Past Events

2025 Women's History Month Keynote Lecture

March 18 | 4 - 5:30pm

Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries, 271 (Auditorium)

The Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia

March 15 - 16 | All day

UGA Campus

“Fiction Without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of Fiction”--Hannah Kim (University of Arizona)

February 27 | 4 - 6pm

115 Peabody Hall

Lunar New Year Celebration

February 9 | 2 - 4pm

UGA Memorial Hall

2025 Shouky Shaheen Lecture | Iris Moon “Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie”

January 23 | 5:30 - 7pm

Lamar Dodd, S150

Asian Studies Faculty Meeting

January 13 | 9:30 - 10:15am

on Zoom

Dr. Maria Repnikova (Georgia State): "China's Image-Making in Africa: Competing for Soft Power in the Shadows of the West"

Dr. Maria Repnikova, (Georgia State University)

November 14 | 3 - 4:30pm

Journalism Room 511

The Dancer's Voice: Author Rumya Putcha in Conversation with Jared Holton

Rumya Putcha (University of Georgia)

November 11 | 5 - 7:30pm

1260 S. Lumpkin St. (Willson Center for Humanities and Arts)

Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea"

Park Jeong-Mi, Sociology (Chungbuk National University)

October 24 | 2 - 3pm

MLC Room 367

Listening Workshop, Dr. Isabel Huacuja Alonso (Columbia)

Dr. Isabel Huacuja Alonso , (Columbia University)

October 22 | 11:10am - 12:40pm

Hugh Hodgson School of Music, 250 River Road, Room 308

History Film Series: Visions of the Past

October 9 | 7 - 9pm

LeConte Hall 101

Center for Asian Studies Meeting

September 11 | 1 - 2pm

on Zoom

Final Asian Studies Meeting of Semester

April 30 | 1:30 - 2:30pm

on Zoom

Early Career Workshop on “Mobilities, Itineraries, Circulations: Rethinking Asian Connections”

April 26 | 9am

TBA

Christopher Craig (Tohoku University), "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan"

April 18 | 9am

on Zoom

"Myths of the Pendatang: Politics of Refugees and Temporariness in the Global South"

March 29 | 3pm

Miller Learning Center, Room 248

Ji Li (HKU): "God's Little Daughters" and a Missionary Odyssey in Modern China

March 22 | 2pm

101 LeConte Hall

CAS Faculty Meetings, March 22 and March 28

March 22 | 12:30pm

on Zoom

Hua Hsu, Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding

March 21 | 5:30pm

Georgia Museum of Art, Auditorium

Zine Workshop + Conversation with Delta Visiting Chair Hua Hsu

March 20 | 4pm

Delta Innovation Hub 210 Spring Street

The Sea Elephants: A Reading & Conversation with Visiting Author Shastri Akella

February 29 | 5pm

Sanford Hall Room 209

Lunar New Year Celebration

February 9 | 4pm

Oconee County Civic Center

In Conversation: Kei Ito and Binh Danh

February 8 | 5:30pm

Georgia Museum of Art

Faculty Meeting, Center for Asian Studies

January 31 | 12:30pm

LeConte Hall Conference Room (2nd Floor) and on Zoom

Prof. June McDaniel to deliver Howard Lecture on "Contemplative Psychology: Some Eastern and Western Understandings of the Mind and Spirit"

January 30 | 4:30pm

Caldwell Hall, Room 204

Visiting Author: Suchitra Vijayan: How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners

January 24 | 5pm

Graduate Reading Room, Main Library

The Georgia Review Presents Jennine Capó Crucet and Brian Truong

January 19 | 7pm

Appleton Auditorium, Athens-Clarke County Library

RESCHEDULED: Asian Studies Faculty Meeting

November 3 | 3pm

LeConte Hall Conference Room (2nd Floor) and on Zoom

Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer: Bhakti Shringarpure's "Publishing at a Crossroads: Notes on the "D" word"

