadidi, Afghanistan, 82 mins

Friday, November 20, 2020
Janani’s Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, India, 53 mins + Memoirs of Saira and Salim by Eshwarya Grover, India, 14 mins + And What is the Summer Saying by Payal Kapadia, India, 23 mins

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:08:12 -0400 2020-10-02T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-03T02:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Travelling Film South Asia 2020 Film Series
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-03T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 4, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 4, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-04T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 5, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-05T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 7, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-07T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 8, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
ALC Preview Event (Virtual) (October 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74919 74919-19079190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

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

*Eligibility*

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



Questions? Contact alc-gradservices@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Jun 2020 10:23:08 -0400 2020-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Preview Weekend - October 8-9 2020
CGIS Virtual Study Abroad Fair (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77893 77893-19943564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Study abroad is not just for juniors. It's not just for language and international studies majors. It's not just for students from certain communities or socioeconomic backgrounds. No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Whether you want to develop the skills you’ll need to compete in a global economy, cultivate your language competencies, or build meaningful connections with people from around the world, this is the best time in your life for a global experience.

Studying abroad often proves to be a pivotal experience, but deciding which program is the best fit can be daunting as you consider questions such as: How will this enhance my course of study? When should I go? For how long? Where? Can I afford it? How do I prepare? Will my credits transfer? The CGIS Study Abroad Virtual Fair is the best time to get all of your questions answered!

During the day of the virtual fair, you'll have instant access to academic advisors, education abroad advisors, Office of Financial Aid & LSA Scholarship Office representatives, and program representatives as well as scheduled events throughout the fair!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:20:17 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Image300
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 9, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Lecture Series. Drawing Borders in Blood: DNA Testing, Citizenship, and Statelessness Prevention in Thailand (October 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76312 76312-19687505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Virtual lecture via Zoom Webinar. Please register at:
http://myumi.ch/NxgZN

Despite its authoritarian commitments, the Thai government is regularly lauded by the UN for its statelessness prevention and eradication efforts. Photographs of happy “hill tribe” youth receiving their national ID cards are widely circulated by both the Thai government and human rights advocates, and are often invoked as examples of “best practices” for statelessness prevention. A relatively recent hallmark of this highly celebrated agenda is DNA testing. How is this test performed and adjudicated, and what logics underlie a program that promotes citizenship by blood? More importantly, what are the political and theoretical implications for pursuing these logics in citizenship adjudication? Drawing on extensive ethnographic and survey research, I argue that DNA testing, while “verifying” the citizenship claims of thousands of individuals on case-by-case bases, also produces an increasingly powerful and expansive infrastructure of body/border drawing, maintenance, and surveillance. Moreover, the research indicates that even as state and humanitarian advocates applaud the “objectivity” of DNA tests in adjudication of citizenship claims, the DNA test is carried out in connection with a range of highly contingent, subjective, and uneven practices at individual, local, and bureaucratic levels. Ultimately, the logics that underlie the DNA test are those of ever-expanding, yet ever-incomplete territorialization—a project that seeks complete, but ultimately unattainable, knowledge of, authority over, and reconciliation between individuals to territory.

Amanda Flaim is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in James Madison College and the Department of Sociology. She studies problems and paradoxes in human rights and development policy in Southeast Asia among indigenous, highlander, and migrant communities in particular. Her research agendas include the politics of borders, statelessness, and citizenship, labor exploitation and human trafficking discourse, and livelihoods transformations associated with dam development and climate change along the Mekong River.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:17:25 -0400 2020-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Flaim_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 10, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 10, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-10T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 11, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 11, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 12, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 13, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 14, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-14T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 15, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSEAS Virtual Viewing. *A Thousand Cuts* (October 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76413 76413-19838087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

For a limited time, we are sponsoring free access to this film's virtual viewing. For instructions, please email cseas@umich.edu with the subject “Request to watch ‘A Thousand Cuts’”

About the movie:
On June 15, 2020, journalist Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, setting a ticking clock on the limited time she has to get her story out to the world and keep the fight for democracy alive in this all too familiar tale of an autocratic leader drowning out “fake news.” Nowhere is the worldwide erosion of democracy, fueled by social media disinformation campaigns, more starkly evident than in the authoritarian regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa places the tools of the free press—and her freedom—on the line in defense of truth and democracy. Ramona S. Diaz’s thrilling film follows key players from two sides of an increasingly dangerous war between press and government. As each side digs in, we become witness to an epic and ongoing fight for the integrity of human life and truth itself—a conflict that extends beyond the Philippines into our own divisive backyard. A Film by Ramona S. Diaz (IMELDA, MOTHERLAND).

