Virtual Asian Studies Workshop Series: Careers and Engagement in Asia

16 May 2022 - 20 May 2022

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Cantonese, Featured Chinese, Featured Events, Featured Hindi-Urdu, Featured Japanese, Featured Korean, Featured Persian, Featured Punjabi, Featured Sanskrit, Featured Tibetan

May 16-20, 2022

Snake Oil: Snake Women in East Asia and Their Afterlives in Literature, Theatre, and Film

28 May 2022 9:00 am

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events

This joint UCLA-UBC conference focuses on versions of and interconnections between two key East Asian tales about snake women: the Japanese Dōjōji 道成寺 and the Chinese Legend of the White Snake 白蛇傳.

The Indian Connection in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl

28 May 2022 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Indian Imaginary” in the Mirror of Hedayat’s The Blind Owl on March 12, 2022

The Impossible Gift of Sense in Rahnavard Zaryāb’s “The Snakes Under the Silverberry Trees”

18 June 2022 4:00 pm

Venue: Online Event
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies

You are invited to Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Impossible Gift of Sense in Rahnavard Zaryāb’s “The Snakes Under the Silverberry Trees” on June 18, 2022.

The Japan Lecture Series

07 September 2022

Venue: Asian Centre
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Japanese

The Japan Lecture Series invites established and emerging voices from all areas of Japan Studies to share their latest projects with our community. To promote accessibility, many of the lectures will take a hybrid format. Sessions will entail a forty-five-minute lecture followed by a thirty-minute question-and-answer period. Hosted by the Department of Asian Studies, University […]