What's on in Asian Studies. This page may take slightly longer to load; please bear with us. Event listing Search Tags Asian StudiesCeltic and Scottish StudiesEnglish and Scottish LiteratureEuropean Languages and CulturesFilm and IntermedialityFrench and Francophone StudiesGermanIslamic and Middle Eastern StudiesItalianLife at LLCMeet our graduatesPostgraduateResearchRussianScandinavian StudiesSpanish, Portuguese and Latin American StudiesTeachingTranslation StudiesUndergraduate Event date Date from Date to Jun 11 2025 15.00 - 17.00 Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: Taekyoon Kim Join the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies for an in-person lecture by Professor Taekyoon Kim (Seoul National University), entitled ''East Asia's Developmentalist Scrambling for the Global South: 'Asian Traps' of Aid Competitions and Fragmentations'. Asian Studies Further information Further information May 15 2025 17.00 - 19.00 Voices of Nagasaki’s Atomic Bomb Survivors An in-person talk from two survivors and one second-generation survivor concerning their experiences and impacts of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Asian Studies Further information Further information Apr 09 2025 13.00 - 17.00 Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: Sera Park and screening Join the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies for an in-person film screening and lecture. The film screened will be 'Sewol: Years in the Wind' (2024, dir. Moon Jongtaek, Kim Hwantae), and the lecture will be titled '‘Everyone Has Their Own Story of Sewol’: Sewol Disaster, Ineffability, and the Affects of Activism'. Further information Further information Apr 02 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Noga Ganany An in-person seminar by Dr Noga Ganany (University of Cambridge), titled 'Extraordinary Lives: Illustrated Hagiographies in Ming Book Culture'. Further information Further information Mar 26 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Ashley Thorpe An in-person seminar by Dr Ashley Thorpe (Royal Holloway, University of London), titled 'When Japanese Noh is not in Japanese: Intercultural Noh in English, French and Spanish'. In partnership with the Japan Foundation. Further information Further information Mar 21 2025 17.15 - 21.00 Japanese Film Festival: Mochi Join us for a free, in-person screening of the 2020 film 'Mochi' (dir. Mayumi Komatsu) that includes a short introductory lecture, and will be followed by a reception of sushi and sake. Further information Further information Mar 19 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Kevin Gray An in-person seminar by Dr Kevin Gray (University of Sussex), titled 'Inter-Korean Relations and the End of Peaceful Reunification: A Social Conflict Approach'. Further information Further information Mar 12 2025 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Helen Parker An in-person seminar by Dr Helen Parker (University of Edinburgh), titled 'Transcending the Traditional: Developments in Contemporary Kabuki'. In partnership with the Japan Foundation. Further information Further information Mar 06 2025 17.00 - 18.30 Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series: James Hoare Join the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies for an in-person seminar by Dr James Hoare OBE (SOAS, University of London), entitled 'Britain and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) 1948-2025'. Further information Further information Feb 28 2025 17.15 - 21.00 Japanese Film Festival: Mori, The Artist's Habitat Join us for a free, in-person screening of the 2018 film 'Mori, The Artist's Habitat' (dir. Shûichi Okita) that includes a short introductory lecture, and will be followed by a reception of sushi and sake. Further information Further information 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Previously . . . Browse our archive for a curated selection of past events You may also be interested in . . . What's on in the Confucius Institute for Scotland, including evening language classes, special events, and a Distinguished Lecture Series. This article was published on 2024-08-13