LSA is the place for foundational knowledge where creative thinkers engage with a complex, diverse, and changing world. We need your support to fuel our innovative environment, invest in the brightest people, and advance tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
Asian Languages and Cultures
- Slide 0
- Slide 1
- Slide 2
- Slide 3
- Slide 4
- Slide 5
- Slide 6
Recent News
2025 ALC Graduation and Awards Ceremony
Highlights from the 2025 Graduation and Awards Ceremony
Course Spotlight: ASIAN 262- Twenty-Five Ways China Changed the World
Check out a new China-focused offering with Dr. Peter Braden!
Events
Aug
22
Southeast Asian Drinks
1:00 PM
First Floor
202 S. Thayer
Aug
29
CSAS Lecture Series | “They Have My
Kundli”: Understanding Urban Indian Social Media Users’ Beliefs about Social Media Algorithms
Pranav Malhotra, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media, University of Michigan
4:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
05
CSAS Graduate Student Conference | New Directions in South Asia: From Nostalgia to New Politics
Featuring Lisa Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology & History, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
10:00 AM
Room 1014
Tisch Hall
Sep
05
Documentation as Political Practice: From Contemporary Nostalgia for the Left to the New Evidentiary Politics in 1970s South India
Lisa Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology & History, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
4:30 PM
Room 1014
Tisch Hall
Sep
18
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Jet-Age Nationhood: Pan American World Airways as Postwar Japan
Christine R. Yano, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Hawaii; President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Sep
19
Friday Lecture Series | Botany's (Un)making: Vernaculars of Plant Knowing in the Early 20th-Century Davao Gulf
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, University of California, Santa Cruz , Assistant Professor of History
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
