Asia Center News & Events

"Thing Therapy: How to be an Animist (Japanese-Style)"

10/16/2024

"Divine Ganges and Climate-Anxiety: Sacred Geographies and the Governing of Pollution in India and Bangladesh"

10/16/2024

September 2024 - Taft-Nicholson Environmental Humanities Education Center

10/08/2024

Monday, November 4 - 3pm - SAEC Auditorium

10/08/2024

Aarti S. Madan - Associate Professor of Spanish and International Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 12pm - CTIHB Jewel Box/Room 143

09/25/2024

Monday, October 21 | 12pm | CTIHB 101

09/13/2024

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

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

02/13/2024

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

Friday, November 17, 2023 - 2pm-3pm - Hinckley Caucus Room

11/30/2023

Silence and Shame in Kingo Nonaka's Memoir: From Captain in the Mexican Revolution to Enemy of the State. Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 3:30-5pm - LNCO 2110

11/30/2023

A simulcast film screening and discussion presented by GETSEA and the Asia Center. October 16, 2023 - 4pm - CTIHB Jewel Box/Room 143

11/30/2023

Tuesday, March 21 - 12pm-1:50 - LNCO 1945 Music and food!

03/03/2023

Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 3:30-5pm - LNCO 2110

02/28/2023

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 11:50-1:10 - ART 158

02/28/2023

China Town Hall Webcast with Jon Huntsman, Jr.

12/13/2022

A member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor, Mr. Dinkelman began his career with the Department of State in August 1988. Prior to assuming his current assignment as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Logistics Management in August 2019, he served as Chief of Staff in the Bureau of Administration.

12/13/2022

The University of Utah, in partnership with Brigham Young University, has been awarded $7 million from the U.S. Department of Education to support international education and language study over the next four years. The Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grants will provide funding directly to the Center for Latin American Studies, Asia Center and their BYU counterparts and will earmark $4.5 million for student scholarships. This is the fourth time the Asia Center has been awarded these four-year grants and the third time for the Center for Latin American Studies.

08/23/2022

On June 17th and 18th, 2022, the University of Utah’s Asia Center will host a conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, for scholars researching population, health and migration in global contexts affected by armed conflict and organized violence.

05/27/2022

Not a lot has been written about the Chinese American experience in children's literature. Here, Lisa Yee explores why she wrote her novel, the research going back and forth from the 1800's to present, and what she learned along the way.

04/07/2022

Each year, we coordinate thisevent for our International & Area Studies’ students in conjunction with the Career and Professional Development Center at the University of Utah, to highlight the global careers, international experiences, and language skills of individuals working in globally focused roles, and how those skills and experiences have benefitted them in the workplace. Because we want to highlight and elevate the voices and experiences of marginalized individuals in the U.S. (e.g. racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, etc.), we will also ask questions about how their identity has impacted their work.

03/31/2022

Join us for an info session to learn more about CLAC!

03/30/2022

This is a rare educational opportunity to learn more about this process & product of Tibetan Buddhist artistic, cultural, and religious expression as well as the use of visual tools & techniques in other cultures.

03/28/2022

Are there better and worse ways to translate classical Chinese poetry into English? Building on my previous publications, in this talk I will argue that the baseline for translating premodern Chinese poetry into English is “strong interpretation.”

03/23/2022

Hear from the experts as they discuss their research and policies against AAPI hate and bias.

03/11/2022

I.W. Gregorio will talk about the choices she made while writing her Schneider Award-winning THIS IS MY BRAIN IN LOVE and highlight other important books with neurodiverse characters.

03/04/2022

Dr. Ming Wen will be discussing: Racial and ethnic mental health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of experienced and perceived discrimination Dr. Akiko Kamimura will be discussing: Experiences Among Asian American College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Based on the Socio-ecological Model CROCCA, the Consortium for Research on Contemporary China and Asia, provides a forum for graduate students and faculty to present, discuss, and explore collaboration in social science research on Asia.

03/01/2022

The History Department at SLCC and the Asia Center at the University of Utah will host the "Transnational Asia Conference" at Salt Lake Community College on 31 March, 2022. Transnationalism can be defined as a flow and exchange of ideas, people, religions, cultures, goods, diseases, technologies, and capital across various regions that leads to connections and conflicts across national boundaries.

02/17/2022

Professor Makino is a talented linguist who specializes in teaching Japanese as a foreign language and has experience teaching all levels.

01/27/2022

The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) scholarship, a program of the U.S. Department of Education, provides financial support toward tuition and fees to eligible undergraduate students interested in studying Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Ecuadorian Quechua, Hindu-Urdu, Japanese, Korean, Nahuatl, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Samoan, or Vietnamese.

01/11/2022

Take a look at the CLAC courses being offered this spring semester!

