We need to enhance our delivery of services to teachers, business, and the general public. GSS puts speakers on international issues from any and all IU area studies programs in touch with audiences throughout Indiana. A special challenge is that of ever-increasing technological capability and sophistication. Now that EASC has engaged B. Paul Banning as its Multimedia Systems Developer and Computer Specialist, we hope to help faculty achieve maximum utility from their computing setups. We also press ahead with the development of EASC's World Wide Web site, and simultaneously we continue to meet the web needs of the Association for Asian Studies.
Challenges translate into opportunities.
There is much for the East Asian Studies Center to do and much for us to gain. The EALC now has a new administrative team headed by Gregory J. Kasza as chair. Hyo Sang Lee will take over as Director of the East Asian Summer Language Institute after two excellent years under Yasuko Ito Watt. Return to Table of Contents. The conference assembled scholars from East Asia, Europe, and North America for a multi-disciplinary discussion on a variety of topics related to sexuality, gender, and popular culture, and the broader issue of establishing the place of sexuality in Japanese studies.