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Events
Sep
18
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Jet-Age Nationhood: Pan American World Airways as Postwar Japan
Christine R. Yano, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Hawaii; President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
18
Multi
Art Exhibition. "Between Voice and Silence"
Artists: Ira Bondarenko (ceramics), University of Michigan; Katya Lisova (textiles) and Matvii Vaisberg (prints), Ukrainian Union of Artists BZH-ART
12:00 PM
Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Duderstadt Center
Sep
19
Friday Lecture Series | Botany's (Un)making: Vernaculars of Plant Knowing in the Early 20th-Century Davao Gulf
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, University of California, Santa Cruz , Assistant Professor of History
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
19
Japanese Music Workshop: "Performance Exploration for Shakuhachi, Koto, and Voice" with David Kansuke Wheeler and Yoko Hiraoka
5:00 PM
Britton Recital Hall
Earl V. Moore Building
Sep
20
“In Honor of William P. Malm: Facilitating Global Musical Encounters,” Christine R. Yano
2:00 PM
Britton Recital Hall
Earl V. Moore Building
Sep
20
Pre-Concert Lecture on Japanese Music & Dance
5:30 PM
Watkins Lecture Hall
Earl V. Moore Building
