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Meet the 2025/2026 Lecturers of the Year

Each year, the Department of Asian Studies awards prizes to two Lecturers to recognize and celebrate excellence in teaching in the Lecturer rank. It is with great pleasure that we announce Pihua Lin and Zoe Lam as our 2025/2026 Lecturers of The Year.

Boba U: Chinese Language Students Design Their Own Taiwanese Milk Tea

On September 23, the CHIN 341/335 discussion session turned students into boba shop owners. 🧋 Working in small groups, students applied what they'd learned in class to design their own custom milk tea — picking real flavour bases,

Experiencing Japanese Culture! A Cultural Exchange Event with Keio University LINK

On September 18, 2026, the Japanese Language Program collaborated with members of LINK from Keio University to host a Japanese cultural exchange event at UBC. Keio University is one of UBC’s partner institutions, and LINK is a student group within

PhD student Hok Yau (Tim) Pit selected to join the UBC Vancouver Public Scholars Initiative

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Living with complex risk in the Himalaya: An interdisciplinary discussion of the August 2026 disaster in Nepal and Tibet

October 14, 2026

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees

2026 Vancouver Korean Book Festival: Book Talk with Park Sang Young

October 15, 2026

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

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