The Ascent
East Asian economic prosperity and political movements across the last two centuries.
03 / Summit Archive
A history of gathering across borders.
The EAYS archive preserves the themes, people, student work, and public programs that shaped the summit. Explore records from 2024, 2022, and our inaugural gathering in 2021.
2024
July 24–25 · Online
The Sixth Annual East Asia Youth Summit
Tensions: Pushes, Pulls, and Equilibria in a Global East Asia.
The 2024 summit examined forces of change across East Asian and Asian American societies. Students met scholars and practitioners in four academic panels, contributed their own perspectives, and presented original work for recognition.
Weaving the Webs
The Intellectual Silk Road: Asian students abroad and the pressures shaping contemporary education systems.
Social Frictions
Music and censorship during the Cultural Revolution, alongside gender and feminism in the twentieth century.
Neglected Voices
A poster walk surfacing stories from underrepresented and underappreciated East Asian communities.
Summit recordings
Revisit the 2024 conversations.
2024 Summit · Recording 01
2024 Summit · Recording 02
Recognition
Student contribution was part of the program.
Participants could receive certificates and recognition through the Individual Insight Award, Content Expertise Award, Critical Thinking Award, and Compositional Research Award.
2022
Virtual program record
A continuing cross-border forum
A program shaped by many fields and points of view.
The surviving 2022 record documents a guest program spanning international development, diplomacy, education, political history, language, the arts, and cross-cultural communication. Together, these contributors expanded the summit beyond a single discipline.
Summit recording
Watch the 2022 program.
2022 Summit · Full recording
2021
August 14–15 · Online
The Inaugural Virtual Summit
Navigating adversity. Reimagining the future.
The first East Asia Youth Summit brought young people, educators, scholars, and practitioners into one cross-border forum. Across two days, participants examined anti-Asian hate, student research, history and international relations, and the everyday work of cross-cultural communication.
Accelerating East Asian youth leadership through civic dialogue and multilateral cultural collaboration.
The 2021 program record
Two days. Four connected conversations.
August 14 · 8:30–10:00 AM ET
Safe & Inclusive Schools
A skills-based workshop on responding to anti-Asian hate in K–16 settings and building safer, more inclusive communities.
August 14 · 10:00–11:30 AM ET
Student Research
A virtual E-Poster Walk where high school students shared research, projects, and questions with a wider public.
August 15 · 8:30–10:00 AM ET
History & International Relations
A discussion connecting the histories and cultures of East Asian countries with their changing regional relationships.
August 15 · 10:00–11:30 AM ET
Cross-Cultural Communication
A practical conversation about understanding customs, communicating across difference, and building stronger connections.
From the archive to 2026
The format evolves. The purpose continues.
Cross-border dialogueListening across different histories, cultures, and lived experiences.
Students as contributorsGiving young people a platform to present work—not only attend.
Ideas into communityConnecting research and public conversation with practical collaboration.
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Speaker, registration, access, and Student Showcase updates will be announced as planning progresses.
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