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Constantine Vaporis selected for national Asian studies speaker series program

Constantine Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian studies program, has been selected for the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau. The program is a new distinguished speaker series hosted by the ASIANetwork, a consortium of 160 liberal arts colleges and universities that aims to “strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts education to help prepare succeeding generations of undergraduates for a world in which Asian societies play prominent roles in an ever more interdependent world,” according to the organization’s website. Vaporis was nominated and selected for the prestigious program from among faculty in all disciplines. The ASIANetwork… Continue Reading Constantine Vaporis selected for national Asian studies speaker series program

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Constantine Vaporis presents research at University of Pennsylvania Center for Integrated Study of Japan inauguration

In conjunction with the inauguration of University of Pennsylvania’s new Center for the Integrated Study of Japan, Constantine Vaporis presented an invited talk that focused on his research about travel in Early Modern Japan and what it revealed about healing, discovery, and political obligation and coercion, among other elements of life during that time period. Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian studies program, teaches Japanese and East Asian history and has received numerous fellowships for research in Japanese history including a Fulbright Scholar’s Award and an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers. He is author of Breaking Barriers: Travel and the… Continue Reading Constantine Vaporis presents research at University of Pennsylvania Center for Integrated Study of Japan inauguration

Constantine Vaporis, History, To Serve as Smithsonian Journeys Expert in Japan

In April 2014, Asian Studies Program Director Constantine Vaporis was selected as a Smithsonian expert for tours of Japan. Vaporis is leaving next week to deliver five formal lectures and will also be providing the informal educational component for the tour, Eternal Japan: From Tokyo to Kyoto. The formal lectures are as follows: From Edo to Tokyo The Countryside and Agriculture in Japan: Past and Present Sake: From Rice to Ritual Samurai and the Castle Towns of Tokugawa Japan Buddhism & Japan’s Ancient Capitals To read a profile of Vaporis on the Smithsonian Journeys website, click here.

Asian Studies Partnership with Longwood Apartments in The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun featured the Asian studies program for its partnership with Longwood Apartments and Senior Center. The Asian studies program began an internship program at Longwood Apartments last year, allowing students to practice their language skills by translating and serving as interpreters for Korean and Chinese speaking residents. The program also created a food pantry to help low-income senior citizens in the apartment complex. Julie Rosenthal, Asian studies, learned about Longwood Apartments through her work with Food on the 15th, a local nonprofit she founded to donate groceries and toiletries to senior citizens in Howard County. After hearing about… Continue Reading Asian Studies Partnership with Longwood Apartments in The Baltimore Sun

“Without You, There is No Us” – Undercover in North Korea (3/3)

Asian Studies Lecture and Book Signing Tuesday, March 3 | 7:00 p.m. Suki Kim, Award-Winning Journalist Albin O. Kuhn Library 7th Floor  In this talk, Suki Kim, an award-winning journalist, will discuss her book Without You, There is No Us. A New York Times bestseller and already in its sixth printing since its publication three months ago, Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite is an investigative nonfiction work and expose of life in North Korea and one of its elite schools and thus far has received rave reviews from New York Times Book Review, Wall Street… Continue Reading “Without You, There is No Us” – Undercover in North Korea (3/3)

Film/Discussion – Reflections on Indian Manhood (2/10)

Join the Asian Studies Program for a viewing of Mardistan (Macholand): Reflections on Indian Manhood and discussion with Dr. Harjant Gill, a professor from Towson University. The film and discussion will be at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from 4:00 p.m.- 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Mardistan (Macholand) is an exploration of Indian manhood articulated through the voices of four men from different generations and backgrounds. A middle-aged writer trying to make sense of the physical and sexual abuse he witnessed studying in an elite military academy, a Sikh father of twin daughters resisting the pressure to… Continue Reading Film/Discussion – Reflections on Indian Manhood (2/10)

Julie Rosenthal, Asian Studies, in the Howard County Beacon

In its January issue, the Howard County Beacon published an article about the Food on the 15th program and UMBC’s Asian studies food pantry program for low-income Asian seniors at Longwood Apartments in Columbia. Asian Studies Program Management Specialist Julie Rosenthal is founder and director of Food on the 15th and was quoted extensively in the article. Longwood Apartments was added to the program last year, and an internship was created for UMBC students to work as food pantry workers and translators for Chinese and Korean residents living in the apartments. Rosenthal saw a need, and now the program has delivered more than… Continue Reading Julie Rosenthal, Asian Studies, in the Howard County Beacon

Julie Rosenthal, Asian Studies, in the Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun recently published an article about a series of volunteer opportunities organized by the Jewish Federation of Howard County on Christmas Day. Last year, 250 volunteers participated throughout the day, and this year, the Jewish Federation is partnering with Food on the 15th and the Asian Studies Food Pantry program for low-income Asian seniors. Asian Studies Program Management Specialist Julie Rosenthal is founder and director of Food on the 15th and was quoted in the article discussing the overall impact of the volunteer program. “We are partnering with the Jewish Federation for Mitzvah Day because we want to provide a… Continue Reading Julie Rosenthal, Asian Studies, in the Baltimore Sun

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