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Enrollment Period Open: Quarter Abroad Program in Kyoto through UC Davis East Asian Department

Posted on October 15, 2015 | by EALCS Admin

UC Davis - Quarter Abroad in Kyoto (Spring 2016)

Dear Students,

Happy beginning of fall quarter. My name is Aspen Felt and I’m the coordinator for the Quarter Abroad program in Kyoto through the UC Davis East Asian Languages and Cultures Department. I’m happy to announce that this amazing program is now available to all UC students!

This program takes place in beautiful Kyoto, Japan’s cultural capital. While attending Kyoto Seika University, students will enroll in accelerated language and culture courses, participate in exciting excursions, and spend spring quarter exploring the cultural riches that Kyoto and the surrounding regions have to offer. The program is divided into two levels, consisting of courses for those who have completed Japanese 2 or Japanese 5. In Japan, students will complete an entire year of Japanese in only one quarter.

Enrollment is now open and will remain open until December 4^{th, 2015}.

Program spots are saved on a first completed, first reserved process.

Helpful Contacts for Students

Financial Aid: Financial aid does apply and we recommend that students speak with the financial aid officers at both your home campus and Soua Lo here at UC Davis (sxlo@ucdavis.edu). As part of the process students will need a signature from the home campus financial aid officer, as well as home campus academic advisor.

Intercampus Visitor Process: As part of the enrollment, non-UC Davis students will also complete the Intercampus Visitor program application. More information about this process is available in the online enrollment: https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/registration/special-programs/icv= For additional questions about the enrollment process as a UCLA student, contact Nicole Uhlinger (nmuhlinger@ucdavis.edu)

Program Details: For additional questions about housing, excursions and other program details, contact the program coordinator and advisor, Aspen Felt (alfelt@ucdavis.edu).

Academics: This program carries a total of 18-22 quarter units. For questions about the classes taught on this program, you can contact the UC Davis Quarter Abroad Kyoto faculty leader, Joseph Sorensen (jsorensen@ucdavis.edu ). Course information and prerequisite equivalents can be found here.

I am also available for individual student appointments to discuss the program and answer any additional questions via email or over the phone.I hope to hear from you soon!

Sincerely,

Aspen Felt | Program Services Coordinator
UC Davis Study Abroad
University of California, Davis
207 Third Street, Suite 120   | Davis, CA 95616 U.S.A.
Phone: 530.297.4420   |   Email: alfelt@ucdavis.edu
Homepage: http://studyabroad.ucdavis.edu   |   Staff Profile

“Literature critic John Nathan dissects Japan’s Nobel Prize laureates" in The Japan Times

Posted on September 8, 2015 | by EALCS Admin

An interesting and provocative article in The Japan Times about our own EALCS Professor, John Nathan:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/09/05/books/literature-critic-john-nathan-dissects-japans-nobel-prize-laureates

See also, John Nathan: An extraordinary life in Japan and beyond (an interview) in The Asahi Shimbun.

Professor Dominic Steavu edits The Medieval History Journal’s first-ever issue devoted to East Asia

Posted on March 17, 2015 | by EALCS Admin

The UCSB Current has featured a spotlight on Dominic Steavu‘s editing of The Medieval History Journal devoted entirely to East Asia: “The Literary Subversive: Writings of Resistance in East Asian History.”

And for the first time in the flagship journal’s nearly 25-year history, an entire issue is devoted to East Asia, and more specifically to the roles of intellectuals in social and political domination/hegemonic ideologies. The result is the recently published issue, “The Literary Subversive: Writings of Resistance in East Asian History.”
– UCSB Current

View the complete article.

EALCS professor ann-elise lewallen, co-coordinator of the American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Research Focus Group at UCSB, sponsored a symposium on: "Native Food, Native Wisdom."

Posted on March 12, 2015 | by EALCS Admin

The symposium on native food ways emphasized the connection between indigenous Americans and their traditional staples, matters that are of crucial importance to indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Asia, one of lewallen’s fields of expertise, as well. Author of the forthcoming book The Fabric of Ainu Indigeneity: Contemporary Identity and Gender in Colonial Japan (School for Advanced Research Press), lewallen addresses indigenous movements with respect to food, the environment, and survival in her teaching. For instance, in EACS 141/292EJ: Environmental Justice in Asia, scheduled for Spring 2015.

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — For people who have been connected to the land it comes from for thousands of years, food is more than just a collection of calories and nutrients. For Native Americans, traditional staples can define their identity and represent their relationship to the earth, wind and sky. This point, so often lost in an age when processed foods and foods traveling long distances are commonplace, was driven home in a symposium on native food ways, biocolonialism and environmentalism. The conference at UC Santa Barbara was the first of its kind, and brought together scholars and students who approached the topic of food and indigenous culture from different perspectives. The symposium was sponsored by the American Indian & Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Research Focus Group at UCSB.