USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies

10/31/2024

Exploring the world of panda diplomacy 🐼🇨🇳

Join us for an online lecture by E. Elena Songster to discuss the history and impact between wild panda populations and foreign relations!

This event is free and open to the public!

🗓️ Tuesday, Nov. 19th
⏰ 5:00–6:15 pm (PST)
💻 Hybrid - McLaren 252 & Online
🔗 Register Now

If you would like to attend the online webinar, please register here.If you would like to attend the event in-person, please register here.

10/23/2024

Curious about Asia's growing presence in space? 🚀

Join us for an online lecture by James Clay Moltz, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, as he explores the rapid rise of space activity in Asia and its impact on global power dynamics.

This event is free and open to the public!

🗓️ Thursday, November 14th
⏰ 5:00–6:15 pm (PST)
💻 Online via Zoom
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Lecture by James Clay Moltz, Professor, Department of National Security Affairs,Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)Free and open to the public. Registration required.

10/02/2024

Missed FX's 'Shōgun': Exploring the True Historical Narrative? ⚔️

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes Eleanor Hubbard and Morgan Pitelka to provide a historical analysis of the American historical drama televis...

10/01/2024

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies and Center for Business Studies and Innovation in the Asia-Pacific welcome you to attend this panel presenting the Asia Pacific region’s innovative approaches to sustainability. Our goal is to cultivate a discussion across the Pacific on these important matters that have deep ramifications for US policy makers and public welfare. 🌱🌏

Innovative Approaches to Sustainability in the Asia Pacific Region

Panel Members:
Juyeon Jung, Wear Again Lab, CEO
Veerappan Swaminathan, Founder & Director, Sustainable Living Lab (SL2)

🗓️ Wednesday, October 16th
🕔 5:00–7:00 pm
💻 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free and open to the public. Registration required.

The Asia Pacific region is at the forefront of global sustainability challenges and opportunities, marked by its diverse ecosystems, rapid urbanization, and dynamic economies. This panel brings together changemakers exploring and implementing innovative strategies to address the region's unique environmental, social, and economic sustainability issues.

Panel Members:Juyeon Jung, Wear Again Lab, Founder & Executive DirectorVeerappan Swaminathan, Founder & Director, Sustainable Living Lab (SL2)

09/25/2024

Are you a fan of Hollywood icon Anna May Wong? 🎞️

Join us at our upcoming event welcoming Yunte Huang for a lecture based on his award-winning book, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History ⭐️

Wednesday, October 9th
3:30-4:45 pm
Hybrid - Fromm Hall, Berman Room & Online
Free and open to the public. Registration required.

Click to learn more 💭

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies and the Fromm Institute welcome Yunte Huang to campus for a lecture based on his award-winning book, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History, which explores the tortured legacy of Anna May Wong, who rose from her father’s l...

09/13/2024

Now in its 35th year, the University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies continues to facilitate research, education, and discussions essential to understanding the Asia Pacific region, both historically and today. 🌏📚

During the 2023-24 academic year, the center expanded its programs to increase student engagement within the Asia Pacific.

We invite you to learn more about the impact of our work below. 👇💡

Click here: https://shorturl.at/r2OFM

09/04/2024

Are you a fan of FX’s Shōgun? ⚔️

Come join us at our upcoming event welcoming Eleanor Hubbard and Morgan Pitelka in exploring the true historical narrative of Shōgun!

FX's 'Shōgun': Exploring the True Historical Narrative

Lecture by:
Eleanor Hubbard, Independent Scholar
Morgan Pitelka, Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Wednesday, September 18th
5:00–6:15 pm
Online via Zoom
Free and open to the public. Registration required.

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The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes Eleanor Hubbard and Morgan Pitelka to provide historical analysis on the American historical drama television series Shōgun.Eleanor Hubbard’s talk will put John Blackthorne, a main character in Shōgun, into historical perspective by comparing his ...

05/20/2024

Missed our last event of the semester? Watch it here!

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes our Kiriyama Fellow James Stone Lunde to give a talk on Pedro Arrupe’s experience surviving the atomic bomb....

04/26/2024

📢 Upcoming Event 📢

“I Survived the Atomic Bomb”: Pedro Arrupe’s Japan
Lecture by James Stone Lunde, University of San Francisco

Wednesday, May 1st
5:00–6:15 pm
Hybrid - Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room & Online
Free and open to the public. Registration required.

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes our Kiriyama Fellow James Stone Lunde to give a talk on Pedro Arrupe’s experience surviving the atomic bomb. Pedro Arrupe SJ was a Spanish member of the Society of Jesus stationed in Hiroshima when the Americans dropped their first atomic bomb on the city. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Arrupe converted his mission into a makeshift clinic in order to help Japanese civilians injured by the blast. Upon his return to Spain, Arrupe compiled his experiences into a memoir entitled Yo viví la bomba atómica. In this book, Arrupe outlines the history of Japan, describes the Jesuit mission in Japan, then details his activities in Imperial Japan prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War, and then his experiences surviving and providing succor after the atomic strike. This talk covers the history of the Jesuit mission in Japan from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and introduces Arrupe's remarkable memoir of humanitarian and spiritual work in the midst of apocalyptic war.

Wednesday, May 1 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Fromm Hall — 110 - Maier Conference Room RSVP The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes our Kiriyama Fellow James Stone Lunde to give a talk on Pedro Arrupe’s experience surviving the atomic bomb. Pedro Arrupe SJ was a Spanish member of the Society of Je...