Cosponsored by the Michigan Theater.

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Film Screening Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:10:27 -0400 2020-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening film_image
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia (October 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77454 77454-19854039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

During the Fall Term, CSAS will make the documentaries from the 2020 Film South Asia film festival available to our community.

Following the agreement with the copyright holders, each film will be available for 12 hours, from 2 pm of the day, until 2 am the morning after.
Please register at: https://forms.gle/9BfAKE3QqvC5f5xi9

Friday, September 25, 2020
We Have Not Come Here to Die by Deepa Dhanraj, India, 78 mins

Friday, October 2, 2020
Scratches on Stone by Amit Mahanti, India, 66 mins + Listen by Min Min Hein, Myanmar, 13 mins

Friday, October 16, 2020
The Winter Tap by Aashish Limbu & Debin Rai, Nepal, 12 mins + Badshah Lear by Anant Raina, India, 61 mins

Friday, October 23, 2020
In Fact by Debalina Majumder, India, 51 mins + Chai Darbari by Prateek Shekhar, India, 29 mins

Friday, November 06, 2020
Facing the Dragon by Sedika Mojadidi, Afghanistan, 82 mins

Friday, November 20, 2020
Janani’s Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, India, 53 mins + Memoirs of Saira and Salim by Eshwarya Grover, India, 14 mins + And What is the Summer Saying by Payal Kapadia, India, 23 mins

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:08:12 -0400 2020-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-17T02:00:00-04:00 Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Travelling Film South Asia 2020 Film Series
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Indies of the Setting Sun: Asia and the Early Modern Spanish Geopolitical Imagination (October 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76307 76307-19685534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free event; please register in advance at: http://myumi.ch/3qV0m

Ricardo Padrón will be discussing his new book, *The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West *(Chicago, 2020). Against established historiography that emphasizes the ways in which America was “invented” as a continent separate from Asia relatively early in the history of European contact with the New World, Padrón looks at the ways in which early modern Spaniards imagined the two continents as connected spaces. Crucial to this effort was the concept of the “Indies,” which retained a powerful transpacific dimension throughout the sixteenth century, in Spanish-speaking circles at least, serving to figure East and Southeast Asia as the western frontier of Spain’s New World empire.

Padrón is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. His earlier monograph, *The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain* (Chicago 2004) established his reputation as a scholar of early modern cartography, broadly conceived, and on the relationship between visual and verbal mapping. His work has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Renaissance Society of America.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:33:52 -0400 2020-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual padron_image
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia (October 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77454 77454-19854040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

During the Fall Term, CSAS will make the documentaries from the 2020 Film South Asia film festival available to our community.

Following the agreement with the copyright holders, each film will be available for 12 hours, from 2 pm of the day, until 2 am the morning after.
Please register at: https://forms.gle/9BfAKE3QqvC5f5xi9

Friday, September 25, 2020
We Have Not Come Here to Die by Deepa Dhanraj, India, 78 mins

Friday, October 2, 2020
Scratches on Stone by Amit Mahanti, India, 66 mins + Listen by Min Min Hein, Myanmar, 13 mins

Friday, October 16, 2020
The Winter Tap by Aashish Limbu & Debin Rai, Nepal, 12 mins + Badshah Lear by Anant Raina, India, 61 mins

Friday, October 23, 2020
In Fact by Debalina Majumder, India, 51 mins + Chai Darbari by Prateek Shekhar, India, 29 mins

Friday, November 06, 2020
Facing the Dragon by Sedika Mojadidi, Afghanistan, 82 mins

Friday, November 20, 2020
Janani’s Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, India, 53 mins + Memoirs of Saira and Salim by Eshwarya Grover, India, 14 mins + And What is the Summer Saying by Payal Kapadia, India, 23 mins

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:08:12 -0400 2020-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-24T02:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Travelling Film South Asia 2020 Film Series
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia (November 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77454 77454-19854041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

During the Fall Term, CSAS will make the documentaries from the 2020 Film South Asia film festival available to our community.

