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Onkarbir Toor Memorial Lecture: Global Capitalism and the Peasant Question in Colonial Panjab

Join us for the Onkarbir Toor Memorial Lecture, “Global Capitalism and the Peasant Question in Colonial Panjab”. Navyug Gill is a historian specializing in modern South Asia and global history. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History at William Paterson University. He received a PhD from Emory University, and a BA from the […]

Asian Studies Indigenizing Teaching & Learning Series: PD Workshop

The Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Committee is delighted to announce the third annual workshop on Indigenizing Teaching and Learning in Asian Studies. Join us to learn how our colleagues in the department have incorporated Indigenous topics and/or methodologies in their courses. Discussion to follow short presentations by: Dr. Kyoko Hillman on JAPN 459 011 Dr. […]

Special Halloween screening (& screaming!): CAVE OF THE SILKEN WEB 盤絲洞 (1927)

Join us for a special Halloween screening (and screaming!) of the long-lost Chinese spider-women film: CAVE OF THE SILKEN WEB 盤絲洞 (1927)! Translated by Christopher Rea, music by Donald Sosin. Date & Time: Thursday, October 31 at 12pm Location: Auditorium, UBC Asian Centre Format: 60-min film screening, followed by 30-min discussion This event is free and open to […]

‘Don’t Be a Gap-Filler’, and Other Writing Advice for Graduate Students

“My study fills a gap in the literature” is a common—and terrible—way that researchers justify their studies. For one thing, “gaps in the literature” are infinite. Why fill this one? More importantly, by embracing this metaphor, the author presents themselves as a mere gap-filler and ignores their true potential as a researcher trying to solve […]

Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History and Fiction with Gustav Heldt

JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES, 2024-2025 The Japan Studies Lunchtime Speaker Series welcomes all for a lecture and discussion with Dr. Gustav Heldt on his new monograph, Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History and Fiction.  Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian Japan through […]

Turning Your Seminar Paper into a Journal Article

Should you try to turn that paper you wrote for graduate seminar into a journal article? If so, how? What additional work do you need to do to create an article manuscript—and how much? Whose advice should you request during the revision process? To which journal should you send the completed draft? What should you […]

《杜騙新書》如何譯? Adventures in Translating the Ming Dynasty Book of Swindles

The Book of Swindles 杜騙新書 (1617 preface) is said to be the first Chinese collection of stories about fraud. Addressed primarily to traveling merchants of the late Ming era, the work offers eighty-odd tales of swindles attempted and accomplished, most of which are followed by an author’s comment that drives home the lesson for the […]