Dear CEAPS Community,
I am writing to share an update on CEAPS operations and to seek your input.
CEAPS, along with our peer units at Illinois Global Institute, will be moving from our current offices in the International Studies Building and the Armory Building to the Coble Hall. Our occupancy in the building will be limited during the first year and gradually expanded as other current...
- With the move to open campus and public spaces initiated by the Chancellor, we are pleased to let you know that the International and Area Studies Library will reopen on the 28th of June 2021. Our hours for the Summer will be 10am to 5pm Monday through Friday. Please feel free to use the spaces, collections, and technologies as you have in the past. We’ll be available throughout...
- Seen and Unseen is the first-ever exhibit focused on Nikkei (Japanese Americans) who were involved in intimate same-sex relationships or defied gender roles in the early 20th century. The exhibition is hosted by J-Sei, a multi-generational and multi-cultural organisation with its roots in Nikkei values and culture. The exhibition explores how queer Nikkei might have felt being...
- Please join us Sunday, June 20 at 4pm as we present Japan House Shares KARUTA, the card game, with Assistant Director of Academic Programming, Lindsey Stirek. Karuta refers to many different types of card games in Japanese culture, and uta-garuta refers specifically to card games dealing with poems. The karuta we will be featuring in this Japan House Shares is Ogura Hyakunin isshu uta-garuta....
- “Not many Americans know about Asian American history, and even Asian American students do not know about their history,” said Wei Liu, UI associate director of International Programs. “In Illinois, Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups, but there’s no content visible in the curriculum based on Asian American history.” On April 15, a bill called the Teaching Equitable...
- Andrea Wang, pictured in the lower right corner of the screen, virtually reads from her latest picture book, ‘Watercress,’ on Friday to the kindergarten/first grade classroom at University Primary School in Champaign, part of the University of Illinois College of Education and Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies’ new Asian American Education Initiative. As part of this project’s launch this...
- "Exploring the Impacts of Human Disease throughout History" The 2021 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI), a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers hosted annually by the Cornell University Einaudi Center for International Studies in collaboration with the Syracuse University South Asia Center, will be exploring the impacts of disease throughout...
- The School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is offering a unique learning opportunity in the form of the Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program (IFLIP) for Summer 2021. Courses are held daily for two weeks (except Saturday and Sunday), from Monday, May 17, through Friday, May 28, for three hours a day. They are taught by advanced...
- The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music celebrates I Ketut Gede Asnawa & family with a video premiere of new Balinese music and dance on Saturday, May 1, 2021. Ensembles featured in this program include the University of Illinois Balinese Gamelan Ensemble, Chicago Balinese Gamelan, Gamelan Genta Kasturi (Kansas City, MO) and Gamelan Tunas Mekar / Pak Yeh Trio (Denver, CO). The premiere...
- FRIDAY, APRIL 30TH, 2021 7:00pm CDT REGISTER HERE: https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uSJvujypRIGpINOWbquYUA Poet Kaveh Akbar’s work is exciting, beautiful, often disorienting and urgent. Reflected in his poems are the many facets of his identity—he is Iranian-American, largely Midwestern, queer,...
- Dr. Yoon Pak, Professor and Head in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership (EPOL), will give an opening address to the Asian American Education Initiative: "Why Asian...
LAS is looking to the future of LAS 100 (course supporting first-year international students) and the LAS Global Leaders Program. LAS is currently seeking to hire several graduate teaching assistants at 50% to support classes and...
The Asian American Cultural Center has a growing collection of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia resources on their website (https://oiir.illinois.edu/aacc). In response to the sharp and sustained rise in anti-Asian hate, the Asian American Cultural Center will be hosting a Bystander Intervention Training. This one-hour,...
Applications Now Open: Teachers Collaborating across Borders 2021-2022 - Virtual Exchange Program for US and Middle East/North African Teachers The TCAB program is a unique opportunity for teachers from the United States and teachers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to engage in international dialogue and virtual exchange. In fall 2021, selected teachers will...
CEAPS was so proud our former direct Nancy Abelmann was recognized for the 2021 distinguished contribution to Asian Studies award. We miss you so much! --- 2021 Honoree: Nancy Abelmann (Posthumous) The Association for Asian Studies honors the legacy of Nancy Abelmann (1959-2016) with this posthumous award in recognition of her pathbreaking research on Asia, as...