Past Events

2024

Apr 17
4th Annual UArizona Language Fair
Feb 15
East Asian Language & Culture Festival
Feb 9
2024 Chinese New Year Celebration
Jan 26 - Jan 27
Arizona East Asian Studies Showcase

2023

May 5
EAS Spring Award Ceremony
May 4
The Japan Foundation Presents: Fluid Borders, Shifting Visions: China-Japan Trans-regional Religions Conference
Apr 14
Developing Global Asias Collaboration: An APAS & EAS Faculty and Graduate Student Discussion
Apr 13
Imagining Global Asias: A Conversation with Tina Chen
Apr 5
2023 Annual UArizona Language Fair
Mar 31
Meet & Greet with Dr. Matthew King
Feb 16
Japan Foundation Visiting Lecture Featuring Associate Professor Federico Marcon from Princeton University
Feb 8
2023 East Asian Culture and Language Festival
Feb 3
Chinese New Year Celebration
Feb 3
East Asian Studies at Liberal Arts Colleges: Teaching, Research, and the Academic Job Market
Feb 2
Japan Foundation Visiting Lecture with W. Evan Young

2022

Dec 6
Grant Writing Essentials for East Asian Studies: A Workshop on Faculty and Student Perspectives
Nov 17
JAPANESE MOVIE NIGHT: "Key of Life"
Nov 3
EAS Graduate Student Workshop - Faculty Life in the 21st Century: Preparation in an Era of Change
Sep 29
Addressing Cancer in China – The Tucson Connection
Aug 26
EAS Graduate Student Orientation and "Meet & Greet"
May 6
EAS Award Ceremony
May 6
Interdisciplinary Edo: Towards an Integrated Approach to Learning and Teaching Early Modern Japan
Apr 29
UA Wind Ensemble Concert
Apr 14
EAS Colloquium Series - The Alienated Author: Alternate Visions of Authorship in Early Chinese Five-Syllable Poetry
Apr 1
EAS Graduate Student Collaboration

2021

Dec 9 - Dec 11
Online symposium on Jiangnan Buddhist Traditions
Nov 8
Dr. Wayne Soon (Vassar College): Global Medicine in Chinese East Asia, 1937-1970
Nov 3
Alan Cole's Talk on Chan Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty
Oct 20
Transformation: Story, Character & Meaning Across Time & Space
Oct 19
Asian Americans: A History of Identity, Contributions & Challenges
Oct 6
The Classic of Poetry at the Foundations of Classical Chinese Philosophy

2020

Dec 3
Responding to a National Crisis: Art, Buddhism, and Technology in Tenth Century Southeast China
Nov 14
Young Alumni Brunch
Nov 7
Poetic Melody from Hangzhou
Oct 14
Pandemic Blues and Blame Games: Anti-Asian Rhetoric and the Realities of US-China Antagonism Webinar
Feb 19
Humanities Study Abroad Fair

2019

Nov 15
Interdisciplinary Edo, New Perspectives on Early Modern Japan
Nov 2
COH Young Alumni Brunch
Nov 1
Humanities Alumni Mixer
Oct 22
Ritual & Human Flourishing: Theories from Classical China
Apr 18
Lecture - "What Do We Mean by 'Cultural Exchange' on the Silk Road? Three Examples with Ancient Eurasian Lutes".
Apr 17
Lecture - The Chinese Re-Education Gulag: Repression, Assimilation and Islamophobia in the Name of Harmony, James Millward
Apr 16
Lecture - Is There Still Buddhism Outside of Japan? Cosmology & Polemics in Japan's Medieval Period, Jacqueline Stone
Apr 11
Lecture - The Importance of Imports: Chan Master Yin Yuan (JP.Ingen) and The Legacy of His Imported Chinese Material Culture in Japan, Patricia Graham
Apr 4
Lecture - Beauty, Violence, and the Buddha's Relics: Reading the Material Rhetoric of the Great Stupa, Caleb Simmons
Mar 29
Lecture - Empty Ledgers: Reading the Silences in Interwar Okinawan Archives, Wendy Matsumura

