Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Cold War Counterpublics and the Ghosts of Pan-Asianism: The Japanese Matsuyama Ballet’s 1958 White-Haired Girl Tour in China" (September 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76122 76122-19663558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

In 1958, the Matsuyama Ballet of Japan toured the first ever ballet adaptation of the classic Chinese land reform opera "The White-Haired Girl" in China. Examining Chinese-language sources such as newspaper and magazine reviews and rare original programs held in the University of Michigan Asia Library's Chinese Dance Collection, Professor Wilcox reconstructs the circulation and reception of this work in China, arguing that the production represented an attempt to create a leftist Sino-Japanese counter-public at a time of Cold War tensions between the two countries. She suggests that the Japanese ballet dancers' cross-ethnic performances of Chinese characters critically reconfigured pre-1945 Japanese imperialist discourses of pan-Asianism, leading them to be interpreted as acts of inter-ethnic solidarity in the context of 1950s Asian internationalism.

Emily Wilcox is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She is the author of "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy" (University of California Press, 2019, winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize from the Dance Studies Association) and co-editor of "Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia" (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Her articles, in English and Chinese, have appeared in "China Perspectives," "Inter-Asia Cultural Studies," "The Journal of Asian Studies," positions: asia critique, "TDR: The Drama Review," "Asian Theatre Journal," "The Journal of the Beijing Dance Academy," "Dance Review," and other venues.

Registration required. Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hXiihGy0Qj2Qh8dYZeJ10g

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:12:00 -0400 2020-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Cold War Counterpublics and the Ghosts of Pan-Asianism: The Japanese Matsuyama Ballet’s 1958 White-Haired Girl Tour in China"
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
CHOP Film: "Long Time No See, Wuhan" (September 30, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77708 77708-19907676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:24:31 -0400 2020-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHOP Film: "Long Time No See, Wuhan"
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
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: ​Ken Burns & Isabel Wilkerson, In Conversation (October 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77115 77115-19798483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

the Penny Stamps Series Facebook.

Our lens on history powerfully influences how we envision and shape the future. Join two of our country's most accomplished storytellers, Ken Burns and Isabel Wilkerson, as they discuss the complexities of the American narrative and how grappling with the past might lead us forward. 

Journalist Isabel Wilkerson was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2016 “for championing the stories of an unsung history.” The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, her book The Warmth of Other Suns, a sweeping and intimate examination of the Great Migration, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, examines the entrenched hierarchies that shape American life. Told through intimate personal narratives and deeply researched history, Wilkerson examines the ties between the American caste system and those in India and Nazi Germany, and points to ways America can move beyond our artificial and destructive human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, he has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; Jackie Robinson; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The Vietnam War; The Central Park Five; and Country Music. His films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, two Oscar nominations; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. His new website UNUM rearranges clips from his past films into playlists to add historical context to the present.

This conversation will be moderated by Lynette Clemetson, Director of Wallace House, Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan. A longtime journalist, she was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the U.S. and Asia, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and senior director of strategy and new initiatives at NPR. Wallace House works to sustain and elevate the careers of journalists, foster civic engagement, and uphold the role of a free press in democratic society. 

This event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester with support from Wallace House and UMMA.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:16:01 -0400 2020-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | Historic Chuseok & Giveaway with Chef Ji Hye Kim (October 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77786 77786-19931611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 4, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

We will be LIVE on Facebook with Chef Ji Hye Kim of Miss Kim Korean Restaurant in Kerrytown, Ann Arbor. She will be walking us through the history of Chuseok. What did the food look like? How was the holiday celebrated hundreds of years ago? How are we planning to celebrate this year? PLUS a chance to win a free giveaway of a Chuseok Meal Kit to make your own feast at home!

Giveaway rules: Given away at random to anyone who comments during theFacebook LIVE or within 24 hours of the LIVE. Winner will be notified on October 6th.

Attend this event on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/events/1367460720115898/

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 events:
https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party-2020.html

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:12:05 -0400 2020-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Chef Ji Hye Kim
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | K-Pop Dance Tutorial (October 5, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77787 77787-19931612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Turn up the music with the Nam Center for Korean Studies for a K-Pop Dance Tutorial as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020! Leaders from Konnect [K-Pop Dance Group] will teach participants the moves to “More & More” by Twice.

Konnect is a co-ed K-pop dance group whose mission is to create an inclusive community for those interested in learning K-pop dance by holding weekly tutorials and creating a subunit that performs at various events around campus.

Pre-registration for Zoom Webinar is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ubrZjf8qSReGXhgl6fCEEA

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 events:
https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party-2020.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:30:13 -0400 2020-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-05T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | K-Pop Dance Tutorial
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: The Great Separation: "How the Cultural Revolution Has Shaped Contemporary China and Its Relationship to Global Capitalism" (October 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76154 76154-19669624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Cultural Revolution is the dividing line in modern Chinese history and separates its century of revolutions, when China was known for mass mobilization to generate social change, and the Reform Era, which is deeply depoliticized and economically driven. This talk delves into the interplay of socialist politics and socialist economy in the heydays of the Cultural Revolution to offer a new interpretation of the political origins of contemporary China and its paradoxical role in global capitalism.

Xiaohong Xu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at U-M and a faculty associate of LRCCS and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracy. He received his PhD from Yale and has taught in Singapore and Hong Kong before joining U-M. He is currently writing a book to unpack the Cultural Revolution both as a paradigmatic case of modern Jacobin politics and as a pivotal event that has shaped China today and its position in global capitalism. He has researched and published on patterns of contention in revolutionary China as well as state formation in early modern Europe. He is also beginning a new project on tech innovation and class formation in contemporary China.

Registration required. Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oiotRz6ERiC1zkzpNNKZtw

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:12:47 -0400 2020-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Xiaohong Xu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | Taekwondo Workshop (October 6, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77788 77788-19931613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Tired of sitting around at home as the weather gets cooler? Get moving with the Nam Center's Taekwondo Workshop as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020! Instructor Eddy Lee (Sang Heon) will guide participants through the Taegeuk Il Jang, the first of eight taekwondo forms. Eddy Lee is a 3rd degree black belt with 12 years of experience in Taekwondo. He also served as the captain of the Demonstration Team of Michigan Taekwondo for the past 2 years.

The University of Michigan Tae-Kwon-Do Club (UMTDK) was founded in 1964, making it the oldest martial arts club on campus. The club competes at tournaments in the Eastern Collegiate Tae-Kwon-Do Conference against other collegiate programs.

Pre-registration for Zoom Webinar is required:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_razoJwHpSDagkrBqUv3loQ

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party-2020.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:30:45 -0400 2020-10-06T14:30:00-04:00 2020-10-06T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | Taekwondo Workshop
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | University of Michigan Museum of Art Tour & Charye Activity (October 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77792 77792-19931618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please join a collaboration between the Nam Center for Korean Studies and the University of Michigan Museum of Art as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020! The UMMA docents will guide participants through a live chu-seok experience, also known as Korean Thanksgiving or Harvest Festival. The interactive webinar will focus on objects used in cha-rye, a ritual used to honor ancestors often practiced during major holidays in Korea. Participants will even have the chance to set up their own cha-rye tables from the comfort of home! This event is for people of all ages, and no prior knowledge of Korea is necessary.

Prior to the start of the seminar, participants should allow enough time to complete the pre-activity: download the PDF, print, and cut out the objects. If they wish, they may draw and color in the cut-outs as well. At the end of the presentation, we will assemble the charye table together as a culminating activity using the cut outs from the PDF. You can download the pre-activity on the NCKS Website: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party-2020.html

Pre-registration for Zoom Webinar is required:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_10V1K5z8RAWhSP_eN3mFlQ

Meet the docents:
Min Kyung Sung, or Min, is from South Korea and has lived in Ann Arbor for about 4 years. She’s a wife, mother of 2 sons, and an art lover. She’s a graduate student majoring in Art Administration at Eastern Michigan University and a docent at the UMMA. She is researching and studying art education through museum tours, so she uploads a YouTube video about Korean Art History every Saturday. Search for her channel at HooHooMom!

Yuni Aaron is a sculptor and ceramicist. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to the States in 1980. She is trained as an architect and has practiced in Seattle and Cleveland. She recently published a set of cartoon books that reflects on life during a pandemic and the politics of 2020. She is eager to share her heritage with students in the Ann Arbor area in the upcoming presentation on Chuseok and Charye. Yuni enjoys learning about art and architecture and loves cooking, hiking and spending time with her amazing family.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:37:12 -0400 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | University of Michigan Museum of Art Tour & Charye Activity
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
Looking at Naturalist Fiction and the I-Novel Transnationally (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75606 75606-19544898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

After the naturalist approach to writing fiction crystallized in France in the 1860s, writers around the world embraced it. By the 1920s this kind of realistic fiction could be found from the Americas to East Asia, including the Japanese version known as the I-novel. Far from a story of influence, a close look at naturalist novels and stories written in different parts of the world shows writers departing from metropolitan models as they confronted new social conditions.

Christopher Hill is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in the department of Asian Languages and Cultures. With a background in comparative literature, he writes frequently on literature and intellectual history from a transnational or global perspective. His first book, *National History and the World of Nations* (Duke University Press, 2009), was on the impact of nationalism on historical writing in late nineteenth-century Japan, France, and the United States. He has just published *Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form* (Northwestern University Press, 2020), on the global history of naturalist fiction. He is currently writing about postwar Japanese writers' responses to the decolonization of Africa and Asia.

Discussant: Christi Merrill, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Postcolonial Theory.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7XkNE5-uSRSBcB9uuBkggw

The University of Michigan Library has Professor Hill's book, *Figures of the World The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form*, available in E-book format at: https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/018261248

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:59:40 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Christopher L. Hill, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures. University of Michigan
Looking at Naturalist Fiction and the I-Novel Transnationally (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77827 77827-19933616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

After the naturalist approach to writing fiction crystallized in France in the 1860s, writers around the world embraced it. By the 1920s this kind of realistic fiction could be found from the Americas to East Asia, including the Japanese version known as the I-novel. Far from a story of influence, a close look at naturalist novels and stories written in different parts of the world shows writers departing from metropolitan models as they confronted new social conditions.

Christopher Hill is an Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. With a background in comparative literature, he writes frequently on literature and intellectual history from a transnational or global perspective. His first book, National History and the World of Nations (Duke University Press, 2009), was on the impact of nationalism on historical writing in late nineteenth-century Japan, France, and the United States. He has just published Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form (Northwestern University Press, 2020), on the global history of naturalist fiction. He is currently writing about postwar Japanese writers' responses to the decolonization of Africa and Asia.

Discussant: Christi Merrill, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Postcolonial Theory.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7XkNE5-uSRSBcB9uuBkggw

The University of Michigan Library has Professor's Hill's book, Figures of the World The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form, available in E-book format at: https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/018261248

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:13:15 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | Korean Storytime (October 8, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77795 77795-19931620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Join Eunjae Cheon for crafts, songs and stories in Korean! She’ll be reading and translating 솔이의 추석 이야기 [Sol’s Chuseok Story] by Uk Bae Lee, 떡이 최고야 [Rice Cake is Awesome] by Nan Ji kim and 달의 맛은 어떨까? [What Does the Moon Taste Like?] By Michahel. Music provided by Andrea Yun!

We will also make a full moon craft together!

You will need:

-A round traceable object (i.e. a cup or small bowl)
-Pencil
-Toothpaste
-Dark colored paper (blue or black)
-Plain paper
-Scissors
-Scotch tape

Eunjae Cheon is from South Korea where she used to teach kindergarten. She is now a teacher for the Korean School of Ann Arbor. Once a month, she leads Storytime for the Ann Arbor District Library. You can find videos of the story time on the AADL YouTube channel.

Pre-registration via Google Form is required to receive Zoom Link:
https://forms.gle/LPz7kKY5we5uv95b8

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 events:
https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party-2020.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:31:55 -0400 2020-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | Korean Storytime
CSAS Film Series | Riding on a Sunbeam: Q&A with the Producer/Main Actor (October 9, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76256 76256-19679585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Mauktik is a neuroscientist, backpacker, author, entrepreneur, public speaker and a film maker. While he is still passionate about technology and startups, things changed a bit when he stumbled upon the world of backpacking. After crisscrossing the world and hitting more than 50 countries, he has become a storyteller and tells tales of neuroscience, entrepreneurship, traveling, creative writing, film making and other adventures in life. Featured in the National Geographic, LiveMint, Times of India, The Hindu and several other publications, he has authored two books and routinely writes for various media outlets in English and Marathi. He has seen successes and failures in healthcare, e-commerce and media ventures, and often consults with start-ups and related organizations. Before becoming a storyteller, he got a bachelors in Electronics & Telecom Engineering from the Univ. of Pune, masters in Biophysics & Computational Biology from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and another masters in Neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University.

Prior to the Q&A with Mauktik Kulkarni, the documentary will be available for viewing online from Sunday 10/4 until Sunday 10/11. To view it, please register here: https://forms.gle/9LALhNwNjk984wbK8

Zoom registration is required to attend the event, and you may do so here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9npWFDtcSx-q2hRxTTbwSw

Riding on a Sunbeam

Directed by Brahmanand Singh and edited by Irene Dhar Malik, both national award winners in India, 'Riding on a Sunbeam' explores the social, cultural, economic and religious contradictions of India in a thought-provoking, non-touristy way.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:57:11 -0400 2020-10-09T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-09T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Mauktik Kulkarni
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | Netflix Party: #Alive (October 9, 2020 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77796 77796-19931621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

What better way to spend a spooky, chilly October night than watching the newest Korean zombie movie with friends? Join us on a Netflix Party to watch #Alive [#살아있다]! The rapid spread of an unknown infection has left an entire city in ungovernable chaos, but one survivor remains alive in total isolation. The film tells his story. We’ll be pointing out some interesting cultural aspects in the chat during the movie. Grab a blanket and some popcorn!

Pre-registration via Google Form is required to receive Netflix Party Link:
https://forms.gle/Z6BqrzPbB21gmzey5

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 events:
https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party-2020.html

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:32:42 -0400 2020-10-09T21:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2020 | Netflix Party: #Alive
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Civic Solidarity: Sustaining Contention and Building Democratic Institutions in Contemporary Village China" (October 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76155 76155-19669625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

Civic solidarity is an underexplored concept in sociology and political science. This talk unpacks its theoretical dimensions—what civic solidarity is, how it is formed, and what the social and political implications are. Through this lens, Dr. Liu examines a puzzling phenomenon in contemporary rural China: Why are some villagers able to sustain contention and engage in building democratic institutions for self-rule?

Jundai Liu is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in sociology from Harvard University in 2018. With comparative-historical and qualitative methods, her research lies broadly in political sociology, sociology of development, and historical sociology, with a focus on China and East Asia. Her current book project examines different patterns of villagers’ political behavior where there were major stakes and conflicts brought about by active land development in China.

Registration required. Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nb2ggIo4SsWPUQ8xPcDbNg

Cosponsored by the U-M Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:15:23 -0400 2020-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jundai Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan
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
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 1 (October 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77840 77840-19933638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval "Mirror" Genre

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:20:07 -0400 2020-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Medieval Genre Scene
U.S.-China relations during COVID-19: Finding a path forward (October 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76231 76231-19679532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Join the conversation: #policytalks.

Panelists:

Ken Lieberthal, senior fellow emeritus in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings

Mary Gallagher, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, and faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan

Ann Lin, Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan

Moderator:

Michael S. Barr, Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy, Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law

For more information visit http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/us-china-relations-during-covid-19-finding-path-forward

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:27:53 -0400 2020-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Ann Lin, Ken Lieberthal, and Mary Gallagher
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Oral History and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet" (October 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76159 76159-19669629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk is a pre-recorded presentation from Oct. 16, 2020.

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. See the webinar registration link below.

In this talk, Professor Makley thinks through the implications of her collaborative work with Tibetans in northern Amdo (Qinghai province) to tell, hear, see and record stories of the late tenth Panchen Lama (1938-1989), the controversial yet beloved Buddhist figure who returned to Amdo in the early 1980s after fourteen years of Maoist detention in a series of triumphant, recuperative tours of rural Tibetan regions. To this day, the absent presence of the tenth Panchen Lama looms large in those regions, where Tibetans lament the loss of his advocacy and voice amidst intensifying state-led development pressures. She takes up Uradyn Bulag's critique to reject the positivist, textualist, and statist premises of "oral history" in favor of a linguistic anthropological approach to narrative as a multimodal and dialogic process of (dis)embodying selves and others in spaces and times. Professor Makley asks, in the context of intensifying surveillance and central state-led censorship, can our Tibetan interlocutors' awkward silences and earnest affirmations, the un- or under-said of their stories about the tenth Panchen Lama, be taken as a politics of refusal that, in the telling, itself works to re-constitute his fugitive presence, and by proxy that of a Tibetan sociality and future currently being erased?

Zoom Registration Link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a6dgE3GhRcqeCnlegYA7kA

Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work has explored the history and cultural politics of state-building, state-led development and Buddhist revival among Tibetans in China's restive frontier zone (SE Qinghai and SW Gansu provinces) since 1992. Her analyses draw especially on methodologies from linguistic and economic anthropology, gender and media studies, and studies of religion and ritual that unpack the semiotic and pragmatic specificities of intersubjective communication, exchange, personhood and value. Her first book, "The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China," was published by University of Californian Press in 2007. Her second book, "The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China," published in 2018 by Cornell University Press and the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, is an ethnography of state-local relations in the historically Tibetan region of Rebgong (SE Qinghai province) in the wake of China's Great Open the West campaign and during the 2008 military crackdown on Tibetan unrest. The book brings anthropological theories of states, development and personhood into dialogue with recent interdisciplinary debates about the very nature of human subjectivity, agency, and relations with nonhuman others (including deities).

For more information about her research projects, publications, courses, and media archives, visit her website: http://academic.reed.edu/anthro/makley/index.html, or her Academia.edu page: https://reed.academia.edu/CharleneMakley.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:53:44 -0400 2020-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Oral History and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet"
Nam Center Colloquium Series | An Office of Reports: Overwork and Overwriting in Korean Business Life (October 20, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77256 77256-19828135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

Register at: http://myumi.ch/dObyn

Macro labor issues in South Korea touch on a range of entrenched problems - overtime, benefits, tenure, gender equity, and harassment, among others. Inside offices, office workers frequently lament another hidden problem: writing, specifically a culture of reports (bogoseo munhwa). In this talk, I look at the way discussions and ideas about PowerPoint in Korean offices channel ideas about radically improving office efficiency. Based on my fieldwork in a Seoul white-collar office, I describe why reports and the art of report writing continue to play such a key role in Korean office life.

Mike Prentice is a linguistic anthropologist of contemporary South Korea. His research broadly focuses on genres and technologies of communication, organisations and corporations, and work & labour cultures. Before joining Sheffield, he held teaching and research positions at the University of Manchester, Brandeis University, and Harvard University, where he was a Korea Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at the Korea Institute.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:58:08 -0400 2020-10-20T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-20T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Michael Prentice, Lecturer, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield (UK)
CJS Noon Lecture Series | How Pork-Barrel Politics Holds Japan's Governing Coalition Together (October 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69692 69692-17382660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

For seventeen of the past twenty years, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has governed in coalition with a smaller party, the Komeito. Despite being former arch rivals and unlikely bedfellows for ideological reasons, the coalition has proved resilient: despite landslide wins in recent elections, the LDP stays in the coalition. Why? We present compelling new evidence that Japan's mixed-member electoral system, variants of which are used in 29 other countries around the world, enables the LDP to coordinate votes with the Komeito in a way that helps both parties win more seats than they otherwise would. The coalition makes this coordination "stick" by withholding government resources from supporters who do not comply and granting it to supporters who do.

Amy Catalinac is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. Her current research is on distributive politics in Japan. Her book, Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan: From Pork to Foreign Policy was published with Cambridge University Press in 2016. Her articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and Comparative Political Studies, among others. She teaches courses on international relations, comparative politics, Japanese security policy, and Japanese politics.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rrb8yH7CSuihp0MzCmadeQ

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:55:04 -0400 2020-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Amy Catalinac, Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University
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
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Monumental Friendship: Chinese Ceramics in the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art" (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76156 76156-19669626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

The James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art is consisted of Chinese ceramics, bronze wares, Buddhist sculptures, and other East Asian art works donated by his family and friends in memory of the prominent U-M professor of East Asian art, James Marshall Plumer (1899 – 1960). The collection shows an incredible network of scholars, collectors, and artists Plumer developed between 1930 and 1960, through his research of Jian (Tenmoku) and Yue wares, experience as a “Monument Man” in the occupied Japan of the post-World War II, and teaching at U-M. In this talk, Dr. Oyobe will highlight the Chinese ceramics in the Plumer Collection, and illuminate his remarkable scholarship and humanism that connected the people of diverse backgrounds from China, Japan, and the US.

