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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.

The year-long program will cover topics ranging from food sovereignty and indigenous borders in Latin America, transnational criminal activity and victimization 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 2026 »

9/1–10/30: Exhibition (Copernicus Center for Polish Studies)

This is the Place

Anna Liminowicz, Photographer

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. | International Institute Gallery, 547 Weiser Hall

9/17: Symposium (Nam Center for Korean Studies)

Beacon of Democratic Resilience: Visual Truths and the Legacy of Korea’s 5·18 Democratization Movement - A Photographic Archive of the May 1980 People’s Uprising in Korea

Thierry Bonzon, Université Gustave Eiffel; Youngju Ryu, University of Michigan; Sohl Lee, Stony Brook University; Hayana Kim, Ohio State University; David Dolinger, Former Peace Corps Volunteer; and Na Kyung-taek, Former Jeon-nam Daily Photojournalist

1:00–4:00 p.m. | Gallery Hatcher Graduate Library

Organized in conjunction with an exhibition of 90 curated images from the Gwangju 5·18 Archives on campus.

9/18–10/7: Exhibition (Nam Center for Korean Studies)

Democracy Week | Beacon of Democratic Resilience: Visual Truths and the Legacy of Korea's 5·18 Democratization Movement - A Photo Exhibition

12:00–6:00 p.m. | Duderstadt Center

Collaborators: May 18 Archives, Center for Democracy & Civic Empowerment, Department of Political Science, Center for Emerging Democracies, Donia Human Rights Center, Asia Library, and Duderstadt Center

9/24: Lecture (Center for Japanese Studies)

Rivers and the Politics of Temporality in Ainu Mosir

Michael J. Ioannides, University of Michigan

12:00–1:30 p.m. | 4448 East Hall 

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