November 2 | 4:30pm

Park Hall 265

JET Program Information Session

October 23 | 3pm

*On Zoom

Indian Majoritarianism: Othering of religious minorities and politics of polarization

Anuradha Bhasin, (Executive Edtior, Kashmir Times)

October 19 | 2pm

MLC 248

Faculty New Book Release and Reception: Kalyani Ramnath

September 21 | 4pm

314 North Tower, 3rd Floor, Zell Miller Learning Center

Faculty Meeting

August 30 | 4pm

on Zoom

CAS End-of-the-year Lunch

April 21 | 12:30pm

MLC, North Tower

Chris Suh (Emory): "Asia, Asian America, and the American South: Doing Transpacific History in Georgia"

Chris Suh, History (Emory)

April 18 | 12:45pm

101 LeConte Hall

Victor Seow (Harvard): Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

Dr. Victor Seow, History of Science (Harvard University)

April 7 | 3:30pm

Virtual Event on Zoom

Monday, April 3, 4-5:30pm (on Zoom): Author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

April 3 | 4pm

Virtual Event on Zoom

Kristin Shi-Kupfer (Trier): Beyond Disinformation: Competing Chinese Voices in the Global Media Sphere

March 27 | 1:30pm

Candler Hall 214

"Blurring the Color Line": Chinese in the Segregated South

March 22 | 4pm

Tate Theater

Dr. Wai-yee Li (Harvard): “Gender and Friendship in Ming and Qing Literature”

Dr. Wai-yee Li, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Harvard University)

February 24 | 3:45pm

Larry Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall, UGA Law School

2023 Seuss Flic Zhonghe Dragon Conference

February 24 | 2:30pm

Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall and Russell Special Collections Library

Dr. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Yale): Reading for Company: Empire and its Forms of Writing, 1857- 1914

Dr. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, English (Yale University)

February 15 | 4:30pm

Park Hall Room 265

Faculty Meeting, Center for Asian Studies

February 3 | 4pm

on Zoom

Reception: Liu Shiming: Descending the Mountain Together

January 26 | 4pm

Margie E. West Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art

January 20, 2023: Screen Time with your Humanities Professors: How did Crash Landing on You glamorize North Korea?

Mi-Ryong Shim (University of Georgia)

January 20 | 12:30pm

The Athenaeum

Dr. Ling Ma (SUNY Geneseo), "Rediscovering Abortion by Turning Away from it: Researching Abortion in Early Twentieth-Century China"

Dr. Ling Ma, History (State University of New York Geneseo)

November 15 | 4pm

Virtual Event on Zoom

Willson Center Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Carol Gluck (Columbia U.), "World War II and Global Memory Culture: The Case of the 'Comfort Women'"

Dr. Carol Gluck, History (Columbia University)

November 10 | 4pm

Larry Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall, UGA Law School

Film Premiere: Behind the Strings

November 1 | 7pm

Tate Theater

Asian Studies Faculty Coffee Hour

October 28 | 4pm

LeConte Hall Lounge (2nd Floor)

“'See You in Your Next Life': Creativity, the Zhuangzi, and Grief" - Julianne Chung (York University)

September 29 | 4pm

Peabody Hall, Room 115

XXth Biennial Symposium for Southern Asian Art

April 7 | 3pm

Richard B. Russel Special Collections Library

Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India

Dr. Andrew Liu, Department of History (Villanova University)

March 25 | 4:20pm

Virtual

Samurai on Sakhalin: Ōno Domain, Mercantilist Reform, and the Japanese ‘Northern Frontier,’ 1855-1869

Dr. Maren Ehlers, (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

March 18 | 3pm

Online-Zoom

2022 Howard Lecture in Religion

Dr. Ann Gleig, (University of Central Florida)

February 23 | 3:30pm

ZOOM

Professor Pia Brancaccio Lecture

Dr. Pia Brancaccio, (Drexel University)

