EASC Guest Speaker Series

Saturday, September 28, 2024
As part of the 2024-25 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Dornsife Fellow in General Education Dr. Li-Ping Chen has invited Scott D. Seligman, a national award-winning author of non-fiction with a special interest in the history and biography of hyphenated Americans.

Monday, October 14, 2024
As part of the 2024-25 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Dornsife Postdoctoral Scholar Dr. Wanmeng Li has invited Prof. Torquil Duthie, Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA.

Monday, October 14, 2024
As part of the 2024-25 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Associate Professor of Linguistics Stephanie Shih has invited Prof. Chung-hye Han, Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University.

Thursday, October 31, 2024
As part of the 2024-25 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Lecturer Raymond Tsang has invited Dr. Tian Li, Lecturer of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University.

Friday, November 8, 2024
As part of the 2024-25 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Joshua Goldstein has invited Dr. Ed Pulford, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at University of Manchester.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
As part of the 2024-25 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Gender and Sexuality Studies Sunyoung Park has invited Prof. Namhee Lee, Professor of modern Korean history at UCLA.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024
As part of the 2024-25 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Anthropology Jenny Chio has invited Memetjan Semet, a director and screenwriter known for his compelling storytelling and deep connection to his Uyghur heritage.

Thursday, November 21, 2024
As part of the 2024-25 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Postdoctoral Fellow of Comparative Literature Dr. Kun Huang has invited Prof. Zhange Ni, Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech.

Monday, November 25, 2024
As part of the 2024-25 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Assistant Professor of Linguistics Travis Major has invited Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar and activist.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, we have invited Aynne Kokas, Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.

Monday, March 6, 2023
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, we have invited Suma Ikeuchi, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Thursday, April 13, 2023
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, we are cohosting a symposium centered on the Nak Chung Thun Archive.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Associate Professor of International Relations Jacques Hymans has invited Tatsujiro Suzuki, professor at Nagasaki University’s Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition.

Tuesday, September 20, 2022
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Assistant Professor of Religion Jessica Zu has invited Hung-yok Ip, Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University.

Thursday, September 27, 2022
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor of Public Policy Eric Heikkila has invited Hong Liu, the Tan Lark Sye Chair Professorship in Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.

Thursday, October 6, 2022
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Assistant Professor of Religion Jessica Zu has invited Shuchen Xiang, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Peking University and the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature Brian Bernards has invited Alex Curran-Cardarelli, former festival manager and managing director of the Luang Prabang Film Festival.

Thursday, November 3, 2022
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, Li-Ping Chen has invited Leo Ching, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.

Friday, November 11, 2022
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature Brian Bernards has invited author and poet Marylyn Tan.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
As part of the 2022-23 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Associate Professor of History Benjamin Uchiyama has invited Gabriele Koch, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

Thursday, April 8, 2021
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As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Assistant Professor of Religion, Jessica Zu has invited Dr. Larry Ward, co-founder of The Lotus Institute and author of America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal.Engaged Buddhism is an important branch of new Buddhist movements that emerged around the world in the mid-twentieth century. However, in America today, engaged Buddhists seem to have poised to become the leaders in using Buddhist spirituality to fight for social justice, to cure collective racial trauma, and to dismantle lasting structural oppressions. This lecture will tie in Prof. Zu’s REL 342: Buddhist Modernism.

Thursday, March 18, 2021
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As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science & International Relations, Hao Chen has invited Yuhua Wang, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of Government (Harvard University). This lecture, The Rise, Fall, and Rise of China, will tie in with Dr. Chen’s IR 340; The Political Economy of China course. The course surveys the political and economic development of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to very recently, the Xi Administration and highlights the interaction between the state and business in the reform era (1978 – present).

Monday, March 1, 2021
As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor Stanley Rosen has invited Geoffrey Wiseman, Professor and Director at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University. Prof. Wiseman is a former practicing diplomat and a longtime academic who has published widely in this area of soft power generation and public diplomacy. This lecture is a part of Prof. Rosen’s POSC 469: Critical Issues in Comparative Politics: Soft Power in Political Science and International Relations course.
*This is a private event for students enrolled in Professor Rosen’s course, POSC 469: Critical Issues in Comparative Politics: Soft Power in Political Science and International Relations.*

Monday, November 9, 2020
As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor, Benjamin Uchiyama has invited Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of Japanese History at Columbia University, to give a lecture on Japan and the politics of memory in the Second World War. She explores a summary of the five important changes that have taken place in war memory over 75 years, using the comfort women issue as an example. This lecture will tie in with Prof. Uchiyama’s HIST 107: Introduction to the History of Japan and GESM 120: Anime, Comics and the Japanese Experience of the Second World War courses.

Monday, October 12, 2020
As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor, Joshua Goldstein has invited Keisha Brown, Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History, Political Science, Geography, and Africana Studies at Tennessee State University, to give a lecture on the importance of Sino-Black relations to the Mao era and also to the larger context of modern Chinese history and China’s current policies and actions around ethnicity and race. This lecture is a part of Prof. Goldstein’s HIST 340: History of China Since 1800 course.
*This event is private for students enrolled in Professor Goldstein’s course, HIST 340: History of China Since 1800*

Wednesday, October 7, 2020
As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor and EASC Director, Sonya Lee has invited Jin Xu, Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies at Vassar College, to give a lecture on funerary art and architecture related to the Sogdians who lived in the heartland of China during the sixth century and how art was used to address experiences of migration on the Silk Road. This lecture will tie in with Prof. Lee’s AHIS 125: Arts of Asia course.