Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Building Translation Networks in the Midwest with HathiTrust (December 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100813 100813-21800381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us for our Fall 2022 Hybrid Events:

NOVEMBER 11
2:00-3:00 PM
Language Resource Center, 1500 North Quad
Game Drop! Learn to play the educational game Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition that fosters discovery of fun finds across languages in the digital library. The first hour (2-3 PM) members of the development team will introduce the game to players in person at the LRC and online and they will stay until 5PM to answer questions and cheer you on! There will be snacks and drinks and opportunities to meet other players and form teams to compete in the Multilingual Midwest Challenge! Rules of the challenge will be announced at the Game Drop and prizes will be awarded on Dec. 8, Game Night!

December 7
4:00-5:30 PM & 6:30-8 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Invited speakers Carolyn Shread, Nathan Langston, Christopher Warren and Rini Bhattacharya Mehta will discuss their own experiences working on projects of translation and/or digital networks in the arts and humanities (such as Telephone Game and Six Degrees of Francis Bacon), as the Translation Networks team members consider possibilities for future development.

For more information on the December 7 Panel, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-7-2022-gaming-multilingual-works-in-the-digital-library

Register here for the December 7 Panel (whether you are attending in person or virtually): https://forms.gle/zs4tpJXNWYv5zGUY9

December 8
4:00-5:30 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Game Night with South Asian Studies faculty! Prizes awarded for the Multilingual Midwest Challenge!

For more information on the December 8 Game Night, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-8-2022-game-night-amp-multilingual-midwest-challenge/

Register here for the December 8 Game Night: https://forms.gle/1ZqBXMvMs3Ke98LH7

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Recreational / Games Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:38:40 -0500 2022-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Recreational / Games Event Poster
Building Translation Networks in the Midwest with HathiTrust (December 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100813 100813-21800382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us for our Fall 2022 Hybrid Events:

NOVEMBER 11
2:00-3:00 PM
Language Resource Center, 1500 North Quad
Game Drop! Learn to play the educational game Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition that fosters discovery of fun finds across languages in the digital library. The first hour (2-3 PM) members of the development team will introduce the game to players in person at the LRC and online and they will stay until 5PM to answer questions and cheer you on! There will be snacks and drinks and opportunities to meet other players and form teams to compete in the Multilingual Midwest Challenge! Rules of the challenge will be announced at the Game Drop and prizes will be awarded on Dec. 8, Game Night!

December 7
4:00-5:30 PM & 6:30-8 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Invited speakers Carolyn Shread, Nathan Langston, Christopher Warren and Rini Bhattacharya Mehta will discuss their own experiences working on projects of translation and/or digital networks in the arts and humanities (such as Telephone Game and Six Degrees of Francis Bacon), as the Translation Networks team members consider possibilities for future development.

For more information on the December 7 Panel, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-7-2022-gaming-multilingual-works-in-the-digital-library

Register here for the December 7 Panel (whether you are attending in person or virtually): https://forms.gle/zs4tpJXNWYv5zGUY9

December 8
4:00-5:30 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Game Night with South Asian Studies faculty! Prizes awarded for the Multilingual Midwest Challenge!

For more information on the December 8 Game Night, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-8-2022-game-night-amp-multilingual-midwest-challenge/

Register here for the December 8 Game Night: https://forms.gle/1ZqBXMvMs3Ke98LH7

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Recreational / Games Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:38:40 -0500 2022-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Recreational / Games Event Poster
CSEAS Lecture Series. Western Cultures as Thailand’s Strategy for Independence (January 20, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102842 102842-21805226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In the nineteenth century, the second wave of western imperialism hit Southeast Asia. Unable to resist western military forces, Southeast Asia had to surrender to the power of the West. Only one country, Thailand, survived and is proclaimed on the history pages as the sole country in Southeast Asia that survived Western colonization. How Thailand escaped the unbeatable force of the west was always a discussion in many areas of Southeast Asian Studies. One of the key strategies that many scholars discussed was the reformation of cultures through westernization. The upper class of Siamese society employed western cultures, especially in the performing arts, to transform their traditions as equivalent to the standards of the west. The strength of the nation was presented with these reformed cultures that were the work of East-West innovation by Siamese noblemen. This lecture will clarify how Siamese society had enculturated western cultures prior to the nineteenth century, along with the nineteenth-century accelerated modernization in the performing arts through westernization to stop the colonization by the West.

