The Official EASC Podcast

Episode 3 of the East Asian Indigenous Studies series, hosted by Dr. Roslynn Ang with Dr. Kanako Uzawa.  In traditional textbooks, we rarely hear about the history, languages, and cultures of the many indigenous people and other ethnic minorities who live or have lived in East Asia. From the Ainu in Northern Japan to the Seediq in the highlands of Taiwan and the large Uyghur and Tibetan minorities...

Episode 2 of the East Asian Indigenous Studies series, hosted by Dr. Roslynn Ang with Kanagawa University Assistant Professor Megumi Chibana.  In traditional textbooks, we rarely hear about the history, languages, and cultures of the many indigenous people and other ethnic minorities who live or have lived in East Asia. From the Ainu in Northern Japan to the Seediq in the highlands of Taiwan and t...

Episode 3 of the Meanings of Violence series, hosted by Dr. Morten Oxenboell with Syracuse University guest Dr. George Kallander. In collaboration with the Hamilton Lugar School’s Area Studies Centers, the East Asian Studies Center has launched into a a multi-faceted exploration of the history of collective violence. In East Asia, as everywhere, violence (or the threat thereof) has determined the...

Episode 1 of the  East Asian Indigenous Studies series, hosted by Dr. Roslynn Ang with Cornell University Ph. D. candidate Liang Yu.  In traditional textbooks, we rarely hear about the history, languages, and cultures of the many indigenous people and other ethnic minorities who live or have lived in East Asia. From the Ainu in Northern Japan to the Seediq in the highlands of Taiwan and the large...

Episode 2 of the Meanings of Violence series, hosted by Dr. Morten Oxenboell with University of Pennsylvania guest Dr. David Spafford. After this conversation, Dr. Spafford noted the following corrections: 1) the nun Jukei died just a few months before the end of her house, not a few years. 2) Hagakure was written in the eighteenth century, not the seventeenth. In collaboration with the Hamilton L...

Episode 1 of the Meanings of Violence series, hosted by Dr. Morten Oxenboell with Middlebury College guest Dr. Don Wyatt. Content warning: includes references to historic slavery practices. In collaboration with the Hamilton Lugar School’s Area Studies Centers, the East Asian Studies Center has launched into a a multi-faceted exploration of the history of collective violence. In East Asia, as ever...