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Joseph & Lucy Lee Memorial Lecture
Dream of the Red Chamber: The Implications of Its Five Titles
Speaker: Professor Bo Wang, Vice President of Peking University.
This presentation will discuss one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, Dream of the Red Chamber. One special feature of this novel is the rich implications of its various book titles and all characters. Regarding book titles, the first chapter mentions five different names: The Story of the Stone, Records of Loved Monks, Fengyue Baojian, Dream of the Red Chamber, and The Twelve Beauties of Jinling. These five titles indicate five approaches to read the book. Generally speaking, the five titles correspond to the author’s thinking on mind, feeling, desire, world, and life, revealing the tragic themes of impermanence and emptiness from different perspectives.
This event is sponsored by the Asian Studies Center through the Joseph and Lucy Lee Endownment, and the Gu Wei Hui .
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Global Virtual Speaker Program
The Comedy of Mis-translation in Postwar Japanese White-Collar Cinema
Speaker: Dr. Hannah Airriesss is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Modern and Contemporary Literature and Visual Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is currently working on a book manuscript concerning the figure of the salaryman, or male white-collar worker staged across mass media in Japan’s era of high economic growth (1954-1971). Her research interests also include recession-era media cultures, travel film, and media theory.
Amidst Japan’s explosive economic growth of the 1950s and ‘60s, the salaryman, or male whitecollar worker, became the subject of mass media attention across popular journalism, fiction, and film. This talk focuses on the representation of the salaryman and corporation as it was sustained in hundreds of studio comedies in the postwar period. Many of these salaryman comedies center on Japan’s close economic relationship to the United States, as workers and corporate management ideologies travel between the two countries. Throughout, the failure to appropriately translate meaning across different languages and cultures drives the plot forward, producing comedic misunderstandings that act as obstacles to corporate success. This paper argues that mistranslation, as well as the politics of communication breakdown, animates Japan’s shifting geopolitical status, postwar gender relations, and wartime memory.
This event is organized by Dr. David Humphrey and is part of the Asian Studies Center's Global Virtual Speaker Program with sponsorship from the Japan Council Endowment. For more information on GVSP, please visit the Asian Studies Center GVSP webpage.
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Joseph & Lucy Lee Memorial Lecture
Chinese Investment, Infrastructure Development, and Labor Rights in Cambodia
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
4 p.m. EST
Club Spartan (3rd Floor, Case Hall)
Speaker: Sopheak Chann, Ph.D., Lecturer, Royal University of Phnom Phen, Postdoctoral Fellow, James Madison College.
Over the last decade, China has become the main international financial supporter of Cambodia, one of the fastest-growing economies in Southeast Asia. To accommodate such growth, infrastructure expansions in which Chinese enterprises have played different roles, including investors, developers, and constructors. Over the last five years, there have been growing multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects such as Phnom Penh’s New International Airport (PPNIA) and Phnom Penh Shihanoukvile Expressway (PPSHVE) costing US $1.5 and US $1.9 billion respectively. These projects involved not only key Chinese investors and constructors such as the Chinese Development Bank (CDB) and China Road and Bridge Corporation (RB) but also influential Cambodian agencies. The lecture is based on Dr. Sopheak Chann's research which looks into the working conditions in mega infrastructure construction projects, focusing primarily on PPNIA and PPSHVE. Dr. Chann details how the construction industry dynamics in Cambodia have shaped working conditions in Chinese-led construction projects.
This event is sponsored by the Asian Studies Center through the Joseph and Lucy Lee Endowment for Visiting Scholars in Chinese Studies.
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Careers in Language Week
Join the Excel Network in Careers in Language week where we look at career opportunities and invite alumni to come and speak about their experiences.
Each day will feature one to two alumni panels that allow students time to network with alumni. Come prepared to ask questions about how language skills can be used in your chosen career field, and how languages can enhance your academic career.
This event is organized by the College of Arts and Letters Excel Network.
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Asian Pacific American Studies Fall Lecture
Colonial Relationalities and the Diasporic Hindu Right
Friday, November 11, 2022
HYBRID
In-person: International Center, Rm 303
Online: Zoom Registration Link
3 - 4:30 p.m. EST
Speaker: Dr. Nishant Upadhyay is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, Dr. Nishant Upadhyay's research focuses on intersections of race, indigeneity, caste, gender, and sexuality. Their lecture aims to dismantle varying cacophonies of power by questioning the implications of calls for solidarity with indigenous communities made by the Diasporic Hindu Right.
This lecture can be either attended in person or on zoom.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Gender in Global Context, Asian Studies Center, and American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
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Global Festival 2022
Sunday, November 13, 2022
MSU Union
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. EST
The MSU Global Festival is back. Join us for cultural exhibits, live performances, world gift shops, children's activities, and more!
