Center for Asian and Pacific Studies

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Anita Jung

Over a thirty-year career, Anita Jung’s work has been curated into well over two hundred group and juried exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. She has given lectures at over fifty universities, art centers and community centers in the past five-years. She is an alumni of the Arizona State University’s BFA program in painting and drawing and received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the graphic arts. Anita is a professor at the University of Iowa. Her work has been featured in over fifty solo exhibitions. She is a frequent traveler to India. She is a recipient of the The Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship.
Sujatha Sosale

Sujatha Sosale

Sujatha Sosale is interested in media development and social change in Global South countries, with a focus on South Asia and the southern Indian Ocean region. She has published in the areas of news and public affairs reporting about contemporary development, trade agreements in the news, national identity and news discourse at critical historical junctures, the political economy of the development of media technologies in colonial contexts, and media technology use in contemporary urban contexts. Her current research examines the use of mobile technologies in a remote rural region in South India.

UI to host Lunar New Year Celebration Feb. 11

Friday, January 22, 2021
Join the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and International Programs for a joint Chinese-Korean-Japanese-Southeast Asian “Lunar New Year Celebration” on Thursday, February 11, 2021.
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Webinar series to look at Pandemic through the Asian experience, Sept. 18 & 25

Monday, August 24, 2020
Join International Programs, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, and the Iowa Global Health Network for a special two-part webinar series "Pandemic, State & Society" (September 18 & 25) bringing together voices from Asia to discuss first-hand experiences with the coronavirus. 

Masa Ishikawa Jazz Orchestra to perform tribute to tsunami victims Feb. 22

Thursday, January 23, 2020
The University of Iowa School of Music, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, and International Programs present a performance by the Masa Ishikawa Jazz Orchestra on Saturday, February 22, 2020, at 7:30 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall

Japanese Program to host bilingual readings with Aria Takako, Nov. 4 & 5

Monday, October 21, 2019
Join the UI Japanese Program for two evenings (November 4 & 5) of bilingual readings with author Aria Takako

Japanese culture festival to be held Nov. 1, 2019

Monday, October 14, 2019
Do you want to learn more about traditional Japanese culture? Join the University of Iowa Japanese Program for a Japanese culture festival (文化祭 bunkasai) on Friday, November 1, from 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the Iowa City Public Library. This event is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome.

Korea Foundation to host talk on North Korea and U.S. relations

Thursday, April 11, 2019
The Korea Foundation, International Programs, and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies will present a lecture by Gi-Wook Shin and Andray Abrahamian entitled "Kim and Trump: North Korea and the United States in an Era of Change" on Monday, April 22, from 4:30-6 p.m. in 1117 University Capitol Centre. 

International conference to examine travel in Japanese literature, art, and culture

Friday, March 15, 2019
In April, the University of Iowa Japanese Program will host more than twenty scholars from around the world as part of an international conference, "Travel is Home," exploring travel and landscape in Japanese literature, art, and culture. 

A language tour of Japan, Wenfang Tang 

Friday, December 7, 2018
In late July and early August of 2017, we took a 10-day trip to Japan, sponsored by the Japan Foundation. Our group consisted of 6 faculty members from the University of Iowa. The purpose of the trip was to make us more aware of Japanese culture so we can include Japanese elements in our future teaching and research. My expectation wasn’t high. Until the trip ended, I didn’t expect to learn anything to fundamentally change my view of Japan in 10 days.  

Japan Foundation Trip Report, Jiyeon Kang

Friday, December 7, 2018
I was part of the 2017 Japan Foundation faculty tour, “Regional Japan: Culture from the Margins” between July 26 and August 8, 2017. The two-week trip from Tokyo to the town of Sakaiminato in Tottori, to southern Shikoku, and to Kyoto—and many other cities and villages en route—offered me an invaluable experience of being immersed in Japan’s historical and contemporary culture and experiencing both its cosmopolitan and rural regions.

Japan Foundation Trip Report, Luis Martin-Estudillo

Friday, December 7, 2018
It took me a fair amount of reading, but just a few minutes in Tokyo’s Nakano arcade, to realize that, aside from the U.S., Japan is the country whose visual artists have the greatest influence on global youth today.