Speaker Bio
Jittapim (Nan) Yamprai is a musicologist and ethnomusicologist with research specialization in the music of Southeast Asia, cross-cultural interaction in the music of East and West in Thailand, music, and diplomacy of the Siamese and French in the seventeenth century, Music in the Ayutthaya, music, and politics, and the music and culture of the Burmese refugees in the United States. She received her doctoral degree in music history and literature from the University of Northern Colorado and two master’s degrees—ethnomusicology from Mahidol University, Thailand, and information and library science from the University of North Texas.

Her writings include the establishment of western music in Thailand, sacred music in the catholic church of Thailand, Southeast Asian musical materials for contemporary compositions, Franco-Siamese music diplomacy in the seventeenth century, etc. Jittapim was an associate professor at the University of Northern Colorado, teaching in music, Asian studies, and anthropology departments. She works as the artistic director of the Greeley Multi-Cultural Festival and co-artistic director of Beethoven in the Rockies Concert Series. Currently, she is working in International Education at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/P1yWg


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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Jan 2023 13:32:55 -0500 2023-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Jittapim Yamprai, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
CSEAS Lecture Series. Refugee Youth Agency in Flux: Active and Passive Waiting in Transit Country Indonesia (February 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102843 102843-21805230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

*Lecture co-sponsored by the Association of Asian Studies*

For more than two decades, Indonesia has been a transit spot for asylum seekers from Central Asia, South Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia while irregularly en route to Australia. Following Australia’s controversial ‘stop the boats’ policy, thousands of refugees, including the young population, must wait longer in Indonesia to get their refugee status processed by UNHCR and to have a chance to resettle in a third country. As a non-signatory state to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Indonesia has a limited legal framework to protect the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, which causes grave precarious conditions for them. Nevertheless, arbitrariness in Indonesia’s legal framework and its flexibility in handling refugees surprisingly has provided a certain level of “informal protection” and opportunities for young refugees to make maneuvers in the fluid arenas. As they wait, the young people also plan, anticipate, negotiate, hustle, play, and rest. This talk will focus on the dynamics of refugee youths’ agency-in-waiting. Professor Masardi explores how young refugees exercise passive and active waiting and what contributing factors catalyze or impede the distribution of their agency.

Speaker Bio
Realisa D Masardi is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She is the awardee of the prestigious 2022 Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies. Currently, Professor Masardi is completing her postdoc program at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Professor Masardi has been working on the issues of children and young people in several migrants/refugees communities in Southeast Asia, focusing on their identities, access to rights, and agency, particularly on their everyday survival movements. She received her PhD in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her dissertation focuses on the social navigation of independent young refugees from diverse countries facing precarities during transit in Indonesia.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/29V6E

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:04:39 -0500 2023-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Realisa Masardi, Universitas Gadjah Mada and University of Michigan
CSEAS Lecture Series. Massacre in Myanmar: How two reporters uncovered a Rohingya mass grave—and the price they paid for it (February 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102879 102879-21805278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In August 2017, the Myanmar military launched a massive offensive against Rohingya Muslims living in the country’s northwest, killing thousands of people, burning hundreds of villages, and pushing more than 700,000 Rohingya across the border to Bangladesh. The Aung San Suu Kyi government declined to condemn the offensive. Many ministers claimed the Rohingya burned their own homes and returned to their “homeland” of Bangladesh. The officials declared the area off limits to the press, but two Myanmar journalists with the Reuters news agency, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, kept reporting. They uncovered a mass grave with ten Rohingya men and boys, complete with before and after pictures of the execution and first-person, on-the-record testimonies by the perpetrators.

