This spring on Thursday evenings, students filled room 424 in the Fine Arts building for their Asian Diaspora in Motion: Media, Culture, Identity, and Activism class. At the head of the classroom...
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Abbie Fakoya is at the front of the room, smiling and encouraging over 40 UMBC faculty, staff, and students to follow her dance steps. Many of the attentive dancers were either new to the...
November 20, 2025
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Alyssa Thomas is more of an “and” person than an “or” person. Growing up in a military family stationed in Florida, Thomas learned flexibility, a sense of curiosity, and a “Why not?” approach to...
October 7, 2025
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The Conversation Weekly Podcast Interview with Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC. With Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un among 26 world...
September 9, 2025
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When Ivy Nguyen moved to the United States from Vietnam in 2014, her high school peers struggled to understand the British English she had grown up speaking. As she found herself “lost in British...
September 9, 2025
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Ayra Sangi, an Asian studies senior, has received the 2025 Freeman-ASIA Award. The semester-long education abroad award funds U.S.-based undergraduates up to $5,000 to study abroad in East or...
June 20, 2025
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Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC. An encounter in which a Chinese naval ship cut across the path of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on...
June 9, 2023
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Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC. President Joe Biden has – not for the first time – suggested that the U.S. would intervene “militarily” should China...
September 19, 2022
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Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t confirmed when – or even if – she is to visit Taiwan. Yet such is the sensitivity...
July 26, 2022
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Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC The White House has been left scrambling a little after President Joe Biden suggested on May 23, 2022, that the U.S....
May 24, 2022
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