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One word I often hear while living in the United States is “wellness.” In parks and on walking paths, I often see people walking or running. Many people are also interested in yoga,…
EASC is excited to announce the new cohort of five interns for the Autumn 2026 semester. Learn more about the interns and their interests in East Asia!
Aki Emery (far left) is majoring in…
Sports have a special power to bring people together. When big events like the Olympic Games or FIFA World Cup take place, people from different countries and cultures watch and cheer together…
Old Man's Cave in Hocking Hills, Ohio, is one of the region's most remarkable natural heritage sites. Formed hundreds of millions of years ago, the Blackhand Sandstone has been shaped by water and…
The role of the Korean language in the United States has changed significantly in recent years. In the past, Korean was mainly studied by scholars of Korean Studies and students specializing in…
The last Monday of May in the United States is Memorial Day. Much like Korea's Memorial Day, it is a day set aside to remember those who gave their lives in military service. Across the country,…
Since its beginning in 1995, Columbus’s Asian Festival has grown into one of the major Asian cultural festivals in the United States. Every year, countless visitors come to Franklin Park to enjoy…
The Institute for Japanese Studies hosted an engaging lunch session with DEALL alumnus Dr. Seth Goss of Emory University on April 20th, bringing together graduate students from East Asian Studies…
“Where am I to go now…” In the aftermath of the Gyeyujeongnan coup (1453), the young King Yi Hong-wi, having been dethroned, is sent into exile. In a remote mountain village in Yeongwol,…
Almost 7,000 miles separates Korea and Ohio, but a visiting scholar in the East Asian Studies Center is working to make the cultures of these places closer than ever.
Soon Ho Kim arrived on…
The East Asian Studies Center is proud to announce that current MA student, Justin This, has been awarded a Blakemore Fellowship. This prestigious award will allow Justin, currently finishing his…
Spring Returns: Pansori in Ohio
Pansori is one of Korea’s most powerful and enduring forms of Intangible Cultural Heritage. A single performance can last anywhere from two to…
The Taegeukgi: Flying Farther and Brighter
When walking around the United States, the American flag naturally comes into view. It can be seen in front yards, on school grounds, on…
The Institute for Chinese Studies at The Ohio State University hosted a two day academic workshop for graduate students from Ohio State and Indiana University. The workshop featured open dialogue…
Korean Heritage: Columbus’s Hope: The Continuing Journey of Korea on Stage
In American society, Korean culture is no longer a temporary trend but a…
The 2026 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Vancouver, Canada from March 12-15, 2026. The following EASC faculty and graduate students will…
Since 1999, the Japan-America Society of Central Ohio (JASCO) has been hosting the annual Ohio Japanese Speech Contest to promote Japanese language learning in the state of Ohio. The Contest…
Korean Heritage: Korean and American New Year Traditions: “Happy New Year”
Every society marks the beginning of a new year, but the ways in which it is celebrated differ across…
The C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley, is now accepting applications for
grants to support research in the James Soong Archive
About the…
The Ohio State University’s Undergraduate Fellowship Office is proud to announce that Arón Olegnowicz-Cruz (BA ’24, BS ’24) has been selected for the Schwarzman Scholars Class of 2026–27, becoming…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Spring 2026 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
“I decided to go to Bali because I wanted to travel to somewhere I have never been before, both for the cultural exchange and to experience a different way of life,” Crystal Tang, an education…
On Friday, October 17th, students from several Ohio high schools participated in the second East Asia Day at Ohio State. This event was organized by the East Asian Studies Center and aimed to…
The Ohio State University proudly hosted the 74th annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) from October 10–12, welcoming scholars, students, and community members from across the United…
In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Institute of Japanese Studies (1985–2025) and the 10th anniversary of the Brad Richardson Memorial Fund, we invite 40 donors…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Fall 2025 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
Felix Chang, Robert J. Watkins/Procter & Gamble Professor of Law in The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to…
Congratulations to EASC Director, Professor Mitch Lerner for receiving the 2025 Honors Faculty Service Award! This award, given by the College of Arts and Sciences, recognizes excellence in honors…
Congratulations to Associate Professor Meow Goh, a long-time partner of the EASC, for being named a recipient of the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching! The Alumni Award for…
The East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University is pleased to host the 74th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA). We welcome proposals for panels,…
Mitch Lerner, professor of U.S. diplomatic history with a focus on Korea and director of the East Asian Studies Center (EASC), has been named a recipient of the President and Provost’s Award for…
The 2025 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Columbus, OH from March 13-16, 2025. The following EASC faculty and graduate students will present at…
On February 14th, 2025, the East Asian Studies Center and Professor Mineharu Nakayama hosted Professor Hilary Holbrow for a presentation "The Future is Foreign: Women and Immigrants in Corporate…
On January 16, 2025, the East Asian Studies Center a lecture by Dr. David Zweig titled “The War for Chinese Talent in America.” This talk was based on his research presented in a recently…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Spring 2025 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
Since 1999, the Japan-America Society of Central Ohio (JASCO) has been hosting the annual Ohio Japanese Speech Contest to promote Japanese language learning in the state of Ohio. The Contest…
Buckeye East Asian Linguistics 9 (BEAL 9) is published!
