Dear Alumni and Friends,
I am writing to introduce you to the University of Georgia’s Center for Asian Studies (CAS). My name is Timothy Yang, and I am the current Director of CAS and an associate professor in the Department of History. The Center’s goal is to promote cross-campus research, teaching, service, and outreach initiatives about Asia. Every academic year, the Center works with units across UGA to organize, sponsor, and promote a wide variety of lectures, workshops, film screenings, and other events about Asia that bring together the campus and local community.
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CAS has been brimming with activity in recent years, and I would like to highlight some recent activities and accomplishments as well as encourage you to participate in and support our future endeavors. |
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The Center for Asian Studies recently led a successful application to the Korea Foundation for a $58,800 grant to support the hiring of a full-time Korean language lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies. The new Korean lecturer position will be instrumental in helping to meet vibrant student demand for Korean language and culture classes.
The Center has also been active in promoting national and international collaborations in Asian Studies. For example, CAS led a successful application for membership in the American Institute for Indian Studies, as well as working with the UGA Office of Global Engagement to create two brand-new academic partnerships: a student exchange partnership with Korea University in Seoul, Korea, and an academic research partnership with Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.
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In April, the Center hosted its first-ever conference: an interdisciplinary workshop for early-career scholars titled “Mobilities, Itineraries, Circulations: Rethinking Asian Connections.” This brought together sixteen young professors and advanced graduate students from across the world for a day-long workshop on UGA’s campus to share and discuss their work about Asia on the movement of people, ideas, commodities, and objects through time and space.
CAS was also one of the major organizers for 2023-2024 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding: Hua Hsu. Hua Hsu is a professor literature at Bard College, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Additionally, CAS has had the opportunity to organize or co-sponsor events with several notable academics and intellectuals. These include public lectures by Carol Gluck (Columbia); Chris Suh (Emory); Ji Li
(Hong Kong University); and Priyasha Mukhodpadhyay (Yale).
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CAS depends on the strengths and talents of its faculty, and I would like to end by pointing out some notable achievements. Congratulations to: -
Aruni Kashyap, Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing, for being named a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2024-2025)
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Kalyani Ramnath, Assistant Professor of History, for being awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2024-2025) and for her new book, Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia (Stanford University Press, 2023)
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Rumya Putcha for her book, The Dancer’s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India (Duke University Press, 2022)
- Ari Levine, for being named a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (2022 – 2023)
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Support the Center for Asian Studies |
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Please consider contributing to the Center for Asian Studies Fund. Every dollar contributed to the Center has a direct impact on our students and faculty. Your gift is important to us and helps support critical opportunities for students and faculty alike, including lectures, travel support, and any number of educational events that augment the classroom experience. I strongly believe UGA has the potential to develop into a major regional center for Asian Studies, and I welcome your input, support, and collaboration in helping to realize this goal. Please feel free to email me directly if you have any comments or questions. Sincerely, |
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Timothy Yang Associate Professor, Department of History
Director, Center for Asian Studies Franklin College of Arts and Sciences University of Georgia
timothy.yang@uga.edu |
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