Welcome to Asian Languages & Cultures
We encourage students to study Asia in a regional and comparative frame while cultivating scholarly capacities in particular aspects of Asian culture, including East, South, and Southeast Asian Studies. To that end, we offer multiple degree options at the BA, MA, and Ph.D levels, reflecting departmental research strengths that allow students to approach the study of languages and cultures from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.
News
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Teresa "Terry" Nealon has been with the College of Letters and Science since 1964, and with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature since 1975. Last July, Terry watched the merging of two departments (EALL and the Department of...
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David Burnett put Madison on his back this Saturday at the 16th Annual Midwest regional chinese speech contest. He’s a first year student at UW-Madison in third year Chinese who had a drive to win on his home turf. The speech contest had over 60...
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This summer, as many as 20 students from across Dane County will be exploring Korean language and culture through the UW-Madison STARTALK Korean...
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When Junko Mori came to Wisconsin in the 1990s, Japan was experiencing an economic boom. To foster business collaboration, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction recruited native Japanese speakers to help elementary and secondary school...
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Late last semester, UW–Madison professor Adam L. Kern sent an urgent, cryptic email to four of his students. He summoned them to his office early the next morning, promising something “...
Publications
Upcoming Events
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08/23/2017 - 10:00 AMInformational Meeting with Department with Administrator/ Financial Specialist/ Graduate Program Coordinator Information regarding schedule, benefits, payroll procedures, and the Immigration Reform and Control Act requirements (I-9 form) will be presented.
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08/28/2017 - 10:30 AMProfessor Steve Ridgely will welcome TAs and FLTAs, share overview of the department leadership and staff structure, discuss work-study balance, TAs and Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) and Graduate Program Coordinator (GPC)
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09/1/2017 - 10:00 AMAll graduate students are encouraged to attend the inaugural meeting with the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) Professor Junko Mori.