The Pulitzer-prize-winning investigation, carried out by Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-rakhine-events), and their colleagues, for the first time described the inner workings of what the US government called, the genocide of the Rohingya. It also presented the Suu Kyi government with incontrovertible evidence of crimes committed by the military, resulting in the prosecution of several soldiers and officers. The military pulled out all the stops to prevent the publication of the story: It entrapped the journalists in an elaborate sting operation, and a Myanmar court later sentenced them to seven years in jail, of which they served about 18 months before receiving a presidential amnesty. The case underscored the enduring power of the army in a nominally civilian administration of Aung San Suu Kyi. The simmering tension boiled over when the staunchly anti-Rohingya commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing staged a coup d’état in February 2021, reversing years of democratic reforms.

Speaker Bio
Antoni Slodkowski is the Tokyo correspondent for the *Financial Times*, where he covers the biggest business stories in the world’s third-largest economy, a position he assumed this year after working as the deputy bureau chief at Reuters in Tokyo. In that role, Slodkowski led the bureau’s politics and general news team and its coverage of the Olympics and the pandemic. He returned to Japan after four years in Myanmar, where his team covered the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya. During that reporting, two of his colleagues, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested and imprisoned in an effort to stop the publication of a story exposing a massacre of ten Rohingya men. That and other stories won the team the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. A native of Poland, Slodkowski is a graduate of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/G1m9n
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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:05:26 -0500 2023-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Antoni Slodkowski, Financial Times; Reuters
Asian Language Fair (February 17, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103990 103990-21808191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Join us for information about the Asian language programs, live cultural performances, raffle prizes, games, and mini lessons!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:11:53 -0500 2023-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 North Quad Asian Languages and Cultures Social / Informal Gathering Poster
CSEAS Lecture Series. Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: The Marcos Diaries (March 10, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105176 105176-21811240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Central Campus Classroom Building
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In his haste to evacuate the Malacañang Presidential Palace in February 1986, former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos left many handwritten diaries covering the years 1969-1984. While the originals are in the custody of the Presidential Commission on Good Government, unofficial copies have been circulating for years.

Preparing the diaries of publication entailed collating, validating, and annotating entries from different sources, contemporary newspapers, the *Official Gazette*, and declassified U.S. State Department records. The project is not just an exercise in documentary editing but being critical of Marcos’ self-referential and biased view of events. In light of the current rewriting of the first Marcos presidency, these documents are double-edged, the fruit of the poisonous tree.

Ambeth R. Ocampo is a public historian whose research covers the 19th-century Philippines—its art, culture, and the people who figure in the birth of the nation. Professor and former chairman of the Department of History at the Ateneo de Manila University, Professor Ocampo writes “Looking Back,” the longest-running editorial page column on history for the *Philippine Daily Inquirer*. To read his articles, visit https://opinion.inquirer.net/column/looking-back.

Professor Ocampo has published over 35 books, the most recent being: *Queridas de Rizal: Looking Back 16 and Yaman: History and Heritage in Philippine Money*, which was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for History. He served as president of the City College of Manila; president of the Philippine Historical Association; co-chair of the Manila Historical and Heritage Commission; chairman of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines; and chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. In another life, he was a Benedictine monk known as Dom. Ignacio Maria, OSB. He now moderates growing Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube channels.

This is an in-person and virtual event. Register at http://myumi.ch/AwANn

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:29:19 -0500 2023-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T19:30:00-05:00 Central Campus Classroom Building Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion CSEAS Lecture Series. Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: The Marcos Diaries
Saints, Sorcerers and Scholar Monks: Extraordinary Persons in the Mythology and History of Modern Burmese Buddhism (March 15, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105478 105478-21811919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Burmese Buddhism in the 20th century witnessed the rise of three broad based movements that were to have a profound impact on the religious life of the country: (1) the popularization of insight meditation among the masses; (2) the formation of esoteric cults dedicated to the attainment of supernormal powers and extraordinary long life; and (3) a re-invigoration of scholastic education at Burma’s elite monastic academies. Out of each of these there arose charisma cults devoted to the veneration of individuals who most embodied the ideals of their movements. This presentation will give a brief history of the origins of these movements with special attention given to the charisma cults they engendered and the sometimes contested spaces they occupy in the Buddhist landscape of contemporary Burma.

