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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.
Andrew Leonard / September 24-25, 2009
Journalist and author Andrew Leonard (Salon.com) will be speaking on "How the World Works: From the economics of Star Trek to China and Back Again," from 4:15-5:30pm on Thursday, Sept 24. On Friday Sept 25 he will be speaking as part of the "Careers in Asia" series from 12:20-2:00.
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).
Azuma Hiroki, postmodern philosopher, critic of otaku culture, and editor of the new journal of critical thought and social critique Shisō chizu [Cartographies of Thought], and Miyadai Shinji, prominent sociologist, prolific author, and pop culture critic, will discuss their views on the state of contemporary debate and the stakes of the arguments.
For more information on the conference, please see the Mapping J-Theory website.
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About the Program
Welcome to the Asian Studies Program at Penn State.
Asian Studies offers undergraduate majors in Asian Studies, Chinese, and Japanese, and minors in those same fields. We also offer four semesters of Korean and Hindi.
Asian Studies offers dual-title PhD degrees in a number of fields. These interdisciplinary degree programs will draw on programmatic strengths in East and South Asian history, East-West compartative literature, religious studies, comparative politics, political economy, 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. They come 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.
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