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Welcome to the East Asia Research Forum

This collaborative community fosters intellectual exchange among faculty, graduate students, and other scholars who work across interdisciplinary fields in East Asia (broadly construed) at Northwestern University. EARF supports a wide array of programming, including speakers and events, work-in-progress workshops, and other activities to support this dynamic cohort of Asianists.
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Events
May
12
2026
Elusive Water: The Life and Death of Central Asia’s Aral Sea
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Online
Abstract: In 2017, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called the disappearance of Central Asia’s Aral Sea, “probably the...
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