Press Release April 29, 2013 On April 29th, the Japanese Government announced that the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, will be conferred upon Ms. Merry White, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, in recognition of her significant contributions to the development of Japanese studies and the introduction of Japanese culture […]
Award Ceremony Friday April 26 Trustees Ballroom One Silber way, 9th Floor Boston University To RSVP for luncheon attendance, please contact Ms. Lisa Cohen, Office the Dean, College of Communication: lisann@bu.edu Penning a series of exclusive reports at the heart of China’s biggest political story in decades, The Wall Street Journal‘s Jeremy Page broke open […]
BUCSA is delighted to announce that Robert Weller, Chair of the BU Department of Anthropology, and an expert in Chinese and Taiwanese anthropology, is the recipient of a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013. Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in […]
From April 7-9 2013, the National Chinese Language Conference (NCLC), which is “dedicated to encouraging dialogue in the field of Chinese language education and ensuring wide-scale success,” had their 6th annual conference in Boston. Boston University took part in two panels at the Conference. The first was entitled Next Steps for Our Chinese Language Students: […]
Our Asian Studies Presenters and the American Institute of Indian Studies Board meeting Several faculty and graduate students attended the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego, March 21-24, 2013. Marié Abe, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Presenter,“Shaking Bodies on Shaky Ground: Henoko Peace Music Festa and the Anti-US Military Base Struggles […]
The Center for the Study of Asia hosted discussions about expanding the number of American students studying in China on February 27, 2013, at the Boston University Castle. BUCSA Director Eugenio Menegon welcomed those attending to participate in two discussion sessions. The first focused on pre-college study in China programs, and the second on university […]
On February 11, 2013, the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA), in co-sponsorship and collaboration with the African Studies Center, Program in Latin American Studies, the College of Communication, and the Boston University Center for Humanities, hosted Visible + Invisible Users: Internet, Social Media, and Youth in Global Perspective, an interdisciplinary symposium […]
At the invitation of Professor Dana Robert, Co-Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University School of Theology, who earlier this year visited East Rock Institute (ERI), Dr. Hesung Chun Koh, ERI Chair, and Young-aie Kim, Manager of the National Library of Korea & ERI Digitization Project, met with Boston University’s Asian Studies Faculty. […]
By Kevin Liang, CAS History Major On November 8th, 2012, the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) hosted a successful program, part of the BU Taiwan Forum sponsored by the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Boston. Professors Tonio Andrade from Emory University, Xing Hang from Brandeis University, and Michael Szonyi from […]
Eugenio Menegon, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, and Robert P. Weller, Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Research Associate at the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs at Boston University, are taking part in Harvard Fairbank Center’s New England China Seminar. The New […]