We are delighted to announce that the 9th volume of
When the East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University received a U.S. Department of Education grant to support language and area studies part of the more than $2 million award…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Fall 2024 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
China Studies Graduate Workshop Call for Participation
Date: February 21-22, 2025
Location: Ohio State University
Partner Institutions: Ohio State University Institute for…
The US-Japan relationship was at the forefront of student, faculty, and community members' minds as they gathered in the Ohio Union on Oct. 7 for a conference focusing on the two countries' ties. …
Mershon's faculty and graduate student grants funded some extraordinary research last summer! This week we highlight the work of associate professor in Geography, Max Woodworth, and…
https://oia.osu.edu/news/2024/09/16/huang-and-stefano-awarded-fulbright-hays-group-project-abroad-grant
Twelve Ohio State students and K-12 educators in Ohio will have an opportunity next…
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures’ Japanese majors Logan Conrad and Trevor Strahler, Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s welding engineering students Simran Singh…
The East Asian Studies Center hosted a delegation of scholars from Central Asia, as part of the US-CARNet (US-Central Asia Research Network) project. This project, which is specifically looking at…
On April 5th, the East Asian Studies Center co-sponsored a Korean culture night, Harmony in Motion:A Night of Korean Arts and Performance, bringing students and professors together to appreciate…
On Saturday, April 13, the “Centrality Reimagined: Geographical, Linguistic, and Temporal Space in East Asian Literary and Cultural Expression” conference was held in honor of Richard Torrance, a…
https://theconversation.com/chinas-universities-just-grabbed-6-of-the-top-10-spots-in-one-worldwide-science-ranking-without-changing-a-thing-222956
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Spring 2024 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
The 2024 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Seattle, WA from March 14-17, 2024. The following EASC faculty and graduate students will present at…
Brad Richardson Memorial Fund: To build on Brad Richardson’s contribution to Ohio State, the State of Ohio and the community of Japan-related scholars and professionals, The Ohio…
Professor at Dakota State University and author of Modern Chinese History, David Kenley, in conjunction with the East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University, led and facilitated the…
The Center for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures is holding a screening of American Factory (2019) for all OSU students, faculty, and staff. This documentary focuses on an Ohio factory opened…
The Ohio State University Area Studies Centers’ Free Little Library is officially open for business. The library is a collaboration between the Center for African Studies, Center for Latin…
Brian Chiou and Chiou Family Hope Scholarship
PurposeThe Office of International Affairs is calling for applications to the Brian Chiou and Chiou Family Hope…
Max D. Woodworth will assume the role of Interim Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies beginning in the Spring term. Max is a Geographer with a range of research interests in China,…
Join The Ohio State University's Area Studies Centers (Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, East Asian Studies…
This course on professional Japanese interpretation is designed to expose advanced-level Japanese learners to the theories and techniques of interpreting and rigorous hands-on training in…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Fall 2023 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
The 27th International Conference on Yue Dialects
This conference — hosted by The Ohio State University — will be held virtually via Zoom on the evenings of November 30 to…
This course focuses on the influence of race in East Asia. The course will examine the origins of the concept, its interactions with science and medicine, and most important, its impact on the…
The “Latin America and the World” Film Festival had its second screening last night (September 13, 2023) with a showing of The Future Perfect (2016, Argentina), co-sponsored by the Center…
View the PDF Flyer for this course here.
