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New Short Series: Interviews with Scholars of Japanese Horror
We are excited to share Professor Colleen Laird‘s new short J-Horror Video series, in which she interviews scholars of Japanese horror on their work and key films. Designed as Open Education Resources, there will be a total of five videos in this series, all uploaded to YouTube.
Read more here or view the first installment of the series focusing on Asato Mari’s Bilocation (2013) featuring Professor Steven Brown of the University of Oregon here!
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Digital Humanities and Online Presence in Japanese Studies - Friday, Jan 29, 3pm PT/6pm PT
Graduate students and instructors are invited to a session with Paula R. Curtis on digital humanities projects in Japanese studies and strategies for developing on online presence.
Dr. Paula R. Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan. She is presently a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in History at Yale University with the Council on East Asian Studies.
We welcome you to join Tomoko Kitayama Yen, Christina Laffin, Joshua Mostow, and the participants of ASIA 521 to this gathering, which will include an introduction to projects in Japanese studies and an opportunity to discuss approaches from the perspective of graduate students. Please bring your questions and concerns.
If you are interested, please email christina.laffin@ubc.ca for the Zoom link and details.
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Asian Studies members to present in Association for Chinese Animation Studies conference
Professors Sharalyn Orbaugh, Chris Rea, graduate student Cyrus Qiu and alumni Nick Stember will be presenting their works at the Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, taking place from March 1 to May 12.
The Association for Chinese Animation Studies is a scholarly and public organization dedicated to introducing and promoting Chinese animation to the English-speaking world.
You can register for the webinar conference here or learn more here!
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Behind the Success of the Chinese Language Program: 2021 Volunteer Training Workshop Recap
The Chinese Language Program held their annual Volunteer Training Workshop on January 23. Despite being separated by distance, the CLP was able to reach international communities, with over 140 student volunteers from all over the globe in attendance — hailing from all over Canada, to Asia, to even Russia.
Over the course of three hours, student volunteers were not only introduced to professional development opportunities under the Chinese Language Program, but also learned about their responsibilities as mentors to Chinese language students from both heritage and non-heritage streams, through a variety of informing and engaging activities.
Read the full article here!
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Community-Engaged Learning and Teaching Workshop Recap
Instructors from the Chinese and Cantonese Language Program, the Centre for Community-Engaged Learning, and various individuals from well-known Canadian universities came together in an engaging day of discussions to broaden the horizons of the Chinese Language Program and expand their community by interacting with individuals and groups outside the program.
The focus of the workshop was to develop community-engaged teaching and learning strategies in order to offer students the very best! The event demonstrated that learning stems from the community itself—only by teaching and learning from each other can we effectively learn.
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Participate in Mental Health Survey + a chance to win a $50 gift card!
The purpose of this study is to understand student mental health experiences at UBC. This anonymous survey will take around 20 minutes to complete and will ask about your mental health status and experiences, likes and dislikes about support resources on campus, treatment preferences, and help-seeking behaviors.
The results of the study will help to shape recommendations for improved student mental health resources and initiatives on campus. You will also have the chance to win one of five $50 gift cards.
To participate in the survey, click here!
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Apply to become a Sustainability Ambassador by February 8!
As an Ambassador, you will work as part of a team to educate UBC students about sustainability, encourage student engagement, and connect sustainability groups on campus.
Bring your ideas for human and environmental wellbeing to life while building your network and connections with other student leaders.
Applications are now open until February 8 for undergraduate and graduate students to join the Fall 2021 cohort of the Sustainability Ambassadors Program.
Learn more here or apply here!
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| UPCOMING VIRTUAL EVENTS |
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The Iranian Nightmare: Theorizing a New Iranian Horror Cinema in the (Trans)National Circuitry, 2009-2019
Saturday, January 30th, 4pm PT / 7pm ET
There is a notable shift in the films that are emerging from Iran today from the art-house films of the New Iranian Cinema that used to populate and dominate international film festivals.
Presenter Farshid Kazemi (Simon Fraser University) will delineate a group of films that emerged in the aftermath of the 2009 mass protests in Tehran that deploy certain conventions of the horror genre as a politically subversive critique of the claustrophobic, terrifying, and paranoiac atmosphere of post-2009 Iranian society, by theorizing a new filmic movement, structured around what he calls "The Uncanny between the Weird and the Eerie".
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2020/21 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Nouvelle Japonisme: Le Samouraï (1967) and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinematic Japan
Monday, February 1st, 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET
French New Wave, the art film movement that emerged in the late-1950s France, had a curious obsession with Japan. Cahiers du Cinéma’s adoration of Mizoguchi Kenji, Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983) to name a few.
