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Tue, 11/19/2024

KU celebrates 2024 International Education Week

With more than 1,700 international students from 116 countries and over 1,000 students participating in experiences abroad, the University of Kansas has much to celebrate during International Education Week.

Fri, 10/25/2024

Reducing barriers nets Raj Bhala 2024 Shulenburger Award

Spurred on by a desire to increase affordability for students and to broaden access for international colleagues shut out by costly paywalls, Raj Bhala worked with a team at KU Libraries to openly publish his widely used textbook on international trade law. He is the recipients of the 2024 Shulenburger Award for Innovation & Advocacy in Scholarly Communication.

Tue, 10/08/2024

Center for East Asian Studies film series focuses on digital age

The Center for East Asian Studies' 2024-2025 programming, which focuses on the digital age, continues this week with the Digital Age Film Series in partnership with Lawrence Public Library. KU experts will lead a discussion after each film, beginning with a screening of "Pulse" (2001) on Oct. 9.

Wed, 09/11/2024

Study finds encouraging empathy makes students better at argumentation

Teaching argumentation is a key part of the common core standards in education. But a new study finds that encouraging empathy, instead of the traditional approach of winning, produces more well-rounded argumentation and writing in students.

Tue, 09/10/2024

Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with the KU Center for East Asian Studies

The KU Center for East Asian Studies and Student Union Activities will host the 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Kansas Union.

Thu, 09/05/2024

KU receives new intelligence community funding, awards 34 new scholarships

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently awarded KU’s Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (IC CAE) program $300,000 in new funding for the 2024-25 academic year. The funding will increase KU’s IC CAE award with a focus on expanding the study of China.

Mon, 08/26/2024

Study outlines how teachers can better help students by examining own identities during study abroad program

KU professors have led students on a study abroad program teaching English in Korean high schools. They recently published two studies about how the participants better connected with their students after examining their own identities.

Wed, 07/10/2024

Panasonic Energy and University of Kansas to collaborate on EV battery technology and talent development

Panasonic Energy and the University of Kansas today announced that they have signed an agreement aimed at promoting the development of next-generation technologies and the cultivation of specialist expertise in the field of lithium-ion batteries.

Fri, 05/10/2024

China’s ‘puzzling’ sanctions approach decoded using new data

Jack Zhang, assistant professor of political science, introduces both a new dataset on sanctions involving China and a research framework for expanding knowledge about non-Western economic sanctions more generally.

Tue, 04/23/2024

US-China vaccines collaboration leads to partisan distrust, study finds

In a new study, John James Kennedy, a professor of political science at the University of Kansas, examines the influence of international collaboration and vaccine developments.

Wed, 04/03/2024

KU Center for East Asian Studies to host Migration Symposium

Members of the KU community and the public are invited to attend the upcoming interdisciplinary symposium on migration organized by the KU Center for East Asian Studies. The free symposium will take place April 5-6.

Tue, 03/26/2024

Study finds clear instruction, parental support predict students' sense of school belonging

A new study from the University of Kansas has analyzed the roles classroom interaction and parental support play in school connectedness, finding clearly communicated instruction in class and support from parents are closely linked with belonging.

Fri, 03/22/2024

KU centers to host conference: When Global East Meets Global South

Members of the KU community and the public are invited to an interdisciplinary East-Asian and Latin America conference March 29 that will bring together scholars from a variety of fields to explore the historical and contemporary links between the regions.

Thu, 02/08/2024

CEAS hosts Lunar New Year Festival (Opens in new window)

For some students, home is thousands of miles away, and the Lunar New Year Festival hosted by the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) on Feb. 7 at the Burge Union is a reminder of their culture and home. ...

Thu, 02/01/2024

Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with the KU Center for East Asian Studies

Several KU organizations will host a family-friendly Lunar New Year Festival on Feb. 7 at the Burge Union.

Mon, 01/29/2024

Yoonmi Nam: Generally Meant to be Discarded (Opens in new window)

With “Generally Meant to be Discarded,” Yoonmi Nam fixates her attention on “the presence of objects that we handle, consume, display and discard.” The consumption patterns of Nam and her husband during the COVID-19 pandemic inspired these works in her Studios Inc. exhibition. ...

Mon, 01/22/2024

Scholar argues India has had inconsistent trade policy, economic ties with world since 1947 partition

LAWRENCE — Although India is the world’s largest democracy, it has been greatly understudied, especially its approach to trade. A University of Kansas legal expert argues in a new analysis of Indian trade law and policy that its defining characteristic has been inconsistency. ...

Mon, 12/04/2023

Research, new recordings bring works of 20th century Ecuadorian composer to light

Fri, 11/03/2023

Podcast: Interview with Akiko Takeyama (Opens in new window)

CEAS Director Akiko Takeyama talks with New Books Network about her recently published, "Involuntary Consent:The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry." ...

Fri, 10/27/2023

Environmental activist Aileen Mioko Smith to give talks in Lawrence

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas Center for East Asian Studies will host environmental activist and writer Aileen Mioko Smith for a series of private and public events next week, including a film screening and artist talk. ...

Mon, 10/16/2023

New Book, "Trade War," from Raj Bhala Examines History of U.S.-China Conflict (Opens in new window)

A new book from a University of Kansas international trade law expert examines where the conflict may lead and its consequences thus far while also providing a critical historical and legal analysis of how it started. ...

Thu, 10/12/2023

Scroll depicting rat wedding banquet provides important insight about cooking in medieval Japan

LAWRENCE — Rats in the kitchen. ...

Sat, 09/30/2023

Harvest Moon Festival, an Evening of Dance, Song, and Mooncakes (Opens in new window)

With the full moon looming, a red dragon dancing and a variety of performances, an estimated 500 attendees spent their evening at the Harvest Moon Festival, hosted by the KU Center for East Asian Studies. ...

Thu, 09/07/2023

Center for East Asian Studies opens Year of Migration programming with speaker and film series

LAWRENCE — The Center for East Asian Studies’ (CEAS) 2023-2024 programming, which focuses on migration, kicks off with two Global Asia speakers and a film series. All CEAS events are free and open to the public. ...

Mon, 08/07/2023

Kansas Program Helps Women Transitioning Out of Incarceration Learn Technology (Opens in new window)

The National Science Foundation gave KU a three-year, $1.6 million grant to help women transitioning out of incarceration learn about technology. The program aims to help former inmates by offering resume building, Google and Microsoft Office classes. ...

Thu, 07/20/2023

'Understanding Islamic Law' book thoroughly updates text on changing legal world

LAWRENCE — The world has changed radically since 2016. The COVID-19 pandemic, Trump presidency, dissolution of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and continued Iran nuclear showdown are among several happenings that have profoundly influenced the Islamic legal world. A University of Kansas international trade law expert...

Tue, 07/18/2023

Shanhe University Is the Perfect Chinese College. Except It Doesn't Exist. (Opens in new window)

Normally, it takes decades — sometimes centuries — for a college to gain fame and build a reputation. But Shanhe University is an exception. It’s the perfect college in every way…except that it’s not real. ...

Mon, 06/26/2023

KU professor curates summer show in Seoul to create space for mother-artists

Tue, 04/25/2023

Complex motivations of Chinese wartime scientists revealed in new research

Thu, 04/20/2023

The Blame-China Game (Podcast) (Opens in new window)

China increasingly gets scapegoated for any crisis involving the economy, security or global health in the U.S. Jack Zhang, assistant professor of political science at the University of Kansas, studies how a nation that has at times been allied with the U.S. has turned into its major geostrategic rival. ...