Asian Studies Lecturer Ihhwa Kim awarded UBC Killam Teaching Prize
Congratulations to Ihhwa Kim on receiving UBC Killam Teaching Prize for the 2020/21 academic year!
Fourth Video Out in Interviews with Scholars of Japanese Horror
The fourth installment of Professor Colleen Laird‘s new short J-Horror Video series focuses on Kurosawa Kiyoshis “Loft” Interview with Prof. Chika Kinoshita.
Third Installment in Interviews with Scholars of Japanese Horror
The third installment of Professor Colleen Laird‘s new short J-Horror Video series focuses on Shimizu Takashi’s “Ju-On” Interview with Prof. Raechel Dumas.
Second Video Published now! Interviews with Scholars of Japanese Horror
The second installment of Professor Colleen Laird‘s new short J-Horror Video series focuses on Miike Takashi’s “Audition” Interview with Dr. Kathryn Hemmann.
Introducing the new UBC Asian Studies LinkedIn page!
Keep in touch with fellow students and alumnni as well as upcoming jobs, news, events and more!
Registrations are open for the 33rd Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest (2021)!
The 33rd Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest is open to registrations from British Columbia and Yukon residents who speak Japanese as a foreign or second language. The 2021 Contest will be live streamed ONLINE on Saturday, March 6, 2021.
New Series: Interviews with Scholars of Japanese Horror
We are excited to share Professor Colleen Laird‘s new short J-Horror Video series, in which she interviews scholars of Japanese horror on their work and key films. The first installment of the series focuses on Asato Mari’s Bilocation (2013), featuring Professor Steven Brown of the University of Oregon. There will be a total of five videos in this series, […]
Update about Courses for Term Two in the 2020W Session
Continuing on from Term 1, and for the health and safety of all of us, all courses within the Department of Asian Studies (both undergraduate and graduate) will be offered online in Term 2 for Winter 2020.
Congratulations to Kyoko Kobayashi Hillman on her Ph.D!
We congratulate Kyoko Kobayashi Hillman in our Japanese faculty, who has just successfully submitted and defended her Ph.D thesis within the University of Maryland! The title of Kyoko’s thesis is “Effects of Different Types of Auditory Input on Incidental Vocabulary Learning by L2 Japanese Speakers.” She investigated how different types of spoken input enhance listening […]