2022 Penn State Superstar K contest
Penn State Korean Language Program will host the 2nd Penn State Superstar K contest on March 25th at 6:00 PM via Zoom. If you are interested in participating, please record a video of your Korean song/dance and apply for our preliminary round. Applicants who have passed the preliminary round will enter to perform live at the final […]
Penn State Institute for Korean Studies International Conference: Innovative Perspectives, Methodologies, and Approaches in Korean Applied Linguistics
Penn State Institute for Korean Studies Talk Series: “The Power of Self-Compassion: Let’s be kind to ourselves”
AAS Webinar: Digital Harassment Across Asias
PSU Asian Studies strongly supports this upcoming webinar on Asian online hate, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). This webinar, Digital Harassment Across Asias, is the first in the three-part series of Academics Online events. It will offer lightning talks by scholars of China, Japan, India, and Hong Kong, with the aim of building knowledge […]
1st Penn State Korean Speech Contest
Penn State Korean Language Program will host the 1st Korean Speech Contest on March 16th at 5:00 PM via Zoom. The three 1st place winners will earn a spot in the Mid-Atlantic region Korean Speech Contest, hosted by George Washington University on April 2nd.
Online webinar on Chinese study-abroad scholarships
Faculty members from the National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) will introduce the HUAYU BEST scholarships and details about the opportunities to study Chinese language and culture at the Mandarin Training Center of NTNU.
NTNU HUAYU BEST Online Webinar
Interested in studying the Chinese language abroad? Achieve your dream with a scholarship. Study Chinese abroad in a short-term or long-term period with NTNTU HUAYU BEST scholarship, and know what to expect, grow, and dream bigger! Come find out how to make it happen!
2021 Korean Language and Culture Video Contest
Sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies in South Korea and the Department of Asian Studies at Penn State, the Institute for Korean Studies and the Korean language program are happy to announce the opening of the 2021 Korean Language and Culture Video Contest that features stories on Korean culture and society. Video topics can […]
Asian Studies Speaker Series: Dr. Lisa Raphals on “Psychosomas in Early China: Another Viewpoint on Tripartitism”
The Department of Asian Studies presents the inaugural speaker in its new Speaker Series: Dr. Lisa Raphals (UC Riverside and Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies) on Psychosomas in Early China: Another Viewpoint on Tripartitism. Dr. Raphals is a renowned expert on the comparative study of thought and culture in both ancient China and Ancient Greece. This […]
The Humanities Institute Presents “The Stage’s a World: Photography and Design in May’s Studio, San Francisco, 1920-1930s” by Chang Tan
Photography has always aimed to not only document reality but also to create fantasy. Photographic practices in diasporic communities in particular construed worlds that transcended time and space. In this talk, I discuss the surviving photographs, backdrops, and ephemeras of May’s Studio in San Francisco’s Chinatown during the early 20th century. I show how those […]