A reception will follow.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Feb 2023 08:51:31 -0500 2023-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T18:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Poster
Southeast Asian Noodle Day (March 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105422 105422-21811741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Join us for Southeast Asian Noodle Day! March 17th, 11am - 2pm at the
Language Resource Center (1500 North Quad)

Attend the languages presentation, engage in fun activities, explore various cultures, embrace new opportunities, sample noodles from Indonesia, Philippines,
Thailand, and Vietnam.

Open to all U-M students! Free admission!

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Fair / Festival Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:33:08 -0500 2023-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 North Quad Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival Noodle Day Poster
Being "Americanish" (March 17, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105812 105812-21812994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: LSA Student Government

Join LSA Student Government and other sponsors in a free film screening, Americanish (2021), directed and co-written by Iman Zawahry, on Friday, March 17th, from 6:00-8:30 in the Hussey Room in the Michigan League. Viewers are invited into the home and lives of three marriage-aged women as they navigate the often turbulent waters of romance, culture, career, and family. Americanish delves into the complexity of trying to both honor and break from cultural traditions while balancing personal values and career goals in a society that does not always accommodate both. The film highlights different layers of womanhood intersecting with cultural and societal expectations. Following the film's screening, a panel of the director Iman Zawahry and lead actress and co-writer Aizzah Fatima will take place and have a Q&A portion. Snacks and refreshments will be provided! This event is a MESA AA&PI Heritage Month event.

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Film Screening Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:43:43 -0500 2023-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League LSA Student Government Film Screening Join us for a free screening of the film Americanish (2021) and a panel of director/co-writer Iman Zawahry and lead actress/co-writer Aizzah Fatimah! March 17th, 2023 6:00-8:30 pm Hussey Room in the Michigan League (2nd floor)
CSEAS Event. Making Sense of the 2022 Philippines Elections (March 20, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106015 106015-21813581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The 2022 Philippine presidential elections culminated with the election of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr and Sara Duterte to the Philippine Presidency and Vice Presidency, respectively. Under the UniTeam Alliance, they now face numerous challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, economic instability, and political challenges in the South China Sea. Professor Allen Hicken of the University of Michigan and Professor Paul Hutchcroft of Australian National University will discuss the dynamics of the recent election, the electoral results, and observations on how the new administration of Marcos Jr. has been faring thus far.

Allen Hicken is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. He studies political institutions and political economy in developing countries. His primary focus has been on political parties and party systems in developing democracies and their role in policymaking.

Paul Hutchcroft is a scholar of comparative and Southeast Asian politics who has written extensively on Philippine politics and political economy. He is a professor of political and social change at the Australia National University, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs (of which he was founding director, 2009-2013).

Register to the event: https://myumi.ch/73X4m

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:18:26 -0400 2023-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 2023-03-20T19:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Philippine Flag
The IDEAL world with 3V (The Inclusive Diverse Equitable and Accessible Learning world with Versatile Virtual Vietnamese (March 22, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106105 106105-21813758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

The session will present a 3V perspective on Vietnamese language classes since the Virtual Switch of Education after COVID, especially the effort to make Vietnamese, a less commonly taught language, stand out as an Inclusive Diverse Equitable and Accessible Language not only at University of Michigan but more globally accessible through a virtual mode.

The talk will take place March 22, from 1:00-2:30 in the Mac Lab at the Language Resource Center (1500 Northquad, 105 S. State Street @ https://lsa.umich.edu/lrc).

Add this event to your Google Calendar: https://myumi.ch/rrnpn

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:13:38 -0400 2023-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion North Quad
The Kingmaker (April 5, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106995 106995-21815090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Central Campus Classroom Building
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Film screening and discussion of the compelling documentary film *The Kingmaker*

Discussion in Filipino with Ambeth Ocampo: CSEAS Visiting Professor, University of Michigan; and H.V. deal Costa Professor of History and the Humanities, Anteneo de Manila University

Moderated by Irene Gonzaga, Filipino Lecturer, Asian Languages and Cultures/CSEAS, University of Michigan

Join us April 5th, 2023 5:30-8:30pm, Room 0420 in the CCC Building, 1225 Geddes Ave. Ann Arbor

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Film Screening Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:59:29 -0400 2023-04-05T17:30:00-04:00 2023-04-05T20:30:00-04:00 Central Campus Classroom Building Asian Languages and Cultures Film Screening Poster
South Asian Language Program Event (April 7, 2023 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106964 106964-21815055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Participate in cultural activities like Henna, origami, Rangoli, clay paintings, online calligraphy, making buttons, and South Asian Games!

