BUCSA News Archives
Global House Chinese Cluster presents: Time Travel to Ancient China (Sat. Oct. 26, 2024)
16th Annual Boston Asian American Film Festival (Oct. 17-26, 2024)
Connie Chan, Associate Director of the BAAFF, is excited to invite you to the 16th Annual Boston Asian American Film Festival, empowering Asian Americans through film. Our festival will be opening in-person at Brattle Theatre on Oct. 17 with All That We Love (featuring Margaret Cho) and Q&A with director Yen Tan, and continue through the weekend with any more films and filmmakers until Oct. 20 at Paramount Center in Downtown Boston. This is a fantastic way to experience diverse stories and connect with the Asian American community. Tickets sell quickly! Use the code BAAFF20 to enjoy a discount on tickets for you... More
AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Korean Studies Grants (deadline Feb. 3, 2025)
The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (NEAC), in conjunction with the Korea Foundation, offers a grant program in Korean studies designed to assist the research of individual scholars based in North America to improve the quality of teaching about Korea on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Korea into the major academic disciplines. Applications are judged on project merits and financial need, with strong consideration given to scholars who have limited or no access to funding from a home institution. • Research travel within North America • Short-term research travel outside of North America • Workshops... More
AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC) Small Grants (application deadline Feb. 3, 2025)
The East and Inner Asia Council of the AAS (EIAC; formerly the China and Inner Asia Council [CIAC]) makes small grant awards of up to $2,000. Dissertation-level graduate students and scholars with special interests in China, Taiwan, or Inner Asia are invited to submit proposals. EIAC Small Grant awards are made possible through funding provided by the Chiang Ching-kuo (CCK) Foundation and from AAS member donations. Short research trips for dissertation-level graduate students, and for scholars at non-research institutions, to travel to major libraries and collections or other research sites. If your project involves interviewing human subjects, please see specific requirements in this... More
AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Japan Studies Grants (deadline Feb. 3, 2025)
The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC), supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies. These programs are designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Japan into the major academic disciplines in the United States. Applications are judged on project merits and financial need, with strong consideration given to scholars who have limited or no access to funding from a home institution. Full details can be... More
China’s Natural Rubber Plantation in the 1950s: A Global View, with Yao Yu (East China Normal Univ) (at Harvard-Yenching, Oct. 11, 2024)
China’s Natural Rubber Plantation in the 1950s: A Global View Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talks Oct 11, 2024 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm in the Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, Speaker: Yao Yu | Professor, History, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Victor Seow | John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies In the 1950s, China started its road towards becoming a major natural rubber producer with huge fluctuations and costs. In response to the Western economic blockade, China and the Soviet Union started it as the alleged second-largest joint economic item in... More
Layers of History: Archaeology, Archives, and Oral Histories at Tel Hadid, with Ido Koch (Tel Aviv Univ) (Weds. Oct. 16, 2024)
During the Fall of 2024, Boston University's Archaeology Program will be hosting a series of lectures. Our second lecture is titled “Layers of History: Archaeology, Archives, and Oral Histories at Tel Hadid.” We are thrilled to have Dr. Ido Koch (Tel Aviv University) Layers of History: Archaeology, Archives, and Oral Histories at Tel Hadid Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 in the Gabel Museum of Archaeology, STO 253, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, 12:20-1:10 pm Lunch provided. Tel Hadid is a multi-layered site in Israel’s central coastal plain, within eye-sight of downtown Tel Aviv. This presentation offers an overview of the project, ongoing since 2018. We begin in the... More
A Modernization Marching to Revolution: Science, Technology, and Diplomacy in Mao’s China (at Harvard-Yenching Institute, Oct. 17, 2024)
A Modernization Marching to Revolution: Science, Technology, and Diplomacy in Mao’s China Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talks Oct 17, 2024 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, Speaker: Zhang Jing | Associate Professor, Department of History, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh | Associate Professor of History, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies As a set of terms, “modernization” and its earlier discursive forms, such as “industrialization” and “Westernization,” have been continuously invoked by historical actors and historians throughout over a century of Chinese history, particularly during different historical stages such as the armed revolution, socialist revolution... More
CALL FOR PROPOSALS, Southeast Conference of the AAS (SEC/AAS) Jan 24-26, 2025 at University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY
CALL FOR PROPOSALS SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE (SEC/AAS) January 24-26, 2025 University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY The 64th annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies will be hosted by the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY, on January 24-26, 2025. Global Asias in a Deglobalizing World? As an academic discipline with roots tracing back to the Cold War era and its associated ideologies, Asian studies is currently facing a host of new challenges and opportunities due to the evolving geopolitical landscape within the Asia-Pacific region and globally. The forthcoming 2025 SEC-AAS conference serves as a vital platform for scholarly engagement and debate... More
Global China Fellows Program: Applications are open now for the 2025-2026 (Deadline Dec. 20, 2024)
Applications are open now for the 2025-2026 Global China Fellows Program The Global China Fellows Program is a flagship program of the Global China Initiative (GCI) at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center). Since its inception in 2017, the Fellows Program has supported more than 40 Pre- and Post-doctoral Fellows from around the world to engage in policy-oriented research and commentary on China’s role in (re)shaping global affairs. The Fellows Program provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity to engage and collaborate with GDP Center researchers, BU faculty members and Global South-based institutions to conduct policy-oriented research on China’s overseas economic activity and engagement... More