Upcoming Events

Spring 2026

Wednesday, January 28, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
Room 220, 595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
Making Sense of Japan’s Defense Policy with KIRIDORI Ryo

Wednesday, February 4, 1:30 PM – 3 PM EST
Via Zoom (Register for the link.)
Cambodia and Thailand: Conflict, Diplomacy, and Regional Power with Sophal Ear

Monday, February 9, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
China and the Philippines: A Connected History for our Untangling World with Phillip Guingona

Wednesday, February 11, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
From Kakilala to Kapamilya: Building Connections through Filipino Language with Lady Aileen Orsal

Thursday, February 12, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
Learning from Japan: Expos Past, Present, and Future with Angus Lockyer

Thursday, February 12, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
In person at 67 Bay State Road, Boston MA and via Zoom
Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China with Yan Long

Friday, February 13, 12:30 PM – 2 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization will Survive the Decline of the West with Amitav Acharya

Thursday, February 19, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
Ten Weeks by Ship Along the China Coast with Grant Rhode

CANCELED:
Monday. February 23, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
Can China’s New Venture Capitalists  Solve the Local Government Debt Problem with Jean Oi

Wednesday, February 25, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
The Diplomacy of Gift Exchange: During the 1853-1854 Perry Expedition to Japan with Matthew C. Perry

Thursday, February 26
CAS 533B, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA
Also via Zoom
Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia with Mia Qiong Xie

Thursday, March 19, 4 PM
Friday, March 20, 9:30 AM – 8:30 PM
745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA
Conference: Alexander the Great and Iskandar: Dialogues on Medieval Reception

Monday, March 23, 11 AM – 12 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
Breath, Rhythm & Music for Your Wellbeing with Igor Iwanek

Thursday, March 26, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
CAS 533B & Via Zoom, 685 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA
The Diasporic Afterlives of Gwangju: Minor Identifications and Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution with Daniel Y. Kim

Monday, March 30, 5 PM- 6:30 PM
610 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA
The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping with Joseph Torigian

Tuesday, March 31, 6PM
233 Bay State Road, Boston MA
Why Ghosts Matter: An Underground History of Japan with Haruo Shirane

Wednesday, April 1 and Thursday, April 2
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
International Workshop: From Colony to Nation: Catholicism and Christianity in Taiwan (1600-1987)

Wednesday, April 1, 5 PM
225 Bay State Road, Boston MA (The Castle)
Converging Voices: How Faith Nourished Taiwanese Music—From Sacred to Secular with Kuan Yun Huang & Chen Lin Ma

Thursday, April 2, 9 AM – 10:30 AM
Via Zoom
Health, Knowledge, Politics: Understanding the Triad with Madhulika Banerjee

Monday, April 6, 2 PM – 7 PM
CDS 1750, 665 Comm Ave., Boston MA
The Joseph Fewsmith Commemorative Symposium with lecture by Evan Medeiros

Wednesday, April 8, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
Soong Mayling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek) and Her World

Thursday, April 9, 6 PM – 7:30 PM
STH B23-24, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA
Eid Celebration

Thursday, April 9, 7:15 PM – 9:30 PM
CFA Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA
Basant Ke Rang | Colors of Spring Concert: Raga Music of North India

Friday, April 10, 12 PM – 1:30 PM
Dahod Family Alumni Center, Music Room, 225 Bay State Road, Boston MA
Rethinking Debt Sustainability Analysis through New Structural Economics and China’s Practice with Meibo Huang

Monday, April 13, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
Rajan Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering,
610 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
China’s Modernization: Path and Implications with Justin Yifu Lin

Thursday, April 16, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
The Migration Workshop, Author-Meets-Critics Book Panel with Prema A. Kurien

Thursday, April 23, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
121 Bay State Room, Boston MA
Workshop on Gender and Performance in Chinese Theater

Thursday, April 29, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
121 Bay State Room, Boston MA
Asia at the World’s Fairs’ Website Launch

Fall 2025 

Tuesday, September 9, 4 PM – 6 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
BUCSA Fall Reception

Thursday, September 18, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
75 Bay State Road, Boston MA
Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju with Youjeong Oh

Monday, September 22, 2025,  5PM – 6:30 PM
Rm. 101, 610 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Taiwanese Politics and US-China-Taiwan Relations Under Trump 2.0 with S. Philip Hsu

Monday, September 29,  1 PM – 2:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
An Infirm Ascendency? India’s National Security Challenges with Ashley Tellis

Wednesday, October 1, 5pm-6:30pm
121 Bay State Road, Boston
The Contested Meaning of Symbolic Spaces in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Shanghai

Thursday, October 2, 5pm
8O8 Commonwealth Ave., 1st Floor, Boston MA
Film Screening: “Made in Ethiopia”

Tuesday, October 14
Fuller 206, 808 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA
“The Dawn Is Too Far” A Film Screening and Discussion with Persis Karim

Monday, October 20, 4 PM-5:30 PM
121 Bay State Road, Boston MA
The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–1975)

Monday, October 27, 7 PM
Room 104, 808 Commonwealth Ave, Brookline, MA
Song of Earthroot: Film Screening and Talkback

Wednesday, October 29, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
871 Commonwealth Ave, Room 511, Boston MA
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp with Tracy Slater

Thursday, October  30, 4 PM – 5:30PM
From Refugees to ‘Non-Criminal Collaterals’: Immigration after the Vietnam War and Now with Ben Tran

Thursday, October 30, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6 PM
Getting Along with Imaginary Others: Case Studies in Japanese Fiction with Christopher Weinberger

Saturday, Saturday, November 1, 2025, 7:30 PM
The Odyssey, Music by Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Blood Moon Orchestra, and Arneis Quartet

Thursday, November  6, 4 PM – 5:30 PM
The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them with Amogh Sharma

Saturday, November 8, 2025, 11 AM
Free Seminar: Cinema Masala with Dr. Shilpa Parnami

Saturday, November  8, 2025, 3 PM
The Devil Takes Bitcoin: Uncovering the Intersection of Japan, Crime, and Cryptocurrency

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 1:30 PM – 3 PM
US-PAKISTAN RELATIONS:  Past, Present & Future
A Fireside Conversation with  Amb. RIZWAN SAEED SHEIKH (Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States)

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 5 PM – 6:30 PM
Perilous Straits: The Changing Military Balance Around Taiwan

Monday, November 17, 5 PM – 6:15 PM
Universities in Ages of Authoritarianism: Higher Education in the US and China

Friday, November 21, 2025, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Conference: The Contours of Alid Devotion Past and Present

Monday, December 1, 2025, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Celebrating Persian Culture

Wednesday, December 10, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
BUCSA Holiday Get-Together