01/11/2022

View highlighted courses being offered this spring semester!

11/24/2021

Come learn more about the interdisciplinary Asian Studies MA at the University of Utah, which emphasizes advanced language study and breadth of area studies.

11/17/2021

This symposium represents the fourth meeting of the “Zainichi” Research Consortium, a loosely affiliated international groups of scholars working at the interstices of Japanese and Korean studies, primarily through engagement with the literary and cultural production of ethnic Koreans in Japan.

11/17/2021

Each year International and Area Studies in conjnction with the Career and Professional Development Center at the University of Utah coordinates our Going Global event to highlight the global careers, international experiences, and language skills and how those skills and experiences have benefitted them in the workplace.

11/13/2021

Take a look at all the exciting events International and Area Studies has been hosting and sponsoring this academic year.

11/04/2021

Join us for a film screening and discussion of The Donut King directed by Alice Gu, about Cambodian immigrant Ted Ngoy’s journey building a donut empire right in OC, California.

11/04/2021

On October 28, 20201, we hosted a live screening of the film Call Her Ganda. During the screening we had live commentary from Judith Mirkinson, President of the “Comfort Women” Justice Coalition and Cofounder, Gabriela Network and Victoria Reyes, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside followed by a Q&A.

11/03/2021

10/29/2021

Come learn more about Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) scholarships! The online application will be available in November 2021 and is due on Friday, January 28, 2022.

10/25/2021

The U’s International and Area Studies programs wish to convey our belated support and recognition of Juneteenth, which commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States on June 19, 1865.

10/18/2021

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case-an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer’s mother-galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

10/18/2021

Christine Fair, Security Studies Professor at Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service will discuss key factors that made any victory, howsoever defined, in Afghanistan impossible.⁠

10/18/2021

Join us for some exciting events to celebrate Chinese Culture Week (September 27- October 3).

10/18/2021

Learn more about global opportunities on campus, such as majors, learning abroad, scholarships, internships, and more. Get your passport stamped and receive free international food.

10/18/2021

Take a peek at some of the courses being offered this semester.

06/22/2021

Check out what Asia Center has been up to this year!

04/26/2021

Congratulations to our amazing faculty on their awards, publications, and accomplishments this past year. The teaching and research of Asian Studies faculty covers all regions Asia and spans diverse academic disciplines. These are just a few examples of the distinctions achieved by our faculty this past year.

04/26/2021

Congratulations to Sarah Moore for receiving the Asian Studies 2021 Student of the Year award!

04/26/2021

As we reach this time of reflection upon the academic year coming to an end – sure to be one of the most challenging and transformational years of our lives, I am struck by the many ways that we have seen Asia’s growing significance for Utah, the U.S., and the world. Accompanying Asia’s global influence is the relevance of a robust, interdisciplinary Asian Studies program for our university and wider community. As students and scholars of Asian Studies, we may have trained our eyes upon the region from a distance in response to COVID-19 travel restrictions, but we have not taken a break from scholarship, study and engagement in Asia.

04/26/2021

Join our panelists as they examine the impact of the military coup in Myanmar on ethnic relationships and conflicts and the challenges and opportunities faced by the NLD-led CRPH and different key stakeholders against the military coup.

04/14/2021

Join us for a free movie screening brought to you by the Asia Center and the Utah Film Center. Ryun-hee Kim, a North Korean housewife, was forced to come to South Korea and became its citizen against her will.

04/08/2021

Junko Yokota, Hans Christian Andersen Award jury president, and Roger Mello, winner of the 2014 HCA Illustrator Award talk about how winning this award has led to increased international attention through exhibitions, collaborative book creations, and jury work.

04/07/2021

Bringing in scholarship by John W. Treat and Norma Field around a taboo of impunity and silence in relation to the Emperor, I argue that the pivotal placement of the system at the centre of each of these stories can be seen to point to ongoing silences and inequities arising from unresolved wartime memories.

03/24/2021

The University of Utah’s Asian Studies Program, along with the International and Area Studies Programs, strongly condemn all acts of hate, racism, xenophobia and intolerance against members of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.

03/22/2021

This talk will address how the Southeast Asian region is facing myriad sustainable development challenges, and what opportunities are available in a post-COVID world to address them.

03/18/2021

Each year International and Area Studies coordinates our Going Global event in conjunction with the Career and Professional Development Center. This year we want to highlight the global careers, international experiences, and language skills of BIPOC individuals and how those skills and experiences have benefitted them in the workplace.

03/13/2021

This panel is the first of its kind to work toward a collective initiative to enhance awareness and access to academic careers for undergraduate women from diverse backgrounds in Asia and the United States. We aim to facilitate conversations and gain insight about reaching and engaging students that have historically faced obstacles in accessing graduate school and academic careers as a result of social, economic, and institutional barriers.