Have South Asian snacks, desserts, tea, and coffee.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:12:21 -0400 2023-04-07T13:30:00-04:00 2023-04-07T15:30:00-04:00 North Quad Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival Poster
ReConnect/ReCollect Hands-on Workshop with Philippine Indigenous Artists (May 20, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108195 108195-21819099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 20, 2023 2:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at UM

Please join us for a workshop of Indigenous Philippine Arts with visiting culture bearers Cathy Ekid Domigyay (textile weaver - Bontoc), Johnny Bangao, Jr. (basket weaver - Bontoc), and Ammin Achaur (tattoo arts - Kalinga), accompanied by Baguio-based illustrator Justine Amores and cultural anthropologist Dr. Analyn Salvador Amores (University of the Philippines, Baguio).

The event will take place Saturday, May 20th from 2-5PM in the third-floor atrium of the South Thayer Building 2022 (202 South Thayer Street, Ann Arbor, 48104). This free, family-friendly event will include demonstrations of artisans’ techniques, participatory workshops and the opportunity to interact with artifacts from the University of Michigan’s Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Light refreshments will also be served. Street parking is available.

ReConnect/ReCollect is a two-year project funded by the Humanities Collaboratory to develop a framework and practices for culturally-responsive and historically-minded stewardship of the Philippine collections at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 May 2023 14:35:53 -0400 2023-05-20T14:00:00-04:00 2023-05-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at UM Workshop / Seminar Master basket weaver Johnny Bangao, Jr.
Language Fair (August 25, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109485 109485-21822077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2023 11:30am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Are you interested in exploring a language at U-M, but you’re not sure which to choose?

Then we invite you to explore the Language Fair hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Residential College and the Language Resource Center. Talk directly with the language directors of the Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese language programs to learn first hand what opportunities including language resources on campus are available to you.

Talk directly with the language directors of the Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese language programs as well as the representatives from the Language Resource Center and the Residential College Language Programs to learn first hand what opportunities including language resources on campus are available to you.

The Language Fair will held in the LSA Building room from 11:30am - 1:30pm on Friday, August 25 with lots of engaging language activities and games, cultural snacks, swag, and raffles. We hope to see you there! RSVP Recommended for Planning: https://forms.gle/goRzER1oZd9aSbze8

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Other Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:05:47 -0400 2023-08-25T11:30:00-04:00 2023-08-25T13:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Asian Languages and Cultures Other Poster
CSEAS Film Screening and Q&A. Abandoned The Stories of Japanese War Orphans in The Philippines and China (September 11, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111411 111411-21826989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Abandoned: The Stories of Japanese War Orphans in The Philippines and China
A film by Hiroyasu Obara.
2020 / 98 minutes

In-person screening. Conversation with scholar Eri Kitada (Rutgers University-New Brunswick).

Eri Kitada is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow 2022-23 who studies race, gender, sexuality, and modern colonialism in the United States and Asia-Pacific region. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Intimately Intertwined: Filipino Women in the U.S.-Japanese Imperial Formations, 1903-1956,” uncovers the little-known history and legacy of Japanese settlements in the U.S. colonial Philippines by centering Filipino women at the co-constitutive settler colonial project of the U.S. and Japanese empires.

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Film Screening Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:13:35 -0400 2023-09-11T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-11T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening Abandoned The Stories of Japanese War Orphans in The Philippines and China
CSEAS Lecture Series. Countering Infrastructures of Impunity with Performance and Creative Arts (September 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110625 110625-21825177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Drawing on her forthcoming book, *Infrastructures of Impunity*, Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965-66) is not only a legal status but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has many elements: bureaucratic, military, legal, political, educational, and affective. Although these elements do not always work at once—at times, some are dormant while others are ascendant—taken together, all elements can be described as a unified entity, a dynamic infrastructure whose existence explains and accounts for the persistence of impunity. For instance, truth-telling, a first step in many responses to state violence, did not undermine the infrastructure but instead bent to it. Creative and artistic responses to revelations about the past, however, have begun to undermine the infrastructure by countering its temporality, affect, social stigmatization and demonstrating its contingency and specific actions, policies and processes that would begin to dismantle it.