Following the agreement with the copyright holders, each film will be available for 12 hours, from 2 pm of the day, until 2 am the morning after.
Please register at: https://forms.gle/9BfAKE3QqvC5f5xi9

Friday, September 25, 2020
We Have Not Come Here to Die by Deepa Dhanraj, India, 78 mins

Friday, October 2, 2020
Scratches on Stone by Amit Mahanti, India, 66 mins + Listen by Min Min Hein, Myanmar, 13 mins

Friday, October 16, 2020
The Winter Tap by Aashish Limbu & Debin Rai, Nepal, 12 mins + Badshah Lear by Anant Raina, India, 61 mins

Friday, October 23, 2020
In Fact by Debalina Majumder, India, 51 mins + Chai Darbari by Prateek Shekhar, India, 29 mins

Friday, November 06, 2020
Facing the Dragon by Sedika Mojadidi, Afghanistan, 82 mins

Friday, November 20, 2020
Janani’s Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, India, 53 mins + Memoirs of Saira and Salim by Eshwarya Grover, India, 14 mins + And What is the Summer Saying by Payal Kapadia, India, 23 mins

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:08:12 -0400 2020-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-07T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Travelling Film South Asia 2020 Film Series
Bioethics Discussion: Democracy (November 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58831 58831-14563723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion we will choose to have.

A few readings to consider on the matter:
––Bioethics and Democracy
––Bioethics and Populism: How Should Our Field Respond?
––Crowdsourcing in medical research: concepts and applications
––How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/050-democracy/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Together, we can read the blog (and probably do much more than that): https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:24:01 -0500 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Image 050. Democracy
Course Backpacking for Winter 2021 (November 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79238 79238-20233432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:45:48 -0500 2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Orange Background with Black text - information on time and meeting description
CSEAS Lecture Series. Uprooting the Diasporic Histories of Southeast Asia (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76308 76308-19685535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free event; please register in advance at: http://myumi.ch/mnbRl

What can diasporas teach us about the history of Southeast Asia as a region, dominated as it is by narratives of hospitality and receptiveness to other cultures and peoples? Remarkably, the Arab diaspora in Southeast Asia demarcated their own legal jurisdictions by anchoring their kinship obligations and commercial interests that they had developed over several centuries across the Indian Ocean. During the nineteenth century, links between homeland and destination faded into the background in the colonial period as the diasporic elite remade their lives in Southeast Asia often according to new colonial moulds. Indeed, the Arab diaspora deliberately chose to lean on bureaucratic infrastructure in their effort to construct new scales of responsibility, jurisdiction, and sovereignty. At the same time, colonial rulers yoked their identities outside of the region viewing them as hybrid, creole, mixed and sometimes even outright foreign, effectively uprooting their histories from the region. This lecture will look at emblems of diasporic lives in the form of legal sources to explore the relationship between indigenous Southeast Asians, diasporas and colonial authorities.

Nurfadzilah Yahaya is assistant professor of history at National University of Singapore. Prior to this, she was an Early Career Fellow in Islamic Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her book Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia is published by Cornell University Press (2020). Her articles have appeared in Law and History Review, Journal of Women’s History, Indonesia nad the Malay World and Muslim World.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:35:29 -0400 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Yahaya_image
Empowering Women and Communities and Global Health Equity (November 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79254 79254-20241308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the next seminar in the Center for Global Health's series: Empowering Women and Communities and Global Health Equity.
Panelists include:
Cheryl Moyer, Medicine
Laura Rozek, School of Public Health
Jodi Lori, Nursing
Elizabeth King, School of Public Health
Bridgette Carr, Law

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:09:26 -0500 2020-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
CSAS 2020 Film Series | Travelling Film South Asia (November 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77454 77454-19854042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

During the Fall Term, CSAS will make the documentaries from the 2020 Film South Asia film festival available to our community.