October 29 | 5pm

Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150

Professor Max Deeg Lecture

Dr. Max Deeg, (Cardiff University)

October 29 | 3:30pm

Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150

On the Regional Development of Early Medieval Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia | Vihāra Project International Research Workshop

October 28 | 5:30pm

Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150

Vihāra Project International Research Workshop | On the Regional Development of Early Medieval Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia

October 28 | 5:30pm

Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150

Professor Ronald Davidson Lecture

Dr. Ronald Davidson, (Fairfield University)

October 28 | 5:30pm

Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150

INDIA-US BILATERAL RELATIONS

September 15 | 11am

VIRTUAL - To register: https://rb.gy/kqvgtv

Dr. Marko Geslani Lecture

Dr. Marko Geslani, Department of Religious Studies (University of South Carolina)

February 6 | 5pm

Peabody Hall | 115

Dr. Pierce Salguero Lecture

Dr. Pierce Salguero, (Penn State University’s Abington College)

November 11 | 5pm

Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150

Dr. Ju-Hyung Rhi Lecture

Dr. Ju-Hyung Rhi, Department of Art and Archaeology (Seoul National University)

March 23 | 5:30pm

M. Smith Griffith Auditorium | Georgia Museum of Art

Symposium | The Buddha Image in South Asia: Trans-Regional Diversity, Iconographic Innovation, and Localized Idioms

March 23 | 5:30pm

Lamar Dodd School of Art

2017 Hangeul Party

March 29 | 3pm

4th Floor Rotunda, UGA

Colloquium in Asian Studies

Nanette R. Spina (University of Georgia)

February 22 | 12:30pm

213 MLC, UGA

Colloquium in Asian Studies

November 30 | 12:30pm

350 MLC, UGA

Colloquium in Asian Studies: Issues of Spelling in Korean Education

Dr. Jungnam Kim, Korean Language (Kyung Hee University)

November 16 | 12:30pm

350 MLC, UGA

Colloquium in Asian Studies: The Lebanon War in Israeli Cinema

Dr. Ari Lieberman, Comparative Literature (Uni)

October 31 | 12:30pm

350 MLC, UGA

Asian Film Series: Train to Busan (2016, dir. Yeon Sangho)

October 26 | 5:30pm

248 MLC, UGA

Meditation with a Zen Nun

October 10 | 2:30pm

Founders Garden Lawn

Haun Saussy – The Only Game in Town: Early Buddhist Translations Into Chinese

Haun Saussy, Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages (University of Chicago)

September 15 | 5pm

248 MLC, UGA

Java in Discord: Unofficial History, Vernacular Fiction, and the Discourse of Imperial Identity in Late Ming China

August 14 | 1:45pm

TBA MLC, UGA

Colloquium in Asian Studies: Special Lecture by Dr. Masaki Mori

Masaki Mori (University of Georgia)

April 20 | 11:30am

348 MLC, UGA

Special Night with Korean Film Director & Actor

October 8 | 6:30pm

101 MLC, UGA

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Past Events

2025 Women's History Month Keynote Lecture

The Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia

“Fiction Without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of Fiction”--Hannah Kim (University of Arizona)

Lunar New Year Celebration

2025 Shouky Shaheen Lecture | Iris Moon “Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie”

Asian Studies Faculty Meeting

Dr. Maria Repnikova (Georgia State): "China's Image-Making in Africa: Competing for Soft Power in the Shadows of the West"

The Dancer's Voice: Author Rumya Putcha in Conversation with Jared Holton

Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea"

Listening Workshop, Dr. Isabel Huacuja Alonso (Columbia)

History Film Series: Visions of the Past

Center for Asian Studies Meeting

Final Asian Studies Meeting of Semester

Early Career Workshop on “Mobilities, Itineraries, Circulations: Rethinking Asian Connections”

Christopher Craig (Tohoku University), "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan"

"Myths of the Pendatang: Politics of Refugees and Temporariness in the Global South"