By focusing on Jean-Pierre Melville’s acclaimed 1967 film Le Samouraï, this talk by Professor Daisuke Miyao examines what Melville’s allusion to the samurai seeks to signify. Despite its title, Le Samouraï is not a jidaigeki (period drama) set in Japan but a story of Jef Costello, a contract killer in Paris in the 1960s. Melville’s conception did not only exist in the context of post-World War II France but also descended from the history of Japonisme in France since the nineteenth century.
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Protectors as Perpetrators: State Violence against Women in India
Wednesday, February 10th, 10am PT / 1pm ET
India is seen as the most dangerous country to be a woman in. Within and outside academia, the endemic and routinised violence against women is widely attributed to familial and societal causes. Through state violence against women, Dr. Radha D’Souza of the University of Westminster unravels assumptions about gender-based violence and rights based legal remedies.
This event is organized by Asian Studies professor Dr. Sunera Thobani and Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster.
For more information or to register, click here.
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CCR Book Talk: The Great Exodus from China
Wednesday, February 10th, 5pm PT / 8pm ET
Join the online book talk hosted by the Centre for Chinese Research. The event will feature discussions with Dr. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang of the University of Missouri on his newly published book— The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan.
The talk will take a look into the one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia—the human exodus from China to Taiwan after the collapse of Chiang Kai-shek’s regime in 1949.
For more information or to register, click here.
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Year of the Ox: Let's Make Lunar New Year's Cards
Celebrate the year of the Ox by sending thoughts to family and friends with a handmade card. Join the Asian Library on Friday, February 5 at (12pm PT) for this low-key lunchtime event to get creative while discussing New Year's customs in Asia.
Register here
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Access Taiyō 太陽 on the JapanKnowledge platform
The Asian Library is pleased to offer free trial access to Taiyō 太陽 on the JapanKnowledge platform now until June 30, 2021. Taiyō was a comprehensive magazine published by Hakubunkan from 1895 to 1928 in 34 volumes.
Access here
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| OPPORTUNITIES |
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University of Victoria Art History & Visual Studies – Virtual Visual Impetus 2021 Conference
The Art History and Visual Studies Graduate Association at the University of Victoria presents its annual Virtual Visual Impetus Conference online from January 29-30. This year, titled “Art, Crises, and New Possibilities,” the conference will focus on the voices that had been suppressed underneath the hustle and bustle of 21st century life which became exposed with the COVID-19 pandemic. Keynote speakers include Devin Lander, New York State Historian, and Anne-Marie Hayden, Deputy Director of the Canadian Museum Association. Register here or contact ahvscommunications@uvic.ca for more information.
Call for Submissions: University of Hawai’i-Mānoa Graduate Student Conference
The University of Hawai’i-Mānoa is holding its 32nd annual School of Pacific & Asian Studies (SPAS) Graduate Student Conference online from April 14-15. Titled "Innovation, Adaptation, and Resilience: Overcoming Challenges Across Asia", submissions are welcomed from any discipline that tackles novel approaches to both new and old challenges in Asia. Applicants should submit a 250-300 word abstract to gradconf@hawaii.edu with “SPAS 2021 Grad Conf Abstract” as the subject by January 31. Please direct any questions to conference organizers Kimery Lynch and Hannah Cole at gradconf@hawaii.edu.
Call for Submissions: Chinese Folk Songs and Folk Tales for UBC Research Website
A team of researchers at the University of British Columbia is creating a website to help Chinese-Canadian children learn about their heritage and are seeking volunteers aged 18+ to contribute folksongs and folktales from across greater China, to be added to their website. This website helps young Chinese-Canadian children learn about and maintain an interest in their heritage language. The team is aiming to collect submissions from as many dialects as possible. You can view existing submissions on the website here. If you are interested in participating, please contact shannon.ward@ubc.ca.
entrepreneurship@UBC CORE and Lab2Launch Venture Building Program Accepting Applications
Calling all entrepreneurs – applications for two of entrepreneurship@UBC's programs are open! The CORE stream supports UBC entrepreneurs who are driving innovation through disruptive technologies, ideas and trends. The Lab2Launch program is for UBC researchers across disciplines who are focused on the development of a scientific or technological innovation which is unique, proprietary and difficult to reproduce. The programs work with early stage ventures and entrepreneurs across disciplines/industries and require only 1 member of the team to have a UBC affiliation (student/staff/faculty or alumni up to 5 years). Applications are due by February 25. To apply or learn more, visit the CORE website or the Lab2Launch website.
(Paid Opportunity) Circumference Poetry Journal Open for Submissions
Circumference (founded in 2003) is a journal for poetry in translation and a home for writers, artists, poets, and translators who share a deep interest in the world. Special interest is given to new translations of poetry and drama, particularly (but not exclusively) from contemporary authors, and it is expanding to include interviews and dialogues between artists and thinkers of all stripes: conversations where disagreement tends to enrich debate, rather than suspend it, and profiles and long-form writing that sheds light on literary and artistic praxis around the world. All poems are published in their original languages alongside their translations.
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