Title: History 2402, History of East Asia in the Modern Era, 1600+
Instructor: Christopher Reed
Days: Wed/Fri (synchronous online)
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On Tuesday July 11, OIA welcomed representatives from the education division of the Chinese Consulate General in New York. The delegation, led by Counselor Yougen Yu, met with Gil Latz, Vice…
The 27th International Conference on Yue Dialects
Welcome to the website for The 27th International Conference on Yue Dialects (2023)!
This conference — to be hosted…
An Arts & Humanities Large Grant has been awarded to Principal Investigator, Professor Wynne Wong (Dept. of French and Italian) and Co-Investigator, Professor Marjorie…
On May 22 and 23, the EASC held its first Bringing East Asian Studies into the Classroom Conference, with a film screening of Ode to My Father at the Gateway Film Center, and conference panels at…
The Smithsonian Institution offered Professor Mancl a 9-month Fellow position at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. Her project will be “Planting the seed for…
Purpose
To support faculty working on projects that align with the mission and current engagement initiatives of the Area Studies Centers: East Asian Studies Center,
DEALL faculty member and ICS affiliate Patricia Sieber was one of this year’s winners of the 2023 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award. The Ratner Awards recognize faculty who…
The EASC will be hosting two screenings of Baldwin Chiu's documentary film Far East Deep South this Saturday, 4/15. One will be held on campus at 12:00pm, and the second will be held off-campus at…
Please join us in congratulating Ohio State graduate student Li Yifan, who was awarded the Best Graduate Student Paper prize at the 2023 Association of Asian Studies Conference…
The 2023 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Boston, MA from March 16-19, 2023. The following EASC faculty and graduate students will present at…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Spring 2023 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
SPEAC 2023 (Summer Intensive Japanese Program)
The Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures offers an 8 Week-Summer Intensive Language…
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Brad Richardson Memorial Fund: To build on Brad Richardson’s contribution to Ohio State, the State of Ohio and the community of Japan-related scholars and professionals, The Ohio…
The East Asian Studies Center announces the availability of applications for the 2023 Louise Zung-Nyi Loh Memorial Scholarship. Graduate and undergraduate students in any department who have an…
Ann Marie Davis, The Ohio State University, Janet Smith (OSU), and Angie Stokes, teacher at Wayne Trace Jr./Sr. High School presented at the Ohio Council for Social Studies (OCSS) Conference on…
Since 1999, the Japan-America Society of Central Ohio (JASCO) has been hosting the annual Ohio Japanese Speech Contest to promote Japanese language learning in the state of Ohio. The Contest…
EASC is pleased to announce that Courtney White has joined the East Asian Studies Center as student intern for Spring 2023.
Courtney is an international studies major specializing in East…
This discussion and research based course introduces key concepts in media studies, including environmental media, media ecology, affect, emerging media, and media archaeology, by considering how…
This course is an advanced overview and exploration of the state of the field of the “U.S. and/in the World”/aka American Diplomatic History. The focus is both on the history and on the…
The Ohio State University Libraries is pleased to announce the Thomas Gregory Song Research Fellowship for an independent research project that makes substantial on-site use of…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Autumn 2022 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
The Center for Folklore Studies warmly welcomes Dr. Mari Kagaya as a visiting scholar, joining us until mid-March. Dr. Kagaya is Associate Professor of Folklore at Niigata University in Japan,…
This course focuses on the influence of race in East Asia. The course will examine the origins of the concept, its interactions with science and medicine, and most important, its impact on the…
Mitch Lerner, professor of history and director of the East Asian Studies Center, was recently elected president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Founded in…
EASC and DEALL will offer "Introduction to Professional Japanese Interpretation" in Spring 2023, with support from a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant. Course details are as follows:
…
EASC is pleased to announce that Chris White joined the East Asian Studies Center as assistant director on August 1.
