Publication title:Perception of Lexical Tones by Homeland and Heritage Speakers of Cantonese
Publication year: 2022
Author: Zoe Wai-Man Lam
About the book
Perception of Lexical Tones by Homeland and Heritage Speakers of Cantonese compares the lexical tone perception abilities of two populations with different bilingual configurations: Cantonese-dominant adults who grew up in Hong Kong (referred to as homeland speakers), and English-dominant adults who grew up in a Cantonese-speaking household in Canada (heritage speakers). From infancy both were exposed to Cantonese as a first language in terms of chronological order; however, after the onset of schooling, each became dominant in the majority language of their respective society.
Given this background, this research project investigates whether heritage speakers’ perception of lexical tones of a non-dominant first language (Cantonese) exhibits cross-language effects from a dominant second language (English) that does not have a contrastive dimension of tone. Results of a series of perception experiments indicate that homeland speakers have a significantly greater ability to distinguish tonally contrastive words by solely relying on tonal information. Both groups showed confusion of overlapping subsets of tone pairs, but heritage speakers had a higher error percentage, which suggests a quantitative but not qualitative difference between the two groups. Lastly, the two groups used different listening strategies in tone identification.
زنده‌یاد علیرضا احمدیان، محقق، تحلیلگر و فعال فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیاسی و از اعضای محبوب و مورداحترام جامعه ایرانی-کانادایی بود. وی دانش‌آموختهٔ دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا (یوبی‌سی) و از جمله افراد بسیار تأثیرگذار در شکل‌گیری و راه‌اندازی گروه زبان فارسی و ایران‌شناسی در این دانشگاه بود.
دپارتمان آسیاپژوهی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا در سال ۲۰۱۹، عنوان مجموعه سخنرانی‌های ایران‌شناسی دانشگاه را (که پیش‌تر و در سپتامبر ۲۰۱۸ راه‌اندازی شده بود)، به پاس کوشش‌های ارزشمند زنده‌یاد علیرضا احمدیان، به نام ایشان تغییر داد. در سال ۲۰۱۹، تنی چند از دوستان علیرضا احمدیان ضمن ارائهٔ حمایت سخاوتمندانهٔ مالی از این رویداد مهم دانشگاهی، امکان برگزاری این سخنرانی‌ها را تا پایان سال تحصیلی ۲۰۲۵-۲۰۲۶ فراهم ساختند.
سالانه بین ۴ تا ۶ جلسهٔ سخنرانی با حضور اساتید و صاحب‌نظران حوزه‌های مختلف ایران‌شناسی و فارسی‌پژوهی در قالب این مجموعه سخنرانی برگزار می‌شود. برخی از این جلسات حضوری و بعضی دیگر آنلاین خواهند بود. علاقه‌مندان می‌توانند جهت شرکت در هر جلسه، فرم مخصوص آن جلسه را تکمیل و ثبت‌نام کنند تا در جریان اخبار مرتبط با آن جلسه قرار بگیرند.
(شرکت در تمامی جلسات رایگان و برای عموم آزاد است.)
برای عضویت در خبرنامهٔ مجموعه سخنرانی‌ها و دریافت آخرین اخبار و اطلاعات، مشخصات خود را در فرم زیر وارد کنید:
شنبه، ۱۸ دسامبر ۲۰۲۱ (آنلاین – به انگلیسی و فارسی)
داستان پنهان هزار و یک شب در زبان فارسی: ترجمه هنریه محمدباقر خراسانی تحت حمایت مالی در حیدرآباد (هند)
سخنرانان: دکتر مهدی گنجوی، محقق، نویسنده و ویراستار، کتابخانه روبارتس، دانشگاه تورنتو؛ میثم علی‌پور، رمان‌نویس و کارشناس ارشد مطالعات هنر، دانشگاه تهران
طرف‌بحث: دکتر پگاه شهباز، پژوهشگر پسادکتری، مرکز مطالعات جنوب آسیا، موسسه آسیایی، دانشکده امور جهانی و سیاست عمومی، دانشگاه تورنتو
سخنران: محسن نامجو، خواننده – ترانه‌سرای ایرانی، محقق موسیقی و نوازندهٔ سه‌تار، ساکن شهر نیویورک، به‌دعوت دپارتمان آسیاپژوهی و انجمن دانشجویان ایرانی یو بی سی
Publication title: The Deadly Intersections of COVID-19: Race, States, Inequalities and Global Society
Publication year: 2022
Editor: Sunera Thobani
About the book
This pioneering book demonstrates the disproportionate impact of state responses to COVID-19 on racially marginalized communities.