Ji Li (HKU): "God's Little Daughters" and a Missionary Odyssey in Modern China

CAS Faculty Meetings, March 22 and March 28

Hua Hsu, Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding

Zine Workshop + Conversation with Delta Visiting Chair Hua Hsu

The Sea Elephants: A Reading & Conversation with Visiting Author Shastri Akella

Lunar New Year Celebration

In Conversation: Kei Ito and Binh Danh

Faculty Meeting, Center for Asian Studies

Prof. June McDaniel to deliver Howard Lecture on "Contemplative Psychology: Some Eastern and Western Understandings of the Mind and Spirit"

Visiting Author: Suchitra Vijayan: How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners

The Georgia Review Presents Jennine Capó Crucet and Brian Truong

RESCHEDULED: Asian Studies Faculty Meeting

Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer: Bhakti Shringarpure's "Publishing at a Crossroads: Notes on the "D" word"

JET Program Information Session

Indian Majoritarianism: Othering of religious minorities and politics of polarization

Faculty New Book Release and Reception: Kalyani Ramnath

Faculty Meeting

CAS End-of-the-year Lunch

Chris Suh (Emory): "Asia, Asian America, and the American South: Doing Transpacific History in Georgia"

Victor Seow (Harvard): Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

Monday, April 3, 4-5:30pm (on Zoom): Author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Kristin Shi-Kupfer (Trier): Beyond Disinformation: Competing Chinese Voices in the Global Media Sphere

"Blurring the Color Line": Chinese in the Segregated South

Dr. Wai-yee Li (Harvard): “Gender and Friendship in Ming and Qing Literature”

2023 Seuss Flic Zhonghe Dragon Conference

Dr. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Yale): Reading for Company: Empire and its Forms of Writing, 1857- 1914

Faculty Meeting, Center for Asian Studies

Reception: Liu Shiming: Descending the Mountain Together

January 20, 2023: Screen Time with your Humanities Professors: How did Crash Landing on You glamorize North Korea?

Dr. Ling Ma (SUNY Geneseo), "Rediscovering Abortion by Turning Away from it: Researching Abortion in Early Twentieth-Century China"

Willson Center Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Carol Gluck (Columbia U.), "World War II and Global Memory Culture: The Case of the 'Comfort Women'"

Film Premiere: Behind the Strings

Asian Studies Faculty Coffee Hour

“'See You in Your Next Life': Creativity, the Zhuangzi, and Grief" - Julianne Chung (York University)

XXth Biennial Symposium for Southern Asian Art

Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India

Samurai on Sakhalin: Ōno Domain, Mercantilist Reform, and the Japanese ‘Northern Frontier,’ 1855-1869

2022 Howard Lecture in Religion

Professor Pia Brancaccio Lecture

Professor Max Deeg Lecture

On the Regional Development of Early Medieval Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia | Vihāra Project International Research Workshop

Vihāra Project International Research Workshop | On the Regional Development of Early Medieval Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia

Professor Ronald Davidson Lecture

INDIA-US BILATERAL RELATIONS

Dr. Marko Geslani Lecture

Dr. Pierce Salguero Lecture

Dr. Ju-Hyung Rhi Lecture

Symposium | The Buddha Image in South Asia: Trans-Regional Diversity, Iconographic Innovation, and Localized Idioms

2017 Hangeul Party

Colloquium in Asian Studies

Colloquium in Asian Studies

Colloquium in Asian Studies: Issues of Spelling in Korean Education

Colloquium in Asian Studies: The Lebanon War in Israeli Cinema

Asian Film Series: Train to Busan (2016, dir. Yeon Sangho)

Meditation with a Zen Nun

Haun Saussy – The Only Game in Town: Early Buddhist Translations Into Chinese

Java in Discord: Unofficial History, Vernacular Fiction, and the Discourse of Imperial Identity in Late Ming China

Colloquium in Asian Studies: Special Lecture by Dr. Masaki Mori

Special Night with Korean Film Director & Actor

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