03/09/2021

Smoking rate in China declined moderately through 1990s and early 2000s, but the decline has since stagnated. China remains the largest producer and consumer of cigarettes in the world. This lecture investigates changes in the socioeconomic gaps in smoking during this process. Our analysis suggests that an effective way to reduce smoking, social inequality in smoking and possibly health disparities in China is to target the smoking behavior among low-education groups.

03/01/2021

Join us for a discussion on the changing U.S. China dynamic as President Biden comes into office. Professor Steve On from Sun Yat-sen University and Professor Yanqi Tong from the University of Utah will provide their insight into this key bilateral relationship, including how the Biden administration will approach China and how the approach might differ from the Trump Administration.

02/19/2021

Come enjoy a Rakugo, the art of Japanese Comedic Storytelling with a top-class Rakugo speaker: Tozaburo Yanagiya.

02/11/2021

Did you miss any of our events this year? Would you like the chance to watch them again? Click here to find the YouTube links.

02/04/2021

The Asia Center and Utah Film Center have partnered together to bring you a free virtual screening of Minari.

01/29/2021

The Utah Chinese communities is celebrating the kick off to the Year of the Ox with virtual performances inspired by Chunwan traditions across Asia. Celebrate with music, art, and dance.

01/29/2021

The 2020 election demonstrated the increasing strength and diversity of the Asian American vote. Pew Research Center predicts that by 2055, Asian Americans will be the country’s largest immigrant group.

01/14/2021

76 Days capture an invaluable record of life inside Wuhan, China, ground zero for the outbreak of COVID-19.

01/14/2021

Join us for two info sessions to learn more about what CLAC is, how to find and register using CLAC attribute, what classes are being offered this semester, and what the student experience and advantages are in taking a CLAC section. Our CLAC coordinator will be able to answer any questions you may have.

01/08/2021

The Asia Center is excited to share with you our inaugural newsletter!

11/18/2020

11/16/2020

The M.A. in Asian Studies is a flexible interdisciplinary degree designed to prepare our students to become global citizens, versed in the languages and cultures of the region, with the intellectual flexibility to combine area studies and professional competence, and cognizant of the complex linkages that define the profound relevance of Asia for the United States today.

11/12/2020

International and Area Studies (Asia Center, Center for Latin American Studies, International Studies, and Middle East Studies) will be hosting six events during IEW. Make sure to check out what we are offering below and on the IEW website.

11/12/2020

The Asia Center and Center for Latin American Studies have partnered together to bring you a Covid series dedicated to informing you about how Covid has impacted politics in Latin America, first-hand experience in Wuhan from a physician on the ground, India's response to the virus, and how Indigenous communities have been impacted. If you were unable to attend, check-out the YouTube links below.

11/12/2020

Come learn more about the interdisciplinary Asian Studies MA at the University of Utah, which emphasizes advanced language study and breadth of area studies.

11/12/2020

Join us for an info session to learn more about what CLAC is, how to find and register using CLAC attribute, what classes are being offered in the Spring, and what the student experience and advantages are in taking a CLAC section. Our CLAC coordinator will be able to answer any questions you may have.

11/12/2020

Join us for a panel discussion and networking event with employers across industries and disciplines to learn where your degree can take you.

10/29/2020

Join us for a virtual info session to learn more about the FLAS scholarship! Please email ias@utah.edu for Zoom information.

10/07/2020

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) at the University of Utah helps students apply their proficiency in a second language to courses in a variety of majors. The languages offered in fall 2020 include Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

08/05/2020

Dr. Steve Burian, Affiliated Faculty Member in Asia Studies, is helping to train Pakistan's next generation of professors.

08/05/2020

Congratulations to IAS Affiliated Faculty Members Annie Isabel Fukushima and Maile Arvin, Asian Studies, and Jason Burrow-Sánchez, Latin American Studies, for being selected for the Presidential Leadership Fellows Program.

07/30/2020

“Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S.” by Annie Isabel Fukushima, an assistant professor in the Division of Ethnic Studies in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation and an Affiliated Faculty Member, Asian Studies, recently received a 2020 book award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Asia and Asian America. An online launch party for the book will feature a panel discussion on July 26 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

07/21/2020

The Asia Center office is proud to celebrate Puneet Singh who is receiving the 2020 Student of the Year award - congratulations!

05/06/2020

Interested in films, representation, and Asia? Check out this brand new class for Spring 2020! The course counts as an elective for Asian Studies and for International Studies (Culture/Identity or as a Culture Elective). Speak with an advisor if you have any questions.

01/06/2020

The Asia Center is grateful to all our partners who helped create the 2019 Indigenous Language Celebration held in this past month. The event was a huge success with more than 400 people participated in a total of 13 total events, read more about this amazing event!

