MCC-Asian Studies Development Program
Middlesex Community College is committed to the high impact practice of global learning about Asia, both in the classroom and beyond. As the first regional center in the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) part of the East-West Center (EWC), and as an institution that empowers learners to participate in a diverse global community, Middlesex offers professional development opportunities on Asia that intentionally transform curriculum, promote intercultural competence, and engage the college community in deeper cross-cultural understandings of our ever-changing, interconnected world.
Current and recent past grant projects include:
Fulbright-Hays Group Study Abroad Project
AANAPISI and Faculty Curriculum Development
ASDP Association for Regional Center (ARCAS) Annual Report 2017-2018
ASDP Association for Regional Center (ARCAS) Annual Report 2016-2017
Dona Cady
Professor of Humanities
ASDP Regional Representative
cadyd@middlesex.mass.edu
781-280-3678
The Apology Film Screening
October 7, 2019
2-4PM Recital Hall
Academic Arts Center
Winner of the Best Documentary at the 2019 Peabody Awards and the 2016 Busan International
Film Festival, THE APOLOGY follows the personal journeys of three former "comfort
women" who were among the 200,000 girls and young women kidnapped and forced into
military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II
Poetry Reading by Emily Yoon
October 21, 2019
11AM-12:15PM
Bedford East Cafe
2-3:15PM Recital Hall
Academic Arts Center
Emily Yoon, author of Ordinary Misfortunes (2017), will be reading from her new anthology
A Cruelty Special to Our Species (2018). She is winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook
Prize and was the 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellow at the Poetry
Foundation. Her work often confronts the history of violence against women and her
new book focuses particularly on the Korean “comfort women” who were forced into sexual
labor by the Japanese during WWII.