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Events
Oct
09
Multi
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
12:00 AM
Virtual
Oct
09
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Scripting Suicide in Japan
Kirsten Cather, Professor and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), University of Texas at Austin
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
14
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
In-person screening of Short Films from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia at 7 PM, at the Arab American National Museum
7:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Oct
15
CMENAS Colloquium. The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan
2:00 PM
555
Weiser Hall
Oct
16
WCEE Lecture. The Long Shadow of Home: New Russian Political Migrants in Georgia and Serbia
Liudmila Listrovaya, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-26
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
16
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Island Societies and Maritime Networks between Ryukyu and Japan: The Amami Islands, 1609-1878
Thomas Monaghan, Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
12:00 PM
Room 747
Weiser Hall