Natsu Oyobe is Curator of Asian Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Specializing in modern and contemporary Japanese art, she has curated numerous Japanese art exhibitions, including "Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of 20th-Century Japanese Kimono" (2010), "Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the Mid-20th Century" (2010), and "Mari Katayama" (2019). Dr. Oyobe is also involved in cross-cultural projects from a variety of historical periods, including "Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930" (2013), "Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits" (2016) and "Copies and Invention in East Asia" (2019). She served as the consulting curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts’ new Japan Gallery (2016 – 2017). Dr. Oyobe earned a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan in 2005.

Zoom webinar registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_11CuKg4aQHCcuPZ7P3FXwA

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:22:39 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Monumental Friendship: Chinese Ceramics in the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78958 78958-20162586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

lick here to register. .

Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art for the University of Michigan Museum of Art, will bring to life the incredible James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection of Chinese ceramics in this talk for the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Noon Lecture Series. The collection, consisting of bronze wares, Buddhist sculptures, and other East Asian art works, was donated by Plumer's family and friends in memory of the prominent U-M professor of East Asian art. Plumer (1899 – 1960), who served as a “Monument Man” in the occupied Japan of the post-World War II, developed a phenomenal network of scholars, collectors, and artists, and is known for his research of Jian (Tenmoku) and Yue wares and for his teaching at U-M.  In this talk, Dr. Oyobe will highlight the Chinese ceramics in the Plumer Collection, and illuminate his remarkable scholarship and humanism that connected the people of diverse backgrounds from China, Japan, and the US. 

Natsu Oyobe is Curator of Asian Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Specializing in modern and contemporary Japanese art, she has curated numerous Japanese art exhibitions, including Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of 20th-Century Japanese Kimono (2010), Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the Mid-20th Century (2010), and Mari Katayama (2019). Dr. Oyobe is also involved in cross-cultural projects from a variety of historical periods, including Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930 (2013), Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits (2016) and Copies and Invention in East Asia (2019). She served as the consulting curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts’ new Japan Gallery (2016 – 2017). Dr. Oyobe earned a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan in 2005.

This event is cosponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.
 

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:50 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Data Science and Global Health Equity Seminar (October 29, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78430 78430-20042434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global Health Equity

Please join us for the Center for Global Health Equity's seminar on Data Science. Panelists include:
Akbar Waljee (Medicine)
Bhramar Mukherjee (SPH)
Andries Coetzee (LSA)
Massy Mutumba (Nursing)
Gifty Kwakye (Medicine)
Moderated by John Ayanian

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:49:29 -0400 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global Health Equity Workshop / Seminar Seminar Panelists
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The City in the Present Tense: Writing the Urban Landscape in Eleventh-Century China" (November 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76229 76229-19677560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

During the eleventh century, literati tried for the first time to capture the living urban landscape in writing. As a new literary subject, the urban streetscape afforded scope for original effects, but literati also wrote the city for ideological reasons. On the written page, they could set themselves apart—as individuals in the anonymous crowd, as connoisseurs among spendthrift nobles—as they could not in the streets and markets of the dense metropolis, and they could conform the confusing movement of people, goods, and money to a moral economy of perfect circulation and equitable distribution, as they could not in practical administration.

Christian de Pee is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries" (2007) and co-editor of "Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and the Southern Song, 1127-1279" (2017). He is currently writing a history of eleventh-century China for a general audience, "The Chinese Renaissance: How the Song Dynasty Changed China and the World in the Eleventh Century."

Zoom webinar registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qxUG36ZlQwiehkKBTK0Rtw

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:50:35 -0500 2020-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Christian de Pee, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 2 (November 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77843 77843-19933641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

How Milk Became "Ethnic" in China: Koumiss Rituals of the Qing and Its Contemporary Legacies

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:51:42 -0400 2020-11-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Koumiss-fermented mare's milk
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Voice as Talisman: Theorizing Sound in Medieval Japanese Treatises on Sutra Chanting (November 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75381 75381-19450119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

How material a thing is the human voice? Music provides a place for the early theorization of sound as an active force operating in registers that are at once spiritual (accounting for the summoning of unseen gods and spirits), scientific (producing hypotheses regarding the principles underlying action at a distance), aesthetic (conceptualizing how and why people may be more or less affectively moved), and deeply embodied (positing figurations of the human form as a resonance chamber). In this talk, I focus on the chanting of Buddhist sacred text in medieval Japan, in order to excavate Buddhist theories of sound – and particularly human-produced sound – as capable of acting on and in the space-time of lived reality.

Charlotte Eubanks is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Penn State. They study the material culture of books and word/image relations, with a focus on Japanese literature from the medieval period to the present. Their first book, entitled *Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan* (University of California Press, 2011), examines the relationship between human body and sacred text in the Buddhist literary tradition, focusing on reading as a performance-based act which bridges the text-flesh barrier. Their second book (*The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan*, U Hawai'i Press, 2020) moves to the 20th century. Through a microhistory of the artist Akamatsu Toshiko (Maruki Toshi, 1912-2000), the book outlines the possibilities for anti-war and anti-colonial thought in imperial Japan. Their third book will return to the medieval Buddhist world, with a phenomenological examination of the literary corpus of the 13th century Zen master Dōgen. Their articles have appeared in venues including *Book History, The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Ars Orientalis, The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, PMLA*, and *Word & Image*. Charlotte is Head of the Department of Comparative Literature, founding president of the MLA Japan to 1900 forum, and Associate Editor of *Verge: Studies in Global Asias*.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lnQ7ENyPQ_uOK9bZmgknOg

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:18:34 -0400 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Charlotte Eubanks, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State
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
Nam Center Artist Residency | “AGE OF FIRE: Women of the Scarred Earth” (November 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78605 78605-20073992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Registration for Zoom Webinar is required: http://myumi.ch/88MpK

Peggy Choy’s lifetime of dance has become a means to frame and navigate the dangerous times in which we live. While life and our environment can inform dance, Choy also examines the converse, that dance can inform our life and environment. Join Professor Choy for a live discussion of her own dance stories—both spoken and performed.

Peggy Myo-Young Choy’s dance alchemy of focused mind and moving body is fueled by Asian dance, martial arts, as well as urban vernacular dance forms. Choy’s seminal solos include, “Comfort Woman” and “Wild Rice.” She has also created solos around the themes—“Sea Series” and “Blood Series.” Her women-centered stories created since the mid-1990s, integrate her foundations in Korean dance, Javanese dance, and martial arts.

Choy is an associate professor of Dance and Asian-American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison and is director of PEGGY CHOY DANCE company. Her company has performed around the world—at New York’s Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama E.T.C., and Alvin Ailey Studio, DC’s Kennedy Center, Dance Place and the Smithsonian Institution, Kennedy Theater in Honolulu, Utan Kayu in Jakarta, Seoul Art Center in Korea, Danza Teatro Retazos in Havana, and Baráčnická Rychta in Prague, and the Korean Cultural Center in Berlin.

Choy's national and international awards include an NEA/Atlantic Center for the Arts fellowship, Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative, Princeton and Cornell University commissions, and commissions from the Kintari Foundation, Seoul Selection, and Cafe Intarsia.

This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2016-OLU-2240001).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:30:35 -0400 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Peggy Myo-Young Choy (Dance and Asian American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The Gendered Pursuit of Individualism: Fertility Intention and the Meaning of Children in Contemporary Urban China" (November 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76165 76165-19671598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

Reproduction links the personal and the political. Through policies that promote or limit births, the state attempts to regulate individuals’ reproductive behavior. At the same time, individuals make reproductive decisions guided by their own fertility intentions and the meaning they attach to children and parenthood. A puzzle remains: Why does active pro-natalist state policy fail to achieve fertility recovery? This talk centers on urban Chinese individuals’ fertility decision-making under the 2016 universal two-child policy. By examining the meaning of children, Dr. Zhou highlights how a gendered pursuit of individualism underlies women’s and men’s fertility aspiration and behavior. In turn, she sheds light on the question of why state policies promoting births may not resonate on the individual level.

Yun Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research examines social inequality and state-market-family relations through the lens of gender, marriage, and reproduction. Her work combines statistical analysis of survey data, in-depth interviews, and agent-based computational models. With a focus on gender equity and authoritarian reproductive governance, Dr. Zhou’s current project investigates the intended and unintended consequences of China’s recent shift toward a universal two-child policy.

Zoom webinar registration (required) is here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iRfY-cuAQ1-a7rzonTaPDQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:52:04 -0500 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yun Zhou, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China (November 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79234 79234-20233429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Join us as we partner with the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York for an enlightening evening of presentations and discussions on contemporary China. The first webinar presentation will be a keynote address by renown investor and New York Times best selling author Ray Dalio at 7:00pm EST. His presentation will be followed by an 8:00pm webinar discussion hosted by the U-M China Center, featuring a panel of U-M faculty including Alan Deardorff, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; and Ann Lin, Public Policy. Twila Tardif, Director of the U-M China Center will serve as moderator.

Links to register for both events can be found below. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Keynote Address: Ray Dalio
7:00pm-8:00pm EST
The National Committee on US-China Relations presents Raymond Dalio, founder, co-chief investment officer, and co-chairman, Bridgewater Associates, LP.
Moderator: Stephen Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Information and Registration for Ray Dalio: https://www.ncuscr.org/event/CTH-2020-ray-dalio
To register for their other presentations: https://www.ncuscr.org/events

LRCCS Panel Discussion:
Changing Times in US-China Relations: Panel Discussion and Community Conversation
8:00pm-9:00pm EST
The U-M China Center presents U-M faculty Alan Deardorff, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; and Ann Lin, Public Policy for discussion and questions from the audience. Twila Tardif, LRCCS Director, will moderate. Please submit any questions for them through the Zoom Q&A function.

Register for the Panel: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MHd2I63oQZ69o38H-ODKCA

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:33:04 -0500 2020-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China
CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China (November 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79234 79234-20233430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Join us as we partner with the National Committee on US-China Relations in New York for an enlightening evening of presentations and discussions on contemporary China. The first webinar presentation will be a keynote address by renown investor and New York Times best selling author Ray Dalio at 7:00pm EST. His presentation will be followed by an 8:00pm webinar discussion hosted by the U-M China Center, featuring a panel of U-M faculty including Alan Deardorff, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; and Ann Lin, Public Policy. Twila Tardif, Director of the U-M China Center will serve as moderator.

Links to register for both events can be found below. Free and open to the public.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Keynote Address: Ray Dalio
7:00pm-8:00pm EST
The National Committee on US-China Relations presents Raymond Dalio, founder, co-chief investment officer, and co-chairman, Bridgewater Associates, LP.
Moderator: Stephen Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Information and Registration for Ray Dalio: https://www.ncuscr.org/event/CTH-2020-ray-dalio
To register for their other presentations: https://www.ncuscr.org/events

LRCCS Panel Discussion:
Changing Times in US-China Relations: Panel Discussion and Community Conversation
8:00pm-9:00pm EST
The U-M China Center presents U-M faculty Alan Deardorff, Public Policy; Lan Deng, Urban Planning; and Ann Lin, Public Policy for discussion and questions from the audience. Twila Tardif, LRCCS Director, will moderate. Please submit any questions for them through the Zoom Q&A function.

Register for the Panel: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MHd2I63oQZ69o38H-ODKCA

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:33:04 -0500 2020-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual CHINA Town Hall | Local Connections, National Reflections: A Nationwide Discussion on China
CJS Noon Lecture | Rethinking Medieval Narratives Beyond the Canon--On Ordering the Past (November 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75677 75677-19560799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this lecture will be held on a Wednesday, rather than our usual Thursday time-slot.

The received narrative of Japanese literary and historiographic development is one shaped by anachronistic, European-influenced notions of genre. Drawing on a broad set of medieval works both inside and outside of the canon, however, Erin Brightwell's Reflecting the Past argues that rather than hewing to the fixed, particular binaries of Chinese/Japanese or Tale/Chronicle that came to shape said narrative, medieval thinkers who sought to order the past relied on shared intellectual commitments expressed in ways that move across and between modern linguistic or disciplinary categories: narrative setting and structure, language selection, and cosmological principles. Please join us for a conversation facilitated by Takeshi Watanabe, author of Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2020), about the strategies used by medieval authors to render unprecedented historical change sensible.

Erin Brightwell is Assistant Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature. She holds an MA in Chinese (University of Washington, Seattle) and a PhD in Classical Japanese Literature (Princeton University). In addition to Reflecting the Past: Place Language and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre (Harvard University Asia Center, 2020), her latest publications include the translation of Wang Changxiong's 1943 novella "Honryū" (The Torrent) in The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (permanent link: https://apjjf.org/2018/01/O.html) and a forthcoming article in Journal of Japanese Studies titled "Making Meaning: Lexical Glosses as Interpretive Interventions in the Kakaishō."

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0yDKoPzaRder5mFVJcOlXA

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Sep 2020 16:36:33 -0400 2020-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Erin Brightwell, Assistant Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature, UM
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
Access Internships in Asia and Europe! (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78794 78794-20123203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Interested in interning with an organization in Asia or Europe next summer? Join the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia, Center for Japanese Studies, and Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies to learn about our internship initiatives, funding opportunities, and how to apply.

Registration is required at http://myumi.ch/88MKV.

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Presentation Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:41:45 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Presentation Access Internships 2020
CSAS | "Reading the Americanized Joothan: The Translator’s Cringe" Keynote Speech by Arun Mukhejee followed by "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers (November 13, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76259 76259-19679590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Arun Mukherjee's public keynote speech will be held Friday, November 13th at 9am (to coincide with Friday evening, Indian Standard Time.) In ‘Reading the Americanized Joothan: The Translator’s Cringe’ Mukherjee will compare the Samya press and the Columbia University Press editions of her translation of Omprakash Valmiki’s autobiography, Joothan. She will reflect on the changes which took place as the translation travelled from the Indian edition to the American edition, leading her to realize the importance of guarding the beauty of the text. The event co-organizers Shalmali Jadhav, Swarnim Khare and Christi Merrill are interested in asking what choices behind the scenes might lead to increasing openness when texts and cultural contexts displace us from our comfort zones as readers of anti-caste literatures.

This will be followed by three workshop sessions starting on November 13th and continuing on November 14th and 20th at 9am, in which authors, translators and publishers discuss pre-circulated published examples in English, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil with registered participants in order to demystify and make visible crucial choices in publishing translated work. Speakers include Ajay Navaria, Alok Mukherjee, Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Anita Bharti, Aruni Kashyap, Arun Mukherjee, G.N. Devy, Laura Brueck, Mandira Sen, Maya Pandit, Meena Kandasamy, Perumal Murugan, Sharankumar Limbale, Susan Harris and Urmila Pawar. ’Advanced registration is required.

Register for the keynote zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pVt5CIOdS1qry-Rz5ks28g

Register for the post-keynote workshops here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kghzAyEr4BSDPxzRnyqBU2iiXMwgVoDddSM4zINhPek/viewform?ts=5fa43c8a&gxids=7628&edit_requested=true

This conference is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:16:27 -0500 2020-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS Conference | "Reading the Americanized Joothan: The Translator’s Cringe" Keynote Speech by Arun Mukhejee followed by "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers
CSAS | "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers (November 14, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79295 79295-20264796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Arun Mukherjee's public keynote speech will be held Friday, November 13th at 9am (to coincide with Friday evening, Indian Standard Time.) In ‘Reading the Americanized Joothan: The Translator’s Cringe’ Mukherjee will compare the Samya press and the Columbia University Press editions of her translation of Omprakash Valmiki’s autobiography, Joothan. She will reflect on the changes which took place as the translation travelled from the Indian edition to the American edition, leading her to realize the importance of guarding the beauty of the text. The event co-organizers Shalmali Jadhav, Swarnim Khare and Christi Merrill are interested in asking what choices behind the scenes might lead to increasing openness when texts and cultural contexts displace us from our comfort zones as readers of anti-caste literatures.

This will be followed by three workshop sessions starting on November 13th and continuing on November 14th and 20th at 9am, in which authors, translators and publishers discuss pre-circulated published examples in English, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil with registered participants in order to demystify and make visible crucial choices in publishing translated work. Speakers include Ajay Navaria, Alok Mukherjee, Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Anita Bharti, Aruni Kashyap, Arun Mukherjee, G.N. Devy, Laura Brueck, Mandira Sen, Maya Pandit, Meena Kandasamy, Perumal Murugan, Sharankumar Limbale, Susan Harris and Urmila Pawar. ’Advanced registration is required.

This conference is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:23:31 -0500 2020-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-14T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Constructing a China: Nationalism and Culture in Modern History" (November 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76166 76166-19671599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

“What is the ‘Chinese way’? How should China’s traditions speak to its future?” During the past three decades, China’s intellectuals have been increasingly preoccupied with defining the country’s cultural identity in its pursuit of political modernity. While their positions vary, intellectuals share the assumption that there are unique elements to China’s historical and cultural institutions, and that China’s future ought to be based on this legacy. This exceptionalist turn is unfolding at a time when the party-state is in search of a new ideology based on nationalism. Understanding this recent turn and its continued political force requires us to revisit the deeper roots of modern Chinese national thought. Diverging from the dominant view that modern Chinese nationalism is a product of Western-style modernization, this talk explores how the quest for a Chinese cultural identity became central to debates over political and moral values. This century-long pattern can help to shed light on where China’s intellectual and political life is heading.

Wen Yu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2018. Her research focuses on China’s social and political thought, ideological movements, and intellectual culture from the seventeenth century to the present. Her dissertation, "The Search for a Chinese Way in the Modern World: From the Rise of Evidential Learning to the Birth of Chinese Cultural Identity,” explores the roots and development of modern Chinese exceptionalism by tracing how the search for a Chinese cultural identity has become central to the intellectual debates over shared values in modern China. Her dissertation was awarded the 2017 Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize.

Zoom webinar registration (required) is here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I_97dhoFQ8e8YP-Om9ZctA

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:21:55 -0500 2020-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Wen Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 3 (November 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77841 77841-19933639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Chinese Renaissance: Problems of Form and Style in Writing a Trade Book about Eleventh-Century China

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:15:45 -0400 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion 11th c painting of 4th c scholars collating texts
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Singing Beyond the Ivory Gates: South Korean Song Movement in the 1980s (November 17, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77257 77257-19828136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

Register at:

http://myumi.ch/qgd0y

In the 1980s, noraep’ae [song clubs] operated as hubs for creating, performing, and disseminating some of the most popular protest songs against the military authoritarian regimes in South Korea. During college campus rallies, labor strikes, and public protests on the streets, songs written and performed by noraep’ae became instrumental in fostering solidarity across regional and class divides. This talk examines the evolution of noraep’ae and their significance in the South Korean song movement, analyzing in turn how singing enables a politics of participation and democratization of the voice.

Susan Hwang is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Korean Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. Her scholarship engages with the cultural practices of resistance and dissent in South Korea, as well as theories of translation and world literature. She is currently working on her book manuscript entitled “Uncaged Songs: Culture and Politics of Protest Music in South Korea." It is a cultural history of South Korea’s song movement that charts how songs became a powerful component of the struggle for democracy in South Korea during two of the nation’s darkest decades—the 1970s and the 1980s.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:01:30 -0500 2020-11-17T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Susan Hwang, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature & Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Indiana University
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Political Stability in Turbulent Times (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70877 70877-17726694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Japan is one of Asia’s oldest democracies and one of the world’s most stable, but how deeply rooted its democratic institutions and norms are remains a perennial question. Political scientists have tended to focus on the shortcomings of Japan’s democracy, painting a weak society that is subordinate to a strong state. This talk examines Japan’s performance on contemporary, comparative measures of democratic performance, with a sustained focus on the interplay between citizens and the state. It also considers the implications of democratic stability for Japan’s behavior as a regional and global actor.

