February

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					1 Friday at Noon: Jennifer Fraser on The Art of Grieving: West Sumatra's Worst Earthquake in Music Videos (12:00 PM) Why Good Bureaucracies Aren't Always Best--International Security & Development Lecture (2:00PM) Dissenting Diaspora: a performance by YaliniDream and a reading by V.V. Ganeshananthan (4:00 PM)	2 Dem Viet Nam - VSA cultural show (07:00 PM)
3	4 CWPS Open House (4:00PM) “Fighting is Very Hard Work”: Labor and Soldiering in the US-Mexican War, 1846-1848 (4:00PM)	5 The International Implications of the Syrian Civil War (12:00 PM) “Mystical (Sufi) Interpretations of the Qur’an.” (4:00 PM) "Mystical (Sufi) Interpretations of the Qur'an." (4:00 PM) WCED Lecture. “After the Revolution: The Varied Fates of Former Oppositions in Transitions to Democracy.” (4:00 PM) Viewing of Exhibition, El Anatsui: When I last Wrote to you about Africa (4:00 PM) Near Eastern Studies: "Mystical (Sufi) Interpretations of the Qur'an" (4:00PM)	6 Drawing Morality: the Visual Illustration and its Function in the Samgang Haengsil-to [Illustrated Guide to the Three Relations] (4:00 PM) CREES Noon Lecture. “Dangerous Art: From Varvara Stepanova to Pussy Riot.” (12:00 PM) U-M African Presidential Scholars Program Research Symposium II (2:30PM)	7 CJS Noon Lecture - Law, Subjectivity, and Colonial Space: An Analysis of the Japanese Peace Preservation Law through the Colonial Question (12:00PM) What Use Have you for Bodies and Limbs Anyway? Khariji and Ibaji Concepts of Shira in their Near Eastern Context (4:00 PM) Conversations on Europe. "From Rasse to Race: On the Problem of Difference in the Federal Republic of Germany.” (4:00 PM)	8 Energizing Africa's Emergence (8:00 AM) ISIS Workshop: Muslims, Scholars, Soldieers: The Origin and Elaboration of the Ibadi Imamate Traditions (11:30AM) Friday at Noon: Grassroots Approach to Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary Burma/Myanmar. Ardeth Maung, University of Massachusetts-Lowell (12:00 PM) Rethinking Urban Theory: Transnational Urbanism at the Start of the 21st--International Security & Development Lecture (2:00PM) Epidemic Proportions: ‘Globesity’ and the Accumulative Body in India (4:00PM)	9 Helpless (2:00PM)
10	11 WCED Lecture. “Walk the Line: Ukraine between Russia and the EU.” (4:00 PM)	12 Orientation and Q&A for Students Considering a Concentration or Minor in International Studies (12:00PM) Fulbright Information Session (12:00PM) 'Cats give Funerals to Rats’: Making the Dead Modern through Lament (12:00PM) “The Qur'an in the Islamic Imagination.” (4:00 PM) Lecture/Recital (8:00 PM)	13 Indonesian Adidas Workers Speak Out (06:00 PM)	14 CJS Noon Lecture - Legal Representation of Japanese Companies Doing Business in the United States: The Importance of Cultural Understanding (12:00PM)	15 ASP Workshop. "Armenian Cultural Life in Istanbul." (1:00 PM) The Practice of Translation: Academic Exercises and Activist Stances (4:00PM) Jakarta and the Dilemma of our Time: Dr. Abidin Kusno (06:00 PM)	16 Sunny (2:00PM) UMS Event 2013: Amjad Ali Concert (7:00 PM) The Revolutionary (7:00PM) UMS Concert: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, sarod (8:00PM)
17	18 The Streets are Rising (4:00PM) Reflections on Korean Politics from Past to Present (4:00PM)	19 Physical Performance and Socioeconomic Status among Older Chinese: A Multilevel Analysis (12:00PM) WCED Lecture. “Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: The Waqf as Obstacle to Democratization.” (4:00 PM) Africa Workshop: "Foreign Aid in Dangerous Places: The Donors and Mali's Democracy (4:00PM)	20 CANCELLED: Korean (Language) Studies in the U.S Higher Education: Evolution and Prospect. (4:00 PM)	21 CJS Noon Lecture - Scream from the Shadows: The Women's Liberation Movement in Japan (12:00PM) Conversations on Europe. "Rape Hysteria and the Sexual Economy of Race: French Accusations of Sexual Assault against African-American G.I.s, 1944-46." (4:00 PM) A Performance by Dobet Gnahoré and Acoustic Africa (7:00PM)	22 Taring Padi T-shirt printing workshop (01:00 PM) Exfoliating Colorism: Contestations, Comedy, and Critique in India's Transnational Media Field (4:00PM) Exfoliating Colorism: Contestations, Comedy, and Critique in India's Transnational Media Field (4:00PM)	23 Rama and Shinta Journey for Love Indonesian Cultural Night (05:30 PM) Kataoka Ichiro's Sayonara Performance (7:00PM) Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (7:00PM)
24	25 Film Screening: In the Eye of the Day (07:00 PM)	26 Capitalism from Below: Where do Economic Institutions Come From? (12:00PM) "What is a Feminist Response to the Eviction of Muslims from Western Law?" (4:00 PM)	27	28 CJS Noon Lecture - Two Moons Over Europe: Translating Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (12:00PM) Film screening: Shape of the Moon (07:00 pm)