Upcoming Events
Fall 2025
Student Journal of Asian Studies @ USC Symposium – 2025 Issue
Friday, September 12, 2025 | 2:00PM-3:00PM | CAS 100 or via Zoom | RSVP
In celebration of the third issue of the Student Journal of Asian Studies @ USC, EASC will host a symposium bringing together the editors, contributors, and readers of the journal! This symposium will showcase the Spring 2025 issue and feature presentations by the authors.
This is a hybrid event. A Zoom meeting link will be emailed to those who RSVP.
Global East Asia 2026 Q&A Info Session
Thursday, September 25 | 4:00PM-5:00PM | CAS 100 | RSVP
EASC is hosting a Q&A Info Session for the Global East Asia Maymester Programs to Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, Korea. Please review this video first and if you still have questions, feel free to join us at the info session. The informational video covers Program Overview, Course Breakdown, Program benefits, Eligibility, Program Costs, Funding Opportunities, and an Application walkthrough. If you would like to attend virtually, please register here ►
EASC Guest Speaker Series: Asia’s Aging Security: How Demographic Change Affects America’s Allies and Adversaries – Talk by Andrew Oros
Friday, October 3 | 12:00PM-1:30PM | SOS B40 | RSVP
EASC Guest Speaker Series: Talk by Prof. Andrew Oros (Washington College) with Faculty Moderator Prof. Saori Katada
Major demographic transitions are underway in Asia and the Pacific. The populations of China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia are rapidly aging and shrinking, while India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Australia, among others, continue to grow. How will these striking changes affect regional security dynamics and the United States–led alliance structure in the Indo-Pacific? Oros considers how technological change is mitigating the drawbacks of aging populations as well as how factors such as autonomous defense systems and artificial intelligence present new challenges.
This event is co-sponsored by the USC Center for International Studies, Loyola Marymount University, and Pomona College.
EASC Guest Speaker Series: Bilingual Authorship and Self-Translation: Jianan Qian on Publishing in Chinese & English
Tuesday, October 7 | 11:30AM-12:50PM | Zoom | RSVP
EASC Guest Speaker Series: Talk by Prof. Jianan Qian (Towson University) with Faculty Moderator Prof. Brian Bernards (COLT 512: Literary and Cinematic Translingualism and Translation)
What is it like to write and publish in both one’s native and adopted languages? How does an author navigate two distinct publishing markets and balance different aesthetic traditions? Do writers develop a different voice in each language? USC alum and fiction writer Jianan Qian will share her experiences writing and publishing in both Chinese and English, reflecting on the challenges and creative possibilities of bilingual authorship.
EASC Guest Speaker Series: China’s Domestic Politics Beyond Water’s Edge: BRI and China’s Fragmented Foreign Policy – Talk by Andrew Mertha
Monday, October 13 | 2:00PM-4:50PM | TBD | RSVP
EASC Guest Speaker Series: Talk by Prof. Andrew Mertha (Johns Hopkins) with Faculty Moderator Prof. Stanley Rosen (POSC 469: Soft Power in Political Science and International Relations)
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often seen as a unified strategy to expand the country’s global influence. In this talk, Prof. Mertha challenges that view by showing how China’s fragmented and decentralized domestic politics shape, and at times complicate, its foreign policy and soft power ambitions. Using case studies from Nicaragua, Myanmar, Ghana, and Cambodia, he highlights how local political dynamics within China spill across borders, reshaping the impact of the BRI and raising new questions about the nature of China’s rise.
This event is co-sponsored by the USC U.S.-China Institute and Center on Public Diplomacy.
Fall 2025 EASC Undergrad Connect
Friday, October 24 | 2:00PM – 3:30PM | CAS 100 | RSVP
Please join us for the Fall 2025 EASC Undergrad Connect! Come meet other East Asian area studies and Korean studies majors and minors and learn about EASC’s academic programs and opportunities while enjoying some light food and drinks. We would love for you to also invite any other students interested in East Asian media, research, or study abroad opportunities!
Please note that this event is open to USC undergraduates only.
EASC Guest Speaker Series: Media as Method: New Perspectives on Early Modern Chinese Drama – Talk by Yinghui Wu
Monday, November 17 | 2:00PM-3:20PM | DML 240 | RSVP
EASC Guest Speaker Series: Talk by Prof. Yinghui Wu (UCLA) with Faculty Moderator Prof. Mengxiao Wang (EALC 145: Introduction to Chinese Culture, Art and Literature)
In this talk, Wu will offer a new model for thinking about drama history through a critical reflection on medium/media as historically specific and broader than modern mass media technology. The talk will also present specific case studies that explore the entwinement of plays and different forms of media in shaping perception, molding experience, and enabling new subject positions to emerge in early modern China.
This event is co-sponsored by the USC East Asian Library.
Fall 2025 EASC Grad Student Connect
Tuesday, November 18 | 4:00PM – 5:30PM | CAS 100 | RSVP
Please join us for the Fall 2025 EASC Grad Student Connect! Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC while learning about EASC’s academic programming and opportunities. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so this is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with East Asia-related research topics and interests!
Providing leadership, coordination and support for East Asian studies at the University of Southern California.
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Affiliated Faculty in over 44 departments
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EASC Signature Programs
Undergraduate
Global East Asia (GEA) is a four week upper-division Maymester research course with a study abroad component for USC undergraduate students, made possible by the East Asian Studies Center and USC Dornsife. This intensive program gives students the opportunity to travel and conduct research in China or Japan. Students from all majors, schools and language backgrounds are eligible to apply and experience East Asia in a unique way.
Graduate
EASC Graduate Fellowships provide summer stipends, typically between $1,000-$3,000, depending on the proposed course of study. The purpose of the award is to advance understanding of East Asia and/or US-Asia relations. The award may be used for research, language training or area studies, and can also be used for research including Asia in a comparative context or as a case study.
Research
A centerpiece of the East Asian Studies Center’s efforts to support all forms of research that deal with East Asia at USC is the manuscript review. Any USC faculty working on a book that deals with East Asia in some way are eligible for possible support. The program is designed to provide helpful and timely feedback to faculty preparing monographs or other similarly large academic works prior to submission for publication.
EASC 360: Global East Asia TOKYO Applications are Open!
Global East Asia (GEA) is a four week upper-division Maymester research course with a study abroad component for USC undergraduate students, made possible by the East Asian Studies Center and USC Dornsife. This intensive program gives students the opportunity to travel and conduct research in Japan. Students from all majors, schools and language backgrounds are eligible to apply and experience East Asia in a unique way.
Applications are due Monday, October 20, 2025!
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