Sherry L. Martin is Acting Asia Division Chief in the US Department of State’s Office of Opinion Research. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the Government Department and the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies where she authored Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics. She completed an AB at Princeton University and a PhD in Political Science from at the University of Michigan.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kkgkutv-S32EMz2VMVhjBw

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:56:55 -0400 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Sherry L. Martin, Acting Asia Division Chief , U.S. Department of State’s Office of Opinion Research
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Political Stability in Turbulent Times (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79385 79385-20288599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Japan is one of Asia’s oldest democracies and one of the world’s most stable, but how deeply rooted its democratic institutions and norms are remains a perennial question. Political scientists have tended to focus on the shortcomings of Japan’s democracy, painting a weak society that is subordinate to a strong state. This talk examines Japan’s performance on contemporary, comparative measures of democratic performance, with a sustained focus on the interplay between citizens and the state. It also considers the implications of democratic stability for Japan’s behavior as a regional and global actor.

Sherry L. Martin is Acting Asia Division Chief in the US Department of State’s Office of Opinion Research. Previously, she was an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the Government Department and the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies where she authored Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics. She completed an AB at Princeton University and a PhD in Political Science from at the University of Michigan.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at:

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:53:30 -0500 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Sherry L. Martin
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 | "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers (November 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79295 79295-20264797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Arun Mukherjee's public keynote speech will be held Friday, November 13th at 9am (to coincide with Friday evening, Indian Standard Time.) In ‘Reading the Americanized Joothan: The Translator’s Cringe’ Mukherjee will compare the Samya press and the Columbia University Press editions of her translation of Omprakash Valmiki’s autobiography, Joothan. She will reflect on the changes which took place as the translation travelled from the Indian edition to the American edition, leading her to realize the importance of guarding the beauty of the text. The event co-organizers Shalmali Jadhav, Swarnim Khare and Christi Merrill are interested in asking what choices behind the scenes might lead to increasing openness when texts and cultural contexts displace us from our comfort zones as readers of anti-caste literatures.

This will be followed by three workshop sessions starting on November 13th and continuing on November 14th and 20th at 9am, in which authors, translators and publishers discuss pre-circulated published examples in English, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil with registered participants in order to demystify and make visible crucial choices in publishing translated work. Speakers include Ajay Navaria, Alok Mukherjee, Aniruddhan Vasudevan, Anita Bharti, Aruni Kashyap, Arun Mukherjee, G.N. Devy, Laura Brueck, Mandira Sen, Maya Pandit, Meena Kandasamy, Perumal Murugan, Sharankumar Limbale, Susan Harris and Urmila Pawar. ’Advanced registration is required.

This conference is funded in part by a Title VI federal grant from the US Department of Education.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:23:31 -0500 2020-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | "Engaging Anti-Caste Praxis Across Languages," a Three-day Workshop for Writers, Translators, Publishers, and their Readers
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
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "Designing Online Platforms for Offline Services in China: A Market-Frictions Based Perspective" (December 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76169 76169-19671600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar.

Using market-frictions based logic, Dr. Wu and his co-author/researcher on this project, develop an analytical model that examines how online platforms can govern opportunistic behavior of offline service providers in China, thus allowing market forces to promote the general welfare. Their work sheds new light on how platform design can help reduce market frictions in economic exchanges and potentially shape the evolution of industries.

Xun (Brian) Wu is an Associate Professor of Strategy (with tenure), Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, and faculty director of China Initiatives at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He received his BS from Tsinghua University in China, MSc from National University of Singapore, and PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

His research examines the dynamics of corporate scope and the evolution of industries. His research has been published or is forthcoming in top scholarly journals including "Management Science," "Organization Science," and "Strategic Management Journal." He serves as an Associate Editor for "Strategic Management Journal."

Register for the zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_My-R332ZQeiP40EjWmIQig

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:37:03 -0500 2020-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Brian Wu, Associate Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
A Beautiful Country (December 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79529 79529-20353344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

WATCH ONLINE at http://myumi.ch/PlOEY

Department of Theatre & Drama

By Chay Yew
with additional monologues written by
Alexandra Lee and Amanda Kuo

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a transgender drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it
means to be an American.

This production was filmed over two weeks in the Arthur Miller Theatre and various remote locations according to the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s approved safety plan. All safety protocols for the performing arts to prevent the spread of Covid 19 were observed. The production will receive its premiere on Facebook and be available for one week on YouTube beginning on Wednesday, December 2nd.

more information at: http://myumi.ch/AxRBd

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The People’s Courts Forty Years On - Appraisal and Argument" (December 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76177 76177-19671608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

The PRC’s post-1978 court bureaucracy is assumed to be the cat’s paw of an all-encompassing and authoritarian system of social control—lacking everything from political independence to the technical competence required to play a robust role in contemporary China’s increasingly complex economic system and contentious civil society. This easy appraisal of the function and performance of the People’s Courts at all levels in contemporary China is not accurate now, if it ever was, and ignores concurrent developments in the surrounding political legal system, including the application of a new generation of substantive and procedural laws and regulations, the rise of a private bar intent on pushing the boundaries of professional autonomy, the increased (legal) sophistication and autonomy of PRC judicial officials, and the expansion of the public law and administrative law spheres. Professor Howson will review what the PRC People’s Courts have become in the civil, criminal and administrative law spheres over the past 40 years along three distinct lines of inquiry – (technical) competence, (bureaucratic) autonomy, and (political) independence, and make an argument as to how this key institution may shape the future of China’s “Socialist Legality” and the national governance system.

Nicholas Howson is the Pao Li Tsiang Chair Professor of Law at the Michigan Law School. A specialist in Chinese law and legal institutions and developing Chinese jurisprudence, he is a former partner of the New York based international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he was a managing partner of that firm’s Asia Practice based in Beijing. Starting in the late 1970s, he has spent more than a decade as a student, scholar, and practicing lawyer resident in Beijing and Shanghai, has been active in the Chinese courts and US and international judicial fora as both an advocate and expert witness on Chinese law, and since the late 1990s has advised the National People’s Congress and PRC ministries on the drafting and amendment of key Reform era statutes and administrative regulations, including the 1999 PRC Securities Law, the 2006 PRC Company Law and the 2020 PRC Securities Law.

Register for this webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0AdD6iNDS6-iXL0BS_AaXw

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:17:21 -0500 2020-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Nicholas Howson, Pao Li Tsiang Chair Professor of Law, Michigan Law School
CJS Noon Lecture | Art & Activism in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō (December 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79319 79319-20272778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

What is the role of the artist in building and protecting democracy? This talk introduces a new digital exhibit that situates the art of Hiroshima native Shikoku Gorō in the context of antiwar and anti-nuclear movements (1945 to 2020). Structured around 3 books (Atom Bomb Poems, The Angry Jizo, and Hiroshima Sketches), the site guides visitors through the diverse art that Shikoku, in collaboration with grassroots networks of artists & writers, created to promote social justice: guerilla art protesting the Korean War in solidarity with Korean residents, poems against the nuclear arms race, a children’s book about war, cityscapes critiquing Hiroshima’s wartime past, and recent performing arts that trace this activist history.

Ann Sherif is Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College near Cleveland. She earned a PhD in Japanese Literature at the University of Michigan. Her books include Japan’s Cold War: Media, Literature, and the Law (Columbia UP). Sherif is co-director of Oberlin College’s Luce Initiative on Asia and the Environment (LIASE) Grant and Co-editor of the Cornell University Press series Environments of East Asia. Her current research focuses on anti-war activism and journalism in Japan during the Vietnam War

Zoom seminar registration link: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HQ7Nr7POQnqz5tN_9qMXLw

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:08:40 -0500 2020-12-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-10T13:30:00-05:00 Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Noon Lecture | Art & Activism in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō
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
Stearns Collection Lecture: String and Wind Instruments of China, Xiao Dong Wei (December 16, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79346 79346-20280628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

Xiao Dong Wei is a multi-instrumentalist and lecturer at the University of Michigan Residential College.



Watch at http://myumi.ch/BoRVq

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-12-16T20:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Maverick or Modern: Gong Zizhen (1792 -1841) and the Origins of Buddhist Studies (January 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80214 80214-20601990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

While Gong Zizhen (1792-1841) has been acclaimed as a patriotic poet and a prophet of revolutions and modernity in China, his Buddhist thoughts and practices have often been either overlooked or misunderstood. Why did Gong profess his devotion to Tiantai Buddhism in particular, and yet why did he choose to criticize the Lotus Sutra, the most sacred scripture for Tiantai? This research investigates Gong's unique Buddhism in relation to modern religiosity and modern Buddhist Studies.

Dr. Lang Chen is a research fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Before joining the University of Michigan, she was an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her PhD in religious studies at Yale University and worked as a postdoctoral fellow for the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. She is working on her book project on Tiantai Buddhism in late imperial China.

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.

Zoom webinar, attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P3rfxwFTSnCwLuda2G6lyg

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:17:08 -0500 2021-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Lang Chen, Research Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
CJS Lecture Series | Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (Book Talk) (January 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79536 79536-20373073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

In this talk, which is based on his new book, Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (Duke University Press, 2020), Daisuke Miyao explores the influence of Japanese art on the development of early cinematic visual style, particularly the actualité films made by the Lumière brothers between 1895 and 1905. Examining nearly 1,500 Lumière films, Miyao contends that more than being documents of everyday life, they provided a medium for experimenting with aesthetic and cinematic styles imported from Japan. Miyao further analyzes the Lumière films produced in Japan as a negotiation between French Orientalism and Japanese aesthetics.

Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (Duke University Press, 2020), Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies (University of Hawai’i Press, 2019), The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema (Duke University Press, 2013), Eiga wa neko dearu: Hajimete no cinema sutadizu (Heibonsha, 2011), and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom (Duke University Press, 2007). Miyao also edited The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2014) and co-edited Transnational Cinematography Studies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) with Lindsay Coleman and Roberto Schaefer, ASC.

Registration for this zoom webinar is required. Please do so here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XP-j-lm0QfC309QDdmKCMQ

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:09:04 -0500 2021-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (Book Talk)
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Indigenous Voices, Global Echoes: Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature and the ‘Transnational Tribal Solidarity’ (January 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80183 80183-20594124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Home to fifty-five officially recognized ethnic minority groups, China has witnessed a vibrant blossoming of multiethnic literature produced by its non-Han groups in the reform era. In Western scholarship, such multiethnic literary voices have remained largely silent and understudied. Drawing from her first book manuscript, in this talk, Dr. Zhang will offer a critical and timely introduction to Chinese ethnic minority literature from a global perspective. Particularly, she will demonstrate how literature produced by ethnic groups of southwest China seeks to forge a "transnational tribal solidarity:" minority poets articulate their connections to Native American cultures and Latin American literary influences. Rooted in both indigenous traditions and transnational cultural imagination, contemporary Chinese minority literature is vital for scholars of China and global multiculturalism to understand the movements, interactions, and negotiations taking place between indigenous/ethnic communities, the nation, and transnational forces in our increasingly interconnected world.

Yanshuo Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her current book manuscript, tentatively titled "Beyond Minority: The Qiang and Ethno-national Imagination in Modern China," is an innovative interdisciplinary project that combines anthropological field research in the ethnic regions of southwest China with close reading of previously under-studied minority cultural articulations in contemporary China. Dr. Zhang's articles have appeared or will appear in positions: "asia critique," " Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature," "Heritage and Society," among other journals. She received her PhD in Chinese Literature and Culture from Stanford University and grew up in China's multiethnic Sichuan Province.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:41:22 -0500 2021-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yanshuo Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Sacred Translations: Parasite, English Subtitles, and Global Korean Cinema (January 26, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77258 77258-19828137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

Register at:
https://myumi.ch/bv8Ey

Are subtitles the “one-inch-tall barrier,” as director Bong Joon-ho has characterized in his 2020 Golden Globe speech? Or aren’t they an invitation to foreign cultural products? This presentation revolves around the enthusiastic responses by Korean audiences toward the English subtitles for Bong’s award-winning feature, Parasite (2019). Subtitles have long been the target, probably the easiest target of global cinema fans for their mistranslation. As a subordinate translation to an audiovisual text, subtitling is inherently vulnerable to such criticism due to the technical restrictions of time and space. For Parasite, however, the case was different. As it won Cannes’ Palm d’Or in May 2019, its English subtitles—done by Darcy Paquet—were quickly named as one of the most contributing factors that made Bong’s masterpiece accessible to non-Korean-speaking audiences. Korean film fans lauded Paquet’s English subtitles for achieving the impossible task of translating the highly untranslatable details in Bong’s film, namely “Bong-tail,” which have been considered a feature that characterizes the director’s thorough approach to filmmaking. What sets such Korean audiences’ enthusiasm for English subtitles apart from their general dismissal of Korean subtitles for international films? With the question in mind, my presentation delves into discourses surrounding the audiovisual translation of Parasite on various popular forums, including review-aggregation websites, YouTube videos, and comments sections for news entries. Navigating Koreans’ celebratory reactions to English subtitles of Parasite, the presentation illuminates the popular articulation of global Korean cinema.

Irhe Sohn is Assistant Professor of Korean at Smith College. Ranging from colonial Korean cinema to the history of subtitling and cinema under the authoritarian regime, his research revolves around the relationship between politics and aesthetics in the history of Korean cinema and media. He is currently writing a book manuscript entitled Promises of Failure: Dreams of Cinema in Colonial Korea.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:11:21 -0500 2021-01-26T16:30:00-05:00 2021-01-26T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Irhe Sohn, Assistant Professor of Korean, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Smith College
CJS Lecture Series | Japanese Undergraduate Students’ Study Abroad for Language and Cultural Learning (January 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79686 79686-20454250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

While the Japanese government has been encouraging students to participate in study abroad programs, in comparison with previous reports, a 2019 government White Paper illustrated a further drop in interest in study abroad among students aged 13-19. In this talk, I will present social factors, aspects of English education, and communication styles in Japan contributing to this trend. I will expound upon these issues based on mixed methods studies comparing undergraduate students’ attitudes towards and experiences with language and intercultural learning in Canada where English is the first language, and the Philippines where English is a second language.

Dr. Tajima currently serves as Senior Visiting Scholar in the Mixed Methods Program at the University of Michigan. She is also Associate Professor, Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Gakushuin Women's College in Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests include intercultural /second language communication, evaluation of study abroad programs, and mixed methods research.

Zoom registration required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zGIzhXd_QLOJx3wkVVw8xw

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Dec 2020 17:09:26 -0500 2021-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | Japanese Undergraduate Students’ Study Abroad for Language and Cultural Learning
EIHS Lecture: Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism in India (January 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79649 79649-20438367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This talk presents one genealogy for exploring how the city and the countryside were conceptualized in relation to one another in late colonial India. In particular, it will underscore the contribution urban professionals made to managing—and imagining—agrarian space. Rural change and the expert knowledge required to manage the countryside opened paths for urban concepts and categories to reshape agrarian space in a process that, among other things, gradually made the Indian village legible to town planners. In this way, rural space was made subject to an ensemble of institutional forms and practices grounded in emergent urban paradigms.

William Glover teaches modern South Asian history at the University of Michigan. His research interests include South Asian colonial and post-colonial urban and cultural history, social theory, and the material culture of built environments. He is the author of Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City (University of Minnesota Press, 2008; winner of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies Junior Book Award), and of several articles exploring the imbrication of built environments, knowledge cultures, and urban processes in South Asia.  Professor Glover is the former director of the University of Michigan's Center for South Asian Studies, and former associate director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom.

Presented in partnership with the Center for South Asian Studies. This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:05:29 -0500 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion William Glover
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Becoming 'Inner Kirghiz': Qianlong Emperor’s Policy Toward Five Tribes in Qing Xinjiang (February 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80184 80184-20594125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Using hundreds of Manchu-language archival materials from the Qianlong period, this talk will focus on the Kirghiz, who have largely been overlooked in scholarship on Qing Xinjiang. More specifically, it will argue that there was a group of people Dr. Kim calls "inner Kirghiz" who were firmly incorporated into Qing Xinjiang, thereby bridging the Qing world and the Central Asian world. The case of the inner Kirghiz highlights the blurred boundary between Qing and "foreign" as well as the plurality of Qing Xinjiang society.

Jaymin Kim is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. He received his PhD in history from the University of Michigan in 2018 and has been a LRCCS Center Associate since then.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:59:47 -0500 2021-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jaymin Kim, Assistant Professor of History, University of St. Thomas
CREES Noon Lecture. The Social and Political Impact of COVID-19 in Central Asia (February 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80436 80436-20721797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

As in other regions of the world, Central Asia has struggled to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some governments moved relatively swiftly and decisively to close borders and impose strict social distancing measures, while others adopted similar measures but were slower to implement them. Still others have been reluctant to even acknowledge that COVID-19 poses a serious risk to their citizens. How has the threat of COVID-19 and the government’s response to it affected popular attitudes in Central Asia? Specifically, how has it affected trust and confidence in political leaders, religious leaders, healthcare systems, and local communities? I explore these questions based on an original online and telephone survey conducted in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan during the height of the pandemic. I argue that the pandemic has had inverse effects on trust and confidence in these two countries and that this may be linked to differences in the stability of their respective regimes.

Pauline Jones is professor of political science and director of the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum at the University of Michigan. She has published in several leading academic and policy journals, including the *American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, Current History, Foreign Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies,* and *Resources Policy*. She has authored five books: *Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and Pacts *(2002); *The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence* (2003); *Oil Is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in the Soviet Successor States* (2010); *Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia* (2016); and *The Oxford Handbook on Politics in Muslim Societies* (forthcoming).

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at http://myumi.ch/mnoGG.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, Global Islamic Studies Center, and Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:00:31 -0500 2021-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Pauline Jones
Beastly Badges: the art of adaptive political cultures in nomadic regimes" (February 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81756 81756-20951377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Summary: Nomadic polities are conventionally treated as loose and fragile regimes, adept at far-reaching conquests yet inept at managing the resulting large realms or extensive constituencies. In order to provide a more constructive and robust narrative of nomadic regimes, this talk elucidates strategies of political culture developed by the Xiongnu Empire of Inner Asia (ca. 200 bce- 100 ce), as manifested in the array of belt ornaments that served as badges of personal prestige and emblems of political participation in the steppe empire. Just as adaptations of long-standing traditions of steppe art in the early era served to bolster claims of legitimacy over the entirety of Inner Asia, so did significant alterations that emphasized exotic components allow the imperial nomads of the later era to adapt their political culture not only in response to challenges of interior politics but also to capitalize on the expanding resources of cross-continental exchanges via the Silk Roads.

About: Bryan Miller is a Lecturer in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the archaeology of empires in East Asia, with particular focus on nomadic regimes of Inner Asia. His research includes investigations of hybrid art and practices in the course of culture contact, as well as the interface between local elites and ruling factions, and he is currently completing a book on the Xiongnu nomadic empire.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:10:07 -0500 2021-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual Xiongu bronze belt plate
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Governing the Urban in China and India (February 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80185 80185-20594126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Based on her recently published book, Dr. Ren will talk about the different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residents.

Xuefei Ren is a professor of sociology and global urban studies at Michigan State University and a center associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on urban development, governance, architecture, and the built environment in global perspective. She is the author of two award-winning books: "Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China" (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and "Urban China" (Polity Press, 2013). Currently she is working on several comparative projects, on urban redevelopment (China, India, Brazil, and the US) and culture-led revitalization in post-industrial cities (Detroit, Harbin, and Turin). She is a recipient of a number of distinguished fellowships, including from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, and American Council of Learned Societies. She received her MA in urban planning from Tokyo Metropolitan University and PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. The talk will be based on her new book "Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance and the War on Air Pollution," published by Princeton University Press in 2020.

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.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OFb6NA17TWm20ecTt5dPPQ

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:44:43 -0500 2021-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Governing the Urban in China and India
CJS Lecture Series | Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan (February 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80003 80003-20541129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

What makes a good marriage? How should men and women feel confident deciding which relationships should end? In the early 2000s, amidst demographic and social changes, divorce in Japan rapidly became a newly visible and viable option. At individual, familial, and national levels, in the early 2000s divorce prompted serious conversations about the value of relationships, and the risks and security they bring to the people involved in them. Based on ethnographic work with men and women, and told through deeply personal narratives, Intimate Disconnections describes both the legal process and social transitions surrounding divorce, providing a complex portrait of people balancing the risks and possibilities of intimate relationships in an era when divorce is ever more common.