2018

Nov 16
Tech Anxieties and the U.S.-China Relationship
Nov 5
China, the Islamic World, and America: Love and Hate in a Triangle
Oct 9
The Future of U.S.-China Relations: Reflections and Questions
Oct 3
Indie Game Industry in China (in Chinese)
Sep 28
How the Mongols Saved Chinese Literature and Other Curious Tales from Meiji-Period Chinese Literature Historiography
Sep 26
The Tale of the Heike by Tsutomu Arao
Sep 26
JET Program Information Session
Aug 31 - Sep 28
Language Swap Tucson
May 14 - Aug 8
EAS Summer 2018 Course Offerings
Apr 19
Miyako Inoue presents "Law’s Logistical Media: The Installation of the Filing System in the Postwar Japanese Prosecutor's Office"
Apr 18
Sweeping a Tomb in Nice: Revolutionary Mourning in Alexander Herzen and Ba Jin
Apr 5
Japanese Program Movie Night
Mar 30
Zen Enlightenment: Is it Sudden or Gradual? by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
Mar 28 - Mar 30
Creating the World of Chan/Son/Zen: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its spread throughout East Asia
Mar 28
Center for Buddhist Studies Inaugural Ceremony
Mar 21
South Korean Film '1987 When the Day Comes'
Mar 16
A Conversation with bell hooks: Feminism, Buddhism, and Liberation
Mar 15
Spring 2018 Pu Yin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series, Karl Ryavec
Feb 23
Chinese New Year Celebration 2018
Feb 23
Chinese New Year Celebration 2018
Feb 16
Pu Yin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series, Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Feb 9
Pu Yin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series, Yaling Chu
Jan 30
Pu Yin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series, Albert Welter

2017

Nov 9
David Novak: "Creativity, Cocoroom, and the Cultural City of Kamagasaki"
Oct 19
Anna Shields, "From 'Literary' to 'Civil': Redefining Literature in the Biographies of the New Tang History"
Apr 12
Buddhist Aspects of Health and Wellness in Premodern Chinese Tea Culture
Apr 7
Translating Chinese Philosophy into the Western Academy: Better Late than Never
Apr 2 - Apr 6
Mandala Creation and Ritual Dissolution

2016

Oct 21
Dr. Jiang Wu, "Chinese Religion From a Geographical Perspective"
Oct 13
Buddhist Escapes: Caught Between Two Worlds
Apr 7 - Apr 8
The Formation of Regional Religious Systems in Greater China
Apr 6
Buddhist Studies: Past, Present, Future
Mar 22
Buddhist Compassion
Mar 21
Join us in Welcoming Scholars from Kyushu University
Jan 26
Arizona in Kyoto Info Session
Jan 21
Arizona in Shanghai Info Session

2015

Nov 16
From Imperial Engineers to Development Consultants: Japanese Engineers and the Formation of the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in Asia
Nov 13
The historical foundations of China's contemporary water challenges
Nov 2
Foreign Echoes & Discerning the Soil: Translation, Chineseness, & World Literature in Chinese Poetry
Oct 29
Space, Politics and History: Reimagining post-Soviet Ulaanbaatar
Oct 23
Celebrate Homecoming 2015 with East Asian Studies!
Oct 7
Tourism, Place and the Spatial Politics of Empire: Japanese Imperial Tourism to Korea-Manchuria in a Global Frame
Oct 5
Civil-Military Relations in China: Implications for U.S.-China Relations
Sep 22
Of Scarecrows and Goats: Shifting Urban/Rural Relations in Contemporary Japan
Apr 28
The Chinese Buddhist Canon in the Print Culture of East Asia
Apr 25
13th Annual Tucson Japanese Speech Contest
Apr 9 - Apr 10
Chinese Buddhist Canon
Mar 3
Buddhist Lecture Series

2014

Apr 15
Chinese Cinema with Hollywood Characters - a Talk by Michael Berry
Mar 25
"Japanoise and the Cultural Feedback of Global Media" - A Talk by David Novak
Mar 7
Perceiving Politics: Art, Protest, and Everyday Life in Early 1960s Japan