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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Japanese literature course leads to the ultimate field trip for UW students
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 “potentially extremely interesting and important, if not …
NSA Grant Funds Korean Language Program for Local High School Students
Posted on February 27, 2017 by Steven Barcus This summer, as many as 20 students from across Dane County will be exploring Korean language and culture through the UW-Madison STARTALK Korean Language and Culture Academy. The STARTALK program, an …
BJ Lim has been selected for funding as part of the STARTALK 2017 program
I am happy to inform you that we have just heard from the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) that the proposal “UW-Madison STARTALK Korean Lang & Culture Academy”, developed by BJ Lim …
Sarah Beckham receives an Educational Innovation Small Grant
Sarah Beckham, instructor and program coordinator, Asian Languages and Cultures, College of Letters and Science, was awarded a small grant for a creating a blended course for Elementary Hindi. The primary aim of implementing a …
Data-based Case for Building U.S. Capacity for Foreign Languages
A recent article in Inside Higher Ed “Language by the Shrinking Numbers,” by Colleeen Flaherty shares a new report from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. “Language education is dwindling at every level, from …
Educational Innovations grant awarded to SASLI
The Center for South Asia and the South Asia Summer Language Institute is pleased to announce that our project was selected for a UW-Madison Educational Innovations grant of $10,000! This award will supplement costs associated …
In Memorium: Kannikar Elbow
As many of you already know, our Thai instructor of 12 years, Kannikar Elbow, passed away last week after her courageous fight against cancer. Her obituary and the information regarding the Memorial Gathering scheduled tomorrow …
Professor Huntington tells a traditional Chinese ghost story
Rania Huntington, professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, tells a traditional Chinese ghost story during a Chinese-style haunted house at the Mosse Humanities Building Friday. The benefit event, hosted by the UW-Madison Chinese Language and Culture …
Collaborative Training Grant: Training for Scholars of Pre-Modern China
William Nienhauser, Rania Huntington, and Mark Meulenbeld of Asian Languages and Cultures have teamed up with Joseph Dennis and Judd Kinzley of History and Yuhang Li of Art History for this training grant. Interdisciplinarity is …