Liu Institute launches 2024-25 Year in Review

2024-25 Year in Review for the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, featuring a vibrant purple orchid.

The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies has released an all-digital 2024-25 Year in Review, which captures the past academic year through features of new faculty fellows, support of Asia-related research and projects, and graduates of the Asian Studies supplementary major and minor.

Additional highlights for this year include publishing a new strategic plan, receiving endowments from alumni Paul Roberts and Tim Andree, organizing the 2024 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, hosting activist Helen Zia for the Asian American Distinguished Speaker Series, and facilitating the US-China Relations student conference with a keynote lecture by Keough School Dean Mary Gallagher.

All previous issues of the Year in Review are now available online.

Composite image of twelve faculty headshots.

New Faculty Fellows and Publications

Ten professors join the Liu community and two fellows publish monographs.

A group of people network and chat in a brightly lit atrium, some holding coffee cups and papers at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs.

Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

Asian Studies scholars from around the world converge for the 73rd conference.

Helen Zia, a woman with short gray hair, wearing a black leather jacket and burnt orange scarf, gestures with her hands while speaking at a table. A notepad and purple pen sit in front of her. Professor Jennifer Huyhn, with long brown hair, wearing a cream-colored jacket, listens in the background.

Asian American Distinguished Speaker Series

Journalist and activist Helen Zia discusses her advocacy work for Asian Americans.

Mary Gallagher, a woman with shoulder-length curly hair, wearing glasses and a dark blazer over a green shirt, stands with her arms crossed, gesturing with her hand while speaking at a podium with a microphone.

Justice and Asia Distinguished Lecture

Keough School Dean Mary Gallagher shares research insights on law, labor and justice in China.

Notre Dame students walk in Tokyo, Japan during their research experience.

New Endowments

Gifts from two families will expand research and education about Japan.

Ten students and one faculty member hold a large navy and gold Notre Dame flag in front of a white and reddish-brown building in Mumbai, India.

2024-25 Grants Awarded

More than 100 students and faculty members receive funding from the Liu Institute.

Six students pose together with director of undergraduate studies Alexander Hsu with arms around each other. Six wear black graduation robes with long, batik-printed blue stoles. The center person wears a gray, long-sleeved shirt and khaki pants. They all smile at the camera.

Student Highlights

Asian Studies graduates share impressive plans.

Michel Hockx, Esther Lynch, Dean Mary Gallagher, and Ben Martin at the US-China Exchange and Partnership Symposium

US-China Exchange and Partnership Symposium

Seniors Esther Lynch and Ben Martin organize an international academic event.