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28th Harvard East Asia Society Conference - Call for Papers

February 14, 2025

Flow: A Symposium The H arvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference...

Lunar New Year Celebration

January 28, 2025

RSEA students gathered to celebrate the Lunar New Year at Victoria Seafood.

Gunn Chaiyapatranun (RSEA AM’24) receives the 2024 Noma-Reischauer Prize in Japanese Studies

December 12, 2024

Established by Kodansha Publishers in 1995 and named in honor of Edwin O. Reischauer, the Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies are given annually to the best essays on Japan-related topics written by a Harvard undergraduate and graduate student...

Congratulations to our November graduate - Di (Cindy) Xin!

November 12, 2024

RSEA Alumni Panel 2024

October 18, 2024

This year’s Alumni Panel 2024 will be held on Friday, October 18th, 2024, in 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS-S020. We are excited to announce this year’s alumni panelists will be: Jonathan Kaufman (AM ’82), Director of the School of Journalism at Northeastern...

Congratulations RSEA 2024 Graduates!

May 28, 2024

2024 Horizons Scholar Juhee Kang RSEA '17

May 17, 2024

The 2024 Harvard Horizons Scholars Juhee Kang, History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations Numbers, Minds, and Society: Takeaways from an early 20th century Japanese human intelligence test Read more at https://gsas.harvard.edu/person/juhee-kang In...

Joshua Park, concurrent RSEA student, wins the 2024 Hoopes Prize

May 08, 2024

Congratulations to Joshua Park, concurrent RSEA student, for winning the 2024 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize! Park received the prize for his submission entitled “Legitimacy of History: Collective Memories of the March First Movement and National Identity in...

Prof. Jie Li, RSEA Director of Graduate Studies, named Harvard College Professor

May 08, 2024

Prof. Jie Li, RSEA Director of Graduate Studies, has been honored with a Harvard College Professorship for her committment to undergraduate teaching. To learn more about Prof. Li's work, please click here. Congratulations, Prof. Li!

RSEA Students celebrate the Lunar New Year

March 13, 2024

Jonas Rüegg (AM '16) is the 2024 MJHA Dissertation Winner

February 27, 2024

Jonas Rüegg, AM '16, is the Modern Japan History Association 2024 Dissertation Winner for his work The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific (Harvard University, History and East Asian Languages, 2022)...

Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2024

February 16, 2024

Knots: Complex Legacies and Imagined Futures of East Asia The theme of this year’s conference is: Knots: Complex Legacies & Imagined Futures of East Asia. The knot is a traditional form of art that can be found throughout China, Korea, and Japan, made...