Following the agreement with the copyright holders, each film will be available for 12 hours, from 2 pm of the day, until 2 am the morning after.
Please register at: https://forms.gle/9BfAKE3QqvC5f5xi9

Friday, September 25, 2020
We Have Not Come Here to Die by Deepa Dhanraj, India, 78 mins

Friday, October 2, 2020
Scratches on Stone by Amit Mahanti, India, 66 mins + Listen by Min Min Hein, Myanmar, 13 mins

Friday, October 16, 2020
The Winter Tap by Aashish Limbu & Debin Rai, Nepal, 12 mins + Badshah Lear by Anant Raina, India, 61 mins

Friday, October 23, 2020
In Fact by Debalina Majumder, India, 51 mins + Chai Darbari by Prateek Shekhar, India, 29 mins

Friday, November 06, 2020
Facing the Dragon by Sedika Mojadidi, Afghanistan, 82 mins

Friday, November 20, 2020
Janani’s Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar, India, 53 mins + Memoirs of Saira and Salim by Eshwarya Grover, India, 14 mins + And What is the Summer Saying by Payal Kapadia, India, 23 mins

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:08:12 -0400 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-21T02:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Travelling Film South Asia 2020 Film Series
CSEAS Lecture Series. What Kind of Ecological Culture Do We Need?: Drought History and Lessons from Premodern Southeast Asia (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76315 76315-19687507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free event; please register in advance at: http://myumi.ch/O4kB0

Have we been making the environment worse while knowing more about how it works? Since the nineteenth century, the rapid advancement of technologies has led to an increasingly sophisticated knowledge of the natural world. Science has helped explain the vast array of environmental processes. However, we, the human species, have also become the frontal force of worsening conditions of the natural environment. In order to call for a reflection on our ecological culture, this talk examines the history of drought from an area in eastern mainland Southeast Asia, the core of what would later become modern Vietnam. It shows, on the one hand, why drought would stir up the most pressing social and political crises in the premodern period. On the other hand, it explores the historical context that helped consolidate the premodern Vietnamese people’s resilience to drought. Most importantly, this history uncovers a sustained ecological culture which compellingly asks us to rethink the way we have bonded with nature.

Hieu Phung (PhD, University of Hawaii) is a historian of premodern Vietnam and Southeast Asia. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Ohio State University, and she will be teaching for both the University of Michigan and the University of Hawaii in the Fall of 2020. Before coming to the United States, she taught at Vietnam National University-Hanoi and carried out extensive archival research at the Institute of Hán-Nôm Studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between the environment and state building, with a particular interest in the historical agency of water and climate in stimulating social and political change. In pursuing environmental history, she makes extensive use of traditional maps and texts that reveal the production of geographical knowledge. She is working on a book project entitled The Realization of a Water Space: An Environmental History of Late Medieval Vietnam, using documents written in both classical Chinese and the demotic Vietnamese Nôm script. Her recent article, “Naming the Red River - Becoming a Vietnamese river,” will be published by the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies this December.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:36:56 -0400 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Phung_image
U-M Center for Global Health Equity: Climate, Vulnerability and Health Seminar (December 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79775 79775-20491895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Nancy Love (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Joseph Eisenberg (School of Public Health) will lead a multi-disciplinary panel on navigating data gaps towards creating impact in low income countries. Professors Love and Eisenberg lead a climate-focused Challenge Group through the new UM Center for Global Health Equity, which seeks to bring experts from across the University together in multi-disciplinary collaborations that can positively impact some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Panelists include:
Pamela Jagger, School of Environment and Sustainability
Marie O'Neill, School of Public Health
Dirgha Ghimire, Population Studies Center
Branko Kerkez, Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 08:54:15 -0500 2020-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Flyer
CSEAS Lecture Series. Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok (January 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80034 80034-20548978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Event is free and open to the public; please register at http://bit.ly/3oS7YLq
Friday, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST

This talk will be a discussion of Professor Winichakul's latest book, *Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok* (University of Hawai`i, 2020).

The ‘October 6 massacre’ remains enigmatic to Thai society. The unforgetting—the inability to remember or forget, or to articulate memories in a meaningful way—has been due to the state’s suppression, shame and guilt, historical ideology, and the changing politics. This book is the story of the changing memories and the variable conditions for silence over the past forty years.

Thongchai Winichakul is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book, *Siam Mapped: a History of the Geo-body of a Nation* (1994), was awarded the Harry J Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS, USA) and was translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Thai. He was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Award in 1994. and was President of the Association for Asian Studies in 2013/14. He has also published eight books in Thai.



