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REPOST: Don't forget our Kpop Demon Hunters Event!
Tuesday, 10/28 Evening in the Skylight Room
Just a quick reminder to RSVP to attend our KPOP DEMON HUNTERS: A Conversation on Media, Culture, & Globalization event coming up in 1 week! Dinner will be provided - the event officially...
Posted: October 21, 2025, 2:24 PM
Winter Courses Available!
Sign up for ASIA 300 & HIST 381
Check out these new electives for the Winter 26 semester! ASIA 300 - Political Leadership of Asia Instructor: Zareen Taj This dynamic, story-driven course explores the bold, flawed, and...
Posted: October 20, 2025, 4:45 PM
Celebrating another Fulbright student from the Asian Studies program!
Alyssa Thomas '25, Asian Studies, Fulbright recipient
Check out this UMBC News Story about Alyssa Thomas '25, Asian Studies, now a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Taiwan!
Posted: October 7, 2025, 6:05 PM
Global Asias event last spring featured in UMBC Magazine!
A wonderful conversation on food and community
Check out this article about the wonderful conversation on culinary communities featuring UMBC alumnus Steve Chu and hosted by Dr. Mika Thornburg, postdoctoral fellow of the Global Asias Initiative!
Posted: September 20, 2025, 10:00 AM
Former Director Meredith Oyen featured in The Conversation Weekly Podcast!
On China's recent military parade
Check out this podcast featuring our former Director, Dr. Meredith Oyen (Associate Professor of History), who will be teaching ASIA100 in Spring 2026!
Posted: September 15, 2025, 9:44 AM
Dr. Banu Subramaniam: Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire
REPOSTING - the Korenman lecture by GWST
How have histories of colonialism and their foundational language of gender, race, sexuality, and nation shaped the language, terminology, and theories of the modern plant sciences? How and why do...
Posted: September 12, 2025, 3:56 PM
UMBC Story featuring Ivy Nguyen '23, Asian Studies/Global Studies
Please check out this inspiring story about Ivy Nguyen '23, double majors in Asian Studies/Global Studies!
Posted: September 10, 2025, 12:17 PM
New Course Available
Sign up to learn more about political leadership in Asia!
Asian Studies is offering a “new” course this fall, ASIA 300: Political Leadership in Asia. For the Fall 2025 semester, we will be having instructor Zareen Taj teach this course! Zareen Taj may be...
Posted: July 3, 2025, 1:03 PM
Spring 2025 Asian Studies Graduates
Congratulations to our Spring 2025 graduates! Amanda Lynne Evans Asmaou Thiam Alyssa Thomas Sarah Jeannette Siskind All of us here in the program are so proud of you and your...
Posted: May 22, 2025, 1:10 PM
Asian Studies Early December Updates
Winter Courses! Summer Study Abroad! Finals are Coming!
It's a busy time of the semester and year, and there's a lot happening on campus! Before you dive into studying for finals, be sure to see below for the latest Asian Studies news. Winter 2025...
Posted: December 5, 2024, 9:22 AM
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