As part of EASC’s outreach to community colleges, EASC supported Columbus State Community College’s Symposium, “When East Meets West: Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road” on September 29, 2017 with talks by Scott Levi (associate professor, history) and Christine Burke Mathison (lecturer, history of art) which was attended by 75 faculty and students.  EASC sent Melissa Curley (assistant professor, comparative studies) to Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, OH to deliver a “Turning Back the Radiance: Buddhism, Stress, and Psychotherapy in the Twentieth-Century Japan (and Twenty-First-Century America,” with 17 students and faculty in attendance on February 21, 2018.

 

 

EASC sent speakers to two different colleges in Atlanta, GA as part of our minority-serving intuition outreach.  Patrick McAloon, SinoConnect gave two talks at The Nine University and College International Studies Consortium of Georgia International Education Conference on the History, Politics, Society and Cultural Aspects of Doing Business in China, “Cultural Aspects of Doing Business with China,” and “Made in China: Where does your stuff come from” on October 27, 2017.  For our outreach program with Spelman College, James Person, Johns Hopkins, gave a lecture “North Korea and the Bomb: Lessons from the History of the Secretive Regime” attended by 34 students and faculty on April 13, 2018.

 

These talks were sponsored in part by a US Department of Education grant for the East Asian Studies Center.