04/25/2024

📢 Happening today at 5 PM PST 📢

Innovative Histories: Labor and Technology in Japan's Modern Mobility Regime
Lecture by Kate McDonald, University of California, Santa Barbara

Thursday, April 25th
5:00–6:15 pm
Hybrid - Fromm Hall, Berman Room & Online
Free and open to the public. Registration required.

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Kate McDonald to address how humans have powered transport. Humans powering transport is as true for the twenty-first century as it is for the early twentieth. Look no further than the parcel delivery workers sprinting up and down apartment-building staircases. Despite the continuity of human power, explicitly human-powered technologies such as the rickshaw symbolize Japan's past while the promise of automated transport systems such as delivery drones symbolize Japan's future. Why? From human-powered railways to trucking to parcel delivery, this talk shows that successful innovations are often those that find new ways to incorporate human power. McDonald argues that we need a new history of innovation to account for the persistence of human power in Japan’s past and present, and to understand the role of human power in Japan’s future.

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Kate McDonald to address how humans have powered transport. Humans powering transport is as true for the twenty-first century as it is for the early twentieth. Look no further than the parcel delivery workers sprinting up and down apartment-...

04/03/2024

Our symposium "Demographic Challenges in East Asia" is exactly one week away!

Young Chinese Women Defying Marriage and Childrearing Pressure
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
5:00 – 6:15 pm PT
Online, Via Zoom Webinar

Demographic Challenges in East Asia
Thursday, April 11, 2024
2:00 – 6:30 pm PT
Online, Via Zoom Webinar

We have a great group of people with many interesting topics this year, so we are so excited to see this event come together.

Learn more about our presenters below:

Keynote Speaker: Leta Hong Fincher
Session 1 Presenters: Mina Marković, Fumiya Uchikoshi, and Feng Wang
Session 2 Presenters: Sunhye Kim, Kai-Yu Chiu, and Elizabeth LaCouture

View our symposium agenda here: https://lnkd.in/gM-WFtGi

02/27/2024

📢 Upcoming event 📢

The Sino-Hollywood "Courtship"
Lecture by Ying Zhu, Hong Kong Baptist University.

Wednesday, March 20th
5:00–6:15 pm
Hybrid - Fromm Hall, Maier Room 110 & Online

Free and open to the public. Registration required.

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Ying Zhu to address the parallels on the evolution of the American and Chinese film industries from inception to the post-Covid era. Zhu will pay special attention to the entangled Sino-Hollywood relationship against the backdrop of shifting Sino-US relations under the sway of internal domestic forces in the name of national interest, and of external global forces shaped by transnational power dynamics. Her lecture will spotlight the affective power of motion pictures for cultural influence and political persuasion as well as the economic function of the film industry.

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Ying Zhu to address the parallels on the evolution of the American and Chinese film industries from inception to the post-Covid era. Zhu will pay special attention to the entangled Sino-Hollywood relationship against the backdrop of shifting...

02/08/2024

Learn more about our Asia Bridge Junior Fellows research 💫

02/06/2024

Upcoming event!

Curry Goes Global: The Geopolitics of Good Taste
Lecture by Krishnendu Ray, New York University

Wednesday, February 28th
5:00–6:15 pm
Online via Zoom
Free and open to the public. Registration required.

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Krishnendu Ray for an online lecture on the history of curry. Curry was a British Indian invention that traveled through the imperial navy to end up as the Japanese curry-rice in the drive towards military modernization at the other end of the Eurasian world. This talk is about the unusual trajectory of an ersatz invention and its entanglement with geopolitical power and the biopolitics of a martial race.

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Krishnendu Ray for an online lecture on the history of curry. Curry was a British Indian invention that traveled through the imperial navy to end up as the Japanese curry-rice in the drive towards military modernization at the other end of t...

01/25/2024

Upcoming event at our USF Hilltop Campus!

Lunar New Year Celebration

Thursday, Feb. 15
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Privett Plaza

Join the Center for Asia Pacific Studies and other Asia-focused programs and units on campus as we ring in the year of the dragon! Meet us at Privett Plaza for music, games, prizes, food, and a traditional lion dance performance by Leung’s White Crane Association.

This event is free and open to the public.

Join the Center for Asia Pacific Studies and other Asia-focused programs and units on campus as we ring in the year of the dragon! Meet us at Privett Plaza for music, games, prizes, food, and a traditional lion dance performance by Leung’s White Crane Association.

01/24/2024

Upcoming event!

The Boy and the Heron: The Many Doors to Miyazaki’s Perhaps Final Fantasy
Lecture by Susan Napier, Tufts University

Wednesday, February 7th
5:00–6:15 pm
Online via Zoom
Free and open to the public. Registration required.

The Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki released, The Boy and the Heron, his perhaps final film, in the summer of 2023. In many ways, the film is a summing up of some of the most important cinematic elements of his long career. This time, however, Miyazaki anchors his fantasy within an ancient graying tower that combines elements of the gothic with the director’s long held fascination with ruins, a lost and perhaps irretrievable past, and a poignant and surprising story of love. This lecture will discuss “The Boy and the Heron” in terms of earlier Miyazaki works and as a stand-alone masterpiece of entrancing film making.

The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Susan Napier for an online lecture on Hayao Miyazaki's most recent film. The Japanese animation director Miyazaki released, The Boy and the Heron, his perhaps final film, in the summer of 2023. In many ways the film is a summing up of some o...

01/09/2024

Looking for something to do during the break?

Join us online via zoom for our book club meeting on Tuesday, January 16th, 5-6 pm!

Register here: https://usfca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lf-2grz8iHtM5RfLm6LGZbjB-RdFl5lKr #/registration