Join us for a night of food and camaraderie to celebrate Asian cultures and community groups in our neighborhood. Learn about Asian languages and cultures from community members and UW staff and students. Enjoy performances …
Events
Involuntary Resistance: Against Normalizing Society in Recent South Korean Film
UCLA Prof. Christopher Hanscom will discuss two recent South Korean films, exploring connections between the portrayal of “involuntary resistances” and violations of narrative form in I’m a Cyborg but That’s OK (2006) and Castaway on …
Modern Chinese Scalar Constructions
Professor Chaofen Sun is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and by courtesy, of Linguistics, Stanford University. Generously sponsored by Chinese Program of Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Y.R. Chao Foundation, and …
Forum on Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages
Forum on Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages Saturday April 15th 2017, 8 am-12:00 pm Location: Grainger Hall Keynote Speakers: Prof. Lening Liu 刘乐宁 (Columbia University) Prof. Chaofen Sun 孙朝奋 (Stanford University) Prof. …
Nature of Language Acquisition: Argumentation from Chinese Language Education
Nature of Language Acquisition: Argumentation from Chinese Language Education Yang Zhao 赵杨 Professor and Dean, School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University, China Friday April 14th 2017, 4:30-6:00 pm 104 Van Hise Hall …
2017 US Midwest Chinese Bridge Speech Contest and the Forum on Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages
In order to further promote Chinese language and culture education in the Midwest and to strengthen exchanges between Chinese programs at the college level in this region, Chinese Language Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
15th Annual Japanese Speech Contest
The annual speech contest brings the Madison community together and also provides a venue in which students speak confidently in Japanese and connect with many people not only from Madison but also from many parts of …
ALC End-of-Semester Gathering
Samson Lim (Public Talk): The Visual Culture of Criminal Detection in Modern Thailand
Modern criminal investigation entails the production and use of a range of visualisations, from fingerprints and photographs to maps and diagrams. In this talk, I present an analytical history of these visual practices as they …
Tyrell Haberkorn (Public Lecture): Towards an Accounting of Late Cold War Human Rights Violations in Thailand
The 6 October 1976 massacre and coup first ended nearly three years of open politics in Thailand, and then began an extended period of arbitrary detention, torture, and killing of citizens who came to be …