Asia Center

Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarships (FLAS)

Culture and Language Across the Curriculum (CLAC)

About the Center

The Asia Center, a Title VI National Resource Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, serves as a hub for Asia-related activities at the University involving teaching, research, and outreach to K-12 schools and the broader community. With over one hundred affiliated faculty from 28 departments and 11 colleges, the Asia Center works with a network of units across the university to facilitate development of Asia-related curriculum, conferences, lectures, cultural events, learning abroad and internship opportunities, and community programs. More Information

News & Events

The World in the Mine with Victor Seow: What is the Relationship Between Energy and Power in the Industrial Age?

Monday, October 21 | 12pm | CTIHB 101

09/13/2024
Religious Conflict and Coexistence in the Korean Context

April 11 & 12, 2024 - University of Utah Alumni House Co-sponsored by: the University of Utah Asia Center and the Seoul National University College of Humanities

04/10/2024
Revisiting the "Comfort Girls" of Report #49: Gender, Race, and Documentation on the Battlefield in Burma, 1944

A Lecture with Amy Stanley - Wednesday, April 3 - 12pm-1pm - CTIHB 101

02/13/2024
Edward Mack - Acquired Alterity

Friday, February 16, 2024 - 10am-11:30 - LNCO 2120 Acquired Alterity provides a history of the Japanese-language literary activities of early migrants to Brazil, examining bookstores, serialized newspaper fiction, original creative works, and critical apparatuses. It challenges the dominant mode of literary study, in which texts are often explicitly or implicitly understood through a framework of ethno-nationalism. Self-representations by writers in the diaspora reveal flaws in this prevailing framework through what Edward Mack calls “acquired alterity,” in which expectations about the stability of ethnic identity are subverted in surprising ways. These flaws destabilize cultural analyses that make peoplehood constructs the ultimate objects of literary knowledge production.

01/17/2024