Allison Alexy is an assistant professor in the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women’s and Gender Studies, at the University of Michigan. A cultural anthropologist focusing on intimacy and family conflicts in contemporary Japan, she has co-edited Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation (Routledge 2011) and Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict (Hawai’i 2019).

Discussant: Ilana Gershon, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University.
Ilana Gershon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University and the author of "Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (Or Don't Find) Work Today" and "TheBreakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media.

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.

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YtAfysaHS5OpN0-x1mzg_A

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 11:01:29 -0500 2021-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
How We Do, a discussion & workshop with artist Chitra Ganesh (February 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80789 80789-20793300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Chitra Ganesh, a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist of South Asian origin, creates installations, comics, animation, sculpture, and mixed media works on paper. Her process often engages historical and mythic texts as inspiration and points of departure to create new representations of culture, femininity, sexuality, and power, and to bring queer femme perspectives typically absent from canons of literature and art. 

How does Ganesh employ research to approach these large ideas, identities, and histories in her research and creative process? Join this discussion + workshop to learn directly from Ganesh about her artistic practice, and to apply a little of her approach to your own creative projects (whether they be artistic, conceptual, entrepreneurial, or otherwise). Browse her website and Instagram.

During the workshop

Participants are invited to think of something that inspires them and/or they have questions about:

- a film - a book, poem, comic or graphic novel, or other form of writing - a common historical narrative - a person (past or present) - something from Tik Tok - a meme - a video

Through discussion, writing, doodling, drawing, and other exercises, this workshop will offer the space to explore and expand the ways in which creative projects can offer critiques of society, ideas about history and identity, and new imaginings of what is possible.

Sultana’s Dream and recent work

Recently acquired by UMMA and featured in the upcoming exhibition Oh honey...A queer reading of the collection, Ganesh’s series of prints Sultana’s Dream takes its inspiration from a 1905 text by the same name written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a trailblazer for women's rights in South Asia. In Ganesh's words, Sultana’s Dream is a moving blueprint for an urban utopia that centers concepts such as collective knowledge production, fair governance, radical farming, scientific inquiry, safe space for refugees, and a work-life balance that includes down time and dreaming, all with women--as thinkers, leaders, rebels, and visionaries--at the helm. A video installation titled How We Do accompanied two exhibitions of Sultana’s Dream in New York and Bangladesh. In the installation, Ganesh mixed how-to videos and media reports found online with clips she solicited from friends and members of her broader queer and trans communities, seeking to build a body of collective knowledge and skill-sharing techniques, which she proposes are an essential aspect of an equitable future.

In her most recent work, A city will tell you her secrets if you ask, this year’s QUEERPOWER public art installation at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in NYC, Ganesh celebrates queer, trans, and BIPOC histories of downtown Manhattan while commemorating the deaths of trans people murdered in 2020 and LGBTQ activists lost to COVID. 

Related events

Chitra Ganesh: On Utopia and Dissent. Friday, March 12, 8 p.m.  presented by UMMA and the Penny Stamps Speaker Series

Chitra Ganesh programs are organized in partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and the Spectrum Center in conjunction with the upcoming UMMA exhibition Oh honey...a queer reading of the collection. 

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:16:06 -0500 2021-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
CSAS Lecture Series | Gandhi and the Claims of Indian Modernity (February 12, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76260 76260-19679592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Is there a way to integrate Gandhi’s philosophical and moral ideas with his understanding of British colonialism in the decades long political campaign against it that he led?

Is it possible to find a broadly left-wing reading of Gandhi in his critique of European modernity or is it only possible to find a progressive understanding of Gandhi outside of and despite his anti-modernism?

These are the two related questions that Akeel Bilgrami will explore in his lecture.

Akeel Bilgrami got a BA in English Literature from Elphinstone College, Bombay University and went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He has a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He has held the Johnsonian Professorship of Philosophy and holds the Sidney Morgenbesser Chair of Philosophy at Columbia University, where he is also a Professor on the Committee on Global Thought. He has been the Director of the Heyman Centre for the Humanities as well as the South Asian Institute at Columbia. He is the Editor of the Journal of Philosophy and also the President of its Board of Trustees. His publications include the books Belief and Meaning (1992), Self-Knowledge and Resentment (2006), and Secularism, Identity and Enchantment (2014) and over a hundred articles on topics ranging from the nature of meaning to the relation between religion and society and culture. He is due to publish two books in the near future: What is a Muslim? (Princeton University Press) and Gandhi, The Philosopher (Columbia University Press). His longer-term future work is on the relations between value, agency, and practical reason.He has held Visiting positions at Oxford University, Yale University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Australian National University, and has received a number of awards –from the National Institute of the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, the Luce Foundation, twice from the Mellon Foundation, and the Social Scientist of the Year award in India in 2015. He has served on the Jury of the Architecture Award for the Aga Khan Foundation as well as on the Jury for the Infosys Humanities Prize for the last several years and is its current Jury Chairman.

Professor Bilgrami lives in New York and is married with one daughter.

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodeuprDMqGNFDVzsoS5XFTduBtiuHKUOx

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:50:25 -0500 2021-02-12T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Democratization and violence in the Korean context (February 16, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77259 77259-19828138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

Register at:
https://myumi.ch/r895z

Capacity in violence is generally understood to be key condition of the state-building process. As capacity is achieved and a state gains supremacy over would-be competitors, the use of violence by the state is hypothesized to “wither-away,” especially in states that have made it into the democratic camp. However, my work demonstrates, theoretically and empirically, that conventional wisdom is inadequate, and that rather than withering away, political violence evolves according to the changing socio-political environment and varying tasks of the state.

Using principally cases stemming from South Korea, a high capacity, consolidated democracy as a lens for theory building and corroboration, my publications (and co-authored book project) chronicle the evolution of political violence, from the state`s mobilization of thugs to suppress opposition at the early stages of the state-building process, through its collaboration with violence specialists for developmental projects, to the manipulation of quasi-governmental organizations after democratization in the late 1980s. My research (and the topic of this discussion) looks at how political development, i.e. democratization, has produced new demands for—and constraints on—political violence and how post-authoritarian governments have responded.

Jonson N. Porteux received his PhD from the University of Michigan (Political Science) in 2013, with a focus on comparative politics and international relations, and a regional emphasis on East Asia. He publishes most extensively on the economic and political causes and consequences of violence and democratization. Most recently his work has been featured in Democratization and the Journal of East Asian Studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:45:48 -0500 2021-02-16T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-16T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Jonson Porteux, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Studies, Kansai Gaidai University (Japan)
CJS Lecture Series | At the Crossroads of Peace and Coexistence: Documenting the Lives of Japanese Wives of Korean Repatriates (February 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79394 79394-20294472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

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

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

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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.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:14:13 -0500 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Noon Lecture Series | At the Crossroads of Peace and Coexistence: Documenting Life of Japanese Wives of Korean Repatriates
Schwarzman Scholars Info Session (February 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82201 82201-21052535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

REGISTER: https://myumi.ch/mnrGg

Designed to prepare young leaders to deepen understanding between China and the rest of the world, Schwarzman Scholars is the first scholarship created to respond to the geopolitical landscape of the 21st Century. Whether in politics, business or science, the success of future leaders around the world will depend upon an understanding of China’s role in global trends.

Schwarzman Scholars gives the world’s best and brightest students the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and professional networks through a one-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing – one of China’s most prestigious universities. Students pursue a Masters in Global Affairs, working with an academic advisor to design an academic plan that best suits his or her academic and professional goals.

This experience will expand students’ understanding of the world and create a growing network of global leaders that will build strong ties between China and the rest of the world.

For those ready to make their mark on the world, Schwarzman Scholars represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Learn more by attending our online information session!

Note: This session is intended for applicants with Chinese passports for whom the application period begins earlier than U.S. and Global applicants.

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/global/schwarzman-scholars.html

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 13:48:23 -0500 2021-02-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Beijing
CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Time, Memory, Oblivion: Social Frames and the Production of Collective Pasts (February 19, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76257 76257-19679586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Autobiographical memories make individuals who they are but they are anchored in the frame of collective memory. These together that make us who we are. How then are these are made? And how do those processes bear on academic history?

I will argue that collective memory world-wide has been made by how communities recollect pasts in order to shape their presents. The shaping of collective and historical memory must be seen in world-historical context. Analysis reaches out beyond the cloistered world of the formal academy to argue that “history” is but one kind of collective memory .

Collective memory itself is the result of both remembering and forgetting, of the preservation and the decay of record. These processes work through socio-political organizations that shape collective memory. The two disappear alongside each other.

I will sketch the diverse ways these practices worked before colonial rule came to South Asia. I emphasize that the feebleness of organized power made it possible for many contradictory memories to coexist. The creation of a centralized educational system and the mass production of textbooks began to unify historical discourses under colonial auspices. For the first time, students and their families were confronted by an authoritative, unified narrative. That triggered opposition and the development of alternative anti-colonial histories. Finally, these discourses diverged in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization.

I will gesture therefore toward sources in many languages from different regions to provide an intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized collective and historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. Most of the lecture will focus on the less studied period before Western imperialism and the imposition of Western modes of thought. I hope thereby to contribute to contemporary debates about historical memory and objective evidence in seemingly ‘post-truth’ world.

Sumit Guha, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Before his current position, Sumit Guha has taught at the St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata, Brown University and Rutgers University. He began as an economic historian with interests in demography and agriculture. These widened into the study of environmental and ethnic histories. His first book was *The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan 1818-1941* (Oxford University Press, 1985) followed by *Environment and Ethnicity in India, c. 1200-1991* (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and *Health and Population in South Asia from earliest times to the present* (Permanent Black, and Charles Hurst & Co., 2001). This was followed by *Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present* (E.J. Brill, 2013). A corrected Indian edition appeared from Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2016.

His recent book *History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000* was published by the University of Washington Press in October 2019. In Spring 2021, the Association for Asian Studies will publish his newest work, *Tribe and State in Asia* through Columbia University Press.

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlcuCgqjgvG9Mij4KP5nymLs_cXh4sL5NW

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:32:37 -0500 2021-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Sumit Guha, Professor, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professorship in History, University of Texas at Austin
CJS Lecture Series | *Nuclear Nation *(2013), Screening & Discussion (February 22, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80157 80157-20572602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this event will begin at 8pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents, the region housing the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The town’s people have now lost their homeland. Through their agonies and frustrations, the film questions the real cost of capitalism and nuclear energy.

Atsushi Funahashi is a Tokyo-based filmmaker. He studied filmmaking at School of Visual Arts, New York. His debut feature echoes (2001) won three jury & audience awards at Annonay International Film Festival, France. His films *Big River* (2006), *Deep in the Valley* (2009), *Nuclear Nation I & II* (2012, 2014), and *Cold Bloom* (2013) all premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and have been released in many countries.

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.

Participants are invited to screen the film prior to this discussion:
Rent on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nuclearnation
View via U-M Library (U-M affiliates only): https://bit.ly/3jTOaG9

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:30:04 -0500 2021-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | “Nuclear Nation” (2013), Screening & Discussion
II Round Table. Open Access Publishing in Asian Studies (February 26, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81304 81304-20881904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Open Access publishing means that ebooks can be read by anybody in the world with access to an internet connection. Because open access titles are openly-licensed and downloadable as well as free-to-read online, they are now also available for integration into digital scholarship projects. As book publishing moves increasingly digital, an International Institute collaboration with the U-M Press and with the Asia Library offers new opportunities for imaginative publishing that transcends disciplinary boundaries, reaches readers outside as well as inside the academy, and extends the understanding of Asian culture, history, and society around the world.

Over the last 50 years, the centers now housed in the University of Michigan International Institute have published over 300 ground-breaking books about East, South, and Southeast Asia. In 2018, these centers collaborated with University of Michigan Press and the U-M Asia Library to successfully apply for a Humanities Open Book program grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aimed at making important backlist books broadly available again. This funding has allowed a complete record of the centers’ publications to be compiled and for 100 selected titles to be brought back into print and made digitally-available open access. These are now all freely available on major online platforms including JSTOR, Project MUSE, OAPEN, and as part of the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection.

This event highlights the impact of the Michigan Asian Studies Open Access Books Collection so far, and asks “where do we go from here?” While it is focused on the Michigan publications as a case study, the panel aims to explore more broadly the opportunities for Open Access publishing in Asian studies more generally.

Register for the event at https://myumi.ch/r8w17

Program (All Times US Eastern)

1:00–1:05 pm Moderator Welcome
Charles Watkinson, Director, University of Michigan Press

1:05–1:15 pm Introductory Remarks
Mary Gallagher, Director, International Institute

1:15–1:30 pm “The Humanities Open Book Program: Its Goals and Impact”
Brett Bobley, Director, Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities

1:30–2:00 pm The Michigan Asian Studies Open Access Books Collection: Lessons Learned
Editorial: Christopher Dreyer, Acquiring Editor, Asian Studies, UMP
Technology/IP: Joe Muller, Digital Publishing Coordinator, Michigan Publishing
Impact: Emma DiPasquale, Engagement Manager, Michigan Publishing

2:10–3:00 pm Panel 1: Open Access and Digital Scholarship: Going Beyond the Book
Moderator: Youngju Ryu, University of Michigan
Emily Wilcox, College of William and Mary
Jonathan Zwicker, University of California, Berkeley
Karil Kucera, St. Olaf College
Markus Nornes, University of Michigan

3:10–4:00 pm Panel 1: Extending Impact and Reach through Open Access: Toward Equity and Inclusion?
Moderator: Dawn Lawson, University of Michigan
Aswin Punathambekar, University of Virginia
John Ciorciari, University of Michigan
Liangyu Fu, University of Michigan
Lisa Trivedi, Hamilton College

4:10–4:30 pm “Where can we go from here? What future opportunities do open access approaches offer Asian studies? And what challenges do these approaches pose?”

4:30–5:00 pm Whole Group Discussion

Thank you to the directors of the participating centers (CJS, CSAS, CSEAS, LRCCS, NCKS) and Asia Library: The Center for Japanese Studies: Reginald Jackson; The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies: Twila Tardif; The Center for South Asian Studies: Jatin Dua; The Center for Southeast Asian Studies: Laura Rozek; The Nam Center for Korean Studies: Nojin Kwak; The Asia Library: Dawn Lawson.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at lib.accessibility@umich.edu or 734-763-9020. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:52:40 -0500 2021-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Workshop / Seminar Open Access Publishing in Asian Studies
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Propaganda as Viral Stunts: How Party Press in China Navigates Between Tradition and Innovation (March 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80186 80186-20594127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk presents findings from Dr. Zou’s recent work that investigates the production of soft propaganda campaigns on China’s social media, where ideological persuasion is entwined with various forms of digital play, such as hip-hop music videos, memes/hashtags, and interactive mini-games. China’s state-run media play a crucial role in producing and distributing soft propaganda campaigns. This talk offers a glimpse of such campaigns and presents a nuanced mezzo-level analysis on the inter- and intra-organizational dynamics within the Party press system that contribute to the increasing output of soft propaganda. It shifts the emphasis from the effect of propaganda as a political instrument to the design of propaganda, which fashions an aesthetic and affective experience and opens up an ambient process of subject formation.

Sheng Zou is a postdoctoral research fellow at Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies of the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in Communication from Stanford University. His research interests include global media industries, digital politics and popular culture, platform economy and labor, and emergent technologies. His dissertation and book project: "The Engineering of Sentiment and Desire: Unraveling the Aestheticized Politics of Ideotainment in China" examines the shifting paradigm of propaganda and emotional governance in China, with emphasis on the entanglement of ideological persuasion and online entertainment.

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.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y_v9cJkeQM2fyVFZQlH3ZA

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:46:44 -0500 2021-03-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Sheng Zou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Korean War through the Prism of the Interrogation Room (March 2, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78269 78269-20002852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

Register at:
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Through the interrogation rooms of the Korean War, this talk demonstrates how the individual human subject became both the terrain and the jus ad bellum for this critical U.S. war of ‘intervention’ in postcolonial Korea. In 1952, with the US introduction of voluntary POW repatriation proposal at Panmunjom, the interrogation room and the POW became a flashpoint for an international controversy ultimately about postcolonial sovereignty and political recognition.

The ambitions of empire, revolution and non-alignment converged upon this intimate encounter of military warfare: the interrogator and the interrogated prisoner of war. Which state could supposedly reinvent the most intimate power relation between the colonizer and the colonized, to transform the relationship between the state and subject into one of liberation, democracy or freedom? Tracing two generations of people across the Pacific as they navigate multiple kinds of interrogation from the 1940s and 1950s, this talk lay outs a landscape of interrogation – a dense network of violence, bureaucracy, and migration – that breaks apart the usual temporal bounds of the Korean War as a discrete event.

Monica Kim is a historian of the United States and international and diplomatic history. In her research and teaching, she focuses on three issues that have centrally informed the position of the United States vis-à-vis the decolonizing world during the twentieth century and beyond: the relationships between liberalism and racial formations, global militarism and sovereignty, and transnational political movements and international law.

Her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (2019) has received three book prizes:
2021 James B. Palais Book Prize (Korean Studies) from the Association for Asian Studies
2020 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
2020 Distinguished Book Award in U.S. History, Society for Military History

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:27:07 -0500 2021-03-02T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-02T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Monica Kim, Assistant Professor, History, University of Wisconsin
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
CJS Lecture Series | How Japan Got It Wrong: Government Policy, Gender, and the Birth Rate (March 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79789 79789-20493918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

Over the past three decades, the Japanese government has enacted a series of measures to boost the country’s anemic birth rate. Nevertheless, the birth rate has hovered around 1.4 children per woman, far below what is required for the population to reproduce itself. Why haven’t the policies worked? I argue that policies that have focused on trying to make women’s work lives more like men’s have fundamentally missed the mark. Not only have such policies failed to raise the birth rate, they have also arguably exacerbated gender inequality. This paper suggests that future government and workplace policies move in a different direction.

Mary C. Brinton is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and the Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Her research focuses on contemporary Japanese society and economy, labor markets, social demography, and gender inequality. She has published widely on gender inequality in Japan and in East Asia more broadly.

Zoom registration is required here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JsLH5WpASsyrQLLYRqMn9g

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:50:21 -0500 2021-03-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
A Taste of Frontier Medicine: The Kumys Cure in Sergei Aksakov’s Eastern Frontier Trilogy (March 4, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81936 81936-20990916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

"A Taste of Frontier Medicine” considers Sergei Aksakov’s extensive, mid-nineteenth-century memoirs through the lens of a “frontier family narrative,” a genre perhaps more familiar in the American literary setting. While Aksakov’s work has received critical attention for its memoiristic content and attention to nature, the geohistorical specificity of the trilogy’s setting has been overlooked. This is surprising given the recent interest in understanding Russian colonial and imperial experience. A Family Chronicle (1856) and Childhood Years (1856) are not books in which the action could take place anywhere or in some generic pastoral or provincial space. Rather, they are about a specific place – Orenburgskii krai (Bashkiria) – that was a borderland, frontier, and contact zone from the time of its inclusion within Russian imperial space in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries into Aksakov’s lifetime. In “A Taste of Frontier Medicine,” I explore some of the ways in which the eastern Russian border with “Asia” broadly understood frames Aksakov’s work, as well as how these texts make claims about Russian identity as something defined by and in the “hybrid,” Eurasian sphere of the border zone. Discussion will center on two episodes that articulate a critical aspect of Aksakov’s frontier imaginary: the narrator’s mother’s taking of a “kumys cure.” The “kumys cure” serves as a revitalizing moment that establishes “nomadic,” “Asiatic” elements of the frontier as a crucial antidote to both a perceived excess of civilization and, counter-intuitively, to the potential dangers of the frontier zone itself.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:45:06 -0500 2021-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar A Taste of Frontier Medicine
CSAS Book Talk | The Globally Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80586 80586-20759739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India has created opportunities for young people to creatively explore their gendered, classed, and racialized subjectivities in and through transnational media worlds. His ethnography focuses on a group of diverse young, working-class men in Delhi as they take up the African diasporic aesthetics and creative practices of hip hop. Dattatreyan shows how these aspiring b-boys, MCs, and graffiti writers fashion themselves and their city through their online and offline experimentations with hip hop, thereby accessing new social, economic, and political opportunities while acting as consumers, producers, and influencers in global circuits of capitalism. In so doing, Dattatreyan outlines how the hopeful, creative, and vitally embodied practices of hip hop offer an alternative narrative of urban place-making in "digital" India.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:22:59 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS Book Talk | The Globally: Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi
Karma Yoga - Spirituality in Every Action (March 6, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82692 82692-21157679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle

About the Speaker: https://rkmdelhi.org/about-us/swami-shantatmananda/
About Karma Yoga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Yoga_(book)

Please come. All are welcome. .

