Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Talk: Meditation and Spiritual Life (March 8, 2020 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73450 73450-18236950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 8, 2020 6:15pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle at University of Michigan

Swami Yogatmananda of Vedanta Society of Providence would be coming to Ann Arbor on March 8 to deliver a talk on 'Meditation & Spiritual Life'. Key details are below.

Topic: Meditation & Spiritual Life

Speaker: Swami Yogatmananda (President of Vedanta Society of Providence, Hindi Religious Affiliate/Chaplain at Brown University and University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)

About the speaker: Swami Yogatmananda is the current minister-in-charge of Vedanta Society of Providence. The swami was born in India and joined the Ramakrishna Order of monks in 1976 and received his monastic vows in 1986. He came to the US in the summer of 2001. Swami Yogatmananda’s present responsibilities include conducting Sunday services, weekly study classes and organizing spiritual retreats. He is invited to preach Vedanta at various places in the US. He also serves as the Hindu Religious Affiliate at Brown University, Providence and the Hindu Chaplain at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Date: March 08, 2020 (Sunday)

Time: 6:15 PM

Venue: Henderson Room,3rd Floor,Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Contact: vedanta.a2@gmail.com

All are welcome. No RSVP necessary. Do not miss this opportunity.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 01 Mar 2020 18:31:19 -0500 2020-03-08T18:15:00-04:00 2020-03-08T19:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Vedanta Study Circle at University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Event Flier
POSTPONED: South Meets North (March 13, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73528 73528-18322368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 6:30pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: SPIC MACAY at the University of Michigan

UPDATE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

SPICMACAY in collaboration with Jaya and Roger B. Natrajan present a Carnatic instrumental concert featuring Prof. Purnapragna Bangere on violin, accompanied by Amit Kavthekar on tabla.

Stay back after the concert for an interactive session with the artists and some insight into Prof. Bangere's geometric interpretation of music.

FREE ADMISSION!

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Performance Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:15:18 -0400 2020-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T20:30:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building SPIC MACAY at the University of Michigan Performance Poster for South meets North
CANCELED “Online Harassment and the Threat to Democracy” (March 24, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70106 70106-17532705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Online trolls are targeting journalists with such frequency and intensity that 90 percent of reporters say online harassment has become their biggest safety concern, according to a study by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The perpetrators range from lone-wolf digital stalkers to synchronized armies of online mercenaries set in motion by political actors. They have turned social media platforms into battlefields filled with verbal weaponry meant to intimidate and silence journalists. The threats toward female journalists are particularly vicious and dangerous. A recent study by the International Women Media Foundation found that online harassment has prompted many women journalists to consider leaving the profession.

What can be done to track and counter the hate?

Wallace House Presents a conversation with Rana Ayyub, award-winning investigative journalist based in Mumbai, Elodie Vialle, a Knight-Wallace Fellow and authority on internet harassment and attacks against female journalists and Jason Reich, Vice President of Corporate Security for The New York Times Company. Roya Ensafi, founder of Censored Planet and assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, will serve as moderator.

About the Speakers
Rana Ayyub is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Mumbai. A political writer and an important voice from South Asia, she is a Global Opinions contributor to the Washington Post. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, Guardian and Foreign Policy among other publications. She has reported on religious violence, insurgency and extrajudicial killings by the state. She is author of the “Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover-Up,” an undercover investigation which exposes the complicity of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in state-sponsored killings. Time magazine this year listed her among ten global journalists facing the most urgent threats to their work, freedom and safety.

Elodie Vialle is a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she is studying methods and best practices for countering online attacks of female journalists. She was previously the Head of the Technology desk at Reporters without Borders. Her work focused on topics such as online censorship, surveillance, disinformation and the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of information and internet governance. She has worked as an advisor for media outlets around the world, helping them to improve news coverage through the use of new technologies.

Jason Reich is Vice President of Corporate Security for The New York Times Company. He is responsible for the development and enforcement of all safety and security plans for employees and facilities while serving as the company’s internal expert on all security matters. He joined The Times from BuzzFeed, Inc. where he served as Director of Global Security since 2015. Prior to BuzzFeed, Jason was the founder and managing director of Collective Security Project, a team of crisis response experts, based in the United Kingdom, Turkey and the U.S., who were contracted to protect journalists, aid workers and N.G.O’s in challenging environments. Jason is a founding board member at the ACOS Alliance, and is a passionate advocate for freelance journalist safety worldwide.

