• Japan House Event Series: Learn about Japanese traditional wooden boatbuilding!
    Sunday, March 27 at 1:30pm - Ways of Learning: An Apprentice Boatbuilder in Japan Learn about Japanese traditional wooden boatbuilding! On March 27 at 1:30 PM at Classroom 1000 in the Siebel Center for Design, Douglas Brooks, a boatbuilder, writer, and researcher from Vergennes, Vermont will be the featured speaker. His talk is entitled ...
  • ACDIS Summer 2022 Fellowship
    Application Deadline: Monday, March 21, 2022 Click here for PDF The Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security (ACDIS) is an interdisciplinary venture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that facilitates objective research, academics, and...
  • The Ukrainian Crisis in Regional and Global Perspective: A Political Science Roundtable
    Time: Mon, March 7, 2022 at 5PM CST Location: Wohlers Hall, Room 141 To attend via Zoom, please register here: https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2XfLcjKaSHaodSOqXCRlNQ   Chair: Xinyuan Dai (Professor, Political Science) Roundtable Speakers: Nicholas Grossman (Teaching Assistant Professor,...
  • History as Convenient Pretext: The Use and Misuse of History in the Invasion of Ukraine
    Speaker: Stefan Djordjevic (History, Illinois) Time: Thu, 03/03/2022, 7-8 pm CT Location: 217 Noyes Laboratory Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta  
  • We Condemn the Military Assault on Ukraine
    Dear Colleagues, CEAPS would like to draw your attention to and support the important statement on the military assault on the Ukraine shared by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures earlier today. CEAPS stands in solidarity with this statement. The full statement is below. The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center...
  • February 19: K-14 Latin American Educators Workshop
    K-14 EDUCATORS WORKSHOP: Cultural and Artistic Diversity in Latin America: Afro-Latinx Legacies Saturday, February 19th 9:00 -11:00  am In person or via Zoom  Registration: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/1845089398 Professional...
  • Southeast Asian films at Beloit International Film Festival 2022
    Southeast Asian selections that Beloit International Film Festival (BIFF) has programmed this year with Luang Prabang Film Festival (LPFF) during the following weekends. Please feel free to join this event.   Sat, Feb 26 Sun, Feb 27...
  • AACC Internship Program 2022-2023 - Now Accepting Applications
    The AACC internship program provides students an opportunity to undertake creative and challenging assignments that promote cross-cultural understanding and provide educational and cultural support for Asians and Asian Americans in our university community. Internship recruitment is open to all University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign undergraduate students and majors. Domestic and...
  • Introduction to Scholarly Research
    Introduction to Scholarly Research is a multipart instruction program designed to assist undergraduate and graduate students with the various stages of the research process. It is the goal of these sessions to create a supportive environment, where students can exchange ideas, share perspectives, get research support, as well as explore the innumerable possibilities of approaching a subject...
  • Spring 2022 - ARTJ 391: Japanese Traditional Boatbuilding Apprenticeship
    For anyone interested in taking more courses at Japan House, please check out this unique and exciting hybrid course (2 credit hours) for Spring 2022 - ARTJ 391: Japanese Traditional Boatbuilding Apprenticeship, featuring artist-in-residence Douglas Brooks who specializes in Japanese traditional boatbuilding. No woodworking experience needed! Applications are due January 21...
  • Spring 2022 course: ARTJ 398: Designing Everyday Life in Modern Japan
    ARTJ 398: Designing Everyday Life in Modern Japan 4-6:40 PM on F Why do Japanese things look and work the way they do? In ARTJ 398, we seek to answer this question, looking deeply into the cultural context, creative practices, and people who shaped Japanese design for the modern era, drawing from 100 years of fashion, architecture, product, communication, and more. Classes will be led online...
  • GLOBE – Global Leaders Orange and Blue Engagement
    GLOBE connects current and new, domestic and international students and teams them up in small groups to participate in various activities and events throughout the semester. Applications Spring 2022 for both Blue and Orange members are open. The applications will close mid-January.  ...
  • Asian American and Pacific Islander Experiences and Needs on College Campuses in the United States Survey
    Greetings! We are currently conducting a survey study about the needs and experiences of Asian American and Pacific Islander students, faculty, and staff on college campuses in the US. Please consider completing and/ or sharing this survey! All participants who fully complete the questionnaire will have an opportunity to win one of four $50 Amazon gift cards in a random drawing. This study was...
  • SP22 BTAA Korean Studies course announcement
    EALC 398 BTA: Dating, Sex, and Marriage in South Korea 3:55 PM- 5:10 PM on TR This course examines the ever-changing social phenomena of dating, sex, and marriage in contemporary South Korean society. The turbulent recent history of Korea has produced a society that is engaged with a variety of local and global social forces in complex and contradictory ways. The sweeping social changes in South...
  • Indiana Hiroshima Art Teachers Partnership Exhibit 2021
    INTERCULTURAL EYE FOR ART: INDIANA-HIROSHIMA STUDENT ART EXCHANGE FOR BECOMING A GLOBAL CITIZEN October 21, 2021 – January 16, 2022 From 2015, educators from Hiroshima and Indiana have been exchanging student art and lessons to facililate students becoming global citizens. This exhibit shows examples of students' artwork from our exchanges and is coordinated by Kazuyo Nakamura (Hiroshima...