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:25:15 -0500 2021-03-06T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-06T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Vedanta Study Circle Lecture / Discussion Talk by Swami Shantatmananda
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cultural Mediations in the Great Wall Frontier: The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China (March 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80187 80187-20594128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Great Wall regions of northern China have long been characterized as frontiers of political and cultural expansion in which steppe groups were acculturated and assimilated into Chinese society. Yet examinations of individual communities and persons in the frontier demonstrate overarching vacillations of political sovereignties and varied mélanges of cultural practices. This lecture engages historical and archaeological discussions of the Southern Xiongnu (ca.50-200 CE) as one example of local leaders who navigated their presence between exterior competing regimes through a suite of hybrid cultural mediations to successfully maintain independent political power.

Bryan K. Miller received a MA in Archaeology from UCLA and a PhD in East Asian Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. His research investigates the history and archaeology of early empires in East Asia, focusing on intrapolity social and economic developments that occurred over the course of large polities as well as the interaction between regimes of Mongolia and China. His publications include studies of political substrata and the roles of local elites in regional polities, alternate models of interaction for frontier matrices of cultures in contact, functions and configurations of urban settings, and the interplay between local politics and larger processes of globalization. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the Xiongnu Empire for Oxford University Press.

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Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9qILPj9MQa6RuEtKpxd_9g

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:51:15 -0500 2021-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Bryan K. Miller, Lecturer in the U-M History of Art Department
CSAS Film Series | Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director (March 11, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82550 82550-21116098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:11:02 -0500 2021-03-11T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Covid Response ~ A Himalayan Story; Talk and Q&A with the Director
CJS Lecture Series | 3.11—Ten Years Later: Addressing Gender Disparity in Japan’s Disaster Response (March 11, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79859 79859-20509624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

(日本語版はこちら)https://myumi.ch/v2y3Q
Delivered in Japanese with English translation.

Disasters have been known to exacerbate pre-disaster inequalities, with greater impact on vulnerable populations. In 2011, the “3.11 Great East Japan Disaster” — a cascade of a M9.0 earthquake, massive tsunamis, and a nuclear accident — struck Japan, which at that time ranked just 98th of the 135 countries on the Gender Gap Index (121th of the 153 countries in 2020). Now 10 years after 3.11, panelists will discuss the disaster’s effects on women through their own experience and grassroots activism, illuminating ways in which structures and norms of Japanese society contributed to women’s increased vulnerability in this time of crisis. They will provide invaluable first-hand accounts of how women in Japan organized and exposed post-disaster gender-based violence, advocated for more gender-informed disaster policies and response, shattered societal indifference and denial, and created change.

Teruko Karikome
Ms. Teruko Karikome is a founder and former Executive Director (2007~2019) of NPO Women’s Space Fukushima, Inc. (formerly Association for Women’s Independence). Following the Great East Japan Disaster, her organization managed “Women’s Space” in the biggest evacuation shelter in Fukushima, and continues to operate programs such as telephone counseling, support groups, and workshops on gender-based violence, while advocating for policy attention to women in Fukushima.

Reiko Masai
Ms. Reiko Masai is a founder and Executive Director of NPO Women’s Net Kobe, Inc., the first group in Japan to call attention to disaster-related gender-based violence. For over thirty years, Ms. Masai has worked to promote women’s rights and gender equality in Japan. In 2007, she launched Disaster & Gender Information Network, the first initiative of its kind in Japan, and co-founded Women's Network for East Japan Disaster in 2011, also the first of its kind, advocating for more inclusive disaster response.

Etsuko Yahata
Ms. Etsuko Yahata, founder and Executive Director of NPO Hearty Sendai Inc., spearheaded grassroots initiatives to assist women affected by the Great East Japan Disaster, on top of running a domestic violence shelter and many assistance programs. Originally trained as a midwife, she has since worked over 30 years in advocating against gender-based violence, promoting reproductive health and justice, human rights and nonviolence; also serving as board of director for Sendai Gender Equal Opportunity Foundation, Child Line Miyagi and many others.

Mieko Yoshihama
As a professor at the U-M School of Social Work, her teaching and research focus on promoting the wellbeing of marginalized communities. In Japan, she co-founded the Domestic Violence Research & Action Group in 1990 and conducted the nation’s first study of domestic violence; she also co-founded Women's Network for East Japan Disaster in 2011 and conducted a study of gender-based violence following the disaster, the first of its kind in Japan, as well as PhotoVoice Project (see below).

PhotoVoice Exhibit
Established in 2011, the PhotoVoice Project works with women affected by the Great East Japan Disaster, documenting their experiences through their own photography and written messages (“voices”), which serve to inform more inclusive disaster prevention and reconstruction efforts. This online PhotoVoice exhibition opens March 11, 2021.
https://photovoiceprojectjapan.zenfolio.com/exhibition


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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:05:05 -0500 2021-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Addressing Gender Disparity in Japan’s Disaster Response
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
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.

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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
CSAS Lecture Series | The Price of Acceptability: On South Asian Inclusion and Exclusion in the US (March 12, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76261 76261-19679593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 11:30:13 -0500 2021-03-12T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Vivek Bald, Comparative Media Studies, MIT
2021 Doris Sloan Memorial Program Chitra Ganesh: On Utopia and Dissent (March 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80790 80790-20793301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975, Brooklyn, NY) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. For the past 20 years, Ganesh's drawing-based practice has shed light on narrative representations of femininity, sexuality, and power typically absent from canons of literature and art. Ganesh’s installations, comics, animation, sculpture, and mixed media works on paper often take historical and mythic texts as inspiration and points of departure to complicate received ideas of iconic female forms. Her studies in literature, semiotics, and social theory have been critical to a steady engagement with narrative and deconstruction that animates her work. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia, with solo exhibitions at MoMA P.S.1, The Warhol Museum, Göteborgs Konsthall, Brooklyn Museum, Rubin Museum, Kitchen, and most recently, A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask, the 4th Annual QUEERPOWER Facade Commission at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York City. (currently on view through October 2021). 

Her work Sultana’s Dream was recently acquired by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Oh, honey… A queer reading of the collection in fall 2021. Learn more about Sultana’s Dream in UMMA’s online presentation of the exhibition. 

Her work has also been exhibited in group exhibitions across the United States, including at The Walker Art Center, MN; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Queens Museum of Art, NY; The Asia Society, NY; The Bronx  Museum, NY, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; and the Boca Raton Museum of Art, LA, among others. Ganesh’s work has also been widely exhibited across Europe and Asia, including at the Hayward Gallery, London, Saatchi Museum, London; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Spain; the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Kunstalle Exnergrasse, Vienna, Arthotek Kunstverein, Göttingen; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; the Gwangju Contemporary Arts Centre, Korea; Parasite, Hong Kong, the Bhau Daji Lad and Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai; Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and the Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; The Kochi-Muzuris Biennale, India, & the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh among others.

Ganesh's works are held in prominent public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Berkeley Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum, among others. She has received numerous awards, including  the New York Foundation for the Arts; Art Matters Foundation; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; the Joan Mitchell Foundation; and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, Pollock Krasner Foundation, and most recently the Anonymous was a Woman Award in 2020. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her M.F.A. from Columbia University.

Lead support for Oh, honey...A queer reading of the collection is provided by Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.  

The 2021 Doris Sloan Memorial Program is presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. Established through the generosity of Dr. Herbert Sloan, this annual program honors one of the Museum’s most ardent friends and supporters, Doris Sloan, a long-time UMMA docent.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:15:49 -0500 2021-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Innovations in Global Maternal Healthcare Delivery (March 15, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82932 82932-21225228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for the History of Medicine

Hi UMMS!

NextGen Med and the Society for the History and Philosophy of Medicine are excited to co-host an educational discussion on Monday, March 15th from 5-6PM via Zoom! Please join us for a talk and Q&A, "How Philanthropy Can Catalyze Innovation in Global Public Health: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Focuses in the Gates Foundation," with Program Officer Mrs. Anisha Gururaj.

Anisha Gururaj is a Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in the Maternal Newborn Child Health, Discovery & Tools team, where she develops strategy and manages an investment portfolio focused on developing and delivering novel technologies, like digital health, AI, and connected diagnostics, to transform maternal and newborn health across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Previously, she has worked for a wide variety of technology and public health-focused organizations, ranging from the Baltimore city health department to med device startups and large manufacturing companies. She has a B.S. in Chemical-Biological Engineering from MIT and a dual MSc in Global Governance & Diplomacy and Women's Health Sciences from the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Zoom link here: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93942689324
Meeting ID: 939 4268 9324

Hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:50:14 -0500 2021-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T18:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for the History of Medicine Livestream / Virtual
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Global Medicine in Chinese East Asia, 1937-1970 (March 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80188 80188-20594129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This presentation makes the case for a new concept of “global medicine" to highlight the multivalent and multidirectional flows of medical practices and ideas circulating around the world in the 20th century through the examination of two case studies on how the Chinese diaspora came to shape biomedicine in China and Taiwan from 1937 to 1970. First, the presentation examines how Chinese American women medical personnel came to establish the first Chinese blood bank in New York and Kunming, China. Second, this talk reveals how Singapore-born and Edinburgh-educated Dr. Robert Lim successfully relocated the National Defense Medical Center from China to Taiwan in 1948 despite the longstanding challenges posed by the Chinese Civil War. This presentation highlights the essential intersections of scientific expertise, political freedoms, and diasporic power in shaping global medicine in China and Taiwan through a critical examination of these two medical encounters between the diaspora and the local Chinese and Taiwanese.

Wayne Soon (PhD Princeton) is an Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College. His book, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford University Press, 2020), tells the global medical histories of Chinese East Asia through the lens of diasporic Chinese medical personnel, who were central in introducing new practices of military medicine, blood banking, mobile medicine, and mass medical training to China and Taiwan. Universal care, practical medical education, and mobile medicine are all lasting legacies of this effort on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. Dr. Soon’s published and forthcoming articles can be found in "Twentieth Century China," "Bulletin of the History of Medicine," "American Journal of Chinese Studies," and "East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal."

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.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zruicPE8SpOGti5PJxsvAA

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:32:00 -0500 2021-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Wayne Soon, Assistant Professor of History, Vassar
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
CJS Lecture Series | An Introduction to Ishinomaki Kokeshi (March 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79777 79777-20491897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

In this lecture, Takatoshi Hayashi will explain the origins of his "Ishinomaki Kokeshi" concept, reflect on its development over the past six years, and discuss its future. He will also demonstrate how to carve an Ishinomaki Kokeshi from his home workshop.

Takatoshi Hayashi was born and raised in Ishinomaki. After graduating from university, he spent ten years working as a quasi-civil servant in various capacities. In 2009, he returned home to help run his family's kimono shop, Hayashi Gofuku-ten. He became the official head of Hayashi Gofuku-ten in 2019.

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.

Zoom registration required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ro5btsbQA2HAY0D9rcGMQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:20:01 -0500 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Takatoshi Hayashi, Maker of Kokeshi dolls
Heung Coalition Event | Empire's Afterlives: Legacies of Militarization and Cultural Politics in Korea (March 18, 2021 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82718 82718-21163657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 10:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please register for this event here:
https://myumi.ch/qgkxW

In their article, “Transpacific Entanglements,” Yên Lê Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Lisa Yoneyama argue that “U. S. neoliberalism mediates itself through the U. S. national security state, which is simultaneously a racial and a settler state; this is expressed not merely in the racialization of the Asian and Pacific Islander peoples but significantly in the erasure of historical and ongoing settler colonialism and, furthermore, in a racial social order that simultaneously pronounces antiblackness and Islamophobia.” In the case of Korea, such processes are evident in the ongoing division of the peninsula, the presence of U. S. military bases, and the praise for South Korea’s ascendency in the global capitalist order - even as this ascent remains contingent upon exploitation in other countries such as Vietnam and Indonesia.

For this event, we bring together E. Tammy Kim and Eunsong Kim to discuss these “transpacific entanglements” with U. S. neoliberalism, militarization, and racism that South Korea’s own position reveals. What are the legacies of militarism in Korea and how do they impact the everyday lives of Koreans within and outside the peninsula? What does South Korea’s position as a sub-empire reveal about the ways in which ongoing legacies of the Cold War affect the narratives around Asia and Asia America? How do such narratives manifest in the cultural politics of South Korea? How can we form transnational spaces to counter the results and norms of U. S. militarism and work towards building solidarity outside the parameters inscribed by U. S. militarism? Please join us on Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 7pm PST for this important and timely conversation between E. Tammy Kim and Eunsong Kim.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Eunsong Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and an affiliate faculty of the department of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies at Northeastern University. Her practice spans: poetry, translation, visual culture and critical race & ethnic studies. Her book project in progress, "The Politics of Collecting: Property & Race & Aesthetic Formations" considers how legal conceptions of racialized property become foundational to avant-garde and modern understandings of innovation in the arts. Her essays have appeared in: "Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association," "Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies," and in the book anthologies, "Poetics of Social Engagement and Reading Modernism with Machines." Her poetry has appeared in the Brooklyn Magazine, The Iowa Review, Minnesota Review, and P-Queue amongst others. Her first book of poetry, "gospel of regicide," was published by Noemi Press in 2017, and her co-translation (with Sung Gi Kim) of Kim Eon Hee’s poetic text "Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days?" was published in 2019. She is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship, a grant from the Andy Warhol Art Writers Program, and Yale’s Poynter Fellowship.

E. Tammy Kim is a freelance reporter and essayist, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and a co-host of the podcast Time to Say Goodbye. In 2016, with Yale Professor Michael Veal, she published Punk Ethnography, a book about the politics of contemporary world music. She writes about the Koreas and labor and public goods in the U.S. for The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, and many other outlets, and previously worked at The New Yorkerand Al Jazeera America. Before pursuing a career in journalism, Ms. Kim was a social justice attorney, and she has been active in the U.S. labor movement. She is currently the 2021 James H. Ottaway Sr. visiting professor of journalism at SUNY New Paltz.

Co-sponsored by the Heung Coalition, the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan and the Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:25:35 -0500 2021-03-18T22:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T23:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Heung Coalition Event | Empire's Afterlives: Legacies of Militarization and Cultural Politics in Korea
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
The Ocean in the School: How Pacific Islander Students Transformed their University (March 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82934 82934-21225230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

In this talk, we will explore the ways in which Pacific Islander Students learned how to understand and engage with their isolation and alienation from school to eventually transform it into a place of discovery and meaningfulness. Building against the historical contexts of imperialism as well as the structural forms of domination that students lived through, we will touch on the values of collective work and cultural activism that Pacific Islanders and their allies enhanced to enable resistance and institutional change. We will learn what it meant to embrace the ocean in their school. This talk will then be followed by a discussion with the audience.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:00:13 -0500 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Picture of ocean wave washes on sandy beach
CSAS Lecture Series | Theorizing the Company Village: Corporate Social Responsibility in India’s Mining Belt (March 26, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80219 80219-20601995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Over the last two decades, the pace and scale of private extractive industry in central and eastern India’s mountainous regions has intensified, producing a profusion of open cast mines, power plants, refineries, and steel plants that have converted vast agricultural and forestlands to new extractive and industrial use. Through the activities of their Corporate Social Responsibility units, firms become embedded in the countryside through what I call “company villages.” These are inversions of the “company town” of the past, which emerged in the 20th century as companies were forced by labor mobilization to enact programs for social welfare, redistribution, and development—what we might consider corporate social ethics—within the body of the firm itself. In a sector that is now heavily mechanized and capital-intensive, firms attempt to demonstrate their social ethics on sites and on behalf of communities that are exterior to and on the periphery of their plants and mines. In place of the labor-capital dynamics that produced hard-won welfare for workers in yesterday’s company towns, today’s extractive economies are marked by these company villages, as firms build and operate rehabilitation settlements, hospitals, schools, and cottage industries, extending the spatial reach of their presence far beyond the perimeters of mine pitheads and industrial plants. This talk will illustrate the dynamics of the “company village” by drawing on fieldwork at several locations in Odisha, India.

Sunila S. Kale is Associate Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, where she also serves as Chair and Director of South Asia Studies. Her research and teaching focus on Indian and South Asian politics, energy studies, the political economy of development, and the history of capitalism. Her books include *Electrifying India* (Stanford 2014) and *Mapping Power* (OUP 2018). She is currently working on two book-length projects: one on corporate social responsibility and socio-economic change in the mining areas of eastern India, and a second on yoga in the world of politics (with Christian Lee Novetzke).

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0vc-qsrzIoEtywZcPyRnhns5YjokKT0grE

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 12 Jan 2021 15:55:49 -0500 2021-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS Lecture Series | Theorizing the Company Village: Corporate Social Responsibility in India’s Mining Belt
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
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dancing Productive Missteps: the American Dance Festival at China’s Reform Era (March 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80189 80189-20594130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk explores the paradoxical role that the US played in China’s dance modernization during the Reform Era through a paradigmatic case: for four years (1987-1991), teachers from the American Dance Festival, at the invitation of the Guangdong Dance School, taught dance techniques and composition and trained the first group of professional modern dancers in China, most of whom continued on to establish the country’s first modern dance company in 1992. Contesting the presumption that a smoothly-communicated physical and spiritual liberation defined the program, Professor Miao argues that recurrent reciprocal misunderstandings deeply marked the exchange, because of the American teachers’ and Chinese students’ profoundly different conceptions of kinesthesia, pedagogical approach, and freedom. These missteps generated new methods of dance modernization and significantly shifted the history of Chinese modern dance.

Fangfei Miao, dance scholar, choreographer, and dancer, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from UCLA and MFA from the Beijing Dance Academy. Dr. Miao is working on her book manuscript that investigates the productivity of embodied cross-cultural missteps in transforming dance history in China’s Reform Era. Her publications, in both English and Chinese, have featured in Dance Research Journal, Asian Theater Journal, Journal of Contemporary Research in Dance, and Journal of the Beijing Dance Academy. With extensive professional training in both western and Chinese dances, she has toured internationally and staged her choreography in New York City, Los Angeles, Auckland, and Beijing, among others.

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.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_roHoUTD2TEiO10rP7UhLkA

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:49:20 -0500 2021-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Fangfei Miao, Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Michigan
Gran Torino, Refugees, and Anti-Asian Racism: A Conversation with Actor Bee Vang (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83150 83150-21282829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Bee Vang, at 16, held the leading Hmong American role as Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino. He subsequently performed in independent films and on stage at Brown University where he received a 2016 liberal arts degree in international politics, media, and cultural studies. He also trained in China in techniques of Chinese opera and Japanese performance. Throughout this time, Vang engaged in social justice and media activism, and published works related to the visibility and inclusion of Southeast Asian Americans and, more broadly, Asian Americans in Hollywood and mainstream popular culture. His work covered such topics as representation, race, gender, sexuality, production, geopolitics, refugees, criminal justice, mass incarceration. Vang presented at multiple conferences related to these topics, and publicly lectured or gave workshops in over thirty venues, domestically and overseas including the University of Toronto, Beijing University, Minzu University, and Zhongshan University.

Meanwhile, Vang worked at MSNBC with The Rachel Maddow Show in broadcast journalism, at The Economist in print journalism, and at First Look Media in documentary filmmaking with Laura Poitras. After several years working as a print journalist, nonfiction writer, and policy researcher, he recently moved to LA to devote himself to acting, filmmaking, and other creative pursuits.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:29 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Gran Torino
CJS Lecture Series | Contrasts in US-Japan Global Supply Chain Management during the Coronavirus Pandemic (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79940 79940-20517546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

Stark differences exist between the ways in which U.S. and Japanese multinational firms manage global production. Trump’s China policy and the coronavirus pandemic have made U.S. firms acutely aware of the consequences of sudden supply chain disruptions caused by their heavy dependence on China over the years. On the other hand, Japanese firms have been methodically diversifying and localizing their supply chain and production strategies.