ELIZABETH F. DREXLER is an associate professor of anthropology and director of Peace and Justice Studies. She has been working in Indonesia since 1996, focusing on issues of human rights and state violence. Her research projects explore how societies address the legacies of political violence, emphasizing the relationships among institutions, transnational interventions, historical narratives, and contested memories in establishing the rule of law and reconstructing social and political life—or failing to do so. She is particularly concerned with the role that knowledge of past violence, whether acknowledged or denied, plays in the present.
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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:47:48 -0400 2023-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CSEAS Lecture Series. Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar (September 29, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110626 110626-21825178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

*Surviving the State* examines environmental justice, land governance, and state-making from the vantage point of small farmers and grassroots activists struggling for land during Myanmar’s democratic turn. During Myanmar’s attempted political transition in the 2010s, land was the basis not only of smallholder livelihoods and national development, but also a critical domain for negotiating citizenship after half a century of authoritarian violence and racialized exclusion. Turning on its head a rich tradition of scholarship that posits land as a tool for state-making or an outlet for state-escape, I argue that land is key to what I call surviving the state, a set of socioecological practices forged through cultivation and dispossession as well as the gendered work of care and connection. This talk will draw on my book project, based on 26 months of participant observation, over 150 interviews, and five participatory research and art projects, to show how embodied histories of state violence shaped ecologies and communities, ultimately undermining reforms that aimed to formalize property, redistribute land and recognize ethnic territory. In the aftermath of Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, these findings demand reimagining land not just as a resource for survival, but also as a site of revolution and healing.

Hilary Faxon is an assistant professor of environmental social science at the University of Montana, currently on leave as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen. Her research, teaching and public scholarship investigates environment, development and technology with a focus on social justice in the Global South. She also leads a research project on small farmers and big tech in Myanmar and co-lead two interdisciplinary research groups: one focused on digital transformations in property and development, the other on the ethics and practices of algorithmic conservation.
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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:54:21 -0400 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Asian Languages and Cultures 2023-2024 Colloquium Series (October 5, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112902 112902-21829746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Rodents, including rats and mice, assumed unprecedented roles in medical research and practice during the three decades before and after the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. With their lives and deaths, these tiny animals contributed to a rodent revolution in Chinese medicine by producing therapeutic compounds, as well as insights about the relationships among pathogens, drugs, and people. A multispecies perspective on the development of the life sciences helps to dissolve the artificial boundaries of nation and species in which we conventionally frame history.
The welfare of people and lab rodents in China were inextricably connected both to each other and to humans and other animals around the world. Drawing from scientific reports, military records, and oral histories, this paper shows first how people bred and raised animals to produce biological medicines including vaccines and blood sera. Taking malaria as a case study, the paper also shows how researchers in the Vietnam War-era Project 523 used animals to develop and test drugs, connecting the insights of Traditional Chinese Medicine to those of biomedicine.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:32:13 -0400 2023-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium Colloquium Poster
CSEAS and GETSEA present *Above and Below the Ground*, Simulcast Film Screening and Discussion (October 16, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112848 112848-21829650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

*Above and Below the Ground* depicts the Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors leading Myanmar’s first country-wide environmental movement. When the Myanmar army and a Chinese corporate giant force Indigenous Kachin people off their ancestral land to build the massive Myitsone Dam, Grandmother Lu Ra stands her ground. We see her struggle to save the sacred confluence and build a movement, mentoring young female law student Hkawn Mai. A Kachin punk rock band made of pastors, BLAST, also takes action, transforming their love songs into protest anthems. Our film follows these individuals through their journey of activism, from their underground beginnings during Myanmar’s military junta rule, to supposed “democratic” reforms and a sudden military coup. During such periods of fledgling democracy and dictatorship–in Myanmar and globally–our film asks how ordinary people can use the power of music, community organizing and women’s leadership to challenge authoritarianism.

