USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies

Excitement fills the air as our students arrive at Sogang University for their summer program. Today is their first day of classes and marks the beginning of a journey filled with new friendships and boundless learning opportunities! 📚✨ Sending our best to Antonio, Sheila, Yan, and Elizabeth! We hope you have a great trip! Learn more about our scholarship here: https://lnkd.in/gPJJEMCb

Announcing our Essay Contest Champions! 🏆✨ Congratulations to our winners of the Bridging the Pacific Essay Contest - Clayton Chalmers: "Contemporary Containment: Trump US-China Policy Through the lens of Containment" Nikaella Mariano: "Beyond the Nursing Brain Drain: Transnational Migration and the Philippines’ Healthcare System" Your insightful perspectives have illuminated the path towards deeper understanding and connection across borders. This contest is designed to promote student research and writing on topics important for our understanding of the Asia Pacific region both historically and today. Students enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences are encouraged to submit a paper next spring that exemplifies their outstanding work at USF. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gsVUqYVG

Congratulations to Jorja Burbano and Claire Nielsen-Che who have been awarded our Asian Studies Merit Fellowship! We truly admire their commitment to academic excellence and cross-cultural understanding 🎉🌏 Current USF students majoring or minoring in Asian Studies are encouraged to apply for this merit fellowship designed to promote the study of Asia among undergraduate students at USF. Awards typically arrange from $1000 to $5000 and are applied in the form of tuition assistance for the Fall semester. Learn more about this incredible opportunity here: https://lnkd.in/gyP-kMcU

Missed our last event of the semester? Watch it here!

📢 Upcoming Event 📢 “I Survived the Atomic Bomb”: Pedro Arrupe’s Japan Lecture by James Stone Lunde, University of San Francisco Wednesday, May 1st 5:00–6:15 pm Hybrid - Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room & Online Free and open to the public. Registration required. The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes our Kiriyama Fellow James Stone Lunde to give a talk on Pedro Arrupe’s experience surviving the atomic bomb. Pedro Arrupe SJ was a Spanish member of the Society of Jesus stationed in Hiroshima when the Americans dropped their first atomic bomb on the city. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Arrupe converted his mission into a makeshift clinic in order to help Japanese civilians injured by the blast. Upon his return to Spain, Arrupe compiled his experiences into a memoir entitled Yo viví la bomba atómica. In this book, Arrupe outlines the history of Japan, describes the Jesuit mission in Japan, then details his activities in Imperial Japan prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War, and then his experiences surviving and providing succor after the atomic strike. This talk covers the history of the Jesuit mission in Japan from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and introduces Arrupe's remarkable memoir of humanitarian and spiritual work in the midst of apocalyptic war. #Jesuits #Japan #AtomicBomb #Spain #SocietyofJesus #lecture

📢 Happening today at 5 PM PST 📢 Innovative Histories: Labor and Technology in Japan's Modern Mobility Regime Lecture by Kate McDonald, University of California, Santa Barbara Thursday, April 25th 5:00–6:15 pm Hybrid - Fromm Hall, Berman Room & Online Free and open to the public. Registration required. The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Kate McDonald to address how humans have powered transport. Humans powering transport is as true for the twenty-first century as it is for the early twentieth. Look no further than the parcel delivery workers sprinting up and down apartment-building staircases. Despite the continuity of human power, explicitly human-powered technologies such as the rickshaw symbolize Japan's past while the promise of automated transport systems such as delivery drones symbolize Japan's future. Why? From human-powered railways to trucking to parcel delivery, this talk shows that successful innovations are often those that find new ways to incorporate human power. McDonald argues that we need a new history of innovation to account for the persistence of human power in Japan’s past and present, and to understand the role of human power in Japan’s future. #Japan #JapanStudies #Transportation #HistoryofJapan

Our symposium "Demographic Challenges in East Asia" is exactly one week away! Young Chinese Women Defying Marriage and Childrearing Pressure Wednesday, April 10, 2024 5:00 – 6:15 pm PT Online, Via Zoom Webinar Demographic Challenges in East Asia Thursday, April 11, 2024 2:00 – 6:30 pm PT Online, Via Zoom Webinar We have a great group of people with many interesting topics this year, so we are so excited to see this event come together. Learn more about our presenters below: Keynote Speaker: Leta Hong Fincher Session 1 Presenters: Mina Marković, Fumiya Uchikoshi, and Feng Wang Session 2 Presenters: Sunhye Kim, Kai-Yu Chiu, and Elizabeth LaCouture View our symposium agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gM-WFtGi

We are sending 4 students to South Korea this summer! 🛫 🇰🇷 The Don Reid Sogang University Scholarship is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study abroad in Korea during the summer at Sogang University. Students will spend 4 weeks in Seoul studying conversational Korean and learning about Korea’s history and culture. We want to congratulate Antonio Gomez, Emily Chen, Sheila Ta, and Elizabeth Strout for being our first cohort of award recipients! We are so excited for all of you to embark on this journey.

The Center for Asia Pacific Studies invites you to join us for our spring virtual symposium, “Demographic Challenges in East Asia." Demographic Challenges in East Asia April 10-11, 2024 Online, Via Zoom Webinar We are excited to announce that Leta Hong Fincher will be delivering the keynote lecture for this symposium. East Asian nations are now facing the challenges of shrinking populations and workforces and aging populations with fewer young people to support them. What are the key factors driving Asia’s demographic challenges? What are the consequences of these challenges and how have Asian nations and their citizens responded?

📢 Upcoming event 📢 The Sino-Hollywood "Courtship" Lecture by Ying Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University. Wednesday, March 20th  5:00–6:15 pm Hybrid - Fromm Hall, Maier Room 110 & Online Free and open to the public. Registration required. The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Ying Zhu to address the parallels on the evolution of the American and Chinese film industries from inception to the post-Covid era. Zhu will pay special attention to the entangled Sino-Hollywood relationship against the backdrop of shifting Sino-US relations under the sway of internal domestic forces in the name of national interest, and of external global forces shaped by transnational power dynamics. Her lecture will spotlight the affective power of motion pictures for cultural influence and political persuasion as well as the economic function of the film industry.