Michihiro Ama is Karashima Tsukasa Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at the University of Montana where he teaches courses on various aspects of Japanese literature and culture, and all levels of Japanese, including business...

Join Professor Jean Casimir, Professor of Humanities at the University of Haiti, as he discusses the current situation in Haiti and presents his new book, The Haitians: A Decolonial History.

Join in the conversation with Dr. Lagunes as he discusses his new book 'The Eye & the Whip: Corruption Control in the Americas'.

In this event, Nektaria Anastasiadou will talk about her debut novel, "A Recipe for Daphne".

This talk by Dr. Jackson Ewing will explore the diplomatic and geopolitical drivers of infrastructure investment, the key characteristics of investments by major players, and the climate stakes of infrastructure development outcomes.

In this talk, Dr. Elizabeth Son focuses on how Korean diasporic performance artist Dohee Lee contends with palimpsestic histories of militarized violence on Jeju Island in MAGO (2014). MAGO is a multimedia performance that integrates ritual movement, dance, music, film and motion graphics, site-specific installation, and Korean mythology with the tumultuous history of state-sanctioned violence on Jeju Island. In the talk she will discuss how the utilization and re-visioning of Korean mythology and performance practices allow Lee to "time travel," playing with different time scales, linear and cyclic, that interface with contrasting states of being.

Join Professor Edmund Malesky as he interviews Murray Hiebert, author of Under Beijing's Shadow: Southeast Asia's China Challenge, discussing the undercurrents lying beneath the surface of China's relations with its smaller southern neighbors, as well as the ways these countries could address the "China Challenge."

The 2021 NCLAFF has invited a group of cultural producers, critics and filmmakers to share their work that examine issues such as race, gender, and national identity in fiction films, documentaries, and animation underlining the black cultural experience and their production.

Jennifer Hsieh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, investigates sensory practices in institutional and technological settings, with an emphasis on urban East Asia. Her most recent book project,...

The 2021 NCLAFF has invited a group of cultural producers, critics and filmmakers to share their work that examine issues such as race, gender, and national identity in fiction films, documentaries, and animation underlining the black cultural experience and their production.