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Throughout the year, the International Institute (II) and its 16 centers and programs will host a range of events exploring the theme of “Sovereignty.”
Of paramount importance in the building of the modern international order, sovereignty has been a beleaguered concept for some time in an increasingly borderless world. It now faces a full-on crisis in the context of weakening supranational institutions, resurgent imperialisms, ongoing wars, climate change, and the AI revolution.
How is the concept of national sovereignty being challenged, reasserted, and/or redefined? What other scales of human experience, from individual to the planetary, are becoming newly relevant in these renegotiations and redefinitions?
The year-long program will cover topics ranging from food sovereignty and indigenous borders in Latin America, digital sovereignty in Southeast and East Asia, US-Africa relations, America's role as a force both for and against global democracy, the impact of the US-Israel war in the Middle East on Ukraine, and the geopolitics of sovereignty surrounding Taiwan.
September 24 – Lecture (Center for Japanese Studies)
Rivers and the Politics of Temporality in Ainu Mosir
Michael J. Ioannides, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Ainu Mosir (Hokkaido, Japan), this talk considers the crucial role that rivers play in Indigenous Ainu articulations of sovereignty and futurity.
12:00 p.m. | 4448 East Hall
