On December 7, 2018 Xiang Lyu (Ph.D., Chinese Linguistics) successfully defended his dissertation, "Prosodic Phonology of the Ningbo Dialect,” (Professor Hongming Zhang, Advisor). Dr. Lyu is currently a lecturer of Chinese in the Department of East Asian …
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Kern presents lecture at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Scholar Adam L. Kern, University of Wisconsin-Madison, explores the influence of Japanese woodblock prints from the Edo period on contemporary manga artists. This lecture is presented as a complement to the exhibition Painting the Floating World: …
Professor Huntington featured on WPR’s University of the Air
On Sunday, October 14, 2018 Professor Rania Huntington was featured on Wisconsin Public Radio's University of the Air program, "Ink and Tears: Five Centuries of a Famous Chinese Family," with Emily Auerbach. Listen to this …
Recent Publication edited by Professor Nienhauser
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume I The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China Ssu-ma Ch'ien Edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr. Published October 1, 2018, Indiana University Press Translated by Weiguo Cao, Zhi Chen, Scott Cook, …
Kern invited to speak at Cheltenham Literature Festival
Professor Adam Kern was invited to present at the Cheltenham Liteature Festival on "The Haiku: Beauty and Brevity," on Monday, October 8, 2018. Now a global poetry, the haiku originated as a Japanese verse form that …
Sara Farsiu recognized with 2018 Community-University Partnership Award
Sara Farsiu, ALC's Persian Lecturer and Doctoral Student in Second Language Acquisiton, was recognized with a 2018 Community-University Partnership Award for her volunteer service. Two years ago, the Jewish Social Services in Madison contacted the Persian …
New Faculty Focus: Hieyoon Kim
Meet our new faculty member, Hieyoon Kim, Assistant Professor in Asian Languages & Cultures! She was recently featured in University Communication's New Faculty Focus!
Congratulations to Nalan Erbil Erkan
On August 27, 2018 Nalan Erbil Erkan (Ph.D., Asian Languages and Cultures) successfully defended her dissertation, "The Writer and the Nation-State: Language, Aesthetics, Ideology and Power in Turkish Literature (1927-2015),” (Vinay Dharwadker, Advisor). Nalan will begin a …
Congratulations to Anthony Lovenheim Irwin
On August 23, 2018 Anthony Irwin (Ph.D., Asian Languages and Cultures) successfully defended his dissertation, "Building Buddhism in Chiang Rai, Thailand: Construction as Religion,” (Anne Hansen, Advisor). Congratulations!
Congratulations to Michael Naparstek
On August 16, 2018 Michael Naparstek (Ph.D. Chinese) successfully defended his dissertation, "Figuring on Salvation: The Demonic Savior Wang Lingguan and the Power of Presence in Daoist Ritual and Image at the Ming Court,” (Mark …