Moderator: Roya Ensafi is an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on security and privacy, with an emphasis on designing techniques and systems to protect users from adversarial networks. She founded and directs Censored Planet research lab at the University of Michigan that investigates different types of privacy and security violations on the internet.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:04:45 -0400 2020-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Eisendrath Symposium
British Empire in India (March 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70834 70834-17660822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In the year 1600, some British merchants sailed to Asia in search of fortune in trade and in the course of time they built “factories” in Indian coastal towns like Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta to expand trade. They were in competition with their fellow traders from Portugal, Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Sweden, who tried their own fortunes in India. They all got involved in the local political intrigue, but the British emerged as the preeminent power. 1757 saw the ascendancy of the British East India Company as the ruler of Bengal. Over the next one hundred years, the Company expanded its power over most of the Indian subcontinent by military conquest. A massive popular rebellion against the Company in 1857 was brutally crushed. The next year, the British Parliament dissolved the Company and took over the ruling of India, as a result of the uprising.
The 20th century saw two world wars and massive social, economic, and technological changes globally along with the rise of the independence movement in India. Britain ceded power in 1947 to two political entities, India and Pakistan. Instructor Lakshminarayanan will hold work groups on Fridays from March 27 through May 15 (no class on April 10).

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Class / Instruction Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:07:52 -0500 2020-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
CANCELLED - CSAS Lecture Series | In Defense of Collateral Evidence: Refugees and Post-Partition IDs in Delhi (March 27, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64844 64844-16460997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

The Partition of India and Pakistan, which brought in its wake a sea of displaced populations, meant it was not merely refugees and their effects but equally the identity documents that were issued to them prior to migration that suffered from a sense of displacement. Given that the figure of the refugee was alien to the memory of the colonial state, it was hardly surprising that there were no pre-existing genres of recognizing her. With the exception of Calcutta, Delhi received a disproportionate number of refugees compared to other cities and urban authorities had to grapple with the absence of an infrastructure of enumerating and identifying them. In this city, various actors such as the Ministry of Relief and Rehabilitation, housing agencies, the Delhi administration and refugee associations acted in concert to fortify the process of rehabilitation from the chaos of displaced identity documents. While an official identity document, termed the refugee registration certificate did emerge, it was unrealistic for authorities to undertake rehabilitation on the strength of the scarce possession of this document. Simultaneously, urban rehabilitation authorities refused to exempt (Dalit, upper caste Hindu and Sikh) refugee ‘squatters’ from encumbrances of submitting evidence of their caste, nationality, displacement, entry, occupation and presence in the planned city. Using several genres of primary historical sources, this paper inquires into how the Indian state went about knowing the refugee dwelling in urban spaces in ways that straddle the philosophical and the feasible, the material and the intangible. In particular, it asks the question, what role did refugee knowledge play in the fashioning of identity documents between 1947 and 1960? This paper must also be read in another register, namely, the popular making and not just the popular life of identity documents in marginal spaces of dwelling at an early hour of state formation.

Tarangini Sriraman is author of In Pursuit of Proof: A History of Identification Documents in India published by OUP India. The book weaves together a hitherto unattempted history of making and verifying identification documents in the urban margins of India. She teaches Politics and History at the School of Liberal Studies in Azim Premji University, Bangalore. She has previously been a South Asia Program Fellow, Cornell University, Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi and Visiting Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. She has also received the Charles Wallace Research Grant, London. Her work has been published in journals like Economic and Political Weekly, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Indian Economic and Social History Review, and South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.

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 Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:50:05 -0400 2020-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Tarangini Sriraman, Professor of Politics and History, Azim Premji University, India
The MIRS Advantage: Masters in International and Regional Studies (June 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74975 74975-19118432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:49:44 -0400 2020-07-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual MIRS Info Session
Identifying Emergency Funds and How to Advocate for Making Room in Your Financial Aid Package (September 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75507 75507-19513173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:02:34 -0400 2020-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual A jar of spilled change
CSAS Lecture Series | Networked Bollywood: Star Power and the Global Flows of Indian Cinema (September 25, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76255 76255-19854021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

From Raj Kapoor to Aamir Khan, Bollywood stars have possessed cross-over appeal in varied transnational spaces, ranging from remote areas in Azerbaijan and Egypt to the cosmopolitan regions of Germany and China. Concurrently, production companies led by these popular stars are among the largest and most profitable in Bollywood. Star-led productions have therefore been key enablers of Hindi cinema’s transnational flows and global expansion. This project argues that within the Bollywood network stars possess “switching power”. Star switching power is constituted by the star’s effective power and centrality within the Bollywood network as key industry nodes, as well as their affective power as stars and celebrities. This power accords them the ability connect a diverse range of nodes, networks and hubs to enable the global flows of Hindi cinema. In order to explore these issues, this project initiates an interdisciplinary exploration of star power that brings together sociology, affect, industry studies, cultural policy and politics.

Zoom registration is required and you may do so here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PrWr39aIRXqbGvycG8fmgw

Dr. Swapnil Rai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on global film and television, media industries, women and gender studies, race and ethnicity, transnational stardom, and celebrity culture. Her work has appeared in a range of publications including Communication, Culture & Critique, Feminist Media Studies, International Journal of Communication, JumpCut, Journal of the School of Literature (JSL) and Cinephile.

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 Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:12:12 -0400 2020-09-25T16:30:00-04:00 2020-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Swapnil Rai, Department of Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan
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
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)

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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 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