Protected: Jessica Main Tenure Dossier
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Alumni Spotlight – Taylor Sadler, BA '15
Taylor Sadler, BA ‘15, worked as a Cultural Ambassador for the Labo International Exchange Foundation in Japan after graduating. Her job involved going to different community groups and giving children a chance to interact with a foreigner, learn about a foreign culture, and practice their English.
Meet our Students – Douglas Ober, Ph.D. Student, Modern Indian Buddhism
My dissertation rests at the intersection of South Asian history and Buddhist studies. Put simply, the conventional view in academia (and beyond) is that sometime between the 12th – 15th century, Buddhism “died” or “disappeared” from India before being “reborn” in 1956 when the Indian constitutionalist, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, converted to Buddhism along with half a million of his Dalit (“Untouchable”) followers.
CUHK Cantonese Exchange
The new UBC Cantonese program taught its first Summer Term CNTO 301/303 Basic Cantonese courses from this past June through August. On June 8th, 12 exchange students from Shaw College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) visited the UBC Cantonese class and joined in a demonstration of an ultrasound experiment on teaching Cantonese headed by researcher Dr. Heather Bliss.
Creative Student Projects for ASIA 347, Fall 2015
ASIA 347 is a survey course in traditional Korean literature. Although the assigned readings date as far back as 1500 years ago, they live on in the Korean cultural memory, and specifically through the broad stream of Korean oral literature, performance aspects of which can be seen even today in Hallyu, the wave of Korean […]
The Sheng Yen Education Foundation gives UBC Asian Studies $375,000 to create new Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese Buddhism
The gift will be distributed over the next five years and will play a significant role in advancing Buddhist scholarship at the University. Asian Studies interviewed Jamie Yang, a representative of the Sheng Yen Education Foundation, about the gift and the foundation.
Meet the New Instructor for ASIA 327: Korean Popular Music In Context
The Department of Asian Studies is excited to introduce our new Postdoc, Dr. CedarBough Saeji. Dr. Saeji will be teaching the highly anticipated 2016W course “Korean Popular Music in Context” this fall.
Buddhist Charitable Foundation Gives UBC $2.2 Million to Create Strategic Partnership
The six-year collaboration will support various types of academic research and cultural activities related to Buddhist Studies.
Protected: 2016 Part-time Sessional Searches
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Protected: 2016 Japanese Sessional Search
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