Chris holds a PhD in Chinese History from Xiamen University in 2011,…
The East Asian Studies Center is thrilled to share the news that we have been selected by the Department of Education to receive Comprehensive National Resource Center and Foreign Language and…
The East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University invites applications for the EASC Assistant Director position through June 2, 2022. Details of the position are as follows:
…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Spring 2022 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
The East Asian Studies Centers at The Ohio State University and Indiana University Bloomington, and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collaborating to…
Brad Richardson Memorial Fund: To build on Brad Richardson’s contribution to Ohio State, the State of Ohio and the community of Japan-related scholars and professionals, The Ohio…
Since 1999, the Japan-America Society of Central Ohio (JASCO) has been hosting the annual Ohio Japanese Speech Contest to promote Japanese language learning in the state of Ohio. The Contest…
The East Asian Studies Center announces the availability of applications for the 2022 Louise Zung-Nyi Loh Memorial Scholarship. Graduate and undergraduate students in any department who have an…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Spring 2022 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
We are pleased to announce that Francesco DiMarco has joined the East Asian Studies Center as a program coordinator.
Francesco will be responsible for assisting in the development,…
The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, and Center for Historical Research are collaborating to offer a new course in Spring 2022, "The Golden Age…
The East Asian Studies Center is pleased to partner with the Undergraduate International Studies Program to offer a new course in Spring 2022, "Modern Pandemics" (International Studies 4195, class…
EASC is seeking applications for fellowships for summer 2022 and academic year 2022-2023 under the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship…
EASC and DEALL will offer "Introduction to Professional Japanese Interpretation" course in Spring 2022, with support from a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant. Course details are as…
As part of an effort to build a system of shared courses with Korean content among Big Ten schools, the Big Ten Academic Alliance, with funding from the Korea Foundation and coordination from the…
The East Asian Studies Center embarked on a new collaboration with the Korea and the World (KATW) team to develop a series of podcast interviews in 2021-2022. Korea and the World is a podcast that…
On May 7-8, 2021, Ohio State’s East Asian Studies Center (EASC), Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, and Department of Political Science…
The East Asian Studies Center and Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures are collaborating to offer a new course in Spring 2022, "East Asian Languages & Literatures 4200: The History…
The East Asian Studies Center embarked on a new collaboration with the Korea and the World (KATW) team to develop a series of podcast interviews in 2021-2022. Korea and the World is a podcast that…
The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies have awarded more than $1.63 million in student support this year in the…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Autumn 2021 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
The East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University invites applications for the EASC Program Coordinator position through August 18, 2021. Details of the position are as follows:
…
The East Asian Studies Center (EASC) and Columbus State Community College (CSCC)’s partnership year continued despite the challenges with a remote delivery of the Humanities Symposium, When East…
The East Asian Studies Center is pleased to welcome Dr. Julia Keblinska to campus for the 2021–2022 academic year. Dr. Keblinska will be a postdoctoral fellow, working with EASC, the Center for…
On June 18, 13 educators completed the 2021 Global Teacher Seminar: “Global Protests and Social Justice Activism,” empowering the teachers to transfer knowledge of social justice into their…
The East Asian Studies Center embarked on a new collaboration with the Korea and the World (KATW) team to develop a series of podcast interviews in 2021-2022. Korea and the World is a podcast that…
The East Asian Studies Center invites you to view the electronic publication of the Academic Year 2020-2021 EASC expOSUre:
This issue includes columns from the EASC, ICS,…
To further develop and enhance area studies research and dialogue at Ohio State, the area studies centers of the Office of International Affairs launched the OIA Area Studies Center Conference…
The East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University, with support from the Korea Foundation, presented opportunities for students and teachers to learn about Sijo (Korean Poetry) this…
The Institute for Korean Studies, a constituent unit of the East Asian Studies Center, hosted the Second Midwest Korean Speech Contest on April 17, 2021. Organized by the Midwest Association of…
A unique graduate-level history course will be offered in Autumn 2021-- History 7401, “East Asia and the Modern/Contemporary World: 20th Century Korean History” (class number 23480). This is a…
The East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University joins people everywhere in mourning the recent shootings in Atlanta. Although the details of this tragedy are still under investigation,…
A recent $25,000 anonymous donation to Ohio State’s Cantonese Gamluhk (Golden Buck) Fund will provide continued support to the university’s conversational Cantonese course, and hopefully pave the…
The East Asian Studies Center, the Center for Slavic and East European Studies and the Center for Historical Research at The Ohio State University invite applications for a one-year postdoctoral…
The East Asian Studies Center at The Ohio State University and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are collaborating to launch the “Midwestern…
