The Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Today, we are highlighting the course "Confucian Literature in East Asia" taught by Professor Xiaofei Kang! In this class, students will learn about the foundations of Confucianism and how they are expressed across a variety of literatures and cultures in East Asia. Sign up today!

Non-Resident Visiting Scholar Christine Lin authored an article for the Taipei Times about the lack of ways to translate Taiwanese soft power into actual understanding and appreciation for Taiwan. Read the article here: https://ow.ly/tY0p50ZyAZh.

Today, we are highlighting the course Beginning Uyghur I/Uyghur Language and Translation! In this class, students will learn the foundation of the Uyghur language and be introduced to Uyghur culture. GW is proud to be one of a handful of universities offering Uyghur language courses on a regular basis. Sign up today!

Professor Jeffrey Ding was quoted in an article for ChosunBiz about the recent launch of the Kimi K3 AI model and what it means for the debate between closed- and open-source strategies. Read the article here: https://ow.ly/scJM50ZwhIx

Today we are highlighting a course from the English Department, Life Writing and Disability Justice, taught by Professor Jonathan Hsy! This seminar focuses on contemporary life writing by disabled and/or q***r people of color. It will consider how disabled people of color use literary forms and performance genres to challenge Eurocentric conventions of the “memoir” or Bildungsroman and thereby craft new ways of theorizing lived experience and social transformation. The course focuses primarily on Asian American and Asian diaspora writing in the US, informed by scholarship in allied areas of Black Studies and Latinx Studies. Sign up today!

Today we are highlighting the course Introduction to Daoism, taught by Professor Xiaofei Kang. This course is open to both undergraduate and graduate students and provides a general introduction to Daoist tradition from ancient tradition to the contemporary world. Sign up today!

Congratulations to Summer 2025 Sigur Center Research Fellow Ananya Bhardwaj for publishing her article "The Haunting of Homelands" in "The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics." The article is part of her dissertation and is the result of fieldwork she conducted as a Sigur Research Fellow. You can read the journal article here: https://ow.ly/IKqX50Zru7T

Professor Jeffrey Ding was quoted in April in the New York Times about how Anthropic's new A.I. model has sparked a global scramble to get ahead in the A.I. race. Read the article here: https://ow.ly/heUR50ZqP96

Today we are highlighting the course "Afghanistan, South, and Central Asia" taught by Professor Benjamin D. Hopkins! In this course, students will learn about the history of the regions and how their colonial and post-colonial histories shape life today. Register now!

We're hiring! We're looking for an FWS Student Project Assistant to join our team to assist with events, social media, and office operations. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Apply here or via the link in our bio: https://ow.ly/MQyE50ZnXBc