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History student Daniel Cullinan spent some time this summer exploring India and the culture of their heavy metal music after submitting an amazing paper that he wrote in Asia/History 474!
ASIA 303 is housed entirely in the Asia Program and allows us to offer class credit for a variety of experiences, from lectures, to a movie series, to excursions the Asia program offers to students.
Our inaugural class will invite students with different academic backgrounds and interests to explore our regional Asian studies conference (ASPAC), hosted here on the Pullman campus in 2018. Students will prepare to attend panels and to formally interview both senior and junior scholars who will attend and present at the conference. They will also participate in social gatherings and cultural events along with all other participants.
Call for Proposals Envisioning Global Asia ASPAC 2018 Conference, June 8-10, 2018
The Asia Program at WSU invites college and university faculty, K–12 schoolteachers, independent scholars, and graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in Asian or Asian diaspora studies to submit proposals for organized panels, roundtable discussions, individual papers, or poster presentations on historical or contemporary topics in the humanities, arts, social sciences, education, health, law, business, environmental sciences, or other disciplines related to East, South, or Southeast Asia and their diasporas. We especially welcome proposals that connect theory, method, or practice to contemporary or historical questions of urbanization, migration, … » More …
REVITALIZING RURAL ENVIRONMENTS SYMPOSIUM: REGIONAL TO GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES Print flyer »
Massive migration from rural lands to urban centers is destabilizing small villages and towns all over the world. At a time when information technology has the potential to distribute knowledge and resources in more egalitarian ways than ever before, it is ironic that today’s unsustainable urban congestion often recalls the problems of the Industrial Revolution more than two centuries ago: pollution, lack of medical care, squatter housing, overburdened infrastructure, tensions between demographic groups, to name a few.
ASPAC–Mori Prize and ASPAC–Barlow Prize for Graduate Students
At the 1992 ASPAC conference at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), the ASPAC Board voted to establish the John and Mae Esterline Prize to encourage student participation in ASPAC conferences and to recognize the support given to students by our colleagues John and Mae Esterline. The name of the award was changed to the ASPAC–Esterline Prize and then to the ASPAC–Mori Prize in June 2014, in honor of Professor Barbara Mori of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. As a long-time ASPAC member, Professor Mori advocated Asian studies, including Asian musicology, her … » More …