EASC will introduce Korean literature to teachers through an asynchronous Sijo Poetry Workshop and to K-12 students through an Ohio Sijo Poetry Competition. Both the workshop and the competition…
Brad Richardson Memorial Fund: To build on Brad Richardson’s contribution to Ohio State, the State of Ohio and the community of Japan-related scholars and professionals, The Ohio…
Since 1999, JASCO has been hosting the Annual Japanese Speech Contests, offering an opportunity for Japanese-language learners to showcase their achievements. The objective of this event is to…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Spring 2021 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
The East Asian Studies Center is pleased to partner with the Ohio State Newark Campus to offer a course in Spring 2021, "Contemporary Japanese Film: Anime and J-Horror" (Arts and Sciences 1101,…
Sixty-four recipients of the prestigious Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships were recognized on November 16 with virtual congratulatory messages from Ohio State leadership and…
Join the Student Life Multicultural Center and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion for Diversity, Equity and Justice: An APIDA Discussion. This panel conversation…
The East Asian Studies Center announces the availability of applications for the 2021 Louise Zung-Nyi Loh Memorial Scholarship. Graduate and undergraduate students in any department who have an…
Date: Friday, 5 March 2021
Place: Virtual event via Zoom, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 4…
As part of an effort to build a system of shared courses with Korean content among Big Ten schools, the Big Ten Academic Alliance, with funding from the Korea Foundation and coordination from the…
The Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies Master of Arts (EAS MA) Program at The Ohio State University allows students to develop their Chinese, Japanese or Korean language skills while also…
The East Asian Studies Center is pleased to partner with the Department of History to offer a course in Spring 2021, "The Korean War" (History 3575, class number: 29773).
To be taught by Dr…
The East Asian Studies Center is pleased to partner with the Undergraduate International Studies Program to offer a new course in Spring 2021, "Comparative Epidemics" (International Studies 4195,…
EASC is seeking applications for fellowships for summer 2021 and academic year 2021-2022 under the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship…
The Institute for Chinese Studies is partnering again this year with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations for the 2020 CHINA Town Hall.
CHINA Town Hall connects…
Ohio State is taking a fresh look at the Black Lives Matter movement and how it relates to every facet of knowledge we engage in across all disciplines and from multiple cultural perspectives. The…
EASC and DEALL will offer "Introduction to Professional Japanese Interpretation" course in Spring 2021, with support from a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant. Course details are as…
Building on its partnership from 2014-2019 which resulted in the development of 14 new video modules on East Asian history, the East Asian Studies Center (EASC) and Columbus State Community…
The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Slavic and East European Studies have awarded more than $1.5 million in student support this year in the form of 64…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Autumn 2020 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
When the United States endeavored to build a new world order in the Pacific after World War II it did so assuming a close, cooperative rapport between American allies South Korea and Japan. What…
Danielle Pyun, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been appointed director of the Institute for Korean Studies (IKS), beginning September 1, 2020…
Naomi Fukumori, associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been appointed director of the Institute for Japanese Studies (IJS), beginning January 1, 2021…
After completing seven years of service as the director of the East Asian Studies Center (EASC), Etsuyo Yuasa, associate professor of East Asian languages and literatures, has announced that she…
From Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of interaction with African American movements for equal rights. OSU Department of History PhD candidate Melvin…
The East Asian Studies Center is pleased to announce Prof. Meow Hui Goh as our first recipient for the COVID-19 mini-grant. Prof. Goh’s proposal, titled “Talk Back to the Pandemic: Innovations in…
Karen Mancl (professor, food, agricultural and biological engineering) published four policy articles this Spring for the Woodrow Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program blog, …
Zhiguo Xie, an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, pored over news accounts surrounding COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. He was…
After five and a half years at the helm of the Institute for Japanese Studies (IJS), Hajime Miyazaki, professor of economics, will end his term on June 30, 2020 upon his retirement from Ohio State…
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…
The East Asian Studies Center (EASC) seeks proposals to address the COVID-19 global pandemic from an East Asian studies perspective. Funding will support up to three proposals that bring together…
Dear students, colleagues and friends,
As leaders of the Area Studies Centers at The Ohio State University, we are horrified by the violence and turmoil we see unfolding around…
Professors Inés Valdez and Benjamin McKean of the Department of Political Science have been selected as the recipients of a 2019–2020 Office of International Affairs (OIA)…
Karen Mancl (professor, food, agricultural and biological engineering) recently published a new article on Chinese farming practices that help to capture the greenhouse gas methane and utilize it…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. As part of the celebration, a team of DEALL faculty members and students…
A new Japanese educational web series produced by Ohio State Japanese professor Mari Noda is now available online. (Watch the trailer here.)
