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Asian Languages and Cultures
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Events
Mar
21
Multi
2025 CLIFF Conference: "Science—literature—technology: rupture, relation, constellation"
Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) 2025
8:30 AM
Assembly Hall
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Mar
21
Asian Languages and Cultures Language Fair
11:00 AM
Courtyard
Michigan Union
Mar
21
Friday Lecture Series. Gambling Coastal Lives: Surprises and Precarity in the Coastal Philippines
Marvin Montefrio, Associate Professor of Social Science (Environmental Studies) at Yale-NUS College in Singapore
12:00 PM
Room 110
Weiser Hall
Mar
25
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China
Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Mar
25
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Korean Language Education in America 30 Years: Retrospect and Prospect
Hye-Sook Wang, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University
4:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Mar
27
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Politics of Taxation and Redistributive Equality
Junko Kato, Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall