End-of-Year Asian Studies Picnic
Save the date for our End-of-Year Asian Studies picnic!!! Bring your whole family to play at the park while enjoying the company of grad students, staff, faculty, affiliate and visiting faculty, and friends of Asian Studies. We will have catering from Roots for lunch. It will be a good way for us all to unwind and […]
Asian Studies Awards Ceremony
2024 Harshbager Lecture in Religious Studies Presents: “Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion”
On Monday, February 26, we will be welcoming Dr. Carolyn Chen (UC Berkeley) as our 2024 Harshbarger lecturer in Religious Studies. Dr. Chen will meet with grad students for lunch, and then attend our book club meeting in 102 Weaver at 2:30 to discuss Work Pray Code: When work becomes religion in Silicon Valley. Her lecture will be from 5:00—6:30pm […]
South Asian Speaker Series Presents: Mytheli Sreenivas
Mytheli Sreenivas (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University) For questions about South Asian Studies at Penn State, email Jessica V. Birkenholtz at jvanbirk@psu.edu.
South Asian Speaker Series Presents: Aparna Parikh
Aparna Parikh (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University) Urban development in Mumbai has involved the enclosure of ecological commons that are central for the lives and livelihoods of the Kolis, the city’s indigenous fishing communities. Within an atmosphere of development threats and resource constraints, a focus on Koli fisherwomen’s everyday activities sheds light […]
Comparative Literature Luncheon Presents: Seth Kim (Colby College)
Monday, Jan 29 | 12:15 – 1:30 p.m | 102 Kern The Comparative Literature Luncheon Series presents Seth Kim “The Intimate Violence of South Korean and Japanese Cinema” If you wish to join via Zoom, CLICK HERE.
CHANNELS: ASIAN DIASPORAS IN FILM, ART, AND MEDIA Presents Two Events on the Life and Work of Civil Rights Activist Grace Lee Boggs
EVENT 1 | AARG AND AADRG READING GROUP DISCUSSION Thursday, March 28 7:00–8:30 p.m. via Zoom The Asian American Reading Group (AARG) and the African American and Diasporic Reading Group (AADRG) invite you to a virtual meeting to discuss the work of Grace Lee Boggs. We will be providing excerpts of Boggs’s writing, so please […]
Reading New Books in the Humanities: Kathlene Baldanza
April 15
Asian Studies Lunar New Year Party
Friday, Feb 16 | 1:30 – 3:30 | Old Botany 101
The Institute for Korean Studies: 3rd Korean Applied Linguistics Symposium
Beyond grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary:Cutting-edge perspectives, practices, paradigms, tools,scales, and theories in assessing Korean learners’performance and interactional competenceFriday, February 16, 2024 (6-8:45 pm EST) For more information, email Dr. Jayoung Song at jayoung.song@psu.edu. Zoom Link