Asian Studies program Meet your Major event

Lecture by Robert Hellyer

Asian Studies Program Meet Your Major event

Lecture by Kenneth Ruoff, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at Portland State University

Opening reception

Lecture by Brian Eyler

Gathering of Asian studies faculty, majors, minors, and interested students.

Fourth lecture in the Exploration & Discovery 2018-2019 Colloquium Series: Civic Engagement and the Common Good

Lecture by Timothy Brook, Republic of China Chair at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Lecture by Sherry Fowler, Professor of Japanese Art History, University of Kansas

This talk critiques the oft-repeated argument that Japanese animation (anime) is thematically and aesthetically unique because it draws upon Japan’s ancient animistic traditions. I argue that when professional observers describe anime as “animistic,” they use a politically fraught and technically inaccurate term to engage in certain political projects related to environmentalism or cultural nationalism. I also argue that when these professional observers repeat the essentialist idea that “Japanese people believe that spirits exist in everything,” they categorically ignore the potentially “spiritual” qualities of the material objects that are actually used to make anime in the first place (celluloid, ink, computer screens, cameras, cables). I conclude by offering alternative language that can more accurately depict what anime directors and their audiences do when depicting or observing relationships between spirits and nature in animated film. These attitudes and ideas can be deemed meaningful and even religious, I argue, without relying on the loaded language of “animism.”

The Asian Studies program invites you to a research talk by ASIANetwork-Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Layoung Shin. There will be a reception following the talk with Asian Studies faculty and students.

Stop by the Information Fair for 2017-2018 Overseas Programs - meet faculty leaders, past program participants, and learn more about the application process.

Lecture by Heather Blair

A talk by Gwyn Kirk, one of the peacemakers

Presentation by peace builders, Silver Park and Paco Michelson regarding the construction of a massive naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea.

Come celebrate cultural diversity with food and performances from around the world! 
Brunch: 11am - 1pm
Show: 2pm - 4pm

Lecture by Winnie Wong, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric. University of California, Berkeley

A presentation by Scholar in Residence, Pil Ho Kim

Each Thursday in April, Scholar in Residence, Pil Ho Kim will be showing a different Korean Film.

Tired of the tropes that plague Asian American communities? Come to this workshop about AAPI activism and feminism, focusing on exploring and deconstructing the masculine and feminine tropes within AAPI communities!

Graduating seniors will be presenting their senior theses.

Each Thursday in April, Scholar in Residence, Pil Ho Kim will be showing a different Korean Film.

Associate Professor Eujeong Zhang will be singing some Korean Jazz Songs from the 1930s

Each Thursday in April, Scholar in Residence, Pil Ho Kim will be showing a different Korean Film.

Each Thursday in April, Scholar in Residence, Pil Ho Kim will be showing a different Korean Film.

Gerald Roche, Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Uppsala University will be presenting a talk about his research on language diversity in Tibet.

A talk by Pil Ho Kim, Scholar in Residence, East Asian Studies

Lewis & Clark will host the fourth annual Japanese Studies Senior Summit, a gathering of students from Lewis & Clark College, Linfield College, Willamette University and Pacific University.

Research talk by Jennifer Hubbert, Assistant Professor of Anthroplogy

LC Alumnus, Craig Colbeck will be giving a talk on his recent research.

“Literature and Politics in Mao’s China: Insubordinate Savants and Self-Regarding Servants”
Tim Cheek is the Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research at the Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia

Sponsored by the East Asian Studies program and the departments of History, International Affairs, Sociology and Anthropology, Foreign Languages, and Art

A research talk by Bruce Suttmeier, Associate Professor of Japanese

Students are invited to an informal talk with LC Alumnus Jeffrey Wilson about his work as a labor Lawyer in China.

East Asian Studies Film Screening and Q & A with Tami Blumenfield

Lecture by Edith Murante

Research talk with Tami Blumenfeld

Come hear Professor Andrew Bernstein discuss his research. In this talk, He will explain how the militarization of Fuji took shape in the years leading up to World War II and in the Cold War that immediately followed

Talk by Christine Ahn, Director of the Korea Policy Institute

“The Presence of the Past in 21st Century China”

A Panel Presentation

EAS Seniors will be presenting their theses.

Meet and greet with EAS faculty