12/13/2019

The University of Utah offers federally funded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. The award is open to students in any department who will include language and area study in their course load.Applications are due January 31st for both Summer 2019 and Academic Year 2020-2021 awards.

12/13/2019

The University of Utah offers federally funded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. The award is open to students in any department who will include language and area study in their course load.Applications are due January 31st for both Summer 2019 and Academic Year 2020-2021 awards.

12/02/2019

Wednesday, Nov. 20th, 4:30-6:30PM. Hear from professionals about their global careers and how to get started!

11/15/2019

FLAS Scholarships are open to U of U students in any department (except the School of Medicine) for the study of a less commonly taught foreign language and related area studies.

09/25/2019

Please join us for an insightful lecture titled "Finding Home" presented by Thi Bui at 7:00pm on Nov. 7th at the Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch, Nancy Tessman Auditorium located on 210 East 400 South.

08/23/2019

From March 8-18, the Confucius Institute at the University of Utah, in partnership with the Confucius Institute at Arizona State University, led a ten-day tour of China designed to facilitate exchange between American and Chinese educators.

05/01/2019

"Migration in the Americas: A Panel Discussion about Borders, Humanity, and the State." Thursday, March 28th, 2019.

03/15/2019

Wednesday, March 27th 4:30-6:30PM hear from professionals about their global careers and how to get started!

02/14/2019

Come experience a lesson in one of the following less commonly taught languages: Cambodian, Vietnamese, Nahuatl, and Portuguese.

02/14/2019

The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) application for summer 2019 and academic year 2019-2020 awards is now available and entirely online! The due date is January 25, 2019.

11/30/2018

With comics, video games, robotics, and stunning cityscapes, Asian cities are often presented as paragons of the achievements of modern techno science. Yet, this was not always the case.

11/30/2018

Pacific Studies faculty affiliated with the Asia Center have co-authored a successful Mellon Grant which will provide funds to recruit and retain Pacific Islander students over the next three years.

11/21/2018

Dennis Wei, professor of geography and affiliated faculty of the Asia Center, was recently awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation!

11/21/2018

Tuesday, Nov. 13th, 4:30-6:30PM Hear from professionals about their global careers and how to get started!

10/29/2018

The grant supports international education and language study

09/26/2018

FLAS Scholarships are open to U of U students in any department (except the School of Medicine) for the study of a less commonly taught foreign language and related area studies.

09/20/2018

A local Utah delegation of educators and students, led by the Confucius Institute at the University of Utah, were in Washington D.C. on Apr. 25, 2018 to meet with Utah congressional delegation…

05/18/2018

On Friday February 2, 2018, Jane Hacking was presented with the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and European Languages (AATSEEL) 2017 Outstanding Contribution to the Profession award.

03/16/2018

The Pacific Islander Studies Initiative at the University of Utah is a growing group of Pacific Islander faculty, staff, students, and community members connecting through education, research, and service.

01/24/2018

The University of Utah’s Asia Center and Russian Program are hosting an interdisciplinary conference on Siberia, Central Asia, and the Russian Far East and North Pacific, organized around the theme of “Asia in the Russian Imagination.”

01/16/2018

Jason Chen was recently featured in the U.S. Department of Education’s blog, ProFellow, where they highlight recipients of government-funded fellowships.

12/05/2017

The Fulbright Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries. Open to faculty across all disciplines.

11/15/2017

FLAS scholarships are open to U of U students in any department (except the School of Medicine) for the study of a less commonly taught foreign language and related area studies.

10/13/2017

Working with College of Social Work Professor Caren Frost, Lauren analyzed the word choice and sentence structure of the two “travel ban” executive orders.

09/14/2017

Congratulations to Asian Studies major Lily Wu, who was just accepted into the very competitive Japan Exchange & Teaching Program (JET) after graduating this spring!

09/12/2017

Janet Theiss, director of the Asia Center has been presented with one of the first two inaugural Awards for Global Engagement.

09/12/2017

Congratulations to Asian Studies major Alyssa Wall on presenting her research "Korean Cultural Nationalism as Resistance: The Japanese Occupation, 1910-1945"

09/12/2017

09/12/2017

Kaitlyn Klein graduated in the Spring of 2016 with a double major in Asian Studies and Peace & Conflict Studies with a TESOL Certificate.

09/12/2017

Ashley Glenn, academic advisor in International and Area Studies, has received the Outstanding New Advisor Award as part of the 2017 Global Awards Program for Academic Advising from NACADA: The Global Network for Academic Advising.

08/17/2017

Essential Hindi Grammar is a comprehensive grammar of Modern Standard Hindi.

08/17/2017

September 3rd: Last day to drop classes September 8th: Tuition payment due October 24th: Last day to withdraw from classes November 1st: Spring graduation application deadline

09/10/2014