NihonGO NOW!, a 12-part…
Congratulations to everyone who participated in online Ohio Japanese Speech Contest on Sunday, April 5, 2020. JASCO worked very hard to transition from the planned Speech Contest finals on March 14…
In response to the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), The Ohio State University has suspended face-to-face instruction for Spring semester, and encouraged units to cancel non-essential university…
The 2020 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Boston, MA from March 19-22, 2020. The following EASC faculty and graduate students will present at the conference.
2020…
Professor Mitchell Lerner has been appointed to the position of Director of the East Asian Studies Center (EASC), effective September 1, 2020. Professor Lerner is professor of history at The Ohio…
Call For Papers: ICS Graduate Forum 2020
Date: Monday March 16, 2020
Time: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: TBD
The Institute for Chinese Studies (ICS) is now accepting papers for its…
The Core Fulbright Scholar Program is now accepting applications for 2021-2022. Awards provide opportunities for faculty as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers,…
Brad Richardson Memorial Fund: To build on Brad Richardson’s contribution to Ohio State, the State of Ohio and the community of Japan-related scholars and professionals, The Ohio…
The Summer 2020 internship offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in a Japanese business environment, increase your Japanese language ability, learn about Japanese business…
Since 1999, JASCO has been hosting the Annual Japanese Speech Contests, offering an opportunity for Japanese-language learners to showcase their achievements. The objective of this event is to…
“Godzilla Legacy: The King of the Monsters (1954-2019),” an exhibition about the global history of Godzilla and the other giant creatures who followed in his path to stardom, is on display now…
The East Asian Studies Center announces the availability of applications for the 2020 Louise Zung-Nyi Loh Memorial Scholarship. Graduate and undergraduate students in any department who have an…
The Ohio State University Area Studies Centers are accepting proposals from OSU faculty members for the OIA Area Studies Centers Conference Grants program. To further develop and enhance area…
EASC is seeking applications for fellowships for summer 2020 and academic year 2020-2021 under the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship…
EASC and DEALL will offer "Introduction to Professional Japanese Interpretation" course in Spring 2020, with support from a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant. Course details are as follows:…
Prof. Morgan Liu, associate professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures, has been elected to serve as the next president of the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Ohio State will be hosting…
The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Slavic and East European Studies have awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship grants to 52 Ohio…
The 2019 Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) which will be administered in Columbus, OH on December 1, 2019. The registration period is August 26, 2019 – Septemer 30, 2019 (9:00pm)…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Autumn 2019 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
Jeffrey Cohen, professor of anthropology and EASC affiliated faculty member, visited the South Central University for Nationalities (SCUN) in Wuhan, China this summer, where he has given a series…
The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, and Center for Latin American Studies at The Ohio State University have awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)…
In order to increase students’ readiness for Japan-related careers after graduation, The Ohio State University’s East Asian Studies Center (EASC), with support from a U.S. Department of Education…
The East Asian Studies Center invites you to view the electronic publication of the Academic Year 2018-2019 EASC expOSUre newsletter. You can access the newsletter here. This issue includes…
Karen Mancl (professor, food, agricultural and biological engineering) is finishing up an internship with the China Environment Forum in Washington DC, during which she has been able to utilize all…
Prof. Ying Zhang has been appointed to the position of EASC Associate Director and Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies, beginning her tenure on September 1, 2019. Professor Zhang, an…
Continuing its partnership from 2014-2018 which resulted in the development of 12 new video modules on East Asian history, the East Asian Studies Center (EASC) and Columbus State Community College…
Mitchell Lerner, associate professor of history and director of the Institute for Korean Studies at The Ohio State University, has been appointed to the Distinguished Speakers Bureau of the…
EASC sent three 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 900 high school…
The Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Slavic and East European Studies and the East Asian Studies Center are pleased to announce the recipient of the inaugural OIA Area Studies Center…
Zeyuan Wu, PhD Candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, won 1st place in the area of Humanities at the 2019 Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, a showcase for…
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 20th JASCO Japanese Speech Contest and Japan Bowl on March 2, 2019 at the Dublin Integrated Education Center, Ohio University Dublin Center, Dublin…
The Summer 2019 internship offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in a Japanese business environment, increase your Japanese language ability, learn about Japanese business…