Masaaki Kotabe holds the Washburn Chair Professorship in International Business and Marketing at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple University in 1998, he was Ambassador Edward Clark Centennial Endowed Fellow and Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has lectured widely at various business schools in 20 countries around the world. For his research, he has worked closely with leading companies such as AT&T, Kohler, NEC, Nissan, Philips, Sony, and Seven&i Holdings (parent of 7-Eleven stores), and served as advisor to the United Nations’ and World Trade Organization’s Executive Forum on National Export Strategies. Dr. Kotabe also served as President of the Academy of International Business in 2016-7.

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.

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CrscjSk8Sma4AWf7oTOjCQ

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:28:45 -0500 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | A Stark Contrast in Global Supply Chain Management between U.S. and Japanese Multinational Firms as Evidenced during the Coronavirus Pandemic
CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes (April 2, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80584 80584-20759737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

Religious identity in South Asia has been shaped within the context of a fraught and contentious history, ranging from issues of “communalism” in colonial India to the question of “radicalization” and political Islam in post 9/11 Pakistan. Yet, religious practice has developed in relation to longstanding sacred geographies and networks in South Asia, intersecting with modern identity formations in unusual and unexpected ways. In this conference, we will explore the relationship between religion, identity, historical networks and sacred landscapes to understand the formation of religious thought and practice in Pakistan. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this conference aims to cultivate a discussion of transnationalism, sectarianism, marginality, inter and intra-religious dynamics. We will engage with the work of scholars and artists from Pakistan, Europe and the United States concerned with a variety of religious groups in Pakistan, and the complex ways that religious practice has been shaped through interactions between distinct identities, not only along the lines of religion, but also gendered and social difference. While focusing on Pakistan, we hope to challenge prevalent assumptions about the current configuration of borders and explore deeper and continually relevant connections between distinct religious spaces and practices in South Asia.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:29:47 -0400 2021-04-02T09:30:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes
CWPS 20th // Faculty *in Conversation* (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82694 82694-21161627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/4p3pN

In March 2001, the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) celebrated its grand opening, inviting the community to participate in an evening of lectures, performances and food at the International Institute. As part of the ongoing virtual celebration of this milestone, CWPS invites four esteemed U-M faculty members to reflect on the Center’s founding, its contributions to increasing the diversity of arts and research at University of Michigan, and to imagine the possibilities for the next twenty years.

Kwasi Ampene, Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, is a scholar and practitioner of ethnomusicology. He specializes in the rich musical traditions of the Akan people of West Africa. His research interests include the performing arts as individually and collectively created and experienced, the performance of historical and social memory, politics, ideologies, values, and religious philosophy in Akan court music. Professor Ampene’s latest book, *Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool*, was published on June 30th, 2020 by Routledge. Dr. Ampene was Director of the Center for World Performance Studies from 2011-2016.

Lester Monts is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Music (ethnomusicology). From 1993 until 2014, he served as senior vice provost for academic affairs and senior counselor to the president for the arts, diversity, and undergraduate affairs. He is currently director of the Michigan Musical Heritage Project that seeks to capture on film the state’s folk, ethnic, and immigrant music traditions. Monts received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Arkansas Polytechnic College, a master’s degree in trumpet performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Minnesota.

Mbala Nkanga is an Associate Professor of Theatre and head of the minor in Global Theatre & Ethnic Studies. A native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he taught directing, scenography and dramaturgical analysis at the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa (DRC) beginning in 1979. He has directed plays in various professional companies there, such as Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo, Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests, and Réné Kalisky’s Aïda Vaincue. Dr. Nkanga received his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and has led the Center for World Performance Studies graduate seminar since 1999.

Robin Wilson is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan, on the faculty since 1995, and is best known as a founding member of New York’s Urban Bush Women. In 1995, she was awarded a New York Performance Award for the collective work of the Urban Bush Women from 1984-1994. Her studio teaching is informed by years of study in various mid-twentieth century modern dance and Afro-Caribbean folkloric dance techniques. She performed in New York for more than a decade with such choreographers as Dianne McIntyre, Kevin Wynn, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Professor Wilson served on the Center for World Performance Studies faculty advisory committee for over a decade.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. 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 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:46:38 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion CWPS 20
CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes (April 3, 2021 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80584 80584-20759738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

Religious identity in South Asia has been shaped within the context of a fraught and contentious history, ranging from issues of “communalism” in colonial India to the question of “radicalization” and political Islam in post 9/11 Pakistan. Yet, religious practice has developed in relation to longstanding sacred geographies and networks in South Asia, intersecting with modern identity formations in unusual and unexpected ways. In this conference, we will explore the relationship between religion, identity, historical networks and sacred landscapes to understand the formation of religious thought and practice in Pakistan. Through a multidisciplinary approach, this conference aims to cultivate a discussion of transnationalism, sectarianism, marginality, inter and intra-religious dynamics. We will engage with the work of scholars and artists from Pakistan, Europe and the United States concerned with a variety of religious groups in Pakistan, and the complex ways that religious practice has been shaped through interactions between distinct identities, not only along the lines of religion, but also gendered and social difference. While focusing on Pakistan, we hope to challenge prevalent assumptions about the current configuration of borders and explore deeper and continually relevant connections between distinct religious spaces and practices in South Asia.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:29:47 -0400 2021-04-03T09:30:00-04:00 2021-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes
CSAS U-M Pakistan Conference Keynote | Glimpsing History through Literature's Window: Religious Sentiments, Emotional Styles, Punjabi Poets (April 3, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83276 83276-21330361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:50:30 -0400 2021-04-03T11:30:00-04:00 2021-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Jamal J. Elias, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of More than Humans in Making Chinese Society and History: Thinking With Elephants and Mushrooms (April 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80190 80190-20594131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Over the last few decades, scholars from several disciplines have shown increasing interest in moving beyond anthropocentric studies to explore how animals have played a role in their own right in shaping larger social and historical outcomes. At present, China studies scholars have just begun this work. Dr. Hathaway’s talk describes some of these efforts and introduces his own studies on how wild elephants motivate and challenge international conservation efforts, as well as how a wild mushroom is shaping an important part of the rural economy in Southwest China, thus expanding attention beyond our animal kin.

Michael Hathaway received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2007, and shortly thereafter began teaching at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor, director of SFU's David Lam Centre for the Asia-Pacific, and the editor-in-chief of American Ethnologist (with Stacy Pigg). His award-winning first book, "Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China," was published in 2013 by the University of California Press. One of the three core members of the anthropological collaborative, the Matsutake Worlds Research Group, he has led research in China on the social worlds made through the creation of the wild matsutake mushroom economy. Anna Tsing's book, "The Mushroom at the End of the World" was the first book in the trilogy, and Michael has just completed the second volume.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:25:42 -0500 2021-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of More than Humans in Making Chinese Society and History: Thinking With Elephants and Mushrooms
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Visions of Global Solidarity: Anti-Imperialism in Colonial Korea and the Diaspora (April 6, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77261 77261-19828140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

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How did people analyze and criticize colonial oppression a century ago? How did they find connection and imagine solidarity with others in distant parts of the world experiencing social injustice? This talk reconsiders the “global” dimensions of Korean anti-imperialism during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45), discussing several primary sources such as newspapers, magazines, and the work of intellectuals. The Korean anti-imperial movement and its thought were inherently transnational in its scope. Such transnationality developed under shifting political conditions in which the movement leaders, participants, and supporters wrestled with Japanese colonial domination. As officials censored criticism of the colonial regime, activists and writers negotiated the interventions by the colonial power. While some were involved in clandestine organized activities, others offered critical analyses of colonialism in academic studies, socialist literature, and journalistic accounts.

This talk pays particular attention to the ways that Korean intellectuals developed an interest in colonialism and racism in other parts of the world like India, Taiwan, and the United States. During the 1920s and early 1930s, as people traveled outside of Korea in spite of the border control and surveillance by colonial authority, intellectuals shaped their transnational perspectives. Through publications and media coverage about empire and global social movements, interwar Korean intellectuals and readers situated their colonial experience in world transformations and explored the possibilities for decolonization. Socialists, in particular, envisioned decolonization in tandem with other forms of social justice, namely socioeconomic equity for workers. Female leaders on the left, importantly, also argued for women’s liberation. In the places where they relocated or visited, migrants, international students, and exiled intellectuals witnessed and participated in different forms of social movements, which contributed to their visions of global solidarity.

Hiroaki Matsusaka is an intellectual and cultural historian of migration, social movements, and race and ethnicity across modern East Asia and North America. He is working on a book manuscript that traces the paths of several anti-imperial migrant activists across Korea, Japan, and the United States from the early to mid-twentieth century. He received a BA and an MA in Political Science from Waseda University and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Korean Studies at Yonsei University, a Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese Studies at UCLA, and an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In April 2021, he is starting a tenured position as a lecturer of global studies at Osaka University of Economics.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:44:36 -0500 2021-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Hiroaki Matsusaka, Incoming Lecturer, Department of Information Technology and Social Sciences, Osaka University of Economics
CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic *Bonsai* Inspire Iconoclastic Futures (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79854 79854-20509612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

The University of Michigan's emergence as a steward of nationally significant bonsai marks an inflexion point in the Academy for engagement with this international art form. While exhibited specimens are inherently focused on both this moment and change, the discipline itself is undergoing renewal in the United States. Today's presentation places this emergent collection in icontemporary academic and cultural contexts, including the necessity of exhibiting outstanding canonical specimens reflective of bonsai's Japanese heritage.

David Michener is the Curator at the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum. After receiving his PhD in Botany from the Claremont Graduate School he was at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum before coming to the University of Michigan. He is most widely known for his work on historic peonies. He has been active in the reinterpretation of the Freer House's Garden at Wayne State University.

Carmen Leskoviansky has been caring for the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum's Bonsai and Penjing collection since 2011. Her degree in horticulture is from MIchigan State University. Carmen began studying with American bonsai artist Michael Hagedorn, of Crataegus Bonsai, in 2018 and will begin a 3-year apprenticeship in May 2021.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Dec 2020 14:52:36 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic Bonsai Inspire Iconoclastic Futures
Indian Literature Series (April 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83559 83559-21426681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan

SPICMACAY at University of Michigan is proud to organise the Literature Series, where we will organise discussions of various works of literature in classical & modern Indic languages, led by a language expert.

Our first discussion is on Silappatikāram, one of the five great Epics of Tamil literature, facilitated by Prof. Vidya Mohan, faculty for Tamil language, University of Michigan.

Date: 8-Apr-2021 (Thursday)
Time: 6pm to 7pm EDT
Language: English
No. of participants: 25 participants
Please sign-up on this link: https://forms.gle/WEkKQ7gA9VSjKfyJ6

Note: This event is only for UMich students, alumni & staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 May 2021 13:16:47 -0400 2021-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Discussion on Silappatikāram - The Tamil Epic
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy Book Talk with Editors (April 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83151 83151-21282830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Join us for a conversation with Asian American Studies Professors, Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State University) and Dr. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde (University of California, Davis), about their book Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin (University of Michigan)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power-holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/fight-the-tower/9781978806368

Bios:
Dr. Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American Studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora, co-founder of the social justice movement, Fight the Tower, and co-editor of Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy.

Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:58 -0400 2021-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Fight the Tower
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82263 82263-21068628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Monday, April 12

7:00-7:10pm Welcome Remarks
7:10-8:10pm Panel 1: History, Industry, and Policy

Chair: Sangjoon LEE (Nanyang Technological University)

South Korea’s Film Policy (1993-2020)
CHO Junhyoung (Korean Film Archive)

Evolution of the Korean Film Industry in the Hallyu Era
Dal Yong Jin (Simon Fraser University)

8:20 – 9:30pm Keynote Lecture

KIM Hong-Joon (Korea National University of Arts)

Moderator: Sangjoon LEE (Nanyang Technological University)

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:50:37 -0500 2021-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Making of a Medium: Borrowing Views from Painting and Fiction in Early Modern Chinese Garden Design (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80588 80588-20759744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The notion that gardens might offer a private space, apart from the larger public world and even family responsibilities, dates to the middle Tang (late 8th-early 9th c.). Dr. Kile’s talk offers an introduction to the first two works in the Chinese tradition to consider the making of the garden itself as an art: Ji Cheng's Yuanye (Fashioning Gardens, 1631-34) and Li Yu's Xianqing ouji (Leisure Notes, 1671). Both men create a middle category between manual laborer and garden proprietor: that of the garden designer, who, they both argue, is the true master of the garden. The work of raising garden design to the status of an expressive art, rather than mere craft, followed the model by which literati painting had been elevated in status during the Song dynasty (960-1279), when literati borrowed from theories of poetry to argue that painting, too, could express the "hills and valleys" in their hearts.

SE Kile is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. A specialist in Ming and Qing literature and culture, Dr. Kile is finishing a book that theorizes early modern mediation and entrepreneurship through a synthesis of Li Yu's (1611-1680) cultural production.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:26:23 -0500 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual SE Kile, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 13, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82346 82346-21068629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Tuesday, April 13

7:00-8:00pm Panel 2: Transformation of the South Korean Film Industry 1

Chair: Dal Yong JIN (Simon Fraser University)

The Korean Film Industry’s Ambivalent Relationship to the Studio System
Jason Bechervaise (Sungshil Cyber University)

Short Film Productions in South Korea
Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham)

8:10-9:40pm Industry Roundtable

Speakers:
WON Dong-yeon (Producer; Along with the Gods),

PARK Eun-Kyung (Producer: A Taxi Driver),

IM Soon-rye (Director: Little Forest),

MIN Kyu-dong (Director: Herstory)

Moderator: HEO Chul (Nanyang Technological University; Director of The Return)

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:53:36 -0500 2021-04-13T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T21:40:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
Asian American Activism & Documentary Films: A Conversation With Grace Lee (April 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83465 83465-21383600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

GRACE LEE is an independent producer & director and writer working in both narrative and non fiction film. She directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, which The Hollywood Reporter called ”an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.” The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won its first of six audience awards before its broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV. Her previous documentary THE GRACE LEE PROJECT won multiple awards, broadcast on the Sundance Channel and was called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine and “a funny but complex meditation on identity and cultural expectation,” by Variety. Other credits include the Emmy-nominated MAKERS: WOMEN IN POLITICS and OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA, both for PBS; JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, set during the 2012 presidential campaign, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival as well as AMERICAN ZOMBIE, a personal horror film, which premiered at Slamdance and is distributed by Cinema Libre. She has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 2017 Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner, an envoy of the American Film Showcase (through USC and the U.S. State Department), and is co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network.

She is also an Executive Committee Member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her work has been supported by numerous awards and artist grants from the likes of Rockefeller, Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, UCLA, International Documentary Association and the USC World Building Institute. She is currently a producer/director on a five-part landmark PBS series THE ASIAN AMERICANS as well as AND SHE COULD BE NEXT, about women of color transforming politics and civic engagement. http://gracelee.net

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:29:27 -0400 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Lee
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82347 82347-21068630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Wednesday, April 14

7:00-8:00pm Panel 3: Transformation of the South Korean Film Industry 2

Chair: Daniel Herbert (University of Michigan)

The South Korean Animation Industries
Daniel Martin (KAIST)

Korean Remakes of Korean Films
Seung-Ae Lee (Macquarie University)

8:10-9:30pm Panel 4: Film Cultures

Chair: Irhe Sohn (Smith College)

Song Kang-Ho, A Star of New Korean Cinema
Noh Kwang-woo (Korea University)

Reel Heritage: the History of the Korean Film Archive and Film Restoration
Ariel Schudson (Film Archivist)

Creating a “Cheerful” Cinema: South Korea’s Cold War Regimes and State Film Censorship, 1960s-1980s
Hye Seung Chung (Colorado State University)

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:57:19 -0400 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
CJS Lecture Series | Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity (April 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79852 79852-20509609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone.

In *Development Drowned and Reborn*, Clyde Woods proposes that we envision new worlds—worlds “more egalitarian and democratic,” and more committed to “sustainability” and “social, cultural, and economic justice”—by way of an epistemology of the blues. The blues are that musical form born in the freedom found in the wake of American slavery. They are characterized by the expressive deviations of the blue note and the transformation of memories of the sounds of the plantation (field hollers, wailings, and so on) into something more mellifluous. Woods contends that, with a bit of synesthesia, the modes of listening and sounding out afforded by the blues might help us make better sense of the world and give us a sense of how a better world might be.
This talk is interested in the formation of what we might call an epistemology of the violets, or that way of seeing and being in the world at the intersection of the blues and the reds, with “red” here serving as a chromatic stand in for the epistemological and sensorial insights embedded in Japanese creative works. To date, Afro-Japanese scholarship has been framed primarily by concepts such as representation and reception. While informative in their own way, such frameworks prime us to think about transferences from one culture (“blues”) to another (“reds”). Addressing collaborations such as the artwork produced by Pharrell Williams and Murakami Takashi, this talk provides general heuristics for those interested in the study of the epistemological possibilities of purple, or a way of seeing and creating possible worlds that is neither red nor blue—neither African American nor Japanese—but both red and blue, the emergence upon their coalescence.

Will Bridges is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester. His scholarship has been recognized by the Fulbright Program, the Japan Foundation, the Association for Asian Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His first monograph, *Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature*, was published in 2020 by the University of Michigan Press. He is currently working on two manuscripts. The first is *The Futurist Turn: The Japanese Humanities and the Re-imagining of the Unwelfare State*. The second is *The Black Pacific: A Poetic History*. He is also an author of creative nonfiction.


*This event is cosponsored by the University of Michigan Press.*

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Please register for this event on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3KYeArGLRxG0U7N1r7y-eQ

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:20:10 -0400 2021-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual CJS Lecture Series | The Politics of Volume and the Poetics of Reverberations across the Black Pacific
CSAS Lecture Series | The “Public” of Public Humanities: A Conversation about the University and Its Outside (April 15, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83629 83629-21444314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

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

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

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

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

Cosponsored by the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:30:29 -0400 2021-04-15T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Anupama Rao, TOW Associate Professor of History, Barnard and MESAAS (Columbia)
Global Connections: An Investigation into How to Bring the Traditional Rituals of Tujia and Miao Chinese Ethnic Minorities to Contemporary Society through Theatre and Performance (April 15, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82073 82073-21016992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Guest: Jay Peng Zhang, vocalist, choreographer, Professor- Art College, Shanghai University of Sport, Hong Kong
Faculty Lead: Amy Chavasse

Folk singer and modern dancer, Jay Peng Zhang, is from the Tujia and Miao ethnic minority groups of Western Hunan Province. Jay’s research maintains a focus on rituals and their inspirational role in his contemporary practice. Culturally rooted songs and traditions from his native place Yongshun (Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Western Hunan) form the core of his work. Jay will share his research through a performative talk including movement and songs from Miao and Tujia minorities as well as wearing the traditional attire he inherited from his grandmother. As one of the few remaining practitioners of traditional Tujia songs and aware of the recent policies of tourism and entertainment, Jay raises questions about authenticity and the rapidly changing conditions of Miao and Tujia minorities in China today. Peng Zhang will share his research in song, performed live via ZOOM, and provide context for his examination of these cultural artifacts in his lecture. Videos and images from his home land in Western Hunan will amplify the exchange.

watch online at https://myumi.ch/4pQ5X

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-15T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 15, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82348 82348-21068631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Thursday, April 15

7:00-8:00pm Panel 5: BIFF, Film Criticism, and Transnationality

Chair: Markus Nornes (University of Michigan)

“Festival or Box Office? The Critical Reception of Spring in My Hometown and the debate over the future direction of South Korean Cinema 1998-1999.”
Andrew Jackson (Monash University)

Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) and The City
Simone Chung (Singapore National University)

8:20-9:30pm Panel 6: Transnational Connections

Chair: Emilie Yueh Yu YEH (Lingnan University)

The Korean Film Industry and Chinese Cinema: Knowledge Transfer and Globalization
Nikki J. Y. Lee (Nottingham Trent University)

Transnational Film Relationships between Europe and South Korea (2005-2018)
Sonia Dueñas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Luis-Miguel Machin-Martin (Universidad de La Laguna)

From CHUNHYANG to PARASITE: South Korean Cinema’s American Story – Distribution, Marketing, and Reception
Goran Topalovic (Subway Cinema)

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:21:32 -0400 2021-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Muslim Religious Ideas and Identities in Mughal North India (April 16, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65327 65327-16571521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

What was a Muslim’s religious identity? What were the factors that influenced and shaped the making of his identity? Immediate, pragmatic, or deep historical and ideological? In my lecture I will first mention in brief how the markers of Muslim identity underwent change in the early phases of their evolution. I will then consider in some depth the role of the religious ideas in its formation in Mughal India. The discussion will be with special reference to the debates between the two major Sufi orders of the time, the Chishti and the Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi, on some religious doctrines, ‘narrow’, sectarian or a non-sectarian and ‘pluralistic’. I will also consider some examples from the history of post-Mughal religious and political ideas.

