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Recent News
Korean Traditional Music Orchestra of the Blind heralded as a "once-in-a-lifetime musical experience"
The event was made possible through a months-long collaboration with the Nam Center for Korean Studies, DONG-ARI (the Korean Student Association of Pioneer High School), and the dedicated teachers and staff of Pioneer High School.
Approved Winter 2026 PICS Course List Coming November 10
Visit the PICS Courses page on Monday, November 10 to review approved courses! Eligible students wishing to declare the International Studies major should fill out the International Studies Major Declaration Form.
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
Oct
28
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | New Discovery of Datong Music Society (1919-ca.1958) “Ancient Musical Instruments” Collection in Munich: Towards Modeling an Invention of “Heritage” in Chinese Musical Modernity
Joys HY Cheung, Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
28
Emerging Democracies Roundtable | A New Era of War and Dictators?
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, NYU Christian Davenport, U-M Megan Stewart, U-M Dan Slater, U-M (moderator)
4:00 PM
Pond Room
Michigan Union
Oct
28
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
In-person Screening of Algiers (Algeria, 2024) at 7 PM, at the State Theatre
7:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Oct
29
CREES Noon Lecture. The Una Runs Through It: A Bosnian City Mobilizes Around its River
Azra Hromadžić, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and professor of anthropology, Syracuse University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Oct
30
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Finding Refined Friends: The Magazine
Gayū (1951–70) and Sinitic Poetry in Postwar Japan
Matthew Fraleigh, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan; Associate Professor, East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Nov
04
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cohort Replacement and the Waves of Fertility Decline in China
Yong Cai, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
