EALCS Japanese lecturer Yoko Yamauchi has recently been awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award by the Teachers of Japanese in Southern California. Congratulations, Yamauchi-sensei, on this impressive achievement!
Category: Japanese Program
Hanne Deleu awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Dissertation Fellowship
EALCS is proud to announce that, in addition to a one-year Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Hanne Deleu has also been awarded a prestigious one-year Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Dissertation Fellowship to pursue her dissertation project titled “Milk Matters: Breastfeeding and the Material Body in Modern Japan” under the guidance of Professor Akihito Suzuki, Japan’s most prominent historian of medicine, at the University of Tokyo.
Event: Animism Today on 10/21-22
Next Monday and Tuesday (October 21 and 22) four prominent scholars from Japan will come to UCSB to address the topic of “Animism Today” in popular culture, traditional culture, and contemporary arts, also in conversation with members of the UCSB community. The term “animism” is used in Japan with positive connotations as a way to describe widespread forms of Japanese religiosity and, to an extent, Japanese cultural identity.
For full information, please see the event page on the Religious Studies website.
At Rob Gym Room 1005 (in the low building to the left before the entrance to Rob Gym).
Monday afternoon features four papers addressing various aspects of animism by Hirafuji Kikuko, MInato Chihiro, Koizumi Bon, and Matsumura Kazuo. See the program below for more information.
On Tuesday, there will be eight brief presentations by UCSB colleagues:
9:30–12:00 Roundtable Rethinking “Animism” and Related Phenomena (“paganism,” polytheism, idolatry, materiality of religion, secularization, etc.)
We will have presentations from Claudia Moser (History of Art and Architecture), Amit Shilo (Classics), Ranjani Atur (Ph.D., Religious Studies UCSB; Classics, University of Minnesota); and Rudy Busto, Thomas Carlson, Will Ellison, Fabio Rambelli, and Christine Thomas (all from Religious Studies)
Organized by Kikuko Hirafuji (Kokugakuin University), Fabio Rambelli, and Christine Thomas (UCSB).
Sponsors:
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology Open Laboratory for Emergence Strategies (ROLES), The University of Tokyo
Kokugakuin University (Tokyo)
UCSB Virgil Cordano OFM Chair in Catholic Studies
UCSB International Shinto Foundation Chair in Shinto Studies
UCSB Department of Religious Studies
Yoko Yamauchi Elected President of the Board of the Teachers of Japanese in Southern California
Congratulations to Yoko Yamauchi, UC Santa Barbara’s Japanese Language Program Coordinator, who has been elected President of the Board of the Teachers of Japanese in Southern California (TJSC)! On June 1, Yamauchi (front row, 4th from left) and Sabine Frühstück attended the TJSC Workshop and Reception hosted by Kenko Sone, Consul General of Japan, his wife Mami, and Yasuko Uchida, Director of Japan Foundation, Los Angeles (front row, 5th, 6th and 7th) to discuss current challenges to a robust future of teaching Japanese in California and nationwide.
Prof. Frühstück Speaks on the Value of Foreign Language Study at Recent Event
Prof. Sabine Frühstück recently spoke at the “For the Love of Language” event for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. You can read about the event here or watch a recording of it below.
Prof Ikeuchi to Serve for the Distinguished Speakers Bureau in The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Professor Suma Ikeuchi has been selected to serve as one of the distinguished speakers for The Northeast Asia Council of Association for Asian Studies for the next three years. Colleges in North America, especially those without well-established programs on East Asia, can invite a distinguished scholar to give a public lecture on their campus in-person or virtually, partially funded by this initiative. More information can be found here.
