Speaker: Siddharth Chandra is professor and director of the Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University. His research interests include pandemics, the intersection of economics, health, and history in Asia, behavior and policy relating to addictive substances, and applications of portfolio theory to fields outside finance, for which the theory was originally developed.
The 1918 influenza pandemic had a profound impact on Indonesia. This presentation highlights research on pandemic impacts on various aspects of key demographic aggregates in Indonesia. These include estimates of the toll of the pandemic in the absence of reliable birth and death registration data, the timing, size, and geographic spread of waves of infection and mortality, and the impacts of the pandemic on health policy in Indonesia. Where relevant, comparisons are made with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Sponsored by the University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Amazing Kore-eda film that won last year's Academy Award for best foreign language film. Moving performances, especially by Sakura Ando and Kiki Kirin. This film will lead you to rethink your ideas about family and proprietary.
This workshop will begin with the screening of the Sailor Moon Super S Special.
Erica Friedman
Japanese pop culture specialist, will then lead a discussion about translation issues related to this anime in concert with new edition of The Rose of Versailles. Participants will be invited to think deeply about such key issues as gender, status, formality, idiom, and slang through layers of languages.
Sponsors: Academic Advancement Network, Asian Studies Center, Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen), Citizen Scholars Program, Japanese Studies Program, Japan Council, College of Arts and Letters, Department of Linguistics and Languages, Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, Learning Community on Identity Formation in Global Contexts, Romance and Classical Studies
Prof. Fatima Kukeeva, Faculty of International Relations, al-Farabi Kazakh National University.
Sponsored by the MSU Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Affiliated faculty, S.C. Lee awardees, and other supporters of the MSU Asian Studies Center are invited to join us for light refreshments and a brief award recgonition program.
RSVP at asia.isp.msu.edu/sc by Friday, October 5th
Lunch: 1:00 p.m.
Presentations and Discussion: 2-4 p.m.
- Traditional Modernity: Class, Caste and Gender in Occupational Patterns, Ishita Mehrotra (Ambedkar Univ. of Delhi)
-Agrarian Capital in 21st Century India: Strategies Within and Outside Agriculture, Shrey Sinha (Univ. of Cambridge)
Series (Oct. 15, 16): Four UK-trained scholars from the School of Oriental and African Studies, the London School of Economics, and Cambridge bring different dimensions of critical development, culture and gender in South Asia. Their research focus is on Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bengal and Bangladesh.
The global Muslim market encompassing 1.8 million consumers and with an estimated worth of 3.2 trillion dollars by 2024, is of many interest to many companies and scholars of business. This panel will discuss a diverse array of topics such as the halal industry, Islamic branding, and Islamic business strategy.
Panelists:
Dr. Jonathan Wilson, Professor of Brand Strategy and Culture, Director, Regents University, London
Dr. Elif Isberk-Bilgan, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Dr. Cidomer Nestorovich, Professor of International Marketing and Geopolitics, ESSEC Singapore
The event will be moderated by professor Ahmed H. Kirca (Director MSU-CIBER) and Muhammad H. Khalil (MSU-MSP).
Sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program and CIBER
Arabic language practice and culture presentations.
FLAS Fellowships
Global Speaker Program
Asian Studies Center Newsletter
AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies
