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 …
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New Korean Language Flagship Program to launch
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon launch a new undergraduate Korean Language Flagship Program, becoming the second Korean Flagship in the nation. With a grant from the National Security Education Program, the Department of Asian Languages …
Congratulations to Masha Kobzeva
On August 3, 2018 Masha Kobzeva (Ph.D. Chinese) successfully defended her dissertation, “Compilation of the Jin shu and Emperor Taizong’s Self-Representation in Early Tang Historiographical Tradition,” (William Nienhauser, Advisor). Masha will be teaching First Semester …
Congratulations to Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen
On July 16, 2018 Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen (Ph.D., Chinese) successfully defended her dissertation, “Questioning Homeland, Sensing Home: Performance and the Negotiation of Identity Construction in Cold War China and Taiwan,” (Rania Huntington, Advisor). Upon graduation, …
Congratulations to Milan Simic
On July 5, 2018 Milan Simic (PhD, Languages and Cultures of Asia), successfully defended his dissertation, "Linguistic Varieties of the Russian Altai," (Uli Schamiloglu, Advisor). Milan is currently in Astana, Kazakhstan on a postdoc at Nazarbayev …
Professor Nienhauser Directs workshop at Nankai University
Professor Bill Nienhauser directed a Workshop on the biography of Confucius as it appears in the Shiji (Grand Scribe's Records) for 35 graduate students and young faculty at Nankai University (Tianjin) from 18-29 June 2018. Besides …
Congratulations to Selcuk Altuntas
On June 15, 2018 Selcuk Altuntas (Ph.D. Languages and Cultures of Asia) successfully defended his dissertation, “How to be a Proper Muslim in the Russian Empire: An Intellectual Biography of Musa Jarullah Bigiyev (1875-1949),” (Uli Schamiloglu, Advisor). …
Professor Buhnemann’s recent Publications and Lectures
Professor Gudrun Buhnemann published "Modern Maṇḍala Meditation: Some Observations” in Contemporary Buddhism no. 18/2. 2017 (print version 2018), pp. 263-276 and "Royal Likenesses on Pillars” in: The Cultural Heritage of Nepal, before, during and after the 2015 Earthquakes – Current …
Professor Muhammad Umar Memon (1939-2018)
Sunday, June 3rd Professor Emeritus Mohammad Umar Memon passed away from a relatively short battle with a rare form of lung cancer. In a brief call with his wife, Nakako, she shared that he was …
New Publication by Adam L. Kern: The Penguin Book of Haiku
The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. …