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Banner #2 for "Global Storytelling: Narrating Childhoods in Taiwan Workshop" on April 6/7 at the UCSB Loma Pelona Conference Center, Room 1108

Global Storytelling: Narrating Childhoods in Taiwan Workshop (April 6-7, 2023)

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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.

 

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EALCS at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference

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We are proud that so many scholars who are core members or affiliates of our department will be presenting at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference, held both virtually on the conference website and in-person in Boston. Please join us if you plan to attend AAS!

  • Kaitlyn Ugoretz, participant in roundtable “Patchwork Ethnography, Elusive Archives, and the Burdens of Risk and Care,” Friday 2/17 (recording available online)
  • Keita Moore, participant in roundtable “Taking Place: The Dynamics of Physical Spaces within Japanese Digital Media,” Friday 2/17 (recording available online)
  • William Fleming, “Anomaly Accounts and the Margins of Tokugawa Control,” Friday 2/17 (recording available online)
  • Susan Hwang, “The Korean American Connection in 1990s’ South Korean Popular Music,” Friday 2/17 (recording available online): also organizer of the panel
  • Hangping Xu, “The Supercrip Figure of History in Socialist China,” Thursday 3/16, 7:00–8:30pm, HCC – Meeting Room 200 (Second Level)
  • Wandi Wang, “Good Taste in Gastronomy, Aesthetics, and Material Culture: On the Evolution of “Pure Offerings” (qinggong) from the Southern Song to the Qing,” Friday, 3/17, 9:00am–10:30am, HCC – Meeting Room 205 (Second Level): also organizer of the panel
  • Thomas Mazanec, “Fishy Materials: On a Late Tang Poetic Series on Fish Tackle,” Friday 3/17, 9:00am–10:30am, HCC – Meeting Room 205 (Second Level)
  • Suma Ikeuchi, “Jus Familia: Filipino Migrants, Ambivalent Intimacy, and Murmurs of Imperialism in Contemporary Japan,” Friday 3/17, 2:00–3:30pm, HCC – Meeting Room 205 (Second Level): also organizer of the panel
  • Anthony Barbieri, “Gaming the System: Ritual Board Games and Post-Mortem Paradises in Egypt and China,” Saturday 3/18, 2:00–3:30pm, Boston Sheraton Hotel – Back Bay A (2nd Floor)
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Rachel Levine Awarded Fulbright Dissertation Grant

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We are pleased to announce that EALCS graduate student Rachel Levine was recently awarded a Fulbright Dissertation Grant for 2023–2024 to pursue her project, “Breaking Open the Black Box: Shifting Discourse Policy and Praxis in Contemporary Japan” while affiliating with Sophia University, Tokyo, and working under the guidance of Professor Mari Miura (Faculty of Law). Congratulations, Rachel, we are proud of you!

Flyer for "Chinese Buddhism and Environmental Ethics", lecture by Venerable Yifa on Feb 21, 2023 at 5PM in McCune Hall, 6020 HSSB

Lecture: Chinese Buddhism and Environmental Ethics by Ven. Yifa

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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.

Red poster with black text, featuring two outlines of rabbits in the center. Text provides information about the event: Friday, January 27, 5:30-8:00pm at the Student Resource Building's Multi Purpose Room. Tickets are $5/person.

Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with the Chinese Language Program

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Red poster with black text, featuring two outlines of rabbits in the center. Text provides information about the event: Friday, January 27, 5:30-8:00pm at the Student Resource Building's Multi Purpose Room. Tickets are $5/person.
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). 
TAs at UCSB on strike, holding signs "UAW on Strike, Unfair Labor Practice"

EALCS Statement in Support of UC Graduate Student Negotations

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We, the faculty of the East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, are concerned about the skyrocketing rents and cost of living in Santa Barbara that have adversely impacted the lives of our graduate students. Our graduate students’ work as T.A.s, Teaching Associates, and Research Assistants provide a valuable service in our university’s teaching responsibilities.  The living standards of our graduate students will have an important impact on our future ability to attract the highest quality and most accomplished students from around the world.  We thereby encourage the UCSB administration to urge UCOP to negotiate in good faith with UAW in order to bring as much financial relief to our graduate students and their families as possible.