Written by women and queer people of colour academics and activists, the book analyses pandemic lockdowns, border controls, vaccine trials, income support and access to healthcare across eight countries in North America, Asia, Australasia and Europe, to reveal the inequities within, and between countries.
Putting intersectionality and economic justice at the heart of their frameworks, the authors call for collective action to end the pandemic and transform global inequities.
Contributing to debates around the effects of COVID-19 – as well as racial capitalism and neoliberal globalization at large – this research is invaluable in informing future policy.
The Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus), invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Classical Persian Literature and Culture. Applicants with expertise in the history and practice of classical Persian literature and culture are welcome to apply; applicants with a commitment to the broader notion of ‘Persianate’ literary culture are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants are expected to have full professional proficiency in English and in Persian, and proficiency in at least one other language of the Persianate cosmopolis. A strong track record of participation in team work and program affairs, and experience in community outreach and program building is a plus.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field or expect to have successfully defended the dissertation before July 1, 2023. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate excellence in research and undergraduate and graduate teaching, and to maintain an active program of research, publication, teaching, graduate supervision, and service. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with tenure-stream Asian Studies faculty in South Asian and Persianate and Islamic history and culture, and with any future hires in the area of Persian/Iranian Studies. Further information about the Department can be found on its website, www.asia.ubc.ca.
The application dossier should include:
a letter of application;
a curriculum vitae;
a 1-page statement identifying the applicant’s contributions, or potential contributions, to diversity, and ability to work with a culturally diverse student body;
one writing sample (maximum 30 pages);
two sample course syllabi, preferably one at the undergraduate-level and one at the graduate-level;
evidence of teaching effectiveness; and
names and contact information of three referees who could provide confidential letters of recommendation should the candidate be long- or short-listed.
The deadline for receipt of complete applications is October 7, 2022. The anticipated start date of employment is July 1, 2023.
This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
Given the uncertainty caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, applicants must be prepared to conduct interviews remotely if circumstances require. A successful applicant may be asked to consider an offer containing a deadline without having been able to make an in-person visit to campus if travel and other restrictions are still in place.
Inspired by the case of a torture specialist in 1980s South Korea who from 1988 to 2000 was a fugitive in his own house, The Catcher in the Loft (published in South Korea in 2011 as Saenggang) is in equal parts a portrait of a man coming to terms with his notorious past and a coming-of-age story centered in his dependent relationship with his college-age daughter, who has always thought of him as a patriotic policeman. The novel begins at breakneck speed, with a victim perishing under the torture artist’s (renamed An) watch, and a hurried decision that An must take cover. The remainder of the novel is a dual narrative related in turn by the torture artist and his daughter, Sŏn, who must harbor her father in a loft above her room. There follows a counterpoint of concealment (An) and revelation (Sŏn), with the daughter discovering the “festival” of her own body during an infatuation with a university classmate, followed by the sobering knowledge, manifested firsthand in her encounter with one of her father’s shattered victims, that the father she had idolized is a sado-masochist reduced to abject dependence on her for all of his daily needs during his concealment in the loft. When the novel ends, years later, the focus is equally on An’s ultimate capitulation (he turns himself in to the authorities) and Sŏn’s awakening to her autonomy.
This volume outlines the major developments, characteristics, genres, and figures of the Korean literary tradition. It includes examples, in English translation, of each of the genres and works by several of the major figures discussed in the text. Both the classical and modern periods are covered. Korean literature developed in response to dynamic changes in popular life and culture taking place over the millennia, and as such it is an expression of the region’s distinctive history.
Crystal toils day and night to earn top grades at her cram school. She’s also endlessly texting, shopping, drinking, vexing her boyfriends, cranking up her mp3s, and fantasizing about her next slice of cheesecake. Her non-stop frenzy never quite manages the one thing that might calm her down: opening up about the pressures that are driving her to the edge. She certainly hasn’t talked with her best friend, Mina, nor Mina’s brother, whom she’s developing a serious crush on. And Crystal’s starting to lose her grip.
In this shocking English debut, award-winning Korean author Kim Sagwa delivers an astonishingly complex portrait of modern-day adolescence. With pitch-perfect dialogue and a precise eye for detail, Kim creates a piercingly real teen protagonist–at once powerful, vulnerable, and utterly confused. As one bad decision leads to another, this promising life spirals to a devastating climax.
Ch’ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by his distinctive voice and colloquial style. Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader is the first English-language anthology of his works and features a variety of genres—novella, short fiction, anecdotal essay, travel writing, children’s story, one-act play, three-act play, and roundtable discussion.
