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Tuesday, October 08, 2024 02:21 PM

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.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022 02:07 PM

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.

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 03:40 PM

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

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 03:34 PM

View highlighted courses being offered this spring semester!

Wednesday, November 24, 2021 10:36 AM

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

Thursday, November 04, 2021 01:05 PM

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.

Wednesday, November 03, 2021 01:34 PM

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.

Monday, October 18, 2021 01:23 PM

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

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 11:44 AM

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

Monday, April 26, 2021 11:23 AM

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.

Monday, April 26, 2021 06:45 AM

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

Monday, April 26, 2021 06:16 AM

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.

Monday, April 26, 2021 06:00 AM

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.

Monday, March 22, 2021 06:23 PM

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.

Thursday, February 04, 2021 01:47 PM

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

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 11:51 AM

Monday, November 16, 2020 03:39 PM

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.

Thursday, November 12, 2020 10:54 AM

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.

Wednesday, August 05, 2020 01:45 PM

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

Wednesday, August 05, 2020 11:27 AM

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.

Thursday, July 30, 2020 05:00 PM

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

Wednesday, May 06, 2020 05:16 PM

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.

Monday, January 06, 2020 02:23 PM

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!

Friday, December 13, 2019 12:04 PM

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.

Monday, December 02, 2019 03:39 PM

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.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 04:36 PM

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.

Wednesday, May 01, 2019 10:55 AM

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

Thursday, February 14, 2019 03:18 PM

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

Thursday, February 14, 2019 02:44 PM

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.

Friday, November 30, 2018 02:50 PM

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.

Friday, November 30, 2018 12:56 PM

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.

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 11:37 AM

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

Wednesday, November 21, 2018 11:30 AM

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

Monday, October 29, 2018 11:43 AM

The grant supports international education and language study

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 02:36 PM

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.

Thursday, September 20, 2018 11:40 AM

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…

Friday, May 18, 2018 03:38 PM

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.

Friday, March 16, 2018 11:30 AM

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.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 03:54 PM

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.”

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 04:30 PM

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

Tuesday, December 05, 2017 12:55 PM

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

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 03:16 PM

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.

Friday, October 13, 2017 01:18 PM

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

Thursday, September 14, 2017 04:14 PM

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

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 04:00 PM

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

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 03:57 PM

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

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 03:55 PM

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 03:52 PM

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

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 03:39 PM

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.

Thursday, August 17, 2017 03:44 PM

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

Thursday, August 17, 2017 03:41 PM

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

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:02 AM