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Global Asia Virtual Lecture: Vernacularizing Nature

Join us on Friday, April 29, 2022, at 11:00 AM on Zoom to hear our sixth lecture in Global Asia in Multipolar World Lecture Series. This Lecture will be provided by Dr. Kajri Jain, Professor of Visual Studies and Art Histories (University of Toronto). This event is free and open to the public.
Global Asia Virtual Lecture: Politicization of Racism & Casteism: Toward a Theory Global Caste Slavery

Join us on Friday, April 8, 2022, at 10:00 AM on zoom to hear our seventh lecture in Global Asia in Multipolar World Virtual Lecture Series. This lecture will be provided by Dr. Suraj Yengde, associate and senior fellow at the department of African & African American Studies (Harvard Kennedy School). This event is free and open to the public. Please register for a link.
Robert C. Staley Distinguished Lecture in East Asian Studies

Join us on Thursday, March 17, 2022, at 4:30 pm in MU 242 (La Paz) or vis zoom to hear the annual Staley lecture provided by Suk-Youn Kim, Professor of Performance Studies and head of theatre (UCLA). The topic of this talk is "Postornamentality: Ajumma Fabulosity and the Art of Wearing A Visor with Ferocity."
Global Asia Virtual Lecture: Sinophone meets Siamophone: Covert Migration, Pirated Ethnicity, & Audiovisual Intersubjectivity

Join us on Friday, March 4, 2022, at 10 am to hear the lecture provided by Brian Bernards, Associate Professor of East Asian Literature (University of Souther California). This is a part of our ongoing Global Asia Virtual Lecture Series.
Global Asia in a Multipolar World 2021 Lecture Series

As part of ASU's commitment to global engagement, sustainability, and future-oriented knowledge and research, the Center for Asian Research has organized a series of virtual lectures for the 2021-2022 academic year on the theme of "Global Asian in a Multipolar World." This virtual lecture series highlights research from prominent scholars in an array of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and beyond, broadly centered on Inter-Asian networks and flows of ideas, peoples, and texts across national and linguistic borders.
Statement on Anti-Asian Racism

The Center for Asian Research condemns the recent wave of violence against Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander communities and stands in solidarity with all groups and individuals affected by prejudice and discrimination. We remain committed to combatting these shameful actions through education, and our events and programming reaffirm our dedication to public outreach and engagement.
NYTIMES: What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America

Photo Credit: Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America Too often, attention to nonwhite groups is only as pressing as the injuries that they have suffered. By Anne Anlin Cheng Ms. Cheng is a comparative race scholar and author of “The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief” and “Ornamentalism.” Feb. 21, 2021
Asia Matters For America Matters For Asia

Did you know that Arizona export $9.5 billion worth of goods and services to Indo-Pacific Region? Or that 73% of international students in the State of Arizona are from the Indo-Pacific? According to the 2020 Report by EAST-WEST Center, Arizona and Asia has very strong connection.

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Asia Matters For America

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Career Abroad 2021

Global Asia Lecture Series - Southeast Asia Freshwater Biodiversity

Global Asia: Vernacularizing Nature

Global Asia in a Multipolar World 2021 Lecture Series

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Faculty Research Workshop : Rob Tuck

Global Asia Lecture Series: Revolutionary Communication & Global Emancipation Colonial Indonesia

Global Asia Lecture Series - Politicization of Racism and Casteism

Tantric Text Practices in India & Indonesia

2022 Annual Staley Lecture

GLOBAL ASIA LECTURE SERIES: SINOPHONE MEETS SIAMOPHONE

Global Asia Lecture: Recognition, Framing, and Surveillance of Pakistan's "Non-Muslims"

Giving Form to the Formless: The Introduction of Anthropomorphic Imagery in Daoist Practice

Water-Ink: Recalibrating 20th Century Chinese Painting

Ritual Architecture of Early Imperial China

Global Asia Lecture Series: Imperial Japan & Improvement Agriculture in Mongol Lands

Polluting Dreams in Han-Period

Global Asia Lecture Series: Slavery in Southeast Asia

Anime, Manga, & Japanese Pop Culture

Faculty Research Workshop: Faheem Hussain

Kūkai on Truth Vs. Beauty

Faculty Research Workshop: Nicholas Williams

2021 Annual Lecture on Asia

Elite Asians & American Racial Hierarchy Video

Center for Asian Research 2021 Annual Lecture - Elite Asians and American Racial Hierarchy

A Closer Look at the Floating World

You can make an appointment to view these prints at the Jules Heller Print Study Room at ASU Art Museum by emailing Brittany Corrales at brittany.corrales@asu.edu or calling 480-965-6656. There will be an online exhibition of the Hundred Ghost prints donated by Darlene Goto to ASU Art Museum in 2019 and 2020.

A Closer Look at the Floating World 3 8 2021