LSA is the place for foundational knowledge where creative thinkers engage with a complex, diverse, and changing world. We need your support to fuel our innovative environment, invest in the brightest people, and advance tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
International Institute
Recent News
U-M and Ukrainian students meet virtually to discuss disinformation and propaganda related to war in Ukraine
Exchange facilitated by WCEE Scholar Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova with home university in Ukraine.
Sudan: In the Eye of the Storm – Conflict, Resilience, and the Path Forward
Symposium recap — scholars, policymakers, and advocates discuss Sudan’s present challenges and future possibilities.
The International Institute (II) brings together distinguished and diverse faculty and scholars with deep area studies and international expertise to enrich the university’s intellectual environment and to provide the U-M community with the knowledge, tools, and experience to become informed and active global citizens. We advance this mission through education, engagement, and innovation. READ MORE

Events
Mar
24
Multi
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring
Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed;
Goodbye Julia (2023);
Timbuktu (2014);
Four Daughters (2023)
12:00 AM
Virtual
Mar
24
Multi
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
8:00 AM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
Mar
24
Multi
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
8:00 AM
Gallery, Room 547
Weiser Hall
Mar
24
Program in International and Comparative Studies Annual International Studies Alumni Career Panel and Reception
International Studies Alumni
5:00 PM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
Mar
24
WCEE Distinguished lecture. Russia Beyond Putin
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition politician, historian, and former political prisoner, current Vice President of the Free Russia Foundation
5:30 PM
Amphitheatre
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Mar
25
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China
Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall