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Recent News
Mapping Memory: Commemorating Formerly Incarcerated Nikkei Workers at U-M
The Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) is honored to announce the Yuzuru J. Takeshita Nikkei Workers Memorial Project, a database and map of 401 formerly-incarcerated Japanese Americans who worked for the University of Michigan in the 1940s.
Michigan Daily Review: Songs of the Dragon, Images of Fantasy
The Michigan Daily covered the recent "Songs of the Dragon, Images of Fantasy" performance, noting the event as a community celebration.
The International Institute (II) brings together distinguished and diverse faculty and scholars with deep area studies and international expertise to enrich the university’s intellectual environment and to provide the U-M community with the knowledge, tools, and experience to become informed and active global citizens. We advance this mission through education, engagement, and innovation. READ MORE
Events
Feb
17
Multi
CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project
10th Floor Gallery, Weiser Hall from February 2 to April 30, 2026
8:00 AM
Feb
17
Multi
LACS Exhibition. Back in Bahia: The Repatriation Journey of Afro-Brazilian Art from Detroit to Salvador
February 2-26, 2026 | International Institute Gallery, 547 Weiser Hall
8:30 AM
International Institute Gallery, Room 547
Weiser Hall
Feb
17
Multi
Dancing with the Dragon | Dancing with the Dragon Exhibit at the RC Art Gallery
9:00 AM
RC Art Gallery
East Quadrangle
Feb
17
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China
Yanshuo Zhang, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Literatures, Pomona College
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Feb
17
WCEE Film Series on Ukraine.
Soldiers of Song (2024, 90 min, dir. Ryan Smith)
5:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Feb
18
CREES Noon Lecture. Nonalignment and Decolonial Imagination: Yugoslav Literary Encounters with the Global South
Nataša Kovačević, Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
(for II staff and faculty; requires SSO login)