This event is cosponsored by the U-M Global Islamic Studies Center.

Muzaffar Alam is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of South Asian Languages at the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, the University of Chicago. He is a historian with field specialties in medieval and early modern South Asian Muslim religious and political cultures. His research interests also include comparative history of the Islamic world (as seen from an Indian perspective).

He has held visiting research and teaching positions in several academic institutions in Europe and America. His major publications include *The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India* (1986, New Oxford India Perennial Edition, 2013); *The Languages of Political Islam in India: c. 1200–1800* (2004); *Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discovery: 1400-1800 and Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political Culture* (co-authored with Sanjay Subrahmanyam, 2007 and 2013).

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItdO-rqjkjGdfZv5nOF7U-zjCpdEegd-ir

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:29:13 -0400 2021-04-16T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-16T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference (April 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82350 82350-21068633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Register for the conference here:
https://myumi.ch/yK21R

South Korean cinema provides one of the most striking case studies of non-Western cinematic success in the age of the neoliberal world order, in which Hollywood dominates the global movie consumer’s heart, mind, and soul. Against the onslaught of US products in the world’s media marketplace, South Korean cinema has successfully defended itself. In 2001, South Korea became the first film industry in recent history to reclaim its domestic market from Hollywood. In 2006, local films had a 67 percent market share—the highest such figure in the world except for the US and India—and they have continued to maintain a market share of around 50 percent in the 2010s (52 percent in 2019). Admissions per capita in 2019 also reached 4.37, up from 1.1 in 1998 and 2.92 in 2010, the highest around the globe, when it was 3.5 in the U.S. The number of screens in Korea has soared, from 511 in 1997 to 3,079 in 2019. Based on the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world’s major film markets (ranked 5th in 2020). Adding to this success, the high-quality South Korean local product has flowed outward to global film markets to connect with international audiences in commercial cinemas, in art theaters, and at major international film festivals. Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival. Hong Sang-soo had great success in Cannes, Berlin, and Locarno with Hahaha (2010), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), and On the Beach at Night Alone (2017). Other breakthrough auteurs, art-house and genre-bending specialists alike, followed: Lee Chang-dong, Im Sang-soo, Kim Jee-woon, Ryoo Seung-wan and Kim Ki-duk. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite marked the culmination of South Korean cinema’s global success. Parasite became the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars (2020), and swept other major awards including Best Director, Screenplay, and International Feature.

In English-language academic circles, likewise, interest in South Korean cinema as a serious scholarly subject has been growing exponentially. The evolution of South Korean cinema scholarship has been noteworthy. Such scholars as Isolde Standish, David James, Rob Wilson, Kyung Hyun Kim, Soyoung Kim, Paul Willemen, and Kathleen McHugh initially ignited the field of South Korean cinema studies and, almost simultaneously, two monographs followed in the UK and US: Hyangjin Lee’s Contemporary Korean Cinema: Culture, Identity and Politics (2000) and Kyung Hyun Kim’s The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (2004). Since then, the field has witnessed a blossoming of South Korean cinema studies in the form of monographs, edited volumes, and special issues. Although the field has recently greeted many significant scholarly achievements that have extensively discussed South Korea’s cinematic legacies, it is still difficult to find scholarly articles on pre-1990s South Korean films – and almost none are available on films from the 1970s and 80s. There is also a shortage of articles on individual films and directors, and no systematically structured book-length study on the South Korean film industry has been published as of the time this conference is being prepared.

The South Korean Film Industry conference will bring together scholars from major sites of Korean film and media Studies research in the Anglophone world (including Canada, U.S., U.K., and Australia) with scholars from Korea and Singapore for an interdisciplinary dialogue on the diversity and complexity of the South Korean film industry. This conference aims to showcase innovative scholarly work examining wide-ranging coverage of subjects such as the production, exhibition and distribution of South Korean cinema, state policy and censorship, coproduction, film festivals and cinephilia, independent cinema, and Hallyu and the global reception of South Korean cinema.

Full conference details and schedule available at:
https://myumi.ch/1p0b3

Friday, April 16

8:00-9:30pm Director Spotlight: KIM Bora (Director: House of Hummingbird)

With Maggie Lee (Film Critic)

Moderator: Ungsan KIM (University of Michigan)

Film Screening: House of Hummingbird (2019) will be available for download from April 12-16. Additional details will be provided to all conference registrants.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:56:26 -0400 2021-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Perspectives on Contemporary Korea 2020-21 | South Korean Film Industry Conference
Links Between Culture and Sanitation (April 20, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83816 83816-21540180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Project RISHI

Dr. Balmurli Natrajan, Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University will speak on the social practices in communities where open defecation is prevalent, toilet use, and sanitation practices in India. The discussion will center around the link between culture and accepting modern adaptations in rural communities. RSVP Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaJwRFl1WH56j3j604SnuPiLF5vRvgiAHais0Hse4ISjAATA/viewform

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:07:20 -0400 2021-04-20T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T15:00:00-04:00 Project RISHI Conference / Symposium Dr. Balmurli Natrajan, Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Making over 'The Big Reveal': Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Globalizing of the South Korean "Look" in Medical Tourism YouTube Videos (April 20, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83420 83420-21375692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

Register at: https://myumi.ch/wlD97

Searching the words, “South Korean Plastic Surgery” on YouTube will lead to a plethora of vlogs with variations on the titles: “I Got Plastic Surgery in Korea” and “My Plastic Surgery Experience in Korea.” Typically sponsored by South Korean plastic surgery clinics or medical tourism agencies, such vlogs chronicle the YouTuber’s journey to South Korea to receive multiple surgeries as well as the pain of recovery and of course, surgery’s results. Given our social media driven landscape, these videos have become a key mode of advertising for South Korean clinics hoping to entice Western and/or English-speaking foreigners into traveling abroad for surgery. Focusing on videos and interviews with specifically non-Korean, US-born YouTubers, in this talk I show how these self-filmed YouTube videos are remaking reality television’s Makeover genre. In so doing, these videos enact the South Korean “look,” made popular by K-pop idols, as global by literally showcasing non-Korean bodies being transformed as such. In addition to selling South Korean plastic surgery, I argue that these videos animate US K-pop fans’ fantasies of South Korea as a multicultural alternative to hegemonic whiteness.

S. Heijin Lee is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University whose research explores the imperial routes of culture and media. In addition to her forthcoming book, The Geopolitics of Beauty, which maps the convergence of pop culture and plastic surgery coming from South Korea, Lee is co-editor of Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia (NYU Press, 2019) and Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea (University of Hawai'i Press, 2019). Lee has been featured on National Public Radio's Code Switch, Korea Society's "K-Pop 101" series, and at KCON discussing beauty, pop and power.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:16:51 -0400 2021-04-20T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-20T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual S. Heijin Lee, Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Decolonizing Race and Ethnicity: Understanding Racial formation in Japanese society (April 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83756 83756-21491329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://myumi.ch/nbEy3

What are race and ethnicity? Students are often taught in social science courses that they are socially constructed categories. But what does that exactly mean? In the United States, race is commonly defined and practiced as a category based on visible phenotypes, whereas ethnicity is based on distinguishable cultural traits. Are these definitions of race and ethnicity globally universal or should they be? In this webinar, I challenge the U.S. and Euro-centric understanding and applications of race and ethnicity. By introducing different theoretical approaches to define race and ethnicity in sociology, I discuss how these concepts should be understood, treated and applied in our analysis. In nutshell, race and ethnicity are malleable categories across time and space; they are subject to change depending on local and global conditions. I explore whether or not a distinction between race and ethnicity is analytically warranted and why discussing racism between groups who share similar phenotypical and cultural traits is not only possible, but important, especially in the context of Japanese society.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:53:49 -0400 2021-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Hwaji Shin, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco; and the 2020-21 CJS Toyota Visiting Professor
Links Between Culture and Sanitation (April 22, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83816 83816-21540179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Project RISHI

Dr. Balmurli Natrajan, Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University will speak on the social practices in communities where open defecation is prevalent, toilet use, and sanitation practices in India. The discussion will center around the link between culture and accepting modern adaptations in rural communities. RSVP Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaJwRFl1WH56j3j604SnuPiLF5vRvgiAHais0Hse4ISjAATA/viewform

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:07:20 -0400 2021-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Project RISHI Conference / Symposium Dr. Balmurli Natrajan, Professor of Anthropology at William Paterson University
Honors Colloquium (April 28, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83852 83852-21555864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Yingchao He
-Fashioning Contemporary Political Leadership in the People's Republic of China: A Case Study of Xi Jinping's Cadre Jacket

Limmy Kim
-The Entertainment of Divorce

Kimiko Varner
-The End of Mitsubishi *Zaibatsu: A Study of SCAP Policy and Opposition

Ruchi Wankhede
-When Perceptions Fall Short: Understanding the Relationship Between the Government and Marginalized Groups in China and India

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:36:53 -0400 2021-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-28T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Blue poster with white writing: HONORS COLLOQUIUM with guests listed
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Challenges and Opportunities for a Historian of Japan Teaching about Race and Imperialism (April 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83818 83818-21540181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required: https://myumi.ch/jxED9

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

Historically, Cold War Area Studies and the nationalization of Ethnic Studies have contributed to an Orientalist arrangement in which “their” pasts and contemporary conditions have been separated from “ours.” For example, scholars of Asia are not supposed to teach about North American issues, let alone conduct research across national formations. However, this sequestering of “ourselves” from “them” has become increasingly untenable due to globalization and massive demographic changes in North America. This webinar discusses the challenges and possible methods for breaking through the separation of area studies (especially Japanese studies and East Asian studies) and ethnic studies by discussing two courses that I regularly teach -- “Colonialisms in Asia” and “The Asia-Pacific Wars” -- in which race, sex, gender and imperialism are key themes. These are modern phenomena that trouble the regions we Asia “experts” study and the places in which we live, teach and work. But an obscene screen sequesters these two knowledge formations, making it difficult for scholars of Asia to teach critically about racism in North America as well as about the U.S. and Canada as empires. While we Asia “experts” are normally assigned to study the people and nations “over there,” this webinar proposes that we need to refuse the disciplinary practices that the Cold War University has imposed upon us. The webinar will also propose that while important, linking Asian and Asian North American studies can only be one part of confronting the global problems of racism and empires.

Takashi Fujitani is a Professor in Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto. His research is focused on the intersections of nationalism, race, gender, war, and memory in East Asian history and Asian American history.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:19:17 -0400 2021-04-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Takashi Fujitani
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Confronting the “Ends” of Area: On Transpacific Accountability (May 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83819 83819-21540182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required: https://myumi.ch/51ZvE

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

Has Japanese Studies ever been a discipline? Who was it for? Conversations about its disciplinary survival continue and repeat attempts to contend with the deconstructive critique of “area.” According to reactions to the deconstructive critique of Area Studies, which began its course in the 1980s, we stand on the epistemological precipice of not simply the decline, but the death of the disciplines that comprise, for example, “Asian Studies” and “Latin American Studies.” Yet, efforts to undo Cold War era formations of knowledge production, in turn, have galvanized projects that seek to validate area studies through the rhetoric of their “re-birth,” often in formats that purport an interdisciplinary awareness to the diversifying demographics of higher education.

In this webinar, our aim will be to openly discuss the contradictions between the goal of “antiracist pedagogy” and the limits and possibilities of “Japanese Studies.” In emphasizing a framework of transpacific accountability that interrogates the “area” model through engaging critical race and Indigenous epistemologies, the webinar proposes a confrontation with the perceived crisis of area fields as an opening for a way to rethink and re-orient antiracist pedagogy. Highlighting a comparative study of race across Japan and Latin America as a case for the transpacific framework, the webinar introduces critical approaches to the histories of racism, militarism, nationalism, capitalism, and heterosexism in research and pedagogy across and after the “ends” of area.

Andrea Mendoza is an Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at UC San Diego. Her research areas are in critical race studies, transpacific studies, and East Asian and Latin American literatures and visual cultures.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:19:45 -0400 2021-05-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Andrea Mendoza
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

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

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-10T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-10T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 11, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

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

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-11T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-11T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 12, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

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

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-12T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Contrapuntal Imaginations: Reading Empires in an Undergraduate Japanese Studies Class (May 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83981 83981-21619291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p_LRbqtuSGiVocVOSEtodQ

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series:
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

In Culture and Imperialism (1993), Edward Said introduces the term, contrapuntal reading, as a method to analyze the imbrication between metropolitan and colonial literary texts in the empire. By reading texts contrapuntally, Said argues, we are in a better position to understand the presence of colonialism in British novels such as the reference to Australia in David Copperfield or India in Jane Eyre. Furthermore, contrapuntal reading must take account of both processes, that of imperialism and that of resistance to it. This method of reading is still relevant and can serve as a corrective to today’s liberal discourse of inclusion and diversity. Current DEI efforts in the universities, corporations and elsewhere as a result of systemic racism and exclusion laid bare by the pandemic and police violence are commendable, but have their limits. Much like the push for multiculturalism in an earlier conjuncture, the liberal discourse of DEI runs the risk of reifying differences and (un)consciously upholds the status quo without interrogating and dismantling the very system that made those differences possible in the first place. In the gesture of acceptance and tolerance, liberalism continues to sustain white privilege and espouse colonial benevolence. And if we can place postwar liberalism as the dominant ideology in the United States responsible for establishing Area Studies as part of its anti-Communist effort, a benign racism has been fundamental to the formation of our disciplines and knowledge production.

Contrapuntal reading, I suggest, is useful in understanding the constituting and co-figuring of metropolitan and colonial relations that while addressing the minoritarian position of the colonized, does not normalize the status of the colonizer. Furthermore, contrapuntal reading can be extended to analyze the transition and translation between empires, or what I am calling the transimperial to contextualize, for example, the shift from Japanese to American empire in postwar East Asia. Contrapuntal reading, however, is not simply descriptive in pointing out the presence and traces of empire in metropolitan and colonial texts. It requires imagination (and luck!) in juxtaposing and associating texts that are normally taught separately in different contexts to illuminate their contrapuntal relations. This webinar will present concrete examples from literature, film, popular culture and social theory intended for undergraduate teaching.

Leo Ching is Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. His research interests include colonial discourse studies, postcolonial theory, Japanese mass culture, and theories of globalization and regionalism.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 May 2021 09:18:36 -0400 2021-05-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Leo Ching, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 13, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

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

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-13T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) (May 14, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83954 83954-21619192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Full conference details: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/conferences---symposia/8th-international-conference-of-nextgen-korean-studies-scholars.html

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

Register at: https://myumi.ch/R5l2l

The 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST) which will be held virtually across five days from May 10-14. At the NEKST conference, graduate students in Korean studies will have the opportunity to share their research, receive feedback from Korean studies faculty members and other graduate students, as well as contribute toward building a dynamic, multidisciplinary community of future Korean studies scholars.

The five-day conference will feature panel presentations, workshop sessions for dissertation chapters/advanced papers, a roundtable discussion session, a professional development workshop, and an artist talk. We will host prominent Korean studies faculty members from across disciplines and institutions to serve as discussants, as well as mentors.

About

The 8th NEKST conference is sponsored by the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from the Academy of Korean Studies. The conference organizing committee is composed of graduate students at the University of Michigan.

NEKST Organizing Committee

Graduate Students

Youngkyun Choi (Committee Chair; Romance Languages and Literatures)
Yeon-ju Bae (Anthropology)
Cristian Casanova (Public Policy)
Haely Chang (History of Art)
Jieun Chang (Psychology)
Rey Jeong (Stamps School of Art & Design)
Hojung Joo (Political Science)
Sunhong Kim (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance)
Wooseok Kim (Political Science, Statistics)
Hayeon Lee (Anthropology, Social Work)
Samuel Byung-Deuk Lee (Biomechanics)
Won Park (CSE, Computer Science)
Seulgi Son (Urban and Regional Planning)
Cameron White (Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tony Zhang (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Faculty Advisor

Nojin Kwak (Nam Center, Communication and Media)

Post-Doc Advisor

Rory Walsh (Nam Center)

Coordinator
Kelsey Langton (Nam Center)
Evan Vowell (Nam Center)

For further information, please contact NEKST2021@umich.edu and check for updates on this page.

Previous NEKST Conferences
Information about previous NEKST conferences can be found through this link.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 03 May 2021 08:08:58 -0400 2021-05-14T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center NEKST Graduate Conference | 8th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Kaleidoscopic Vision: Okinawa Amidst Competing Transpacific Politics (May 20, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83982 83982-21619292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sCvvNSW5TpW6miJZxLtg7w

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series:
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

In the Asia Pacific, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a major trading nation during the early modern period and Okinawa was the “Keystone of the Pacific” that served as a launching pad for America’s Cold War during the postwar era. The Satsuma domain invaded the Ryukyus in 1609 and turned it into a “hidden colony” vis-a-vis Ming/Qing China so that it could continue to funnel Chinese goods and culture into its domain via the Ryukyus without offending either China or the Tokugawa bakufu’s “closed country” (sakoku) policy. After the newly established Meiji government invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom and annexed it as Okinawa Prefecture in 1879, it once again kept it as a “hidden colony” vis-a-vis the international community. Today, modern Japan, and now also the US, continue to hide Okinawa’s colonial condition in order to concentrate US military bases on the islands in the interests of both.

Ifa Fuyū (1876-1947), the “father of Okinawan studies,” argued that Ryukyuan political and cultural life peaked in the 16th century when it could openly dazzle with the kaleidoscopic brilliance of all cultures that touched the lives of the Ryukyuan people. However, from the 17th century forward, Okinawa could only be seen in the ever shifting shadows of a constellation of moving sovereign states. Its dynamism—its “doubleness”—has been routinely flattened out into a singularity that is consumed by surrounding sovereign powers. This can be seen in Okinawa’s modern-day postcolonial predicament of a concentrated US military base presence that is enabled by the popular will of the Japanese people. For American statesmen, Okinawa is simply “one part of Japan” and therefore not a US problem, and for more progressive politics, Okinawa is victim to US (military) imperialism and white supremacy. For Japanese statesmen, Okinawa is simply ignored, and for more progressive politics, Okinawa is again victim to US (military) imperialism and white supremacy. However, Okinawans have recently been problematizing the fact that it is the Japanese government who funds the US military bases and decides to concentrate them in Okinawa, and the will of the Japanese people who are happy with this arrangement that guarantees Japanese economic and political stability.

Hence, when thinking of Okinawa transpacifically, which Okinawa do we prioritize? The Okinawa in the shadows of the US, or the Okinawa in the shadows of Japan? In this webinar, I will put Ifa in conversation with his contemporary W.E.B. Du Bois to imagine a global politics of the color line in which doubleness is not suppressed but becomes a driving liberatory force for what Ifa called an “age of sweetness” (ama yū) after colonialism.

Annmaria Shimabuku is the Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor at NYU. Her research is centered in the intersection of postcolonial Japanese Studies, Okinawan Studies, and literary/political theory.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 May 2021 09:29:42 -0400 2021-05-20T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Annmaria Shimabuku, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University
Anote's Ark - Film Screening and Panel Discussion (May 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83540 83540-21409116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Citizens Climate Lobby

In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Ann Arbor chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL), in partnership with the CCL Asian Pacific Action Team, are pleased to host a virtual screening of the award-winning films, Anote’s Ark and Love Note to an Island. We invite you to view the films in the comfort of your home, then participate in an online panel discussion with filmmaker, Lulu DeBoer, and returned Peace Corps volunteers who served in Kiribati, Brady Fergusson and Dr. Michael Roman.