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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. Contact: jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:19:15 -0500 2021-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (January 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80751 80751-20783452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Documentary, 1985. The movie follows the struggle of the Mothers of the Plaza of Mayo, a group of mothers who challenged authorities during the repressive regime in Argentina (1976-1983), trying to discover the whereabouts of their missing sons and daughters, taken by the regime.
During Winter semester, a series of human rights films that focus on the theme of disappearances will be shown through Zoom. A discussion period will follow the movie. The faculty discussant will be Susan Waltz, Professor Emerita of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy, and moderated by Sioban Harlow, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health. Other dates include Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 25, March 4, and March 11.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcu-srj4jHtZpCETVEs-3WM5xygNoTF4m

READINGS & RESOURCES
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9iTfwRkpX00Y8BMNMd1Ib9wX-ruDB_3sgv9SXa2io/edit?usp=sharing

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:00:02 -0500 2021-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening The Disappeared Film Series: Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand (January 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79670 79670-20444320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free event; register at https://bit.ly/39sKIiE

From his recently released book, *The Spirit Ambulance*, Dr. Stonington will share stories from the deathbeds of Thai elders: their children’s attempts to pay back their “debts of life” via intensive medical care, and the ensuing “spirit ambulance,” a rush to get patients home from the ghost-infested hospital to orchestrate their final breath in a spiritually advantageous place. Out of these stories, Dr. Stonington will abstract outward from Thailand to Southeast Asia and the globe to examine the effects high-tech medicine on vital life transitions.

Scott Stonington is an anthropologist and physician. His primary appointment at U-M is in Anthropology and International Studies. He also practices hospitalist medicine at the VA Ann Arbor and primary care at Neighborhood Family Health Center in Ypsilanti. He has published on end of life and pain management in Thailand, Buddhism and the body, and the roles of improvisation and emotion in medical expertise in the U.S. He is also lead editor of the *New England Journal of Medicine*'s "Case Studies in Social Medicine."

Stonington’s new book is a great read for anyone interested in the global dynamics of healthcare and biomedicine, globalization, rapidly expanding technology, comparing cultures and systems of meaning, and the way global forces act upon the lives of individuals worldwide.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:00:44 -0500 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
CSEAS Lecture Series. Film-screening of *Ghost Tape #10* followed by a Q&A with the Director (February 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80547 80547-20738200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

At this CSEAS Lecture Series, we will screen the film "Ghost Tape #10," which will follow with a Q&A with the Director Sean David Christensen.

Free and open to the public. Please register at http://bit.ly/38nadB7

Film Synopsis:

Created by the U.S. Army during the American War in Viet Nam, *Ghost Tape #10* was one of many audiotapes engineered to psychologically intimidate and demoralize the North Vietnamese Army through its depiction of the Buddhist afterlife. By re-examining this weaponization of religious belief, reflections on this artifact of American propaganda lead to meditations on relationships between the living and the dead, asking what truths, if any, still echo within this recording.

Film Director Bio:

Sean David Christensen (b. 1985) is a visual artist who works in music & film. His work has been featured at the Hammer Museum, San Francisco International Film Festival, Austin Film Festival & Pictoplasma Berlin. His films have screened at the Angelika Film Center, Phoenix Art Museum & the Musée des beaux-arts in Montréal. His artwork has been presented on Rolling Stone, and his experimental documentary *The Duel*, based on a true story by actress Lili Taylor, was named a Vimeo Staff Pick in 2018. Amy R. Handler of Moving Pictures has described his filmmaking as, “Brilliant...fragile & hypnotic,” and Sundance Award-winning director Jay Rosenblatt has described Christensen's short films as, “Evocative...they do what many short films fail to do, make you wish they were longer.” Christensen is a graduate of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California and lives & works in Los Angeles.

Film website: https://filmfreeway.com/GhostTape10


*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. Contact jessmhil@umich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:49:31 -0500 2021-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Film_poster
CSEAS Lecture Series. *A Village Called Versailles* film screening followed by a discussion with Mark VanLandingham, Cam-Thanh Tran, and Aurora Le (February 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81014 81014-20832807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public; register at http://bit.ly/2XVakxD

In a New Orleans neighborhood called Versailles, a tight-knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed toxic landfill. *A Village Called Versailles*, is the empowering story of how the Versailles people, who have already suffered so much in their lifetime, turn a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance for a better future.

