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The Trinity Centre for Asian Studies (TCAS) is located in Dublin at Trinity College. The Trinity Centre for Asian Studies acts as a focal point for Asian Studies in the university, and brings together teaching and research in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Studies as well as other regionally-based scholarship and pan-Asian research. Its activities focus on contemporary society and culture, language learning, diaspora studies, and comparative studies including Asian-European studies. The current director of the TCAS is Dr Lorna Carson.

Teaching and research at the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies
Trinity College has a longstanding relationship with China which dates to the Mission to the Far East and the establishment of Trinity College Fuzhou. The Dublin University Far Eastern Mission (founded in 1886) established Trinity College Fuzhou in 1907, now the Fuzhou Foreign Language School. In its current guise, the Fuzhou/Trinity relationship is an active bilateral partnership. Trinity was one of the first universities in the European Union to welcome Chinese students, with students from Beijing and Nanjing studying in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The TCAS extramural Mandarin language programme has been running for more than twenty years. Optional Mandarin language classes are offered to all TCD undergraduates and postgraduates within the university’s institution-wide language programme. ''' The Korean Studies programme at Trinity College commenced in 2010, with a range of credit-bearing modules in Korean language and culture are offered within the undergraduate programme, as well as opportunities for postgraduate supervision. The programme has received support from the Korea Foundation for three consecutive years. ''' The Japanese language programme at Trinity College has been running for several decades, with classes at three proficiency levels in Japanese language and culture. The Japan Foundation's Grant Program for Japanese-language Education Activities has supported the TCAS to offer credit-bearing Japanese modules which are fully integrated within the university's undergraduate programme.
 * Chinese Studies
 * Korean Studies
 * Japanese Studies

Events and activities

 * Korean Speech Contest, 11 October 2014. Funded by the Korea Foundation and in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea.


 * Special Issue of the journal of Language Learning in Higher Education (4.2) on Chinese and Japanese Language Learning in Higher Education, guest edited by Lorna Carson and Heath Rose.


 * Public lecture by Dr Laurence Cox (NUIM), A dissident Orientalism? Irish Buddhism in European perspective, 11 February 2013.


 * International EurKorea 2013 conference, European perspectives on Korea. Multidisciplinary comparative conference in Korean Studies (7 – 9 November 2013).


 * First Irish Quiz on Korea, 10 June 2013. South Korean television game show organized as part of an annual international public diplomacy programme by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea and KBS television. The quiz tests participants general knowledge of Korea.


 * Public lecture by Professor Maurizio Riotto, Defensive Fundamentalism in Korea: From history to literature'', 23rd January 2013.

Selected publications
Bertoni, R. (2014). EurKorea 2013: European Perspectives of Korea. Acta of the conference held at Trinity College Dublin, 7th to 9th November 2013. Dublin and Turin, Trinity College and Trauben, 280pp.

Bertoni, R. (2013). Scorci di Korea/Glimpses of Korea. Dublin and Turin, Trinity College and Trauben, 386pp.

Bertoni, R. (2012). Buddhismo e Occidente: capoversi introduttivi. Dublin and Turin, Trinity College and Trauben, 204pp.

Carson, L. (2014). An exploration of the roles of English in societal and individual multilingualism in Korea. In Bertoni, R. (Ed.), EurKorea 2013: European Perspectives of Korea. Dublin and Turin, Trinity College and Trauben, pp2 - 25.

Carson, L. (2013). Perspectives on Korea within and from contemporary Europe: The cases of Italy and Ireland. In Bertoni, R. (Ed.), ''Scorci di Korea/Glimpses of Korea. Dublin and Turin'', Trinity College and Trauben, pp2 - 13.

Carson, L. & Do, E.-J. (2013). Establishing a Korean language programme in a European Higher Education context: Rationale, curriculum and assessment procedures. Language Learning in Higher Education, 3(1), 151 - 171.

Rose, H. & Carson, L. (2014, forthcoming). An overview of Chinese and Japanese language learning around the world, and of foreign language education in Japan and China. Language Learning in Higher Education, 4(2).