eNewsletter February 4, 2019
THIS ISSUE: Happy Lunar New Year! | ACE-Nikaido Fellowship Deadline on Friday - ACE
Fellow Feature: Jillian Brandt | Event Reminders: Talk by Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu; EASC
Manuscript Review for Joshua Goldstein; Talk by Prof. Simeon Man; Grad Prof. Series
workshop; American Sutra: Book Talk by Duncan Williams | Event Wrap: Public Speaking -
Lecture; East Asia Career Panel | Call for Abstracts | Call for Submissions | Events Around USC &
LA
Happy Lunar New Year from EASC!
The East Asian Studies Center wishes you a happy and prosperous Year of the Pig! We look
forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events this new year!
DEADLINE FRIDAY
ACE-Nikaido Fellowship
Application Deadline: February 8, 2019
WEBSITE | HOW TO APPLY | FLYER
The Association for Japan-U.S. Community
Exchange (ACE) - Nikaido Fellowship provides
stipends of up to $5,000 to awarded graduate
students, depending on the proposed course of
study. The purpose of the award is to advance
understanding of Japan and/or U.S.-Japan
relations. The award may be used for research,
Japanese language training or Japanese area
studies. The deadline to apply is by 5:00 PM this Friday, February 8, 2019. To apply,
please complete the online application, and view the website for eligibility, a sample
application, samples of previously awarded projects and more information.
ACE-Nikaido Fellow - Jillian
Brandt
Jillian Brandt is a PhD student in the
Department of History and an EASC ACE-
Nikaido Fellow from Summer 2018. Jillian met
with EASC to discuss how the ACE-Nikaido
fellowship impacted her research for her
dissertation project over the summer. You can
read our entire conversation here.
EVENT THURSDAY
Private Connoisseurs, Public
Collections: A West Coast
Perspective on Collecting Japanese
Prints in the U.S. - Talk by Dr.
Jeannie Kenmotsu
Thurs, Feb 7 | 4:00-5:30PM | MRF 340
FLYER | RSVP
Thank you for your RSVP! The talk
by Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu, Assistant Curator
of Japanese Art at Portland Oregon Museum,
is this Thursday in MRF 340 from 4:00-5:30PM. Her lecture explores the lesser known
contours of collecting Japanese art on the west coast. It reframes the story of early print
collecting in the U.S. through an alternative but nonetheless foundational case study: an
early donation of nearly 750 Edo-period (1603-1868) woodblock prints to the Portland Art
Museum, Oregon. We look forward to seeing you there!
EVENT FRIDAY
EASC Manuscript Review for
Joshua Goldstein
Fri, Feb 8 | 2:00-5:00PM | SOS B40 | FLYER
Thank you for your RSVP to the EASC
Manuscript Review for Joshua Goldstein.
Discussants include Janet Chen, Associate
Professor of History and East Asian Studies
and Director of the Center for Collaborative
History at Princeton University and Zsuzsa
Gille, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Global Studies Program at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Attendees must read the entire manuscript and actively
participate in the professional development review seminar. We look forward to seeing all
participants on Friday!
EVENT REMINDERS
Race, State Violence and
Radical Movements in the
Decolonizing Pacific - Talk by
Prof. Simeon Man
Tues, Feb 19 | 2:00-3:00PM | KAP 445
FLYER | RSVP
The USC Queer Transpacific Research
Cluster, Department of American Studies and
Ethinicity and East Asian Studies Center present a public lecture by Simeon Man, Assistant
Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, on Tuesday, February 19,
2019. Simeon will present on his first book, Soldiering through Empire: Race and Making of
the Decolonizing Pacific (University of California Press, 2018), as well as his forthcoming
article in the Radical History Review, "Militarism and Capitalism: The Work and Wages of
Violence." Please RSVP if you would like to attend.
Resources: Funding, Archives,
Networks
Mon, Feb 25 | 12:00-1:00PM | SOS B40
FLYER | RSVP
As a reminder, the next workshop in the Grad
Prof. Series is on Resources: Funding,
Archives, Networks which will be led by David
Kang, Professor of International Relations,
Business and EALC, and Sonya Lee,
Associate Professor of Art History, EALC and Religion. They will provide advice on accessing
archives, securing funding for research and developing academic and professional
networks. The Grad Professionalization Series is sponsored and organized by the Center for
International Studies, East Asian Studies Center, and Korean Studies Institute.
