EALCS is proud to announce that, in addition to a one-year Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Hanne Deleu has also been awarded a prestigious one-year Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Dissertation Fellowship to pursue her dissertation project titled “Milk Matters: Breastfeeding and the Material Body in Modern Japan” under the guidance of Professor Akihito Suzuki, Japan’s most prominent historian of medicine, at the University of Tokyo.
Congratulations to Yoko Yamauchi, UC Santa Barbara’s Japanese Language Program Coordinator, who has been elected President of the Board of the Teachers of Japanese in Southern California (TJSC)! On June 1, Yamauchi (front row, 4th from left) and Sabine Frühstück attended the TJSC Workshop and Reception hosted by Kenko Sone, Consul General of Japan, his wife Mami, and Yasuko Uchida, Director of Japan Foundation, Los Angeles (front row, 5th, 6th and 7th) to discuss current challenges to a robust future of teaching Japanese in California and nationwide.
Prof. Sabine Frühstück recently spoke at the “For the Love of Language” event for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. You can read about the event here or watch a recording of it below.
Professor Suma Ikeuchi has been selected to serve as one of the distinguished speakers for The Northeast Asia Council of Association for Asian Studies for the next three years. Colleges in North America, especially those without well-established programs on East Asia, can invite a distinguished scholar to give a public lecture on their campus in-person or virtually, partially funded by this initiative. More information can be found here.
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!
