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 …
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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 …
John Dunne, new Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities
A few years back, John Dunne was part of a team studying the effect of compassion on the mind. The researchers asked a group of advanced Tibetan meditators to practice while having their brains scanned and then …
ALC Faculty featured in College Magazine Article
“Food for Thought-Why Learning a Foreign Language is an Essential College Experience” (July 15, 2016) Learning a language is all about discovering new perspectives, forming new connections, expanding world views and becoming a more culturally diverse individual. …
New Courses from CIC e-school in Korean Studies (FALL 2016)
Sponsored by the Korea Foundation‘s global e-school initiative, the CIC e-school is offering Korean studies courses for FALL 2016: 1) Korean History, 1945 to Present (9:30am-10:45am Tuesday & Thursday) by Professor Charles Kim (UW-Madison), and 2) Language and Society of the Two …
New Course Offerings from EALL (Summer 2016)
The Department of East Asian Languages and Litertuare is pleased to announce summer courses in Chinese and Japanese as well as the Anime course (by Professor Steve Ridgely) for Summer 2016. Detailed information is as follows: …
UW-Madison Chinese Language Students Won at the Midwest Chinese Speech Contest
We are pleased to announce that our Chinese Language Program students won big again this year with four gold and three silver medals at the 2016 Midwest Universities Chinese Speech Contest at DePaul University in Chicago on …
Japanese Speech Contest and Outreach to High Schools in Winsonsin
The 14th Annual UW-Madison Japanese Speech Contest (March 3, 2016) brought the Madison community together and also provided a venue in which students speak confidently in Japanese and connect with many people not only from Madison but …
Professor Hongming Zhang selected as the WACLT 2015 Teacher of the Year
Professor Hongming Zhang has been named Teacher of the Year for 2015 by the Wisconsin Association of Chinese Language Teachers (WACLT). Here is a message from Lacey Melco, the President of WACLT: “It is my sincere …
The Korean Language Buddy Program Spotlighted
Language Institute has just published an ariticle on the UW-Madison Korean Language Buddy Program on its website (click here)