The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Mark VanLandingham (Tulane University), Cam-Thanh Tran (Tulane University) and Aurora Le (University of Michigan).

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Film Screening Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:44:53 -0500 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening Film poster
International Institute Conference on Arts of Devotion (March 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81757 81757-20951378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:00:09 -0500 2021-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Conference / Symposium II Conference on Arts of Devotion poster
Michigan India Conference (March 5, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82608 82608-21137865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan India Conference

Have you heard the good news? The annual Michigan India Conference is back, and we’re going virtual for 2021.

We hope to see you there. We have a series of influential speakers you won’t want to miss! The theme for this year's conference is Stability & Change, so we have brought you the best decision-makers and thinkers surrounding India's government, India's economy and the Indian consumer. Get a chance to learn about the latest trends, opportunities, and maybe even a chance to network with some of India’s prestigious figures.

The Michigan India Conference gives business leaders, students, alumni, policymakers, and anyone interested, a chance to learn more about what drives this dynamic economy. Whether you are interested in doing business in India or want to learn more about policy and government, the Michigan India Conference is open to all. We hope you will join us.

Take advantage of our first fully-digital conference!
Register today: https://forms.gle/ug5R9KMKs1dXu28bA

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:06:47 -0500 2021-03-05T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan India Conference Conference / Symposium Michigan India Conference
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
CSEAS Lecture Series. Making Property Out of Air: Experiments in Urban Form in Phnom Penh (March 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80820 80820-20793350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public; register at http://bit.ly/3qqzVLl

Runaway land prices, market euphoria, and an open economy together generated effects that continue to reverberate throughout Phnom Penh today. Beginning in the 2000s, Asian capitalists gave new buoyancy to Phnom Penh’s built environment when land once again became an object of intense speculation. But unlike earlier booms, the relationship between land and space was fundamentally reworked by foreign developers proposing large construction projects theretofore unseen in Cambodia’s otherwise low-slung capital. These projects would not only physically transform the city but required the fabrication of new things. Over the last decade, condominiums have become the most explosive part of Phnom Penh’s real estate market evidenced in the swell of units across the city. In this talk, I highlight the making of Phnom Penh’s first condominiums to argue how the condominium as a go-to urban form was never self-evident nor guaranteed despite its proliferation. The condominium — recognizable in cities across the globe from Singapore to New York — is a tenure category even though it is often treated as a residential type, usually in high-rise buildings. I track the real estate strategies and logics to argue how formatting urban space is born out of social and technical experiments that are part of the messiness in making markets and building experiments that are constitutive of Phnom Penh’s speculative urbanism. The built environment not only indexes the volatilities and vibrancies of the market, it is the mundane terrain through which ambitions, values, and forms are negotiated and made material. I situate the condominium as a property form born out of experiments to fabricate property able to capture values.

Sylvia Nam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests in cities, markets, and expertise. Her work brings together anthropological engagements with value alongside geographical theories on the production of space as the cutting edge of accumulation.

She is currently working on a book project, Phnom Penh, City of Speculation, which is an ethnographic examination of speculative practices of real estate in Cambodia’s capital, the role of Asian investment in radically reshaping the city’s landscape, and the regulatory regimes that enable speculation and investment.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:34:25 -0500 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion CSEAS Lecture Series speaker: Sylvia Nam
Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit (March 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82095 82095-21034702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In the afternoon, the public is invited to a book talk between Harold Augenbraum, editor, translator, and former executive director of the National Book Foundation, and award-winning author Gina Apostol. The conversation will revolve around Augenbraum’s translations of the novels Noli me tángere and El filibusterismo by Philippine national hero José Rizal, and Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, which won the 2010 Philippine National Book Award and has recently been republished in the US. Apostol is also the author of Insurrecto, which has been included in the list of the ten best books for 2018 by the magazine Publishers Weekly.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L50hQhumR_GoQ45jVwQPtA

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:41:02 -0500 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit
Translation, Memory and the Archive: The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82097 82097-21034705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Immediately after the book talk, join us for the launch of the virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish. This virtual exhibit, curated by Professor Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology) coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:52:33 -0500 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation, Memory and the Archive: The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines
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
Michigan India Conference (March 19, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82608 82608-21137866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan India Conference

Have you heard the good news? The annual Michigan India Conference is back, and we’re going virtual for 2021.

