August 22nd Edition of the Update – Events, Courses and Job Postings
Upcoming events, new courses, job postings and other news
Asian Studies Imagine Day Event – September 3rd
We will be throwing a Welcome Back Lunch on Imagine Day, hosted in the Asian Studies auditorium at 12:30 pm, September 3rd. All Arts students are welcome to attend. Come learn about the Asian Studies experience, eat some great food and have the opportunity to win some sweet Asian Studies swag! When: 12:30 PM, September 3rd […]
New Faculty Member – Christina Yi
Dr. Christina Yi, specializing in modern Japanese, will be joining our Department from August. Bio: I recently completed my Ph.D. in modern Japanese literature at Columbia University. My dissertation, entitled “Fissured Languages of Empire: Gender, Ethnicity, and Literature in Japan and Korea, 1930s–1950s,” investigates how Japanese-language literature by Korean writers both emerged out of and […]
(Re)imagining Taiwan – A Journey with Chiang Hsun. August 29th
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Rabindra-Nazrul Sandhya 2013 – July 6th
5:00 – 9:00 Saturday July 06, 2013 Organized by: Lower Mainland Bengali Cultural Society (LMBCS) Co-sponsored by: Center For India and South Asia Research (CISAR), IAR, UBC A cultural evening celebrating Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, two of the greatest icons of Bengali literature and culture. There will […]
New Faculty Member – Bruce Rusk
Bruce Rusk I joined the Department of Asian Studies in 2012, but spent the 2012–13 academic year on leave at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina and will be teaching in the Department for the first time in 2013–14. My main areas of research and teaching […]
Celebrate the Great Urdu Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz this Saturday, June 29th
You are cordially invited to a small and informal gathering in celebration of the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. The inspiration for our gathering is the newly hung portrait of Faiz at the Asian Centre, UBC, in the main hall of the building. The painting was completed by our local artist Sheetal Anmol, and […]