June 16, 2021 The Update is a regular roundup of news in the Department of Asian Studies for our Students, Faculty and Staff |
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Dr. Sunera Thobani Announced as Recipient of the Dean of Arts Award for 2020/21 Congratulations to Asian Studies professor Dr. Sunera Thobani on receiving the 2020/21 Dean of Arts Award! This annual award recognizes faculty members who have made exceptional and sustained contributions in two or more areas (educational leadership, teaching and learning, research, and community engagement), and whose contributions have proven to be transformative to the Faculty of Arts. The award is also given in the name of a living Professor Emeritus/Emerita who has made a significant contribution to the Faculty of Arts and has been an inspiration to the award recipient. The Professor Emerita for Dr. Thobani’s award is Dr. Joan Anderson. |
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The Department of Asian Studies at UBC remains shocked and outraged by the hate-motivated mass murder and serious injury of members of the Muslim Afzaal/Salman family in London, Ontario on Sunday June 6, 2021. UBC Asian Studies strongly condemns this act of terrorism, racism, and Islamophobia, and it invites its community members of faculty, staff, students, and alumni to pause and recognize the magnitude of this abhorrent incident; to reflect on racism and Islamophobia experienced and witnessed in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Canada more broadly; and to reach out to those who have been and will be impacted. UBC, and in particular our department, is home to faculty, staff, students and/or alumni who either self-identify as Muslims or come from Muslim backgrounds. We believe that education–at all levels– remains essential to eradicating racism and bigotry of all kinds, including Islamophobia. We must continue to educate ourselves and commit to more active roles in raising awareness of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism within our communities to tackle Islamophobia at its roots. |
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| SPOTLIGHT: GRADUATING CLASS OF 2021 |
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The UBC Department of Asian Studies heartily congratulates the graduating class of 2021 on the completion of your degree in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia! We are extremely proud of you – an impressive achievement and hard-earned success overall! To celebrate our graduating class, we have compiled a yearbook featuring some of our graduates on what they think is the importance of studying Asian Studies, how it influenced them, and who/what they are thankful for in their academic journeys, especially during the unprecedented circumstances. |
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UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: Ethics of Ambiguity in Chan and Existentialism On April 22, the organizers of the UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series invited Prof. Wendi L. Adamek as their third speaker of the series. Wendi L. Adamek is Professor in the Department of Classics and Religion at the University of Calgary and holder of the Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies. Professor Adamek’s lecture, “Ethics of Ambiguity in Chan and Existentialism,” discusses resonances and disparities between existentialist and Chan 禪 (K. Sŏn, J. Zen) probing of freedom and ethics. View the lecture recording or read the recap report |
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2021 BC Chinese Bridge Mandarin Speech Contest Under the theme of “Mandarin as a Bridge, the World as One Family,” the 2021 Chinese Bridge Mandarin Speech Contest successfully took place online on May 4th. This year, the contestants virtually gathered together to think about how the Winter Olympics in the upcoming year will provide a precious opportunity for everyone in the global community to connect with each other. Erin Masters and Alex Doonaco, two students who represented UBC in the speech contest, successfully won first and second place respectively. The winners shared their unique Mandarin learning experience and highlighted how learning a language creates invaluable opportunities to establish genuine and personal relationships with people from different cultural backgrounds. |
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Choose Zero Waste In this issue we are bringing you zero waste store options around Vancouver. Shop in stores or have your zero waste products delivered to your doorstep and make your shopping even more sustainable. Choosing zero waste is choosing to care! |
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Call for Early Bird Submissions: The 13th Asian Conference on Education (ACE2021) This conference, part of IAFOR’s global conference series on education, in its broadest sense brings together teachers, researchers and distinguished professors from around the world to share their insights. The goal is to broaden awareness of different contexts in the pursuit of synergies and solutions. ACE2021 encourages academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum stimulating respectful dialogue and the Organising Committee welcomes papers from a wide variety of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives, and submissions are organised into the streams and substreams listed on their website. The early bird abstract submission deadline is July 1. For more information, please visit the ACE2021 Call for Papers page. The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts 2022-25 Fellowship Competition The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, calls for fellowship applications annually. For the 2022-2025 competition, five fellowships will be awarded: Open Discipline (2), Humanistic Studies (1), Race and Ethnicity Studies (1), and LGBT Studies (1). Applicants must have received their PhD degree after January 1, 2020 or have completed a substantial portion of the dissertation – at least half - at the time of application. Successful candidates must fulfill all requirements for the Ph.D., including filing of the dissertation, by June 15, 2022. Applications are due by August 3. For more information, click here. Call for Papers: CUHK Sixteenth Graduate Seminar on Modern and Contemporary China Hosted by the Centre for China Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the theme of this year's seminar is “Land in China, 1900-2022.” Paper proposals on subjects from across the spectrum of environmental, economic, political, legal, social, ideological and cultural approaches to examining changes of the land in China over the last century until today are welcome. All Ph.D. candidates (ABDs) and new Ph.D. degree holders (within 5 years of graduation) who are doing research on issues relating to land in modern and contemporary China are eligible to apply. The deadline for submissions is August 16. For more information, visit the Centre for China Studies website. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Dissemination Fund The Office of the Provost and VP Academic offers $20,000 per year to support dissemination of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Funds are managed and adjudicated by the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL). The fund supports publications that describe research on teaching and learning in higher education with direct implications for UBC. Any full-time faculty member at UBC Vancouver can apply for the award, which can be used for the following dissemination expenses: Conference registration and travel costs (up to $1,000); Article Processing Charges (APC) or other fees related to publishing open access (up to $2,000). The call is open on a rolling basis. Learn more and apply here. |
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June 17 June 26 Sunday Screenings: Autumn Tigers Edition - Session 2 June 27 Where are all the Black People? Speaker Series Until July 5 Sunday Screenings: Autumn Tigers Edition - Session 3 July 11 MOA Exhibition - A Future For Memory: Art and Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake Until September 5 Historic Powell Street Walking Tours: Vancouver, BC Until September 11 MOV Exhibition - A Seat At The Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia Until January 2022 |
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