Providing leadership, coordination and support for East Asian studies at the University of Southern California.
113
Affiliated Faculty in over 44 departments
388
Students sent to East Asia on Global East Asia
$2.8 M
Awarded in Student and Faculty Funding
Upcoming Events
Science Fiction and East Asia
Thursday, April 18, 2024 | DML 240| 11:00AM – 1:00PM | RSVP
Researchers Sang-Keun Yoo (Marist College), Jaewuk Kim (USC), and Sunyoung Park (USC) will discuss issues such as the representation of traditional East Asian religious thoughts in Anglophone and Asian SF, Korean translations and adaptations of Western SF, South Korean SF’s utopian aspirations and its thought experiments on race, gender, and sexuality, and the entanglements between the posthuman, the human, and the non-human in the SF stories of the new millennium.
This event is co-sponsored by Korean Heritage Library, USC Libraries, East Asian Studies Center, and Korean Studies Institute.
Levan Book Chat—Christopher Hepburn, Defining Waka Musically
Monday, April 29, 2024 | Virtual | 12:00PM – 1:00PM | RSVP
A discussion of Christopher Hepburn‘s new book, Defining Waka Musically: Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). The author will be joined in conversation by Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford) and Stacey Jocoy (Library of Congress), moderated by Kerim Yasar (USC). Registration is required.
This event is co-organized by the East Asian Studies Center and the Center for the Premodern World.
2024 EASC Commencement Reception
Friday, May 10, 2024 | CAS 100 | 11:30AM-1:30PM | By Invitation Only
On Friday, May 10, EASC faculty, staff, family and friends will gather to celebrate our East Asian Area Studies graduating seniors and M.A. students. Please join us from 11:30AM – 1:30PM in front of CAS 100 for the EAAS Reception before the Dornsife Group 2 Satellite Ceremony!
Friday, May 10, 2024 Commencement Schedule
USC Main Commencement Ceremony | 8:30AM
EASC Celebration Reception | 11:30AM
USC Dornsife Group 2 Satellite Ceremony | 2:30PM
EASC Signature Programs
Undergraduate
Global East Asia (GEA) is a four week upper-division Maymester research course with a study abroad component for USC undergraduate students, made possible by the East Asian Studies Center and USC Dornsife. This intensive program gives students the opportunity to travel and conduct research in China or Japan. Students from all majors, schools and language backgrounds are eligible to apply and experience East Asia in a unique way.
Graduate
EASC Graduate Fellowships provide summer stipends, typically between $1,000-$3,000, depending on the proposed course of study. The purpose of the award is to advance understanding of East Asia and/or US-Asia relations. The award may be used for research, language training or area studies, and can also be used for research including Asia in a comparative context or as a case study.
Research
A centerpiece of the East Asian Studies Center’s efforts to support all forms of research that deal with East Asia at USC is the manuscript review. Any USC faculty working on a book that deals with East Asia in some way are eligible for possible support. The program is designed to provide helpful and timely feedback to faculty preparing monographs or other similarly large academic works prior to submission for publication.
Student Journal of Asian Studies @ USC
The USC Student Journal for Asian Studies (SJAS @ USC) is a student-run journal created to publish undergraduate and graduate research in various disciplines in Asian studies. This past spring, SJAS @ USC published a special issue featuring work on Filipino surnames, Korean moon jars, and techno-orientalism.
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East Asian Studies Center
3454 Trousdale Parkway, CAS 100
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0154