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Events
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
15
2026-2027 CSAS Lecture Series | Cultivating a Global Radical Imagination at the Grassroots: Communist Women’s Mobilization in Mid-20th-c. Assam/Eastern Bengal
Elora Shehabuddin, University of California, Berkeley
4:00 PM
Room 555
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 4448
East Hall
Sep
17
For Thee and All the World to See: May 18 Gwangju and the Visual Tenacities of South Korean Democracy
Thierry Bonzon ( Université Gustave Eiffel), Youngju Ryu (University of Michigan), Sohl Lee (Stony Brook University), Hayana Kim (Ohio State University), David Dolinger (Former Peace Corps Volunteer), Na Kyung-taek (Former Jeon-nam Daily Photojournalist)
1:00 PM
Gallery
Hatcher Graduate Library
Sep
17
Sixth Annual Luis Gomez Memorial Lecture
Learning to Read from Mahāyāna Sūtras by Natalie Gummer
5:00 PM
Henderson Room (3rd Floor)
Michigan League
Sep
18
Multi
Democracy Week | Beacon of Democratic Resilience: Visual Truths and the Legacy of Korea's 5·18 Democratization Movement - A Photographic Archive of the May 1980 People’s Uprising in Korea
12:00 PM
Duderstadt Center
