University of San Francisco Master's in Asia Pacific Studies Program

Congratulations to our second year MAPS students--Bobby Im, Ningjing Xin, Lorna Probasco, Evan Chan, Chase Marcum, and Alesha Byrne--who presented their work at University of San Francisco's Creative Activity and Research Day (CARD) on May 3.

Each presented their capstone work, ranging from AI and IoT Acceptance in South Korea (Im), Chinese Classical Gardens (Xin), E-Talanoa as a Way to Shape Pacific Islander Identities (Probasco), Asia Society Northern California's Public Programming (Chan), Igorat Pyramids of the Skyworld (Marcum), and Gender Minorities in Martial Arts (Byrne).

We celebrate their successes and impending graduation!

We hope you will join us on May 1 for this compelling lecture hosted by the USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies featuring Professor James Stone Lunde entitled “I Survived the Atomic Bomb”: Pedro Arrupe’s Japan. You can find event details and registration information below:

“I Survived the Atomic Bomb”: Pedro Arrupe’s Japan | University of San Francisco The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes our Kiriyama Fellow James Stone Lunde to give a talk on Pedro Arrupe’s experience surviving the atomic bomb. Pedro Arrupe SJ was a Spanish member of the Society of Jesus stationed in Hiroshima when the Americans dropped their first atomic bomb on th...

Be sure to attend the exciting Thursday, April 25 USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies event, Innovative Histories: Labor and Technology in Japan's Modern Mobility Regime. Registration and event information is below.

Innovative Histories: Labor and Technology in Japan's Modern Mobility Regime | University of San Francisco The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Kate McDonald to address how humans have powered transport. Humans powering transport is as true for the twenty-first century as it is for the early twentieth. Look no further than the parcel delivery workers sprinting up and down apartment-...

Please join us on April 10 and 11 for this exciting symposium offered by the USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies. Full details and registration information are below.

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Join us for the March 26 screening of the acclaimed film, Perfect Days, hosted by the USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies!

Film Screening: Perfect Days | University of San Francisco The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies invites you to join us for a screening of the award-winning film, Perfect Days. This film follows Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), a toilet cleaner in Tokyo who finds contentment in the subtle beauty of everyday moments, like listening to music on cassette and caring....

Be sure to attend--in-person or online--this important March 20 presentation with professor Ying Zhu, who will address the parallels on the evolution of the American and Chinese film industries from inception to the post-Covid era. This event is hosted by the USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies; registration information and additional details are below.

The Sino-Hollywood "Courtship" | University of San Francisco The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Ying Zhu to address the parallels on the evolution of the American and Chinese film industries from inception to the post-Covid era. Zhu will pay special attention to the entangled Sino-Hollywood relationship against the backdrop of shifting...

Please join the USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies and us for "Curry Goes Global: The Geopolitics of Good Taste" lecture by Krishnendu Ray, New York University, on Wednesday, February 28th, 5:00–6:15 p.m. PT online via Zoom. Registration and event information are below.

Curry Goes Global: The Geopolitics of Good Taste | University of San Francisco The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Krishnendu Ray for an online lecture on the history of curry. Curry was a British Indian invention that traveled through the imperial navy to end up as the Japanese curry-rice in the drive towards military modernization at the other end of t...

Please join the USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies and us for an in-person Lunar New Year Celebration on Thursday, February 15, at 11:45 a.m. in Privett Plaza.

Lunar New Year Celebration | University of San Francisco Join the Center for Asia Pacific Studies and other Asia-focused programs and units on campus as we ring in the year of the dragon! Meet us at Privett Plaza for music, games, prizes, food, and a traditional lion dance performance by Leung’s White Crane Association.

Please join the USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies on Wednesday, February 7 at 5 p.m. PT for this compelling Zoom presentation. Details and registration information below:

The Boy and the Heron: The Many Doors to Miyazaki’s Perhaps Final Fantasy | University of San Francisco The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes professor Susan Napier for an online lecture on Hayao Miyazaki's most recent film. The Japanese animation director Miyazaki released, The Boy and the Heron, his perhaps final film, in the summer of 2023. In many ways the film is a summing up of some o...

Congratulations to MAPS student Evan Matthew Chan and the USF Dean's Scholars who are featured in this recent article!

Graduate School Reflections on Fall 2023 | University of San Francisco Three Dean’s Scholarship recipients, Evan Chan ’24, Yumejichi Fujita ’26, and Eric Asare ’25, share their reflections about the active learning in which they participated during the fall 2023 semester of their graduate studies in the College of Arts & Sciences:

Warm congratulations to MAPS Professor, Andrea Lingenfelter, on winning the 2023 Northern California Book Award-California Translation in Poetry. For the review of her work, please see this link:

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