American Sutra: Talk by Duncan
Williams in Conversation with
Varun Soni
Tues, Feb 26 | 6:00-8:15PM | Fishbowl
FLYER | RSVP
As a reminder, Duncan Williams will speak
about his new book American Sutra: A Story of
Faith and Freedom During the Second World
War (Harvard University Press, Feb. 2019) on the Japanese American Buddhist experience
in the WWII incarceration camps. He will explore questions of faith, identity and resilience in
the face of dislocation, loss and uncertainty. Following his talk, Williams will be in
conversation with USC Dean of Religious Life and Vice-Provost, Varun Soni, to discuss how
the past might inform the current national conversations about race, religion and American
belonging. Please RSVP if you would like to attend.
EVENT WRAP
Public Speaking - Lecture
Our first Grad Prof. Series workshop of 2019
on Public Speaking - Lecture was last Monday
in SOS B40! Huge thanks to Steven Lamy,
Professor of International Relations and
Director of the Dornsife Global Policy Institute,
and Saori Katada, Professor of International
Relations and Director of the Center for
International Studies, for leading this engaging
conversation and for addressing specific concerns during and after the workshop! You can
view all the photos from the event here.
East Asia Career Panel - USC
Career Fest 2019
Last Tuesday, USC undergraduates and
graduates attended the 7th Annual East Asia
Career Panel as part of USC Career Fest
2019. They had the opportunity to network with
our amazing EASC panelists who work in
diverse fields such as entertainment, real
estate investment, theme parks and the food
industry. They discussed how they leveraged their East Asian languages and area studies
skills and study abroad experiences to help secure their current positions and how they
continue to these skills and experiences in their careers. You can view more photos from the
event here and watch the entire recorded panel discussion here.
Call for Abstracts
6th Annual UCLA International Institute Going Global Conference
Global Justice, Equity and Empowerment
Deadline: February 11, 2019
The UCLA International Institute presents the 6th Annual Going Global Graduate Student
Conference on April 19, 2019 at UCLA. The conference theme is on Global Justice, Equity,
and Empowerment: Understanding and Enacting Social Change. Panel topics may include
analyzing movements and vectors of social changes through various perspectives such as
addressing gender inequities, enacting social change through visual collectives, international
relations and regional inequity and more. Interested students can learn more and apply here.
The deadline to submit is on February 11, 2019. Please send any email inquiries
to uclagoingglobal@gmail.com.
Call for Submissions
Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs
Deadline: March 1, 2019
The Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs is currently accepting research manuscripts for
Volume 5 (Summer 2019). They welcome original social science research papers written on
issues relevant to politics, security, economy, culture and society of contemporary Asia,
including Pakistan and Afghanistan. Their publication highlights the works of young scholars
alongside those of well-established experts, providing a valuable opportunity for graduate
students to expand upon their academic portfolio. To learn more on how to apply, please visit
their website here and address any questions to gjaa@georgetown.edu.
Events around USC & LA
Exchange Student Supporters (ESS) Rissho University Dinner Social
Wednesday, February 6 | 5:30PM-7:30PM | USC
Myo-o in the Shell - Art Exhibition by Takuma Kamine
Wednesday, February 6 | 7:00PM-8:00PM | The Japan Foundation
USC Spring 2019 Career Fair
Thursday, February 7 | 10:00AM-2:00PM | Trousdale Parkway
Sympathy and Hospitality Toward Overcoming Modernity - Lecture by Ch'oe Yun
Thursday, February 7 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | UC Irvine Humanities Gateway
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Global Opportunity or Climate Disaster? - Talk by Isabel
Hilton
Thursday, February 7 | 12:00PM-1:30PM | UCLA Law Building
Ancient Future: Contemporary Korean Artists Evoking the Past - Exhibition
Thursday, February 7 - March 23 | All Day | Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art
Lightscapes: Re-envisioning the Shanshuihua - Exhibition by Nick Dong and Wu Chi-Tsung
Thursday, February 7 | 7:00PM-9:00PM | Chinese American Museum
Tsuruya Kokei: Modern Kabuki Prints Revised and Revisited
Friday, February 8 - July 14 | All Day | USC Pacific Asia Museum
Tsuruya Kokei - Conversation with Dr. Kendall Brown
Friday, February 8 | 7:00PM | USC Pacific Asia Museum
Koma-Wari
for Manga and Comics - Workshop by Mino Miyabi
Saturday, February 9 | 12:00PM-1:00PM | The Japan House
Gambatte! - Panel Discussion and Book Signing by Paul Kitagaki
Saturday, February 9 | 2:00PM-4:00PM | The Japan House
