May 19, 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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Congratulations to Asian Studies Graduating Class of 2021! The Department of Asian Studies heartily congratulates all of our undergraduate and graduate students on the completion of their studies! The Class of 2021 Spring Graduation will be held on June 2 with a virtual ceremony for all graduates of the UBC Vancouver campus and the UBC Okanagan campus. Along with UBC's Virtual Graduation Ceremony, we will host a Virtual Asian Studies Graduation Ceremony on June 11 to further celebrate our graduates. |
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UBC Cantonese Speech Contest 2021 As a part of celebrations for the fifth anniversary of the UBC Cantonese Language Program, the UBC Cantonese Speech Contest was held on March 24, 2021 via Zoom. The contest was open to students currently taking CNTO courses, many of whom had been learning Cantonese for just three months. Consisting of two streams, Poetry Recital and Public Speaking, the speech contest not only provided a chance for students to practice their language skills, but also pushed them out of their comfort zone, and built their confidence to speak Cantonese in public. |
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Take Action! We continue to build on the list of Sustainable New Year Resolutions we shared at the beginning of this year. This month our committee wants to share handy resources of taking actions for equity and sustainability. From signing an online petition to helping at a wildlife shelter – you can choose what suits your lifestyle and give back! |
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Inter-unit Action Meeting In 2010 and 2016 the Board of Governors approved a Climate Action Plan and an update which committed UBC to long-term and short-term carbon reductions leading to net zero emissions by 2050. The campus is home to numerous sustainability initiatives catalyzing departments and units to work toward zero emissions. Eager to share approaches, ideas, strategies and templates, members of the Asian Studies Sustainability Initiative met with students, staff, and faculty involved with the AMS Sustainable Action Plan; Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Climate Action Research Committee; Geography Climate Action Committee; Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability Green Policy and Action Plan; and Library Climate Action Team. It was energizing to see the work being done in other units, a willingness to share knowledge and experience, and the potential for working together. We look forward to building on the wealth of experience and advice brought by these committee members in other units. |
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Dai Kanwa Jiten available until May 24 at UBC Library The UBC Asian Library is pleased to offer a free trial to Dai Kanwa Jiten 大漢和辞典 on the JapanKnowledge platform until Sunday, May 24, 2021. Dai Kanwa Jiten is Japan’s most celebrated Chinese-Japanese character dictionary containing 50,000 kanji entries and 530,000 compounds. In the JapanKnowledge edition, kanji characters can be searched by direct input, by radical, stroke count, or reading, and by combining parts of characters when you do not know the reading or radical. |
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2021 Asian Studies Winter Teaching Assistantships The Department of Asian Studies is accepting applications for teaching assistantships for the 2021 Winter session. There are a variety of courses available for TA assignment and you may apply to multiple positions. Candidates are expected to have a high level of fluency in the language/subject to be taught, ability to prepare teaching materials and training or previous experience in language teaching in the relevant language is desirable. The deadline to apply is May 31. For more information and to apply, click here. Call for Applications: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Seed Program The Summer 2021 application call for the SoTL Seed Program is now open! Offered by the UBC Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISoTL) and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), this support program provides graduate research assistants, collegial collaborations, and complementary funding for projects, for faculty interested in exploring and understanding the impact of their pedagogical choices. All members of the UBC community are invited to apply. Priority is given to faculty members who teach at the undergraduate level, and who have not had an active Seed project in the last 12 months. The deadline to apply is June 4. For more details and to apply, click here. 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. Call for Applications: MEXT 2022 Undergraduate Scholarship The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan offers scholarships to international students who wish to wish to complete an undergraduate degree at a Japanese University. Applications are only accepted at the Japanese Embassy/Consulate General in the country where the applicant has citizenship (i.e. Japanese Embassy/Consulate's General in Canada can only accept applications from Canadian citizens.) Applications must be received by July 4, and candidate interviews will be held in July. For more information, visit the Consulate-General of Japan in Vancouver 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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UBC 12th Annual Celebrate Learning Week May 17 - 23 Youth Forum for Asian Representation May 29 UBC 2021 CTLT Spring Institute: Embracing Creativity and Risk Taking in the New Normal June 7 - 10 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 May 27 - September 11 MOV Exhibition - A Seat At The Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia Until January 2022 |
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