We hope to see you there. We have a series of influential speakers you won’t want to miss! The theme for this year's conference is Stability & Change, so we have brought you the best decision-makers and thinkers surrounding India's government, India's economy and the Indian consumer. Get a chance to learn about the latest trends, opportunities, and maybe even a chance to network with some of India’s prestigious figures.

The Michigan India Conference gives business leaders, students, alumni, policymakers, and anyone interested, a chance to learn more about what drives this dynamic economy. Whether you are interested in doing business in India or want to learn more about policy and government, the Michigan India Conference is open to all. We hope you will join us.

Take advantage of our first fully-digital conference!
Register today: https://forms.gle/ug5R9KMKs1dXu28bA

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:06:47 -0500 2021-03-19T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan India Conference Conference / Symposium Michigan India Conference
From Rufio to Zuko and The Debut: Actor Dante Basco (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83129 83129-21282826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Have you been binge-watching Avatar the Last Airbender during quarantine? Meet the voice of Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, actor Dante Basco, as he discusses his career, Filipino Americans in film, his memoir, and his new film, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers. Dante Basco is an award-winning American film, television, and voice actor who has appeared in over 30 films, and over 65 television shows, web series, and video games. He is best known for his roles as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s film Hook; as Prince Zuko in Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender; as Jake Long in Disney Channel’s American Dragon: Jake Long, and as Spin Kick from Carmen Sandiego. He starred as the lead actor alongside his three brothers and sister in the independent film, The Debut, the first Filipino American film to be released in American theatres nationwide. In 2019, the independent press, Not a Cult, published Basco’s book, From Rufio to Zuko, a memoir detailing his life as a working class actor of Filipino heritage. Basco was born and raised in California in a Filipino American family of performing artists. He continues acting, writing and performing spoken word poetry, and streaming on Instagram and Twitch. The new feature film he directed, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, had its world premiere at the SXSW Festival in March 2021:www.fabfilipinobros.com

Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin in conjunction with the ASIANPAM/AMCULT 353/HISTORY 454: Asians in American Film and Television course.

Co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Department of American Culture, in commemoration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Register for this free, virtual event here: http://tinyurl.com/FromRufiotoZuko

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:56:56 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Dante Basco
Designing for Impact in Global Health (March 24, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82821 82821-21179589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the next seminar for the UM Center for Global Health Equity: Designing for Impact in Global Health.

Panelists include:
Kathleen Sienko, College of Engineering
Paul Clyde, William Davidson Institute
Rocky Oteng, School of Medicine
Kentaro Toyama, School of Information
Grace Burleson, College of Engineering
David Green, Social Entrepreneur
Jesse Austin-Breneman, College of Engineering

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:12:00 -0500 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Panelists
Michigan India Conference (March 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82608 82608-21137867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan India Conference

Have you heard the good news? The annual Michigan India Conference is back, and we’re going virtual for 2021.

We hope to see you there. We have a series of influential speakers you won’t want to miss! The theme for this year's conference is Stability & Change, so we have brought you the best decision-makers and thinkers surrounding India's government, India's economy and the Indian consumer. Get a chance to learn about the latest trends, opportunities, and maybe even a chance to network with some of India’s prestigious figures.

The Michigan India Conference gives business leaders, students, alumni, policymakers, and anyone interested, a chance to learn more about what drives this dynamic economy. Whether you are interested in doing business in India or want to learn more about policy and government, the Michigan India Conference is open to all. We hope you will join us.

Take advantage of our first fully-digital conference!
Register today: https://forms.gle/ug5R9KMKs1dXu28bA

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:06:47 -0500 2021-03-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan India Conference Conference / Symposium Michigan India Conference
Letters to a Young Brown Girl Poetry Reading & Book Discussion (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83149 83149-21282827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2020). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017). She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City that Nearly Broke Me (Aztlán Libre Press, 2012).

Her work is published or forthcoming in Arroyo Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, As/Us, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, Eleven Eleven, Entropy, Fairy Tale Review, Fourteen Hills, Hambone, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Origins Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, TAYO Literary Magazine, xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, among others. An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, educator, and poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.

https://barbarajanereyes.com/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:55:59 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Letters to a Young Brown Girl