This anthology moves beyond the usual “representative works” to provide a well-rounded selection of writing by one of Korea’s most innovative and memorable voices, drawing on Ch’ae’s ten-volume Complete Works. This edition also provides a comprehensive introduction outlining the limitations of existing approaches to Ch’ae. It contextualizes the anthology’s contents both in terms of the author’s career and the rich Korean tradition of intertextuality and intermediality that he reflects from the country’s earliest times to the new millennium.
Publication title:Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)
Publication year: 2022
Authors: Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea
About the book
Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters.
The hardest part of research isn’t answering a question. It’s knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?
This book will help you start your new research project the right way for you with a series of simple yet ingenious exercises. Written in a conversational style and packed with real-world examples, this easy-to-follow workbook offers an engaging guide to finding research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas.
Read this book if you (or your students):
have difficulty choosing a research topic
know your topic, but are unsure how to turn it into a research project
feel intimidated by or unqualified to do research
worry that you’re asking the wrong questions about your research topic
have plenty of good ideas, but aren’t sure which one to commit to
feel like your research topic was imposed by someone else
want to learn new ways to think about how to do research.
Under the expert guidance of award-winning researchers Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, you will find yourself on the path to a compelling and meaningful research project, one that matters to you—and the world.
For more information, online classes, webinars, and other materials related to the book, see the Where Research Begins website.
Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Japanese Literature and Film
ASIA 258
Religion in South Asia
ASIA 300
Writing and Culture in East Asia
ASIA 305
Asian Horror Cinema: National Nightmares and Specters of Trauma
ASIA 308
Myth, Ritual and Epic in Ancient India
ASIA 311
Tibetan Buddhism
ASIA 313
Tibetan and Himalayan Culture and Society
ASIA 314
Premodern Japan
ASIA 315
Japan from Feudal to Modern State
ASIA 319
Contemporary Chinese Popular Cultures
ASIA 320
History of Early China
ASIA 324
Literature of Hong Kong
ASIA 325
Hong Kong Cinema
ASIA 326
Critical Approaches to Manga and Anime
ASIA 327
Korean Popular Music in Context
ASIA 333
Contemporary South Asian Gender and Sexuality Studies
ASIA 351
Modern Chinese Fiction in Translation
ASIA 353
Intro to Hindi Film
ASIA 354
Intro to Japanese Cinema
ASIA 355
Chinese Cinema
ASIA 363
Fiction and Film from Modern Taiwan
ASIA 364
Modern Japanese Literature in Translation
ASIA 367
Contemporary Korean Culture
ASIA 371
Foundations of Chinese thought
ASIA 375
Global Chinese Cinemas
ASIA 386
Chinese Grammar and Usage I
ASIA 387
Japanese Religions
ASIA 394
Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema
ASIA 395
Modern Persian Literature
ASIA 410
International Relations in Premodern East Asia
ASIA 411
Chinese Political Thought and Institutions
ASIA 456
History and Culture of Taiwan
ASIX 300
Topics in Asian Studies Crossings
ASTU 201
Canada, Japan and the Pacific: Cultural Studies
ASTU 202
Canada, Japan and the Pacific: Political, Economic and Geographical Perspectives
CDST 250
Introduction to Canada
Please note the course list is not comprehensive (in terms of not listing language courses, but also more generally), and is an estimate at the time of this posting. The application form does not restrict applications to the contents of this list.
Required qualifications:
High level of fluency in the language/subject to be taught
Ability to prepare teaching materials
Training or previous experience in language teaching in the relevant language desirable
Period of Employment:
Term 1: September 1 – December 31, 2024
Term 2: January 1 – April 30, 2025
NOTE: All teaching assistantships for the 2024 Winter session will be 192 hours per course unless otherwise noted.
General nature of the duties:
Preparation of and instruction in the language laboratory, discussion periods, tutorial sessions, review sessions and lectures; teaching; keeping class records; setting, marking and providing feedback on examinations, tests and assignments; holding office hours; invigilating exams and assisting instructors to conduct oral exams; management and maintenance of a website and Canvas; duplicating materials; ordering and obtaining AV equipment; demonstrating procedures or setting up demonstrations.
Current salary:
Graduate Teaching Assistant I (Doctoral) or equivalent
$38.99/hour
Graduate Teaching Assistant II (Masters) or equivalent
Please note that generally it is impossible to make firm decisions about appointments until the enrollments are known at the end of the registration period.
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.
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