Students, Faculty/Staff Submit a design for the East Asian Studies departmental t-shirt by Oct. 31 for a chance to win many great prizes! All submissions should be sent to eastasianstudies@jhu.edu. For more information, see https://krieger.jhu.edu/east-asian/ . Summary: Win a free t-shirt and a gift card to Peko Peko by participating in the East Asian Studies […]

Register now for the special opportunities for undergraduate learning (SOUL) course, Being an Economist, Focusing on East Asia. The course will be held Tuesdays from 3-4:50 p.m. in Shaffer 202. The instructor is Dr. Dore. SOUL courses run from Oct. 22 to Dec. 7.

In conjunction with Professor Gaochao He’s course, “Documentary Photography in a Changing China”, the East Asian Studies Program proudly presents an exhibit of 17 photographs by award-winning photographer Lu Guang, currently on display in the second floor hallway of Mergenthaler. Please do stop by and see the exhibit!

Professor Chung’s research team (consisting of 7 scholars in the U.S. and Australia) was awarded a 5-year grant for US$1.3 million from the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) for a lab project on “Local Agency and National Responses to Globalization: The South Korean Case in Comparative, Transnational, and Diasporic Perspective.” This grant will provide research support […]

Win a free t-shirt and a gift card to Peko Peko by participating in the East Asian Studies department’s t-shirt design contest; Open to all JHU affiliates. Submit a design for the East Asian Studies departmental t-shirt by Oct. 31 for a chance to win many great prizes! All submissions should be sent to eastasian@jhu.edu. […]

The East Asian Studies Program would like to welcome Dr. Nuri Kim, who will be joining us as EAS Postdoctoral Fellow for AY 2018-2019. Nuri Kim is a historian with an interest in the cultural, intellectual, and religious history of modern Korea and beyond. His current research focuses on new religious movements, alternative knowledge, and […]

The East Asian Studies Program would like to welcome Andrea Worden, who will be joining us as the William S. Reinsch Practitioner-Instructor for Fall 2018. Andréa Worden, J.D., M.A., is a human rights advocate and consultant, writer, and translator. She previously held positions as Senior Counsel/General Counsel of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), Advocacy […]

Yunchen Tian’s article, “Workers by any other name: comparing co-ethnics and ‘interns’ as labour migrants to Japan,” has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, which is one of the top journals in the migration field. Tian is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and is currently working as the EAS graduate student […]

Marvin C. Ott is an adjunct lecturer and visiting scholar in Southeast Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, in addition to teaching Southeast Asia and U.S. Security on the Homewood campus. Since the beginning of 2018, Professor Ott has published three articles surrounding China’s priorities in Southeast Asia. […]

On April 12th, author Min Jin Lee gave a talk entitled“Afterlives of Empire: A Symposium on History, Family, and Fiction in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko,” as part of the East Asian Studies Speaker Series. The event was co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation.