Announcements

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Asian Languages and Literature Departmental News

The department is pleased to congratulate Ms. Cindi L. Textor for her recently published translation, The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost (Columbia University Press, 2011), a 1970 novel by Zainichi Korean author Kim Sŏk-Pŏm. (The Japanese title is Mandogi yūrei kitan)

Asian Languages and Literature Departmental Events

June 2012

Friday 8, 3:30 Graduation and Awards Convocation Walker-Ames Room (Kane 225)

May 2012

Friday, 18 3:30-5:00pm Welcoming Vali: An Exploration of the Literary Legacy of Vali Dakhani Workshop led by Heidi Pauwels (Asian L&L) and Purnima Dhavan (History) Thomson Hall, 317 Thursday 17, 9-4 and Friday 18, 10-4 Graduate Student Booksale Gowen Hall, M218 Monday, 14 3:30pm "The Reception of Carol Salomon's Fieldwork among the Bauls of Bangladesh" Saymon Zakaria, Bangla Academy Thomson Hall, 231 Friday 11, 2:00-5:00pm Centenary of Sa'adat Hasan Manto Savery Hall, 166 Tuesday 8, 7:30 Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture P. HARRISON, Stanford University. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown: Some Buddhist approaches to kings and their problems" Walker-Ames Room (Kane 225)

April 2012	Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy "Current Approaches to Japanese Language Assessment" Keynote speakers: Dr. Yuri Kumagai (Smith College) and Dr. Shinji Sato (Princeton University); Dr. Fumiko Nazikian (Columbia University) The conference is organized by the Japanese Program in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature with financial support provided by the East Asia Center and the UW Japan Studies Program.
February 2012	Thursday 16, 3:30-5:00pm Jameel Ahmad University of Washington A Century (almost) of Ghalib's English Translations: A Historical and Comparative Perspective Savery 137
November 2011	Tuesday 29, 7:30pm The 2011 Distinguished Faculty Lecture Heidi Pauwels, University of Washington. A multilingual poet in eighteenth-century India: A Krishna bhakta's experiments with Urdu Walker-Ames Room (Kane 225) Saturday 19, 2:00-5:00 Ba-yaad-e ‘Faiz’: In Memory of Faiz Ahmad ‘Faiz’ (1911-1984) Participants: Michael Shapiro, Purnima Dhavan, Jennifer Dubrow, Owais Jafrey, Kristen Zipperer, Gaurav Pai, Jasleen Kaur, Jameel Ahmad and others. THO 317 Friday 4, 3:30-5:00 Joshua S. Mostow, Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Authority and Allusion: The Love-song of Lord Takafusa and Its Illustrated Scroll SAV 156 Sponsored by the Seattle Asian Art Museum, UW Japan Studies Program, and the Department of Asian Languages and Literature
October 2011	Friday 28, 3:30-5:00 Melissa McCormick, Harvard University Mountains, Magic, and Mothers: Envisioning the Female Ascetic in Medieval Japan SAV 156 Sponsored by the Seattle Asian Art Museum, UW Japan Studies Program, and the Department of Asian Languages and Literature Thursday 20, 3:30-5:20 Chie Goto, Fukushima! Life in Japan After the Earthquake Click here for flyers on volunteering in Japan Smith 205 Co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and the Boston-based International non-profit United Planet

April 2011

Friday 15, 3:30-5:00 Charles Exley, University of Montana On the Anxiety of Doubling: Parody and Paranoia in Sato Haruo's "Fingerprints" Thomson 317 Co-Sponsored by the East Asia Center and Japan Studies Program

March 2011

Tuesday 8, 3:30-5:00 Richard Harrison, Kobe University Using Media-Based Projects in Teaching Japanese Denny 211 Co-sponsored with the Japan Studies Program

February 2011

Friday 25, 3:30-5:00 Christopher Rea University of British Columbia Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts of Modern China: The Comedic Vision of Qian Zhongshu Denny 205 Tuesday 1, 3:30-5:00 Benjamin Barrett Japanese Technical Translation Denny 216 Co-sponsored with the Japan Studies Program Translation Resources

January 2011

Thursday 20, 3:30-5:00 Chris Hill Columbia University Communications 202

December 2010	Monday 6, 3:30-5:00 Andrew Kim, Siemens Finding Japanese Jobs in Seattle Savery 156 Tuesday 7, 4:00-5:30 Ted Mack Professor, University of Washington Book Talk: "Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature" Communications 202
November 2010	Friday 19, 3:30-5:00 Hyokjun Kwon, Korea University Visiting Scholar, University of Washington Historical Phonological Strata of the Chinese Tong, Yu, and Liu Rhyme Groups as Reflected in Sino-Korean Savery 130

May 2010

Tuesday 4 Z. HANDEL Old Chinese Medials and their Sino-Tibetan Origins: A Comparative Study Monday 10 Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture 2010 J. RUBIN, Harvard University Translation as Detour: From Genji to 1Q84 Tuesday 11 Workshop: Waka Recitation and Writing Wednesday 12 Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture S. JAMISON, UCLA. For the Gods Love the Obscure: on Translating the Rig Veda Finding "Japanese" Jobs in Seattle Thursday 13 K. SAKAMOTO Variations of Regional Accent in the Japanese Puppet Theater Monday 17 D. SLAYMAKER, University of Kentucky. Japan’s France: Fujita Tsuguharu and Kaneko Mitsuharu in 1920’s Paris Wednesday 19 S. CARTER, Stanford. Sōgi and the Aesthetics of Deference. Thursday 27 Z. HANDEL English words with Chinese etymologies: a peregrination through the American Heritage Dictionary Friday 28 J. FUJII, University of California, Irvine. From Sunless Streets to Culture Towns: the Re-territorialization of Tokyo in the 1920.

June 2010

Thursday 3 M. SHAPIRO Why Meter Matters: Reading 20th Century Hindi Poetry from the Perspective of Metrical Structure Friday 11 Graduation and Awards Convocation