Events > Asian Languages and Literature Colloquium

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2011-2012

Jameel Ahmad, University of Washington
A Century (almost) of Ghalib's English Translations: A Historical and Comparative Perspective
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 3:30-5:00 PM
Savery 137

2010-2011

Koji Tanno, University of Washington
Title TBA
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Denny 206

Charles Exley, University of Montana
On the Anxiety of Doubling: Parody and Paranoia in Sato Haruo's "Fingerprints"
Friday, April 15, 2011, 3:30-5:00 PM
Thomson 317

Richard Harrison, Kobe University
Using Media-Based Projects in Teaching Japanese
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 3:30-5:00 PM
Denny 211

Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia
Humans, Beasts, Ghosts of Modern China: The Comedic Vision of Qian Zhongshu
Friday, February 25, 2011, 3:30-5:00 PM
Denny 205

Benjamin Barrett
Japanese Technical Translation
Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 3:30-5:00 PM
Denny 216

Hyokjun Kwon, Korea University
Historical Phonological Strata of the Chinese Tong, Yui, and Liu Rhyme Groups as reflected in Sino-Korean
Friday, November 19, 2010, 3:30-5:00 PM
Savery 130

2009-2010

Michael Hahn, Philipps-University of Marburg
The Dream of a Philologist: Deciphering the Buddhist Legend of Manicuda
Thursday, November 12

Osmund Boperaachichi
The Kushans and the Earliest Depictions of Brahmanical Divinities in Gandhara
Friday, Novermber 20

Christopher Scott, Macalester College
Blood Brothers: Racial Passing and Male Bonding in Japanese Yakuza Films
Friday, February 19

Heekyoung Cho, Yale University
Constructing Proletarian Literature: Adapting Turgenev for 1920s Korea
Friday, February 5

Anne Mcknight, University of Southern California
Nakagami Kenji and Subculture
Friday, March 12

Zev Handel, University of Washington
Old Chinese Medials and their Sino-Tibetan Origins:
A Comparative Study
May 4

K. Sakamoto
Variations of Regional Accent in the Japanese Puppet Theater
Thursday, May 13

Douglas Slaymaker, University of Kentucky
Japan’s France: Fujita Tsuguharu and Kaneko Mitsuharu in 1920’s Paris
Monday, May 17

S. Carter, Stanford University
Sōgi and the Aesthetics of Deference
Wednesday, May 19

Zev Handel, University of Washington
English words with Chinese etymologies: a peregrination through the American Heritage Dictionary
Thursday, May 27

J. FUJII, University of California, Irvine.
From Sunless Streets to Culture Towns: the Re-territorialization of Tokyo in the 1920
Friday May 28

Michael Shapiro, University of Washington
Why Meter Matters: Reading 20th Century Hindi Poetry from the Perspective of Metrical Structure
Thursday, June 3

2008-2009

Yukiko Shigeto , University of Washington
Tenkô and the Specter of Language
Thursday, 8 January 2009

Mack Horton, University of California Berkeley
Princess Nukata and the Birth of Man’yō Poetry
Friday, January 30, 2009

Marilyn Ivy, Columbia University
The World is Superflat: Arts and Politics in Contemporary Japan
Monday, February 25, 2009

Tomiko Yoda, Duke Univeristy
All frills: Girlie taste and consumer culture in Japan
Friday, March 7

Haeree Park, University of Washington
Variability and Consistency of Chinese Writings from the Warring States Period (480-221 B.C.)
Friday, March 14, 2009

Leo Ching, Duke University
"Champions of Justice": How "Asian" Heroes Saved Japanese Imperialism
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Michael Hahn, Phillips-University of Marburg, Germany
The Dream of a Philologist: Deciphering the Buddhist Legend of Manicuda
Thursday, November 12

Osmund Bopearachchi, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
The Kusans and the Earliest Depictions of Brahmanical Divinities in Gandhara
Friday, November 20

 

2007-08

Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
Ideologies and Theories of Literature: Tsubouchi Shôyô's Shôsetsu Shinzui (Essence of the Novel, 1885-6) as a Mirror for Natsume Sôseki's Bungakuron (Theory of Literature, 1907)
Monday, 21 April 2008, 3:30 p.m.
Thomson 317

Dr. Heidi Pauwels, Associate Professor
‘The Woman Waylaid at the Well’: A Theme in Medieval Devotional Literature and Popular Hindi Film
Thursday April 24, 2008
Smith 304 3:30-5:00

Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College
From Biological Racialism to Cultural Racialism: Some Reflections on the Imperial Subject in Tôson's Hakai and Yokomitsu's Shanhai
Monday, 28 April 2008, 3:30 p.m.
Communications 202

Steven Brown, University of Oregon
'Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble': Uncanny Dolls in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Friday, 9 May 2008, 3:30 p.m.
Communications 120

2006-07

Stevan Harrell , University of Washington & Lygur Ajy (Ergu Azhi), Southwest Nationalities Institute in Chengdu
"_Kepu Jjylur Shy-a-te_": Finding cosmology, ritual, geography, sociology, and reproductive physiology, all in a Nuosu (Yi) ritual text for repairing a broken marriage
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Communications 226

Chris Hamm, University of Washington
Huo Yuanjia: The Death and Birth of the Modern Chinese Martial Hero
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Communications 226

