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
$2.6 M
Awarded in Student and Faculty Funding
Upcoming Events
Manuscript Review for Jessica Zu
Friday, September 22 | SOS 250 | 2:00-5:00PM
The EASC Manuscript Review is a professional development seminar for faculty and graduate students, from USC and the wider community.
RSVP required by August 28.
Leading scholars in the fields of Buddhist Studies will discuss a new book manuscript by Jessica Zu, Assistant Professor of Religion, entitled Dharma, Darwin, and Democracy: Buddhist Social Philosophy in Modern China.
Faculty and graduate students from USC and the community are welcome to attend.
Fall 2023 EASC Undergraduate Mixer
Friday, October 6 |2:00PM – 3:30PM | CAS 100
Please join us for the Fall 2023 EASC Undergrad Mixer! Come meet other East Asian area studies/ Korean studies majors and minors and enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC. We would love for you to also invite any other students interested in East Asian media, study abroad in Asia, and research into East Asian topics.
Please RSVP by Friday, September 29 so we can order enough snacks and drinks for everyone!
Fossil-Fueled Developmentalism: Carbon Technocracy in Modern East Asia
Friday, October 27 | 4:00PM-5:30PM | SOS 250
Join us for a talk on energy regimes in modern East Asia! Victor Seow is a historian of technology, science, and industry, specializing in modern China and Japan within global contexts and in histories of energy and work. His book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2022), studies the deep links between energy extraction and technocratic politics through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine.
Co-sponsored by the USC Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture
Fall 2023 EASC Grad Mixer
Tuesday, October 31 | 4:00PM – 5:30PM | CAS 100
Please join us for the Fall 2023 EASC Grad Mixer! Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with East Asia-related research topics and interests!
Halloween Costume Optional!
Looking for China: 30+ years of making documentaries in and about China
Monday, November 13 | 2:00PM | DML 240
Bill Einreinhofer is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer/director and emeritus chair of the New York Film Academy’s Broadcast Journalism department. For more than 30 years, he has been making films and stories in and about China, including China: Frame by Frame, Unsettled History: America, China and the Doolittle Tokyo Raid, and Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began. Over 1000 digital video, image, audio, and text files used by Einreinhofer to create the documentaries are now available online in USC Libraries’ newly acquired Bill Einreinhofer China Archive.
Manuscript Review for Mengxiao Wang
Friday, December 1 | SOS 250 | 2:00-5:00PM
The EASC Manuscript Review is a professional development seminar for faculty and graduate students, from USC and the wider community.
Leading scholars in the fields of Buddhism, Media, and Narrative Studies will discuss a new book manuscript by by Mengxiao Wang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, entitled Performing Enlightenment: How Buddhists Reinvented Theater in Early Modern China.
Faculty and graduate students from USC and the community are welcome to attend.
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