Please join us for this talk by Beatrice Zani, “The Global Supply Chain Commodity Circulation, Migration, and Transnational Labour. Ethnographic Insights from Global Taiwan,” convened by the Center for Taiwan Studies and co-sponsored by EALCS.
Category: Event
Global Storytelling: Narrating Childhoods in Taiwan Workshop (April 6-7, 2023)
Please join us for an exciting event held by the Center for Taiwan Studies and co-sponsored by EALCS.
Global Storytelling brings together student “scholars in training” with international experts and community members to engage in critical, collective reflections about ethnographic methods, qualitative inquiry, and stories of growing up in Taiwan. Hailing from three different continents, participants gather at UC Santa Barbara to learn from and with each other in short presentations, roundtable discussions, methodological training sessions, and collective reflections.
Two keynotes—one on the language of migrant resistance, the other on funereal silence—and a film director’s talk with Feng-I Fiona Roan as well as the screening of American Girl (2021) provide additional texture. Please join us!
More information can be found on the other posters, provided below.
Lecture: Chinese Buddhism and Environmental Ethics by Ven. Yifa
Feb. 21, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
McCune Hall, 6020 HSSB
This lecture addresses how Chinese Buddhist teachings and practices can contribute to global efforts to protect the environment, tackle pollution, and deal with climate change. It will provide examples from Chinese Buddhist scriptures as well as Buddhist practices. Venerable Yifa will also discuss the compatibility and divergences between Buddhist teachings and modern environmental science.
Venerable Yifa is from Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Yale Universitv and Dean of the University of the West in Los Angeles. She founded the Woodenfish Foundation in 2002 to educate Western college students in Buddhism at important historical religious sites of Chinese Buddhism.
Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with the Chinese Language Program
The Lunar New Year is just around a corner. The Chinese language program is organizing a Spring Festival celebration on January 27th from 5:30pm-8pm at Student Resource Building, Multi Purpose Room. We would like to warmly invite you to join us in this event. We will have delicious dumplings, snacks, drink, live music, performances, fun games, and of course, raffles and prizes (hóngbāo).
Mid-Autumn Welcome Party
Thursday, October 13
4:30–6:00pm in the HSSB Courtyard
Come mingle with your classmates, professors, and new friends!! We will provide delicious snacks, live music performances, and fun games!!
Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies, Chinese Language Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, with support from our CLP Volunteers, CSSA ICE (International Cultural Exchange), and Jasmine Echo.
Exhibit: East Asian Handscrolls and Comics at UCSB Library
Visual Pleasure through Private Gaze: Paneled Art in East Asian Handscrolls and Comics
Fri, 10/07/2022 – 8:00am to Tue, 06/20/2023 – 5:00pm
Exhibition Location: Art & Architecture Collection
UCSB Library is pleased to present this exhibition of handscrolls and comics from its Art & Architecture Collection. Both forms of art are consumed and enjoyed by individual users, panel by panel, and both are used in teaching and research at UCSB.
Painted horizontally on narrow sheets of paper or silk, handscroll paintings are a unique type of East Asian painting. Handscrolls are typically 0.7-1.2 feet in width, but their length varies from just a few feet to dozens of feet. Viewed frame by frame, handscroll paintings present art that progresses temporally and spatially. Handscrolls are considered the prototype of modern comics, a medium which similarly expresses ideas with images. The Japanese handscroll Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga 鳥獣人物戯画 (literally Animal-person Caricatures), for example, is considered the oldest Japanese comic, or manga.
Exhibition curated by librarians Chizu Morihara and Yao Chen.
To learn more about the collections, please see the UCSB Library’s announcement.
