Outreach by OSU Faculty to Community College and minority-serving institutions:
EASC sent two faculty members to speak at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA as part of our minority-serving intuition outreach on March 27, 2017.  Brook Hailu Beshah (international studies) gave a lecture “China in Africa” attended by 49 students and faculty and Naomi Fukumori (associate professor, East Asian languages and literatures) spoke to students about preparing and applying for graduate study of East Asia.  As part of our outreach to community colleges, EASC sent Max Woodworth (assistant professor, geography) to Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, OH to deliver a lecture “Seeing Ghosts: Parsing China's Ghost City Controversy,” with 80 students and faculty in attendance on April 20, 2017.

Outreach by OSU Faculty to K-12 students:
EASC sent two faculty members to speak at Columbus Council on World Affair (CCWA’s) “Global Issues” events, which is part of CCWA’s Global Scholars Diploma program that includes 600 high school students from 15 school districts working toward global fluency as they gain skills in cross-cultural communication, global careers and global issues. Namiko Kunimoto (assistant professor, history of art) and Max Woodworth (assistant professor, geography) shared their research on Japanese Art History and urban space  in China, respectively, with 83 students from Granville, Delaware, Marion and Dublin Jerome High Schools on February 23, and with 85 students from Buckeye Valley, Westerville and Worthington High Schools on February 28, 2017.  In addition, IKS Director Mitch Lerner (associate professor, history) has been active in working with students at Granville High School through the Global Scholars Diploma’s mentoring program.
   
These events were sponsored in part by a US Department of Education grant for the East Asian Studies Center.