"Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory" has published East Asian Studies Professor Heiyoon Kim's latest article, "Standing with Myanmar: The Limits and Possibilities of South Korean Art Activism".

Learn a language and gain a community!

EAS Student, Emma Brignall, Receives Princeton Program Award

Elementary Korean for Advanced Beginners

We are thrilled to welcome Chuanhui Meng as a Visiting Professor. A postdoctoral fellow in East Asian Studies, her specialties include modern and contemporary Chinese film and culture. This fall Professor Meng will be teaching East 1308 Transnational Chinese Cinema.

We are thrilled to welcome Professor Hieyoon Kim as the new Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies. A distinguished scholar of dissident culture and media focusing on Korea, her work has appeared in top journals like the Journal of Asian Studies and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.

As the academic year draws to a close, we take this moment to celebrate and extend our heartfelt congratulations to the distinguished presenters of our Senior Forum in East Asian Studies. These individuals have demonstrated exceptional dedication, creativity, and scholarly excellence, making significant contributions to the field of East Asian Studies.

Join us for a conversation on the history of queer Asian publishing with Dr. Samuel Perry, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature.

Zhuqing Li's book, Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden has won the 2023 Brown Book Award. Congratulations Zhuqing!

The Brown University Library is now accepting proposals for the Gardner Fellowship, aimed at fostering in-depth and creative research using rare East Asian materials.

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Hye-Sook Wang, has been honored by the Korean government with a Cultural Merit Medal.

Join us for the 9th Annual Korean Language Week, with fun events such as Korean Game Day and Korean Performance night. Try your luck with the Video Contest, with fun prizes potentially to win.

The Graduate Students’ Association for East Asian Studies cordially invites you to a guest lecture by Professor Gregory Levine, Department of History of Art in UC Berkeley.

Brown researchers Kaijun Chen (East Asian Studies) and Brian Lander (History, IBES), hosted distinguished scholars from across the US and beyond at a two-day series of related workshops.

Please join the Department of East Asian Studies as we celebrate the exciting research our graduating senior have conducted this year!

Presented by Brown University Contemplative Studies

Calligraphy Workshop with Jack Lu '22

Join us for the following Japan Week events!

Stories in Cross-Cultural Communications

Internship Q&A with Katrina Northrop

The 5th Japanese Speech Contest by JAPN400 will be held in List Art Building Room 120 on Saturday, March 16 at 3:00-4:30 pm, followed by a reception in the EAS Lounge. Please join us and cheer the contestants.

Open to the local community.

The fourth talk of the semester in the East Asia Colloquium series is by Lisa Rofel of UC Santa Cruz, entitled "Fabricating Transnational Capitalism in the Era of the Rise of China" on Thursday, April 4, from 12 to 1:30 pm at the Joukowsky Forum (Watson Institute, room 155). Lunch will be provided. The abstract and Lisa Rofel's bio is provided below.

Join us for a casual gathering
Wed. March 6, 3-5 PM
54 College Street
Gerard House Lounge

The third talk of the semester in the East Asia Colloquium series is by Elizabeth Lord of Brown University, entitled "Narratives of China's Environment: Crisis, Hope and the Spatiality of Blame" on Thursday, March 14, from 12 to 1:30 pm in Gerard House 101. Lunch will be provided. The abstract for the event, as well as Elizabeth Lord's bio, is provided below.

Call for presenters: Second Undergraduate Research Colloquium on East Asia

The Department of East Asian Studies cordially invites you to the inaugural "East Asian Studies Undergraduate Research Colloquium". This undergraduate research colloquium provides an opportunity for Brown undergraduate students – regardless of concentration – to present completed works or works-in-progress about East Asia to their peers and interested faculty members.

Please join us for the 4th annual Korean Language Week, hosted by the Department of East Asian Studies. 

Please join us for the 4th annual Korean Language Week, hosted by the Department of East Asian Studies.