Asian Studies Program

Asian Studies holds 5 speaker series: the China Speaker Series, the Theory and Policy Seminar, the UTStarcom Distinguished Lecture Series on Asia, South Asia Series, and Korea Colloquium. The China Speaker Series hosts some of the world’s top scholars on various aspects of China ranging from the role of the internet in society to the history of tobacco in the country. The Theory and Policy Seminar allows U.S. and Asian policymakers to escape the crush of daily pressures to speak candidly and off-the-record about why they pursue the policies they do and what assumptions are key to their decisions. The UTStarcom Distinguished Lecture Series aims to bring both senior scholars and “rising stars” to the Hilltop to discuss their latest research. Whether it is the Secretary-General to ASEAN or university professors discussing their latest books on energy security and China or nationalism in Japan, these programs have attracted standing-room-only audiences beyond the campus to include national media, the embassy community in Washington, and the policy community.

For more information about these series, please follow the links to the right of this page.