News / Events
Mapping J-Theory / March 29-April 3, 2009
A rare and historic occasion, bringing critics AZUMA Hiroki and MIYADAI Shinji together in dialogue with North American scholars for the first time outside of Japan, with meetings at the Association for Asian Studies (Chicago, March 29), the University of Texas (Austin, March 30), the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, April 1), and Penn State (April 3).
For more information on the conference, please see the Mapping J-Theory website.
Yu-Han Chao Reading
Yu-Han (Eugenia) Chao was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. Her poetry collection, We Grow Old, is available with The Backwaters Press and her short story collection, Passport Baby, is forthcoming with Rockway Press. She will be reading from her work on January 22, at 7:30pm, in the Foster Auditorium..
Global Asias in Historical Perspectives
On October 22-25, 2009, Penn State will host a conference on "Global Asias in Historical Perspectives." Featuring 16 visiting scholars and eight speakers from Penn State, the conference will also serve as the official launch of the Penn State Asian Studies Program.
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About the Program
Welcome to the Asian Studies Program at Penn State. Beginning in Fall 2009, Penn State's undergraduate degrees in Chinese, Japanese, and East Asian Studies, and undergraduate minors in Asian Studies and Asian American Studies, as well as language instruction in Hindi and Korean, will be part of this program.
Our faculty are drawn from a wide range of disciplines, including Applied Linguistics, Art and Art History, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Comparative Literature, Economics, English, History & Religious Studies, International Affairs, Labor Studies & Employment Relations, Political Science, and Women's Studies.
Asian Studies offers dual-title PhD degrees in Applied Linguistics, Comparative Literature, and History. These interdisciplinary degree programs will draw on programmatic strengths in South Asian history, East-West compartative literature, religious studies, the literature and history of the Asian diaspora, comparative colonialism and ethnicity, and historical and cultural linguistics. If all goes well, we hope to begin enrolling students in Fall 2010. Please check back here for updates.
Our award-winning, widely published faculty have research interests in a wide variety of fields, including Islam in China, the Ryukyu Islands, the architecture of the Indian city, Mughal political culture, East-West comparative literature, Confucian philosophy, contemporary Asian American fiction, medieval Japanese Buddhism, the history of Empire, the politics of democratization, and more.
Because the program is still in its formative stages, information on this website may change rapidly over the course of the 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years. Please check for updates before relying on its content.