The in-person portion of GETSEA’s simulcast film screening of *Above and Below the Ground *will be held at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where Director Emily Hong and Producer Maggie Lemere will hold a discussion following the screening. Twenty other universities will screen the film simultaneously and join the discussion via Zoom.

A production of Rhiza Collective in association with Ethnocine Collective

Director & Director of Photography: Emily Hong
Produced By: Maggie Lemere, Ja Nang Tsen, Emily Hong

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Film Screening Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:45:47 -0400 2023-10-16T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening
CSEAS Lecture Series. Working Manila's Waterfront: An Episodic Historical Geography, 1898-1950 (October 20, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111598 111598-21827297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

SPEAKER BIO
Mike Hawkins is a historical and political geographer with a research focus on Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines. His research examines the histories of American empire in the Philippines, the geopolitics of decolonization in Southeast Asia, and the urban geographies of labor in Manila. In 2022, he completed a dissertation at the University of North Carolina that analyzed the changing politics of labor at the Port of Manila across three distinct historical contexts: early American colonial rule, the first two decades after Philippine independence, and the contemporary moment. He is interested in both historical archival methods and ethnographic research. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:53:25 -0400 2023-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Cairo Conspiracy* (2022) (October 24, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113409 113409-21830966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *CAIRO CONSPIRACY* (2022)

Join us for a free screening of the Egyptian horror/thriller *Cairo Conspiracy* (2022) on October 24th, 7:30 PM at the State Theatre. Reserve your free tickets now: watch.eventive.org/halaloween, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 121 minutes | Arabic | Egyptian
Directed by: Tarik Saleh
Tickets: bit.ly/CCtix

Halaloween Horror Rating: 2/5 | Rating Explanation: Includes eeriness, murders, psychological tension, the political Egyptian state’s relationship to religion, and religious figure corruption.

Religious Content: Set in Egypt, primarily at Al-Azhar University, a historical center of Islamic learning. All characters are Muslim. Includes Qur’an, adhan, prayer, fiqh reasoning, and general discussion of Islam and Islamic learning.

In *Cairo Conspiracy* (2022), Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, a center of power of global Sunni Islam. Adam then becomes an unwitting pawn in a conflict between Egypt's religious and political elites.
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Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:22:43 -0400 2023-10-24T19:30:00-04:00 2023-10-24T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
CSEAS Lecture Series. "Save the Thai Temple”: Wat Mongkolratanaram, the Heteronormative Logics of South Berkeley, and Queering Thai/America (November 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111596 111596-21827295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In 2008, “Save the Thai Temple” was formed by a group of first- and second-generation Thai/American youth to fight for the religious rites of Wat Mongkolratanaram — a Theravada Buddhist temple located in Berkeley, California that has been around for over three decades — against neighbors on an adjacent street complaining that the temple’s religious services, specifically, its merit-making services (or tum boon), were “overly detrimental,” “addictive,” and that the smells of Thai food were “offensive.” Such arguments were predicated upon a heteronormative logic anchored within the South Berkeley neighborhood, pervasively emphasizing the Thai temple, its followers in addition to the Thai/American community as both orientalist and queer in nature. In this way, the complainants drew upon outdated and racist imagery, marking and othering the temple and its community through imperial and dated descriptors of race, gender, and sexuality. Drawing upon the incident, this talk examines the aggressions made by the combative neighbors in addition to the resulting actions taken by Wat Mongkolratanaram and “Save the Thai Temple.” I contend that Thai/America and its religious presence in the U.S. are queer “immigrant acts” that reimagine American domesticity, belonging, and how neighborhoods are formed, realized, and policed. I further look at the actions of the Thai/American community as acts of necessary survival, ultimately queering the racial and sexual undercurrents that inform the compulsory heterosexuality of Berkeley, California as well as notions of Thainess within and beyond the United States.

SPEAKER BIO
Pahole Sookkasikon, Ph.D. received his doctorate from the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His work focuses on the ways that contemporary Thai popular culture and performance queer notions of Thainess informed by Western economies of desire and nation-state practices of respectability. He holds a M.A. in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University and has helped cultivate and has fought for the necessity of Thai America within the field and scope of Southeast Asian American Studies. He currently works as a content researcher for Paramount Streaming.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:49:57 -0400 2023-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall