About Our Center

EASC Mission:

The East Asian Studies Center (EASC) assists in the coordination of teaching, research, and outreach activities on East Asia. Established in 1979, EASC links the expertise of I.U.'s East Asian area specialists to the local and national needs of business, education, and government. 

EASC designs both language pedagogy and culture workshops for East Asian collegiate specialists, K-12 educators, and students. Additional programs, such as the I.U. Japan Forum, bring to Indiana nationally prominent experts on U.S.-Japan economic issues for seminars with Indiana's business leaders. EASC fosters collaborative research projects involving visiting scholars and international conferences. 

EASC's resources are available to individuals from education, business, and the community, both nationally and internationally. Seminars, conferences and cultural activities are generally open to the public. EASC sponsors a bi-weekly colloquium series, focusing on a variety of East Asian topics. Over the past several years, EASC has hosted regional and international conferences such as the Asia in the Curriculum Symposium, the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Sexuality and Edo Culture 1750-1850, and Images Across the Pacific. EASC maintains a World Wide Web site to disseminate East Asian resources. Publications through EASC include two quarterly newsletters and three scholarly journals.

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Illinois/Indiana East Asia Consortium:

In 2005 EASC and its counterpart at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (EAPS), formed a partnership to maximize the impact of our respective East Asian studies programs in research, teaching, and outreach. The synergies created by this partnership are particularly notable in the areas of anthropology (both campuses have anthropologists of China, Japan, and the Koreas); East Asian religions; education in East Asia; and gender and sexuality in East Asia. In addition to making the most of our joint strengths, the Centers and their faculty also provide support to each other in areas in which one campus is stronger than the other. Cross-campus scholarly exchanges are underway, with Center faculty actively participating in each other's conferences, seminars and dissertation workshops. As faculty and outreach staff share resources, engage in cross-campus teaching, and find new opportunities to interact with students and the community on both campuses, we look forward to further developing our commitments to robust undergraduate and graduate training, critical research, and outreach programs.

In 2006 the two centers were awarded a four-year Title VI grant, which establishes EASC and EAPS as consortial partners in a National Resource Center, one of seventeen such centers for East Asian languages and area studies in the U.S., funded under the Title VI program of the U.S. Department of Education.

Students and faculty interested in partnering with faculty and/or students at the University of Illinois are invited to contact EASC.

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2005 Winner of Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education:

Award Presentation, Dec. 8, 2005, L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC.
Left to right: Laura Stachouski, Director, Cultural Immersions Project; Deb Hutton, Outreach Coordinator, Center for the Study of Global Change; Anne Prescott, Outreach Coordinator, East Asian Studies Center; Gerardo Gonzalez, Dean, School of Education; Patrick O'Meara, Dean, International Programs; Stephanie Bell-Rose, President, Goldman Sachs Foundation.

EASC, along with IU's Center for the Study of Global Change and the School of Education's Cultural Immersion Overseas Student Teaching Project, has been awarded the prestigious 2005 Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education in the Higher Education category.These programs were selected from nearly 500 educational institutions, media and technology organizations that are working to bring greater knowledge of other world religions, languages, and cultures to students and teachers. These organizations reach more than 20 million students and families worldwide.

In the award letter from Vivien Stewart, Vice President of Education of the Asia Society, IU was commended for its "extraordinary K-12 outreach and commitment to internationalizing pre- and in-service teacher training." In particular, two of our programs, the East Asian Literature workshop for high-school English teachers and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia seminars for middle- and high-school teachers, were cited by the Foundation in the prize announcement.

Award Presentation. Left to right: Gerardo Gonzalez; Laura Stachouski, Anne Prescott, Deb Hutton, Patrick O'Meara.

"The prestigious Goldman Sachs higher education prize is a splendid recognition of Indiana University's outstanding international activities," said Patrick O' Meara, IU Dean for International Programs. "While the prize recognizes the outreach of the East Asian Center, the Center for the Study of Global Change and the Cultural Immersion Project of the School of Education, it also reflects the commitment of so many dedicated people to fostering a better understanding of the world in which we live."

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Staff:

Meet Our Staff!

 

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Contact Information:

E-Mail:
Phone:	812-855-3765 or 800-441-3272
Fax:	812-855-7762
Address:	East Asian Studies Center Indiana University Memorial West #207 1021 East Third Street Bloomington, IN 47405-7005

Maps and driving directions to the IMU

 

 

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Last updated: 04/23/2008
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/about/
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