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Recent News
2026 ALC Graduation and Awards Ceremony
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The first Humans of ALC spotlight features Professor Deirdre de la Cruz reflecting on the personal and intellectual path that led her to Asian Studies.
Events
Aug
11
Dancing with the Dragon | Dragon Dance at Detroit Tigers Game
5:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Sep
11
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Translation as Jungle Warfare: How Zhang Guixing’s novel The Crossing of the Boars Crossed into English
Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia
12:00 PM
Room 110
Weiser Hall
Sep
17
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Gathering Fading Voices: Endangered Dialect Research in Japan Today
Joy Taniguchi, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
23
Multi
Geophilosophies (3): Cross-Cultural Thinking in Precarious Times
A Workshop Series Exploring Cross-Cultural Thinking Hosted by the University of Michigan in Collaboration with the Uberoi Foundation
9:00 AM
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Sep
24
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rivers and the Politics of Temporality in Ainu Mosir
Michael J. Ioannides, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
01
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Living Ainu Art: Community, Nature, and Intergenerational Knowledge through Song and Dance
Kanako Uzawa; Invited Faculty Member, Hokkaido University; Affiliated Researcher, Historical Museum of Oslo; Guest Curator, University of Michigan Museum of Art
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
