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 …
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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. …
Japanese Major alumnus, Matt Alt, article in The New Yorker
Matt Alt, a Japanese major alumnus, published "The United States of Japan," in the May 4, 2018 edition of The New Yorker.
Japanese language professor retires, leaving a lasting legacy
May 11, 2018 By Cade Campbell Since joining UW–Madison in 1976, Professor Naomi Hanaoka McGloin has become a pioneer in the field of Japanese language and linguistics, making UW–Madison a flagship university for the next generation …