For complete details on viewing the film and joining the panel discussion, click on the Eventbrite Registration link.

Optional: we invite our attendees to help support the people of Kiribati by making a donation to the Kiribati Climate Action Network (KiriCAN) through our GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-submerging-island

About the films:

Anote’s Ark: The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati is one of the most remote places on the planet, seemingly far-removed from the pressures of modern life. Yet it is one of the first countries that must confront the existential dilemma of our time: imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. While Kiribati’s former President Anote Tong races to find a way to protect his nation’s people and maintain their dignity, many Kiribati are already seeking safe harbor overseas. Set against the backdrop of international climate and human rights negotiations, Anote’s struggle to save his nation is intertwined with the fate of Tiemeri, a young mother who fights to migrate her family to New Zealand. At stake is the survival of Tiemeri’s family, the Kiribati people, and 4,000 years of Kiribati culture.
Love Note to an Island: This moving short film by Lulu DeBoer shows her visiting her home island of Kiribati for the first time in over 20 years, only to find that climate change will soon wash it away. But instead of despair, the love and hope of the country spurs her on to find solutions to adapt

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Film Screening Sat, 03 Apr 2021 21:12:22 -0400 2021-05-23T18:00:00-04:00 2021-05-23T20:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Citizens Climate Lobby Film Screening photo of the island nation of Kiribati
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Multiculturalism in Japan: The Contradiction of Samba Matsuri (May 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84085 84085-21619929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://myumi.ch/WwXmY

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series:
https://myumi.ch/88W5V

Today’s globalism and cosmopolitanism highlight nations’ economic ties by commodifying the diversity of peoples, cultures, and languages present in their own borders, becoming a local multiculturalism. In Japan, this extends to highlighting the heterogeneous population of a country that others consider homogeneous. In this presentation, I examine the consumption of a Brazilian national imaginary in Japan, not as a country of “poverty and crime” but as “Brasil Fantástico!”: land of samba, açaí, eternal summer, and carnaval. I argue that the use of samba in matsuri stereotypes, contrasts, and further essentializes Japan’s multiculturalism in its presentation of a sexualized, racialized Brazilian musical form. In particular, I’ll discuss the historicity of the Asakusa Samba Matsuri and the fantastical presentation of samba as a redemptionary medium in Shiozaki Shōhei’s Akaneiro no yakusoku: samba do kingyo (Goldfish Go Home, 2012).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 20 May 2021 09:12:43 -0400 2021-05-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-27T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Zelideth Rivas, Associate Professor of Japanese, Marshall University
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Getting Started: Challenges and Opportunities in Anti-racist Pedagogy in Premodern Japanese Literature (June 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84094 84094-21620027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required:
https://myumi.ch/BoYbQ

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series:
https://myumi.ch/88W5V

Teaching about race and ethnicity through premodern Japanese literature poses a formidable challenge. This is not only because we lack a robust body of scholarship trained on this lens to assign on syllabi, but also because we have lacked academic gatherings such as RaceB4Race, where medievalists working on Europe have begun to think about the possibilities of race as an analytical category in relation to medieval texts. This presentation is therefore a call to getting started, to think creatively about how we can incorporate existing scholarship on social marginality, precarity, and otherness (on outcastes and pollution, on Hansen’s disease, on slavery and indentured servitude, on illness, on animals) to help students make broader connections.

Vyjayanthi Selinger is an Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. Her research examines literary representations of conflict in medieval Japan, war memory, legal and ritual constraints of war, Buddhist mythmaking, and women in war.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 21 May 2021 11:25:50 -0400 2021-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Getting Started: Challenges and Opportunities in Anti-racist Pedagogy in Premodern Japanese Literature
Southeast Asian Languages and Scholarship Information Session (June 4, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84067 84067-21619803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 4, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Want to learn about all the Southeast Asian languages we offer? Want to learn about opportunities to work in Southeast Asia and scholarships for these languages? Attend this information session! You will listen to our Filipino, Indonesia, Thai, and Vietnamese instructors and students directly. Our center staff will also answer questions about applying for a first year language scholarship and FLAS fellowship. Graduate and undergraduates at all levels and with varying backgrounds are welcome to attend. There will be a virtual showcase of Southeast Asian unique cultures as well as games and door prizes (T-shirts, tote bags and notebooks, and Amazon gift cards). So, don’t miss out!

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/PPpVt4X4cvRhdcHG7.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 May 2021 09:19:30 -0400 2021-06-04T11:00:00-04:00 2021-06-04T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Event Poster with Southeast Asian Images
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Pedagogy for Solidarity: Teaching Japanese American Incarceration and Social Justice (June 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84197 84197-21620751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required: https://myumi.ch/wl34Z

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

This webinar will focus on the "pedagogy" part of the series title, "Japanese Studies Antiracist Pedagogy." I invite us to think together about what antiracist course design entails, and how it can--and must--be baked into a course at every level, from its learning goals and structures to assignments, discussions, readings, and classroom policies. I will draw from my experiences teaching at a small U.S. Midwestern liberal arts college, for a 100-level course titled "Reading the World: Social Justice," my version of which is themed around narratives of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The course explores these narratives as an active and enduring presence in the lives and politics of the present--in the United States, at its borders, and beyond them. My students and I consider Japanese American incarceration in conversation with Indigenous sovereignty and settler colonialism; the incarceration of Japanese Latin Americans; present-day activism around migrant detention at the U.S.-Mexico border; and the ongoing work of redress and repair with respect to structural/interpersonal racism and antiblackness in the United States.

I will discuss the writing and discussion prompts I use to engage students across different levels of familiarity with literary analysis/Japanese American studies/social justice, as well as my errors and successes in developing a classroom community that strives to be antiracist in its daily praxis; emphasizes experimentation over mastery; and scaffolds opportunities for students to bring the world into the classroom, and their learning into the world. The heart of this webinar is not mine alone: Several of my students have volunteered their experiments and reflections so that, as teachers and learners, we can see what the theory behind an antiracist syllabus creates in practice--what messy realities we might anticipate as part of the learning process, and how the seeds of a syllabus can be nurtured and extended through students' challenges, amendments, and additions.

Mika Kennedy is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Kalamazoo College. Her research examines narratives of Japanese American incarceration, and she is the curator of Exile to Motown: Japanese Americans in Detroit.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:07:47 -0400 2021-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-10T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Mika Kennedy, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Kalamazoo College
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Fugitive Planning and Potentials for Study: Lessons from the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy Project (JSAP) (June 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84246 84246-21620804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required: https://tinyurl.com/en9thcc6

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

What should an antiracist practice entail within the context of Japanese studies? What conceptual, political, and interpersonal tools might hinder or support such a project? And what pitfalls and possibilities should be avoided or embraced in pursuing better ways of learning and living? Given the racist origins and supremacist legacies of Japanese studies, approaching this field through an antiracist lens can seem fraught, if not doomed. Nevertheless, our Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy Project (JSAP) represents an experiment that attempted to do just this. As part of this project, we taught a mixed undergraduate/graduate course in the Winter semester of 2021, “Antiracism and Japanese Culture,” which entailed teaching and learning a number of lessons about “Japan,” analytical tools, politics, and the various intellectual and institutional constraints that shape our understanding. This webinar features presentations and reflections on the JSAP enterprise by the project’s co-organizers, Sophie Hasuo, Reginald Jackson, and Rachel Willis. In addition to explaining the course’s specific pedagogical underpinnings, goals, and organization, we will also discuss various philosophical and pragmatic aspects of developing such a collaborative project. Influenced by Moten and Harney’s notion of fugitive planning in The Undercommons, we outline lessons learned from working together to imagine how best to study and thrive within and beyond the ivory tower.

Reginald Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at the University of Michigan. His research is at the intersection of literature, art history, and performance studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:30:07 -0400 2021-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-17T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Fugitive Planning and Potentials for Study: Lessons from the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy Project (JSAP)
Asian American History: Past and Present with Dr. Manan Desai (August 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84778 84778-21624935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

This lecture and discussion examines key moments in American history that illustrate the ways Asian Americans have been racialized in the U.S, how they have been subject to legal and extralegal exclusion and discrimination, as well as the ways communities have organized in resistance. Using key case studies spanning the late 19th century to the present moment, we will consider: What lessons from the past can we use to understand our present? What role can Asian Americans continue to play in the ongoing struggle against white supremacy and social inequalities?

This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Engineering Diversity & Outreach (CEDO), the APID/A Staff Association and Graduate Rackham International (GRIN).

This lecture is part one of a three part series on combating anti-Asian hate, harassment and racism throughout the 2021/2022 academic year.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:35:07 -0400 2021-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-08-03T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO) Lecture / Discussion A poster of the Manan Desai Aug 3 Lecture
CJS Lecture Series | The Link Between Marriage and Fertility and Changing Pathways to First Marriage in Japan (September 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84198 84198-21620754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The low prevalence of cohabiting unions and non-marital childbearing in Japan is inconsistent with the expectations of prominent theories of family change in low fertility societies. In this study, we use data from large national surveys to describe growing heterogeneity in pathways to first marriage in Japan, focusing on the temporal ordering of cohabitation, pregnancy, marriage, and first childbirth.

Jim Raymo is Professor of Sociology and the Henry Wendt III ’55 Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. Raymo’s research focuses primarily on evaluating patterns and potential consequences of major demographic changes in Japan. He has published widely on key features of recent family change, including delayed marriage, extended coresidence with parents, and increases in premarital cohabitation, shotgun marriages, and divorce. In other lines of research, he has examined health outcomes at older ages in Japan and their relationship with family, work, and local area characteristics and has examined multiple dimensions of well-being among the growing population of single mothers and their children in Japan.

Please register for the Zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U7wQQcTbTBKy12KSWtHSEA

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:31:05 -0400 2021-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-09T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jim Raymo, Professor of Sociology and the Henry Wendt III ’55 Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
CJS Lecture Series | Difficult Subjects: Religion and Public Schools in Contemporary Japan (September 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84200 84200-21620755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

As part of a new national policy of “making persons” (hitozukuri) who could support Japan’s rapid economic growth, in the mid-1960s Japan's Ministry of Education adopted a new objective centered on fostering students as “reliable human figures” (kitai sareru ningenzō). Despite the explicit legal prohibition regarding religious education in Japan’s constitution, policy makers clearly expected public schools to inculcate both personal piety and professional diligence as part of this new orientation. This talk shows how public education aligned with religious indoctrination as policy wonks temporarily partnered with clerics to advance a type of non-confessional training known as “religious sentiment education” (shūkyō jōsō kyōiku).

Jolyon Thomas is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan (2019) and Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan (2012).

Please register for the Zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B_L4r4l-SEOdqjRsQuG6dw

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 03 Jun 2021 11:32:22 -0400 2021-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-16T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jolyon Thomas, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Crash Landing on You (September 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86485 86485-21634637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Yoon Se-Ri (Son Ye-Jin) is an heiress to a conglomerate in South Korea. One day while paragliding, an accident caused by strong winds leads Yoon Se-Ri to make an emergency landing in North Korea. There, she meets Ri Jeong-Hyeok (Hyun-Bin), who is a North Korean army officer. Does he decide to turn her in? Join the party to find out! We’ll be pointing out some interesting cultural aspects in the chat during the drama episode. Grab a blanket and some popcorn!

Pre-registration via Google Form is required to receive Netflix Party Link: https://forms.gle/iStdY17eFXMF3GeQ7

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:10:22 -0400 2021-09-19T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Crash Landing on You
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Taekwondo Workshop (September 20, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86527 86527-21634766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 20, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Tired of sitting around at home as the weather gets cooler? Get moving with the Nam
Center's Taekwondo Workshop as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021! Instructor
Alicia Wang will guide participants through the Taegeuk Il Jang, the first of eight taekwondo
forms. Alicia is a 2nd dan black belt with 8 years of experience in Taekwondo. She also
serves as a co-leader of the Michigan Taekwondo Demonstration Team.

Pre-registration for Zoom Webinar is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F2y2_zLqRLmIWMUhcYP9zQ

The University of Michigan Tae-Kwon-Do Club (UMTDK) was founded in 1964, making it the oldest martial arts club on campus. The club competes at tournaments in the Eastern Collegiate Tae-Kwon-Do Conference against other collegiate programs.

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:46:29 -0400 2021-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 2021-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Taekwondo Workshop
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | K-Pop Dance Tutorial (September 21, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86528 86528-21634767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Turn up the music with the Nam Center for Korean Studies for a K-Pop Dance Tutorial as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021! Leaders from Konnect [K-Pop Dance Group] will teach participants the moves to “Boom” by NCT Dream.

Pre-registration for Zoom Webinar is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a-GZ7t2QShKxRw6_12-9hw

Konnect is a co-ed K-pop dance group whose mission is to create an inclusive community for those interested in learning K-pop dance by holding weekly tutorials and creating a subunit that performs at various events around campus.

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:54:48 -0400 2021-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 2021-09-21T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | K-Pop Dance Tutorial
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Korean Storytime (September 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86532 86532-21634771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Join Eunjae Cheon and Andrea Yun for crafts, songs and stories in Korean!

We will also make a Chuseok Gift Set craft together!

You will need:
-Download & Print the Chuseok Gift Set PDF file
-Childsafe Scissors
-Glue
-Coloring Utensils
-A Small Empty Box to display your “items”

Pre-registration via Google Form is required to receive Zoom Link: https://forms.gle/RMwzW1MNPzhhHbmA8

Eunjae is a teacher for the Korean School of Ann Arbor and Andrea is a classical cellist and teaches cello privately out of her home.

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:11:08 -0400 2021-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Korean Storytime
CJS Lecture Series | Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community (September 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84105 84105-21620253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Based upon his latest book, Professor Samuels will explore the history of the Japanese intelligence community from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries across wars and peace. He will examine where matters stand today now that the Japanese government has begun to enhance intelligence reform.

Richard J. Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2011 he received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, an Imperial decoration awarded by the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Prime Minister. From 2015 to 2019 he was an Albert Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, where he completed Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community (Cornell University Press-- and, in translation, Nikkei Books). Special Duty was named one of the “Best of Books, 2019” by the journal Foreign Affairs.

In 2013, Cornell University Press published his book about the political and economic effects of Japan’s March 2011 catastrophes: 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan. Dr. Samuels’ prior book, Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia, was named one of the five finalists for the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book in international affairs. Another, Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan, a comparative history of leadership in Italy and Japan, won the 2004 Jervis-Schroeder Prize for the best book in International History and Politics from the American Political Science Association.

His 1994 study, “Rich Nation, Strong Army”: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan won the 1996 John Whitney Hall Prize of the Association of Asian Studies and the 1996 Arisawa Memorial Prize of the Association of American University Presses. His book, The Business of the Japanese State: Energy Markets in Comparative and Historical Perspective received the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 1988.

Professor Samuels has also published widely in peer reviewed journals such as International Security, International Organization, The Journal of Japanese studies, and Political science Quarterly, as well as in policy journals such as The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, and Foreign Affairs.

Please register for the Zoom event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_h9IVRf0HTl-gMvpXJ91BTA

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:10:51 -0400 2021-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Kingdom (September 23, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86533 86533-21634772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Set in Korea’s medieval Joseon period, it tells the story of Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon), who becomes embroiled in a coup/political conspiracy and is forced to embark upon a mission to investigate the spread of a mysterious undead plague that has beset the current emperor and the country's southern provinces. We’ll be pointing out some interesting cultural aspects in the chat during the drama episode. Grab a blanket and some popcorn!

Pre-registration via Google Form is required to receive Netflix Party Link: https://forms.gle/GefccmrmxkKz2b4N8

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:09:12 -0400 2021-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Kingdom
POSTPONED TO 10/29--CSAS Lecture | Misinformation and Political Twitter in India (September 24, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85976 85976-21630634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This event has been rescheduled for October 29.

In the last decade, India has seen a massive uptake in the adoption, and frequency of technology use by citizens, making social media a primary means of information access for a large part of the Indian citizenry. This talk uses three instances of coordinated online misinformation around the COVID-19, the 2021 farmer protests, and the demise of a movie star to highlight ways in which social media has become a feeder channel for mainstream media in India. I show that in each case, misinformation related to the primary event was crafted to engage alternate targets – including communities, activists, political actors, or celebrities, and that this was done within a larger narrative of belonging and citizenship.

Joyojeet Pal is an associate professor at the School of Information at the University of Michigan and a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India. His research examines the use of social media in mainstream politics.

Please register in advance for this zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkdu-qpzooHdA1Rh0H6trGUh2Za_qxWuGt

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:12:47 -0400 2021-09-24T16:30:00-04:00 2021-09-24T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Joyojeet Pal, School of Information, University of Michigan
Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Chuseok Keynote Event Author Reading with Tae Keller: When You Trap A Tiger (September 24, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86535 86535-21634774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

We’re hosting a very special Keynote event this year featuring Tae Keller, author of *When You Trap A Tiger*, Winner of the 2021 Newbery Medal! Tae will perform a reading of the book followed by a question and answer session. We encourage you to check out her website and read her “Author’s Note” and “Guide to Mythology in *When You Trap A Tiger*.”

Pre-registration for Zoom Webinar is required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bYM6_oiPTA6Zeb9V53m9dw

Tae Keller grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she subsisted on kimchi, purple rice, and stories. Now, she writes about biracial girls trying to find their voices, and lives in Seattle with her husband and a multitude of books.

*When You Trap A Tiger* Synopsis:
Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother.

Some stories refuse to stay bottled up…

When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni’s Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal–return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni’s health–Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice…and the courage to face a tiger.

See full list of Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 events: https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/news-events/events/virtual-chuseok-dae-party.html

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:54:08 -0400 2021-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Chuseok Keynote Event Author Reading with Tae Keller: When You Trap A Tiger
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Modern Monumentality: Sculptural Attitudes in Post-1949 China (September 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84726 84726-21624493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series

Please register here for this Zoom webinar: https://myumi.ch/PleQR

Since the early 20th century attitudes toward modernization have increasingly centered on spatial hierarchies manifested not only in the built environment, but also through China's arts and culture such as through the growing nationalist interest in its ancient sculptural sites. Through tracing the new emphasis on the monumental in various interpretations of sculpture of the past as well as the present up to the 1950s, this talk examines the motivations for invoking monumentality in modern China and its role in envisioning a new mass viewer in the young Communist nation.

Vivian Li is the Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art and a specialist in postwar and contemporary art in Asia. She has realized several ambitious exhibitions and commissions, including collaborations with Mel Chin, Lee Mingwei, and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. With the support of a Fulbright fellowship she completed her dissertation on postwar sculpture in China and received her PhD from the University of Michigan in Art History in 2015. She has contributed to various publications, including the Oxford Art Journal," Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art," and the forthcoming anthology "Postwar—A Global Art History, 1945–1965" edited by Okwui Enwezor and Atreyee Gupta.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:58:00 -0400 2021-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Vivian Li, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Epistolary Revolution in Chosŏn Korea (September 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84647 84647-21624355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

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

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

While discussing his book The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press, 2020), Hwisang Cho will give a survey of the “epistolary revolution” that shaped Korean society from the sixteenth century to the end of the Chosŏn dynasty and beyond. By examining the physical peculiarities of new letter forms, the cooptation of letters for other purposes after their communicative functions, and the rise of diverse political epistolary genres, this talk will illuminate how innovation in epistolary practices allowed diverse writers to move beyond the limits imposed by the existing scholarly culture, gender norms, and political systems. While emphasizing how the epistolary revolution posed new challenges to traditional values and already-established institutions, it will demonstrate that new modes of reading and writing developed in the seemingly mundane and trivial practice of letter writing triggered a flourishing of Neo-Confucian moral thought, the formation of new kinds of cultural power, and the rise of elite public politics.

Hwisang Cho is an assistant professor in Korean studies at Emory University. Cho’s areas of specialization include the cultural, intellectual, and literary history of Korea, comparative textual media, and global written culture. His major work in progress is The Tales of the Master: T’oegye and the Making of Modern Korea, a study of how the culture of storytelling about a historical personage and its manifestation in diverse material forms have influenced the formation and appropriation of self-identities of various communities in Korea from the late sixteenth century to the present.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:11:07 -0400 2021-09-28T16:30:00-04:00 2021-09-28T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Nam Center Colloquium Series | Epistolary Revolution in Chosŏn Korea