Tadoku Reading Club / Tagaki Writing Club: Registration for Winter 2019/20

Do you want to polish your Japanese skills? The Japanese Language Program’s Tadoku Reading Club and Tagaki Writing Club is the perfect opportunity for you to practice and improve your Japanese reading and writing skills, while getting feedback from your peers and TAs! The club meets Mondays and Tuesdays, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Asian Library 1F seminar room. Please complete the form here if you are interested in participating.

Critical Asian Studies Journal's Online Blog

Critical Asian Studies, a Taylor and Francis multidisciplinary academic journal, is soliciting 500-1,500-word online blog posts to for a linguistically and culturally diverse readership. With a focus on practice more than theory, the blog is now publishing posts emphasizing empirical evidence from early career scholars about emerging scholarship and research on new and critical topics infolding across Asia on the themes of research and opinion on politics, economic realities, or another critical topic in an Asian region, or reflections on fieldwork highlighting methods employed across various disciplines for research, analysis, and data collection. If you would like to submit or propose a post, respond to webeditor.criticalasianstudies@gmail.com with your interest and potential topic.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Program Accepting Applications

The UBC Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL) and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) offer a support program for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The SoTL Seed Program provides selected projects – that seek to research and evaluate impactful pedagogies – with graduate research assistants, collegial collaborations, and complementary funding. The deadline for applications is December 6, 2019.

Call for Submissions: 29th Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia

Graduate students are cordially invited to submit abstracts for the 29th Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, to be held at Columbia University on February 21st and 22nd, 2020. Applications from students engaged in research on all fields in East Asian Studies are welcome. The deadline for abstracts submissions is November 8th, 2019.

Call for Submissions: 2020 Nexus Interdisciplinary Conference, Scholarship [in] Action

This year, the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program is teaming up with the Graduate Student Society and the Public Scholars Initiative to celebrate dynamic graduate students who engage in public scholarship, solutions-oriented research, and/or knowledge translation. In an effort to increase the accessibility and applicability student work across disciplines,the program is elevating creative presentation formats. Deadline for abstracts submissions has been extended to November 1st, 2019.

Call for Submissions: 29th Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia

Graduate students are cordially invited to submit abstracts for the 29th Annual Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, to be held at Columbia University on February 21st and 22nd, 2020. Applications from students engaged in research on all fields in East Asian Studies are welcome. The deadline for abstracts submissions is November 8th, 2019.

Call for Submissions: 26th Annual North American Taiwan Studies Association Conference

The 26th NATSA annual conference – Keywording Taiwan – aims to identify core issues, historical turning points, critical populations, and fundamental theoretical arguments on Taiwan amongst transregional and interdisciplinary scholarship. This year, the conference will take place from May 22-24, 2020 at University of California-Irvine. The deadline for abstracts submissions is November 8th, 2019.

Calling all Filmmakers: Asian Pacific Youth Council Invites Short Film Submissions

If you are a student/Alumni of a local institution (UBC, SFU, ECUAD, etc) and have created short (max. 30 min) films that talk about Asia, or is a filmmaker of Asian heritage, the Asian Youth Pacific Council invites you to submit your film. The selected films will be screened and the filmmaker will be provided a $100 honorarium and invited to talk about their work alongside peers from other local institutions at a public event. Films pertaining to all areas and people of Asia are encouraged. Please email Chandima Silva at arts.culture.apyc@asiapacific.ca for more information. The deadline for abstracts submissions November 17th, 2019.

Financial Grants & Early Bird Pricing for Experiential Travel with Operation Groundswell

Looking for an adventure off the beaten path? This year, join Operation Groundswell for a community of thousands of travellers who are globally active and socially aware of our impact on the places we visit and the places we call home. The deadline for Early Bird applications is November 22nd, 2019.

Job Opportunity in Japan: Awaji Youth Foundation

Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in the humanistic disciplines. The conference provides a window into current research in Chinese studies, and serves as a platform for fostering interaction among budding scholars of geographically disparate institutions and diverse disciplines, facilitating their exchange of ideas and interests.The deadline to apply is November 22, 2019, and the conference will be held April 24-25, 2020 at UC Berkeley.

Call for Submissions: 2020 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference In Modern Chinese Humanities

Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in the humanistic disciplines.The conference will be held from April 24-25, 2020 at UC Berkeley and the deadline for abstract submissions is November 22, 2019.

Call for Submissions: 2020 Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference

The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference is a conference for UBC undergraduate students to showcase their research to the UBC community through oral or poster presentations.This academic year, MURC will take place on Saturday, March 21, 2020. The deadline for applications is January 20, 2020.

Calling all Artists: 26th Annual North American Taiwan Studies Association Conference

The conference, in addition to the conference paper call, is also seeking proposals for art pieces that showcase one’s experiences as a Taiwanese American, as a Taiwanese in North America, or experiences with Taiwan. Selected artist(s) will be offered honoraria of $600 and invited to do a 15-minute performance/showcase of the art piece during the conference. The project aims at exploring “Taiwan” and “Taiwanese experiences in North America” through the lens of arts. By bringing this project into the conference, NATSA looks forward to providing a platform for non-scholarly approaches to studying Taiwan creatively.

Call for Submissions: Young Scholars' Forum in Chinese Studies 2020

The Seventh Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies is now calling for paper proposal to the theme: Intellectual Networks and Knowledge Production: Remapping Chinese Studies. Ph.D. students or Ph.D. graduates with less than five years of work experience are eligible to presentation of their recent research related to the theme. The deadline for abstracts submissions is January 3, 2020.

Call for Submissions: Associate Professors at University of Toronto

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the University of Toronto invites applications for two Associate Professor positions: Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture and a Contractually Limited Term Appointment (CLTA) in Japanese Language. The deadline for applications is January 9, 2020.

Asian Library Wednesday drop-in tours of the Chung collection

The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, one of the Asian Library's most well-known and beloved special collections, contains material related to three broad and interrelated themes: early British Columbia history, immigration and settlement and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The Chung Collection contains more than 25,000 rare and unique items (documents, books, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, silver, glass, ceramic ware and other artifacts), and selections from the collection are on display in RBSC, organized to show some of the most compelling stories of Canada’s past.

ASIA 450Z: Buddhism and Social Changes in Contemporary East Asia

This is a student-directed seminar that focuses on the relationship between Buddhism and contemporary social changes in East Asia from 1950 to the present. Students will analyze how Buddhism responds to social, political, and economic changes with a specific focus on Mahayana Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. Students will cover themes such as identity politics, gender, nationalism, cultural revitalization, diaspora, secularism, globalization, and new religious movements within Buddhism. We will investigate these themes by examining case studies such as the Cultural Revolution in China and charity works run by Buddhist communities. Every week students will be expected to identify a specific case study and analyze it through the analytical and theoretical frameworks learned in class. If interested, please send a statement of intent to m.tian@alumni.ubc.ca.