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The Muslim Studies Program Presents
How Hollywood Responded to the 'Muslim Ban'
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GenCen Colloquia Series
To be Maqdisi in Jerusalem: Palestinian Women Education
Speaker: Dr. Camelia Suleiman, associate professor at the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University and a GenCen Core Associated Faculty/Staff member. She earned her Ph.D. in (Socio)Linguistics from Georgetown University. She has published two books: The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis. University of Edinburgh Press, 2017, and Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-Perception in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris Press, 2011.
This event is co-Sponsored by MSU Muslim Studies Program & MSU Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities.
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The Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel Presents
Fifth Time’s a Charm? Analyzing the Fifth Israeli Election in Four Years
Wednesday, November 16th
7:15 - 8:45 pm
Club Spartan (3rd Floor, Case Hall)
Dr. Yael Aronoff will analyze the 5th Israeli elections in 4 years, looking at the latest results and coalition possibilities and discussing their implications. How will varied possible coalitions shape Israeli domestic and foreign policies? Come join the analysis followed by discussion.
Speaker: Dr. Yael Aronoff is the Director of the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel and is the Serling Chair in Israel Studies at Michigan State University. She is also Professor of International Relations at James Madison College. Dr. Aronoff is the past President of the Association of Israel Studies. Dr. Aronoff’s book, The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard Liners Opt for Peace, was published by Cambridge University Press (2014) and she co-edited a book with Dr. Ilan Peleg and Dr. Saliba Sarsar entitled, Continuity and Change in Political Culture: Israel and Beyond Lexington Books (2021). Dr. Aronoff has published in Foreign Policy, Israel Studies, Israel Studies Review, and Political Science Quarterly.
This event is organized by the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel and is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters, James Madison College, College of Social Science, Residential College of Arts and Humanities, Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, International Studies and Programs, Peace and Justice Studies, Asian Studies Center and Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures, Department of Political Science.
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The MSU Muslim Studies Program presents
Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran
Monday, November 28, 2022
MSU Intl Center, Rm 303
Free and open to all
1 - 2:15 p.m. EST
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The Indian and South Asian Languages and Cultures Presents
Chai and Chat &
Film Screening
Thursday, November 17th
5:30 - 8:00 pm
International Center Rm. 201
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Arabic Tea and Conversation Hours
Every Tuesday
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. ET
International Center Rm. 302
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16th Annual Muslim Studies Program Conference
Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres, and Squares
Conference Dates: February 23 - 24, 2023
Michigan State University, International Center
Michigan State University is hosting an international conference entitled “Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres, and Squares.” The conference investigates who is ‘the public’ in public opinion and what effect it has on politics. These questions have received a great deal of attention from scholars of American and European contexts where their contributions have taken on a universalistic overtone. Are these generalized assumptions valid in other societies – notably in Muslim-majority contexts? In addressing these questions, this conference aims to contribute to the interdisciplinary study of public opinion and ‘the public’ in Muslim contexts inside and outside of the Muslim world.
This event is organized by the MSU Muslim Studies Program.
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75th Japan-American Student Conference
Conference Dates: August 2 to August 26, 2023
Sites to Visit: Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nagasaki
Application Deadlines: December 24, 2022
Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) will bring together an equal number of American and Japanese university students from a variety of academic disciplines to live, travel, facilitate meaningful conversations, and develop personal research together. Over the course of this academically intensive and culturally immersive conference, delegates will build lifelong friendships, develop cross-cultural communication skills, and connect with leading professionals in many fields including US-Japan relations, all while gaining a firsthand understanding of this ever-evolving and multifaceted relationship. For more information, visit the JASC website.
To apply, please visit the 75th JASC online form,
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The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Presents
China Town Hall - Featuring Former US Ambassador to Russia, China, and Singapore
Speaker: Jon M. Huntsman Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Russia, China, and Singapore.
Join the National Committee on Wednesday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m. EST for a nationwide virtual conversation, including Q&A, with a leading authority on foreign policy. As one of few Americans to personally know Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, Ambassador Huntsman will discuss the ways America can cooperate and compete with China, as both countries confront the most critical issues of the 21st century.
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CSEAS Lecture Series
Making Life in the Aftermath of War in Lao PDR
Friday, December 2, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST
Room 110 Weiser Hall, University of Michigan.
Speaker: Davorn Sisavath, is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego and has received several awards, including the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship and the UC Human Rights Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Radical History Review, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Anthropological Quarterly, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, and Verge: Studies in Global Asia.
This event is organized by the Center of Southeast Asian Studies, UofM
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