Since 2011, ICS has hosted one or more graduate forums each academic year, organized by ICS or by a China faculty member and typically on some specific theme, especially in the early years. From 2013 onwards, the event has been held each spring and is organized by the the ICS Director. The forums give OSU graduate students in China-related areas an opportunity to present and discuss their research with faculty and peers. Faculty members who are interested in organizing an ICS Graduate Forum are encouraged to contact the ICS director. ICS Graduate Forums hosted to date are:
- 2018-2019: ICS Graduate Forum: New Perspectives on Literary, Theatrical, and Visual Cultures in Sinophone Contexts
- 2017-2018: ICS Graduate Forum: Imagining China's Past and Present
- 2016-2017: ICS Graduate Forum: Language, Literature and Performance of the Han and Ethnic Minorities in China
- 2015-2016: ICS Graduate Forum: China and the International Mediasphere
- 2014-2015: ICS Graduate Forum: Global and Transnational Experiences
- 2013-2014: ICS Graduate Forum: Understanding China—Its Roots and New Frontiers
- 2012-2013: ICS Graduate Forum: New Perspectives on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
- 2011-2012: ICS Graduate Forum: The Fashioning of New Cultural Spaces: Between Performance, Print, and Visuality in Late Imperial and Republican China [pdf]
- organized by Patricia Sieber (Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures) - 2011-2012: ICS Graduate Forum: Making Modernity in Twentieth Century Chinese Art [pdf]
- organized by Julia Andrews (Department. of History of Art) - 2010-2011: ICS Graduate Forum: New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics Research [pdf]
- organized by Marjorie Chan (Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.