Carrying on the legacy of Brad Richardson:
To build on Brad Richardson’s contribution to the OSU, the State of Ohio and the community of Japan-related scholars and…
After eight years at the helm of the Institute for Chinese Studies (ICS), Prof. Marjorie Chan has stepped down from the director position to return to her full-time, full course-load teaching and…
Call For Papers: ICS Graduate Forum 2019
Date: Thursday, 7 March 2019
Time: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: Page Hall 020 (1810 College Road)
The Institute for Chinese Studies (ICS)…
The 2019 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Denver, CO from March 21-24, 2019. The following EASC faculty and graduate students will present at the conference.
2019…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Spring 2019 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
Since 1999, JASCO has been hosting the Annual Japanese Speech Contests, offering an opportunity for Japanese-language learners to showcase their achievements. The objective of this event is to…
As of January 1, 2019, Prof. Patricia Sieber will serve as Interim Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies. Prof. Sieber is an associate professor of Chinese literature in the Department of…
The College of Arts and Sciences has published a news article about Professor Motomu Ibaraki's annual study abroad course to Japan. Read the piece below.
Earth sciences and public…
The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures was featured in the November 28, 2018 issue of the College of Arts and Sciences' News and Updates. Prof. Mark Bender shared a brief…
Xiyue Zhang (pictured right), a third-year master's student pursuing dual degrees in Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies and Film Studies at The Ohio State University, was selected as a finalist and…
The Ohio State University Area Studies Centers are accepting proposals from OSU faculty members for a new grant program, the OIA Area Studies Center Conference Grants. To further develop and…
The East Asian Studies Center announces the availability of applications for the 2019 Louise Zung-Nyi Loh Memorial Scholarship. Graduate and undergraduate students in any department who have an…
EASC is seeking applications for fellowships for summer 2019 and academic year 2019-2020 under the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship…
Two EASC-affiliated doctoral candidates, both previous receipients of FLAS Fellowships from the East Asian Studies Center, have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation…
Two faculty members in OSU's Department of Anthropology, Shengyu Pei and Jeffrey Cohen, have published a paper featured in the Journal of Hubei University for Nationalities titled …
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…
Japanese 5194:
Introduction to Professional Japanese Interpretation
"Words are nothing more than a container for ideas. The interpreter must pour those ideas into…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bringing Korea into the Classroom
Teacher workshop held June 7-8 on The Ohio State University (OSU) campus offered 6-12th grade Ohio teachers a chance to learn about Korea,…
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 & Marshall…
The East Asian Studies Center invites you to view the electronic publication of the Academic Year 2017-2018 EASC expOSUre newsletter. You can access the newsletter here. This issue…
Outreach by OSU Faculty to Community Colleges: As part of EASC’s outreach to community colleges, EASC supported Columbus State Community College’s Symposium, “When East Meets West:…
Two of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Undergraduate Scholarship for 2018-2019 are heading to East Asia. Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students…
Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 3
(22 October 2018)
URL: http://u.osu.edu/beal/
The Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 3 (BEAL Forum 3…
New Endowment Fund in 2018:
James H-Y. Tai Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Fund
(Fund Number: 647101)
URL: http://go.osu.edu/tai-beal-fund
Thanks to donor,
Namiko Kunimoto, assistant professor of history of art, has been awarded the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, which annually recognizes a maximum of 10 faculty members for their teaching…
Are you a non-native speaker of Japanese? Can you help us for 30 minutes on May 23 (Wednesday) or May 24 (Thursday)? Registration Link EASC is in need of non-native Japanese language learners who can…
Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 19th JASCO Japanese Speech Contest on March 10, 2018 at the Dublin Community Recreation Center, Dublin, Ohio. This year’s winners were:
The Fall 2018 internship offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in a Japanese business environment, increase your Japanese language ability, learn about Japanese business and…
Hubei Peking Opera on the OSU Campus
Thursday, 1 March 2018
2:30 - 5:00 PM
Hagerty Hall
(1775 S College Rd)…
Call For Papers: ICS Graduate Forum (2018)
Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Time: 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Page Hall 020 (1810 College Road)
The Institute for Chinese Studies (ICS…
Prof. Mineharu Nakayama (East Asian languages and literatures) and graduate student Ying Zhang (East Asian languages and literatures) will be presenting at the OSU-NU Japanese Linguistics and…
The 2018 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Conference will be held in Washington, DC from March 22-25, 2018. The following EASC faculty and graduate students will present at the conference.
