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Professor Guoqing Li receives awards
On August 29, Professor Guoqing Li’s work, titled An Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Ancient Books in the Ohio State University Library, along with two other similar books he participated in editing…
New Japanese Interpretation course offered for Spring 2019
Japanese 5194:Introduction to Professional Japanese Interpretation
"Words are nothing more than a container for ideas.The interpreter must pour those ideas into a new container" Spring…

IKS Director Mitch Lerner Featured in the Media
Institute for Korean Studies Director Mitch Lerner, Department of History, wrote about the Trump presidency in The Washington Post on August 30, 2018. Also, his comments to Politifact in July 2017…

EASC secures Title VI NRC and FLAS funding from U.S. Department of Education for 2018-2022
The East Asian Studies Center successfully secured two major grants this month, for a total of nearly $2.2 million, from the U.S. Department of Education under its Title VI Comprehensive National…

Department of Comparative Studies offers new education abroad program on Japanese pop culture
The Department of Comparative Studies is offering a new education abroad program, "Japanese Pop Culture," during Summer 2019. The first two weeks of this program will take place in Columbus; the…
JLPT 2018 Registration opens (8/27 - 10/1)
The Institute for Japanese Studies is pleased to announce the opening of the registration period for the 2018 Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) which will be administered in Columbus, OH…

Autumn 2018 EASC Program Calendar
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Autumn 2018 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…

Ohio teachers explore Korea during workshop
Bringing Korea into the ClassroomTeacher workshop held June 7-8 on The Ohio State University (OSU) campus offered 6-12th grade Ohio teachers a chance to learn about Korea, enabling them to…

EASC Teacher Training: OPI Assessment Workshop for Japanese
EASC hosted the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Assessment Workshop for Japanese from May 21-24, 2018 on The Ohio State University (OSU) campus. Prof. Ken-ichi Miura, Franklin &…