Please join us for a screening of the film American Girl and a conversation with its director Feng-I Fiona Roan, at 5:00pm in the Multicultural Center on April 6.
Category: Announcement
Global Storytelling: Narrating Childhoods in Taiwan Workshop (April 6-7, 2023)
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.
Rachel Levine Awarded Fulbright Dissertation Grant
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!
EALCS Statement in Support of UC Graduate Student Negotations
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.
Exhibit: East Asian Handscrolls and Comics at UCSB Library
Visual Pleasure through Private Gaze: Paneled Art in East Asian Handscrolls and Comics
Fri, 10/07/2022 – 8:00am to Tue, 06/20/2023 – 5:00pm
Exhibition Location: Art & Architecture Collection
UCSB Library is pleased to present this exhibition of handscrolls and comics from its Art & Architecture Collection. Both forms of art are consumed and enjoyed by individual users, panel by panel, and both are used in teaching and research at UCSB.
Painted horizontally on narrow sheets of paper or silk, handscroll paintings are a unique type of East Asian painting. Handscrolls are typically 0.7-1.2 feet in width, but their length varies from just a few feet to dozens of feet. Viewed frame by frame, handscroll paintings present art that progresses temporally and spatially. Handscrolls are considered the prototype of modern comics, a medium which similarly expresses ideas with images. The Japanese handscroll Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga 鳥獣人物戯画 (literally Animal-person Caricatures), for example, is considered the oldest Japanese comic, or manga.
Exhibition curated by librarians Chizu Morihara and Yao Chen.
To learn more about the collections, please see the UCSB Library’s announcement.
Announcing New Exchange with National Taiwan Normal University
UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts has signed an Agreement with National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei, Taiwan.
Each year, they will fund a total of 12 UCSB undergraduate and/or graduate students to study Chinese language at NTNU. Ten of these fellowships are short-term (3 months); 2 of them are longterm (5 months). It is open to UCSB student applicants who are U.S. citizens. It provides free tuition and a monthly stipend of NT$25,000 (U.S.$786), which is enough to cover modest accommodations and meals in Taipei. Students of both beginning to advanced Chinese language levels are welcome to apply.
Right now, they are recruiting for the 2 longterm fellowships of 5 month study — besides language, students may also choose content classes in Chinese history, philosophy, Taiwan Studies, literature, media, etc. The deadline of application for the long term study is:
October 31, 2022.
(Deadline for short term fellowships will be announced in early 2023.)
For a valuable information session, Please see the flyer with the Zoom link for Oct. 6 at 5:30 pm Pacific Time. You will meet with instructors at NTNU in Taiwan, speaking English.
For further questions, please consult with Bella Chen, Chinese language lecturer in our East Asian Studies Dept:
There is a possibility of receiving UCSB course credit for this study abroad, but you must apply for it before you leave for Taiwan.
Please see the flyer for more information
