We are pleased to announce that Natalya Rodriguez, a doctoral student in EALCS, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to conduct her dissertation research, “Threatened Threads: Weaving Values in Heritage Textile Production in Okinawa, Japan,” while affiliating with the University of the Ryukyus for the 2024-2025 academic year. Congratulations, Natalya!
Congratulations to Howard Chiang, the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, who was recently awarded a Howard Foundation Fellowship to support his work on the history of psychoanalysis in the Sinophone Pacific!
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation is an independent foundation administered at Brown University. It awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields.
Please join us for an in-person conversation between EALCS Professors Thomas Mazanec and Xiaorong Li about Mazanec’s new book, Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China. The event, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, will take place at 4pm on May 14, 2024, in HSSB 6020. Refreshments will be served.
We are pleased to announce that EALCS graduate student Yiming Ma has recently received an AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC) small grant to support a research trip for his dissertation, “In Search of Industrial Modernity: Working Cultures and Literature in Modern China, 1873-1953.” With this funding, Yiming will be conducting archival research in Shenyang, Fushun, and Harbin for a dissertation chapter focused on post-WWII workers’ factory-protection movements, internationalism, and literature in Northeastern China. Congratulations, Yiming!
We are pleased to announce that EALCS graduate student Yiming Ma has been awarded a University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) grant for a Multicampus Graduate Student Working Group over 2024-25. As the organizer of this group, titled “CARE: Collective for Archival Research of Embodiment,” Yiming will be organizing year-long workshop series on archival theories, embodied archiving practices, and community digital archives, working alongside faculty advisor Professor Hangping Xu and several other UCSB students, including Uudam Baoagudamu (Religion), Diandian Zeng (Music), and Tinghao Zhou (FAMST), as well as students from other UC campuses.
On April 13, the UCSB Chinese language students attending the 48th CLTAC Mandarin Speech Contest—Ethan Sayang, Hannah Ho and Athena Cruz Albrecht—won Third Place in his/her category in the 48th annual Chinese Language Teachers’ Association in California (CLTAC) Mandarin Speech Contest in the college level division. It was the first time that all the contestants delivered their speech in person after the pandemic. 293 students from K-16 participated in the speech contest and among them there were 142 contestants in the college level participated this year.
We are very proud of them since they were competing with the students from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, UC Davis, Defense Language Institute foreign language center at Monterey, and other prestigious universities.
Their achievements would not have been possible without the care and nourishment of all the Chinese language instructors along their learning journey.
Please join us in congratulating them!
