Sampling Asia Fair 2019

Join us on Thurssday, September 5, at 6:30 on the Manly Hall 2nd floor balcony for our kick-off event. Free food from a local Asian restaurant Movie screenings (see trailers below) beginning about 7:00 in Manly 207 and 210 Information about activities on campus related to Asia, in classes and outside of class Meet others […]

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Awards Celebration

Join us Friday, March 29, at 1:00 pm in Ferguson 3107 (Mortar Board Room) for our annual Awards Celebration. Two students will present their award-winning research. Both papers deal with China (1 from Art History and the other from Religious Studies). We will also give out the Asian Studies Outstanding Student Award (reserved for a […]

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Religious Life, Elites, and Medieval Culture

This international conference at the University of Alabama October 17-20 provides a global focus in addressing its theme of “Religious Life, Elites, and Medieval Culture,” including papers on Tibet, South Asia, Columbia, and the TransAtlantic World, as well as various contexts of Europe. Check out the full schedule of papers, including locations for individual sessions. […]

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Akhil Sharma at UA

Award-winning Indian-American author Akhil Sharma will visit UA on October 11. He will present a reading in Gorgas Library at 7:30 that evening.  His first novel, An Obedient Father (2000), won the Pen Hemingway Award and the Whiting Award. His second novel, Family Life (2014) won the Folio Prize (the most lucrative literary award for a single […]

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Sampling Asia Fair

Join us on Wednesday, September 5, at 6:30 on the Manly Hall 2nd floor balcony for our kick-off event (flyer). Free food from a local Asian restaurant Movie screenings (see trailers below) beginning about 6:50 in Manly 207 and 210 Information about activities on campus related to Asia, in classes and outside of class Meet […]

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