Join us for an hour of conversation in Korean. All levels (beginners to native speakers) are welcome. 

MSU Film Collective presentation. Fall theme: Work/Place

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina (Vera Alentova) and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman (Juri Wassiliev) forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, she's fought to become a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, but still alone but for her daughter. When she meets a genial mechanic (Aleksey Batalov), love seems possible again. 

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The Joseph Lee Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture that commemorates the life and work and Joseph Lee. This year's lecture topic will be annouced at a later date.

Sponsored By the Asian Studies Center, Joseph lee Memorial Fund, and Gui Wei Hui.

Arabic Diwan is a gathering of Arabic students who are in the Arabic program, where they speak the language and learn about the culture in a relaxed environment with our Fulbright teaching assistant. Students from all Arabic language levels are encouraged to attend. Also, we extend the invitation to the Arabic speaking students at the English Center.

Dear EX follows three people, all linked to one another because of Song Zhengyuan, who dies before the film begins. Adolescent Song Chengxi, Zhengyuan's son, finds himself caught in a feud between his widowed mother Liu Sanlian and his father's gay lover Jay. Before his death, Zhengyuan listed Jay as his insurance beneficiary, which enraged Sanlian, fed up, Chengxi moves out and into Jay's unsightly flat. Already at odds over love and money, the trio seems poised for further conflict.

 

Nathalie Peutz received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University. Her research, based on fieldwork conducted in Yemen, Djibouti, and Somaliland, focuses on forced migration, displacement and immobility, conservation and development, and identity and heritage in the Arab world and the Western Indian Ocean region. Her most recent book is Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen.

Co-sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program and MSU Asian Studies Center

In 2019, Dennis Ross and David Makovsky published a book titled Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel's Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny. The book examines key moments in Israeli history in which leaders had to make crucial decisions, and examines the issues of leadership and judgment surrounding those decisions. David Makovsky is one of America's leading experts on Israel and is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Project on the Middle East Peace Process. He is also an adjunct professor in Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Co-sponsored by the Greater Lansing Jewish Welfare Federation, MSU Hillel, James Madison College, MSU Asian Studies Center, Department of History, Residential College of Arts and Humanities, Department of Political Science, and College of Arts and Letters. 

Virtual lecture by Mohammad Ayoob, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Relations.

Bangladesh marks the 50th anniversary of its independence this year. Dr. Ayoob will discuss Indian Diplomacy during the Bangladesh Crisis and War.

This year commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Bangladesh. The year 1971's geostrategic significance for the Indian subcontinent rivals that of 1947 when British India was divided into India and Pakistan. While the roots of Bangladesh's secession from Pakistan lay firmly within the Pakistani polity, India's political support for the Bangladesh freedom movement and its military intervention were crucial for the liberation of Bangladesh. Although humanitarian considerations, especially the influx of close to ten million refugees into India, played a role in India's decision, the major factors determining the decision to intervene militarily in the Bangladesh crisis were political and strategic in character. This presentation by a close observer of the events of 1971 will analyze these factors as well as the decision-making process that led to India midwifing the birth of Bangladesh.

 

Co-sponsored the Muslim Studies Program and the  MSU Asian Studies Center.
 

Frenetic 'buddy' movie about two misfit girls -  one who is into Lolita fashion, the other who wants to be in a biker gang - who become unlikely friends. Fun (and funny) film with interesting techniques used by the filmmaker. 

In response to the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history and in memory of the eleven lives lost on October 27th, the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel will be holding a teach-in on antisemitism.

Discussion will include memories of the victims from people who knew them and the synagogue, the history of antisemitism, contemporary antisemitism, the history of hate groups, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.

Presenters are Yael Aronoff, JMC and Director of the Serling Institute; Kirsten Fermaglich, History Department and the Serling Institute; David Mittleman, Church Wyble PC, a division of Grewal Law PLLC, and a Board Member of the Serling Institute; Amy Simon, Farber Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History, JMC, History, and the Serling Institute; Margot Valles, English Department, Department of Religious Studies, and affiliate with the Serling Institute; Laura Yares, Department of Religious Studies and Serling Institute; and Kenneth Waltzer, former Director of the Serling Institute, JMC
Professor Emeritus.