The East Asian Studies Center invites you to view the electronic publication of the Academic Year 2019-2020 EASC expOSUre newsletter.

This issue includes columns from the EASC, ICS, IJS, and IKS faculty directors, updates on leadership transitions, faculty and student news, as well as the following feature articles:

Focus on curricular innovation: Read about the new course and IJS lecture exploring Japanese monsterology and the new educational language web series, NihonGO NOW! The Big Ten Academic Alliance's Korean eSchool Initiative is featured, and online teaching and digital innovation in East Asian studies are discussed.

Focus on academic programming: EASC and the institutes' 35 lectures, conferences, and performances are listed. In addition, the 5th Workshop in Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics is highlighted for its success in converting the planned on-site conference into a synchronous webinar conference welcoming the world. ICS's critical film screening of Crazy Rich Asians, IKS's guest speaker James Person, and IJS's Brad Richardson Memorial Lectures are featured.

Focus on outreach: Read about EASC's efforts to reach teachers, business leaders, students, and the community through our various outreach events and projects, including the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia seminars and Global Teachers Seminars.

Faculty news: Faculty publications, presentations, promotions, and awards are listed. Tributes to EASC and institute faculty directors who are ending their terms, as well as retiring East Asian studies faculty, are featured. In addition, the recipients of the second OIA Area Studies Center Conference Grant competition are announced.

Student news: The Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies MA Program, on the occasion of its 15th anniversary, is featured. EASC fellowship and scholarship recipients are announced.

This issue and select previous issues of the newsletter are available on our Newsletters page. We hope you enjoy reading about these topics as much as we enjoyed featuring them in this latest issue of EASC expOSUre. Enjoy!