Event Calendar

Asian Studies (February 8 through April 30)

Monday, February 10

• 12:30 PM Al in Taiwan Newsroom: Collaboration, Challenges, and Opportunities

Wednesday, February 12

• 5:00 PM Book Talk with Esther Hu, Author:   Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons

Thursday, February 13

• 10:30 AM Workshop: Beijing’s Multiple Facets from the Qing to the Present (1644-2025)

Tuesday, February 18

• 4:00 PM Political Crisis, Chaos, and Citizens in South Korea

Wednesday, February 26

• 4:00 PM Madame Moon Cheek: An Artistic Courtesan and Shii Mystic from Hyderabad Deccan

Friday, February 28

• 2:30 PM Tango with Cows: Russian Futuris Poetics and the Global Tango Revolution

Tuesday, March 4

• 5:00 PM BUCSA Visiting Scholars’ Research Presentations

Monday, March 17

• 5:00 PM Populism Brought Down? The Marcos-Duterte Struggle in Philippine Politics

Thursday, March 27

• 9:00 AM Layered Taiwan: Interwoven Pasts and Multiple Futures

Friday, March 28

• 2:30 PM Translating Arabic Theory: Portable Concepts for a New Lexicon

Tuesday, April 1

• 5:00 PM Populism, Religion, and Nationalism in Asia: Analyzing Muslim Majorities and Minorities

Wednesday, April 9

• 8:30 AM A 120-Year Retrospective: The Russo-Japanese War and Treaty of Portsmouth with Implications for Today

Wednesday, April 23

• 6:30 AM Film Screening: "Harmonium" by Tadanobu Asano

Monday, April 28

• 12:00 PM United by Music: When Cultures Sing Together