Carrying on the legacy of Brad Richardson:
To build on Brad Richardson’s contribution to the OSU, the State of Ohio and the community of Japan-related scholars and…
The Summer 2018 internship offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in a Japanese business environment, increase your Japanese language ability, learn about Japanese business…
Institute for Korean Studies Director Mitch Lerner, Department of History, comments on the USS Pueblo and North Korea as part of NPR's January 23, 2018, broadcast of All Things Considered…
The East Asian Studies Center has now made 22 additional video modules available in its "Pronouncing Chinese Names" online workshop. Created to help faculty and staff at The Ohio State University…
Mari Noda has a new publication from Routledge.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion features a story on Meilenys Peraza, a student in the Young Scholars Program, who is simultaneously studying Japanese and Korean to fulfill her dream of…
November 13, 2017, Columbus - As part of the 2017-18 Institute for Japanese Studies (IJS) Lecture Series, Kaoru Iokibe, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics,…
The East Asian Studies Center announces the availability of applications for the 2018 Louise Zung-Nyi Loh Memorial Scholarship. Graduate and undergraduate students in any department who have an…
EASC is seeking applications for fellowships for summer 2018 and academic year 2018-19 under the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program…
The Global Gateways and the East Asian Studies Center are currently accepting applications from undergraduate students to participate in a Global Leadership Academy at Wuhan University in Wuhan,…
EASC affiliated faculty member, Professor Motomu Ibaraki, published a piece in Syukan Economist, one of Japan's major magazines published by Mainichi Newspaper. Syukan Economist, 2017,…
Richard Moore, emeritus professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources, adjunct emeritus professor in the Department of Anthropology, and affiliated faculty of the East Asian Studies…
Professor Julia Andrews, Distinguished University Professor, History of Art, has guest curated an exhibit at the Hong Kong Jockey Club from September 27 – December 31, 2017. Painting Her Way:…
Mineharu Nakayama, DEALL professor of Japanese linguistics, has just published Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition (John Benjamins, 2017), a coedited volume with Yi-ching Su and…
As part of an effort to build a system of shared courses with Korean content among Big Ten schools, the Big Ten Academic Alliance, with funding from the Korea Foundation and coordination from the…
IKS Director and Associate Professor of History Mitch Lerner discussed North Korea and the USS Pueblo incident on the Korea and the World podcast, which is well known among Korea watchers for its…
Since 1999, JASCO has been hosting the Annual Japanese Speech Contests, offering an opportunity for Japanese-language learners to showcase their achievements. The objective of this event is to…
EASC Mini-lecture and practice: Pronouncing Chinese names
The East Asian Studies Center (EASC) is pleased to offer an online version of the program created to help faculty and staff at The Ohio…
The Winter 2018 internship offers the opportunity to immerse yourself in a Japanese business environment, increase your Japanese language ability, learn about Japanese business…
The East Asian Studies Center's (EASC) Autumn 2017 events calendar is now available for download and printing. It includes information on lectures, conferences, performances, and other events…
The Institute for Japanese Studies is pleased to announce the opening of the registration period for the 2017 Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) which will be administered in Columbus, OH…
Mitch Lerner, associate professor of history and director of the Institute for Korean Studies, penned an August 24 article in the Washington Post about North Korea and what one can draw…