Paul Atkins, University of Washington
“The ‘trembling ghost of Yugao’ in a Ruined Garden”
Friday, 2 March 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Communications 226

Jameel Ahmad, University of Washington
Translating Classical Urdu Poetry: Problems and Possibilities
Thursday, 22 February 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Savery 211

Dr. Martine Robbeets , Leiden University
Is Japanese "made in Japan"?
Monday, 12 February 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Suzzallo Library, Allen Library Auditorium

Dr. Kerri Russell, University of Hawaii
Ancient Texts and Prehistoric Verbal Structures: The Case for Japonic and Korean
Wednesday, 31 January 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Suzzallo Library, Allen Library Auditorium

Carrie Reed, Middlebury College
Parallel Worlds, Stretched Time and Illusory Reality: The Tang Tale 'Du Zichun'
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Communications 226

Dr. Marc Miyake
The Path to Kana(da): An Overview of the Earliest Written
Evidence for Korean and Japanese
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Communications 226

Emily Curtis, University of British Columbia
Linguistic Rhythm in Japanese and Korean
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Communications 226

Lin Deng and Ed Lien, University of Washington
Impressions of Minbei (Northern Fujian)
Tuesday, 24 October 2006, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Communications 226

2005-06

Newell Ann Van Auken, Lecturer, University of Washington
Do "subtle words" convey "praise and blame"?
The implications of formal variation in the Chuenchiou records
Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 3:30 p.m.
Communications 226

D. Cuong O'Neill, University of California, Berkeley
Portrait of a Writer in Tokyo, 1910: Mori Ôgai's Seinen
Monday, 1 May 2006, 3:30 p.m.
Thomson 317

Kôno Kensuke, Nihon University
Japanese Literature Visiting Scholar
Modernity in Samurai Films
Tuesday, 25 April 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room

Cris Cyders and Tony Fairbank
Chan Buddhism in China Today
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 3:30 p.m.
Communications 226

Fumiyo Kobayashi, Graduate Student, University of Washington
Writing a (M)other's Lyricism: Okamoto Kanoko during the Rise of Nationalistic Discourses of Motherhood
Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 3:30 p.m.
Communications 226

Kuo Liying, École pratique des Hautes Études
The Transmission of the Uṣṇīṣavijaya-Dhāraṇī
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 3:30 p.m.
Communications 226

Jiwon Shin, University of California, Berkeley
Intimate Objects: Material Culture and the Space of Literature in Late Choson Korea
Friday, 24 February 2006, 3:30 p.m.
Thomson 134

Indira Peterson, Mount Holyoke College
Speaking in Tongues: The Cultural Discourses of Multilingualism in Eighteenth-Century South Indian Court Poetry
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 3:30 p.m.
Savery Hall 211

Alisa D. Freedman, University of Oregon
Modernist Sketches of Tokyo Stations: How Stories of Ordinary Places Recall What History Forgot
Thursday, 16 February 2006
Communications 226

Richard Salomon, University of Washington
In Search of the Words of the Buddha
Thursday, 26 January 2006
Kane Hall 110

C.M. Naim, University of Chicago
The New Urdu Ghazal from 1947 to 1970
Thursday, 19 January 2005, 3:30 p.m.
Savery Hall 211

Zev Handel, University of Washington
Did 'Moat' End in M? Implications for an Old Chinese Word Family
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 3:30 p.m.
Thomson Hall, 211

Peter Skilling, President,
Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation, Bangkok
Relics at the Heart of Buddhist Devotion, Art, and History
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 3:30 p.m.
Communications 226

Han-yi Shaw, Microsoft
Using Asian Scripts via Unicode in Microsoft Office
Thursday, 27 October 2005, 3:30 p.m.
Mary Gates Hall 241

Stefan Baums, PhD. Candidate, Buddhist Studies
University of Washington
Field notes on Buddhism in Uzbekistan:
New Interest in Ancient Sites
Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 3:30 p.m.
Gowen Hall M21

2004-05

Seishi Karashima, Professor, International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan
A Project for a Chinese Buddhist Dictionary
Wednesday, 18 May 2005, 3:30 p.m.
226 Communications Building

Zev Handel, University of Washington
Reconstructing the Pronunciation of Old Chinese -- and Beyond
Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 3:30 p.m.
226 Communications Building

Keith Dede, Lewis & Clark College
The Anti-Agent: [ha] in Huangshui Chinese
Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 3:30 p.m.
226 Communications Building

Sudeshna Sen, University of Utah
Sublime Darkness in Heian Diary Literature
Wednesday, November 17, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
226 Communications Building

Michael Brownstein, University of Notre Dame
The Osaka Kannon Pilgrimage and Chikamatsu's 'The Love Suicides at Sonezaki': Text, Context, and Performance
Thursday, October 21, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
206 Communications Building

Jay Rubin, Harvard University
Is Akutagawa Worth Re-Translating?
Thursday, October 7, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
226 Communications Building

2003-04

Paul Atkins, University of Washington
Fetishizing a Medieval Japanese Text: Fujiwara no Teika's "Diary of the Brilliant Moon"
Friday, February 20th, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
226 Communications Building

Yomi Braester, University of Washington
"Cinema and Urban Renewal in the PRC"
Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
226 Communications Building

Ted Mack, University of Washington
Technology, Commerce, and Community: The Production of Japanese Literature
Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 3:30 p.m.
226 Communications Building