CHIN CNTO JAPN Upcoming Course Number Changes
As of Summer 2016, several CHIN, CNTO and JAPN courses will undergo renumbering. Find out the changes in this handy chart.
2016 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Speech Contest for University Students
On Saturday March 19, 2016, the BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Speech Contest for University Students was held at BCIT.
UBC Students Compete at the Canada National Japanese Speech Contest
The first prize winners of the 28th BC Japanese speech contest from UBC, Tsuyoshi Hamanaka, Christopher Goeb and Jeremy Sit, presented their speeches at the 27th Canada National Japanese Speech Contest held at the University of Toronto on March 19th.
Bruce Fulton's Recently Published Books
Check out these latest books from our Department’s Bruce Fulton and his wife Ju-Chan Fulton!
Photos: 2016 Asian Studies Graduate Conference
The 2016 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference was a great success!
Photos: 2016 Asian Studies Careers Night
The Department of Asian Studies held its annual Careers Night on March 21st, 2016.
Photos: 2016 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program
UBC’s annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program, which celebrates the life of Punjabi in BC and is now in its eighth year, was held on March 16-17, 2016.
VIDEO: Christopher Rea and Henry Jenkins on How Vaudeville Differed Between Hollywood and China
This conversation between Henry Jenkins, a media scholar who works primarily on American popular culture, and Christopher Rea, Associate Professor at UBC Asian Studies, will explore comic convergences on the silver screen, focusing on filmmakers who embraced a vaudevillian aesthetic of visceral comedy and variety entertainment.
From Hanshin to Fukushima: 20 Years of Researching Disasters in Japan
From Hanshin to Fukushima: 20 Years of Researching Disasters in Japan David W. Edgington (Geography, UBC) Monday, April 4th, 2016 5pm Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver *Please Register below Abstract: Is Japan distinctively prone to disasters? This presentation argues `yes it is’, and that Japanese society has come to terms with this by […]
David Graham Memorial Fund
David Graham was a friend of Asian Studies and an avid bibliophile, especially as concerns books on the arts of Japan and Korea. Moreover, he was one of those responsible for the very building in which the Asian Library is housed. A group of alumni and friends of the Department have set up a fund […]