Events

Join the Center for Premodern Studies on the 24th of October at 5:00, for a book talk by New York Times bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty.

Join filmmaker Ryūsuke Hamaguchi in person for Drive My Car, his Oscar-winning road epic traversing love, loss, and the path of human interactions with exceptional emotional…

Ryūsuke Hamaguchi navigates the depths of decisions and their repercussions in this three-part film.

2026-2027 Roetzel Family Lecture: The Mecca Paradox

Join us on November 6 - 7, 2026, at the University of Minnesota for two days of scholarly presentations and artistic work exploring liminality across poetry, performance…

The AMES Colloquium is a forum for academic research on Asia and/or the Middle East.

Takumi, a single father, lives with his young daughter Hana in a small Japanese mountain village where he takes care of miscellaneous jobs for his neighbors. When a Tokyo…

This unique collaboration between filmmaker Ryūsuke Hamaguchi and composer Eiko Ishibashi only screens when accompanied by a live performance of its soundtrack.

Join visiting poet Janaka Stucky for a reading and conversation exploring poetry as a practice of ecstatic consciousness.

Join the Department of Anthropology for our 6th annual Gudeman lecture