CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Stanford faculty in a dozen departments teach and carry out research on East Asia. There are approximately 100 graduate students at Stanford pursuing advanced degrees with a concentration on China, Japan, or Korea. Each year more than 1,300 undergraduates take courses with East Asia content.

CEAS administers bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in East Asian Studies at Stanford University. The center also sponsors activities that facilitate exchange of knowledge across disciplines and inspire collaborative projects among faculty and students. Besides providing a physical space for academic, administrative, andsocial functions, CEAS sponsors a wide variety of programs that link the university’s East Asia resources with civic groups, secondary schools, local colleges, and the public.

Colloquia and Special Events:
CEAS hosts frequent lectures on Japan, China and special topics to give students access to the expertise of renowned scholars and speakers. A Korean luncheon series,sponsored by Stanford’s Asia-Pacific Research Center, provides a similar forum for Korean studies. Each quarter, the CEAS colloquium series brings in distinguished East Asia professors, policy makers, and professionals to share their knowledge with the campus community. The noontime China and Japan brown bag series provide a casual forum for discussion of current research topics with local faculty and visiting scholars. CEAS also sponsors career talks, as well as film festivals, conferences, and special events.

Program for Advanced Language Maintenance (PALM): CEAS offers programs for advanced language maintenance in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Weekly meetings provide an opportunity for students, faculty, and members of the public who have achieved advanced language ability to practice reading and conversation to keep up their fluency. A native speaker leads discussions on selected topics.

Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE):
Since 1976 Stanford has been actively involved in utilizing its area studies resources, such as its excellent faculty research and teaching on East Asia, to meet the need for improved international education at the

elementary and secondary school levels. CEAS has strongly supported SPICE in developing innovative curriculum materials, organizing teacher workshops, and bringing Asian Studies to K-14 classrooms in the Bay Area and beyond.Check out their website at http://spice.stanford.edu/

East Asia Workshops:
CEAS coordinates several faculty-student workshops on East Asian topics which foster intellectual exchange outside the classroom. These workshops develop according to student or faculty interest, and they vary in frequency and formality. Past workshop topics include: Chinese political economy; Buddhism; art and literature of Japan; history and culture of Taiwan; women and gender in Asia.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND THE BAY AREA

Stanford University’s beautiful setting and agreeable climate provide an extraordinary educational environment for its 14,500 undergraduate and graduate students. The university is located on 8,000 acres of rolling ranch-land about thirty miles south of San Francisco. The San Francisco Bay Area has a large Asian and Asian-American population and an unusual variety of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean museums, bookstores, restaurants, and cultural events. A constant flow of visitors from East Asia also provides a special stimulus for students.

HOW TO FIND US

The Center for East Asian Studies is located in 100 Encina Commons, just behind Encina Hall on Serra St. For directions, CLICK HERE.