Are you interested in studying language and culture abroad in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, or the Middle East? Come to the National Scholarship Office's Boren Scholarship Info Session with Kaye Stansbury, a Boren Award Program Manager, to learn how you could receive funding for your study abroad experience!

The Boren Scholarship helps fund intensive language and cultural studies abroad in countries outside of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with program lengths and maximum award amounts of:

- 8-11 weeks: $8,000 for a summer program (STEM majors only)

- 12-24 weeks: $12,500

- 25-52 weeks: $25,000

In this seminar Dr. Lara Daley will share her work engaging with place and time as Country: an Aboriginal English word for the human and more-than-human beings and agencies that co-become as place and as time/s. Country is deeply relational and includes people, land, waters, sky, rocks, animals, plants, memories, dreams, stories, ancestors and so much more.

The presentation will reflect on time as multiple, non-linear, active, and made through and as relationships. Drawing on urban activism in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia), the presentation will discuss how cities in Australia are both rich and lived, multitemporal Indigenous places/spaces and sites of ongoing Indigenous dispossession.

Lara Daley is a Research Fellow in the discipline of geography and environmental studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Lara's research attends to human and more-than-human connections and protocols, the urban as Country, and so-called 'outer' space as already known, cared for, and inhabited through Indigenous ontologies and systems of governance.

Kostyuchenko is a Russian journalist and LGBTQ+ rights activist, exiled for her unflinching reporting on the Russian war in Ukraine. Her new book combines reportage and personal essay to illuminate Russia as it is today.

Come practice your conversational Polish at these weekly meetings!

The formal establishment of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 10, 1949 heralded the arrival of what the Chinese Communist Party proudly called “New China.” But what did the establishment of New China look like at the grassroots level? This talk moves the focus of inquiry away from Beijing and down to Poyang, an overwhelmingly rural county far from centers of Maoist power. Discussing his new book Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China, Prof. DeMare uses rare archival sources from rural police investigations to bring four tales of political and criminal intrigue to life. Bandit uprisings, midnight assassinations, prison breaks, and trials of accused spies all underscore the volatile nature of regime change in rural China. Prof. DeMare will also highlight how our understanding of these years of revolutionary upheaval are deeply complicated by the limitations of archival materials.

Prof. Brian DeMare teaches at Tulane University. A specialist in archives and narratives, he has written three books on Maoist revolution. His first book, Mao’s Cultural Army (Cambridge, 2015), explored how the Communists deployed drama troupes to mobilize soldiers and farmers alike. Land Wars (Stanford, 2019), Prof. DeMare’s second book, is the only English language study on the multiple rounds of land reform that brought Communist rule to the countryside between 1946 and 1952. This talk is based on his latest book, Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New China (Stanford, 2022).

Join Kya Baat Hai weekly conversation hours for students to practice speaking in Hindi and Urdu and connect over shared cultural experiences!

Join Addverse Poesia, an international and multilingual poetry group that discusses, reads and translates poems in at least 4 languages, for their weekly meetings!

A Halloween party hosted by the Asian Studies Center and the English Language Institute. Snack will be provided and there will be prizes for best costumes.

Reservation required

This experience offers a unique perspective on the events that led to the founding of the Republic of Turkey as seen through the lens of American newspaper clippings. An exhibition curating and contextualizing American newspaper coverage of the transformative events between 1918 and 1923 that led to the birth of the Republic of Turkey