Institute for Regional and International Studies
CEAS certificate student and Japanese double major Alexis Lipkie was profiled as one of the notable graduates participating in the next weeks commencement ceremony. Read the full story and Alexis’ profile here.
Chinese and Korean Studies Librarian, Anlin Yang, will offer regular virtual office hours open to faculty, staff, and students in the CEAS community. Office hours will be held every Wednesday from 10 AM to 12 PM Central via Zoom. Stay up to date with International and Area Studies (IAS) Librarians’ office hours through the library’s website.
Wisconsinites are about to have a new outlet to express their creativity and pay homage to subjects closest to their hearts. On Nov. 17, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) will launch Wisconsin’s first-ever sijo poem writing competition. Sijo is a traditional Korean three-line poetic form consisting of a theme (1st …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/9/20 CONTACT: David Fields, dpfields@wisc.edu Madison–The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) is awarding grants to 38 public libraries across Wisconsin to develop their East Asia-related collections through a new program called East Asia in Wisconsin. CEAS is a federally funded National Resource Center for the study of East …
Offering grants of up to $1,000 per library, the new "East Asia in Wisconsin Library Program" encourages Wisconsin libraries to augment their collections with East Asia-related materials, and to design new book clubs and other programing with an East Asian theme.
The Center for East Asian Studies is happy to announce the release of its newsletter for the 2019-2020 academic year. This newsletter, available as a PDF here, features a recap of the center’s highlights and events from the last year, as well as articles about FLAS and two new faculty members.
The Center for East Asian Studies’ East Asia Now Podcast just released a new episode, “China Tomorrow: Democracy Or Dictatorship?” This episode features a talk, based on a recently published book of the same name, given by Jean-Pierre Cabestan in Madison during the fall 2019 semester. Cabestan is a political scientist at Hong Kong Baptist …
The Center for East Asian Studies is relaunching the TransAsia and the World Podcast under the name East Asia Now. It is available on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. Listen to the newest episode, “How Japan Handled the ‘Trump Shock’ and learned to Live with it: Understanding Japan-US Relations from a Japanese Perspective,” by Toshihiro Nakayama. Nakayama is a …
The focus of this year’s East Asia in the Upper Midwest will be the Korean War. June 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War—a conflict which has never formally ended. Instead of a traditional conference, the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) will be inviting 25 teachers to participate in …