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.
Category: People in the Department
Prof Ikeuchi to Serve for the Distinguished Speakers Bureau in The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
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.
Natalya Rodriguez Receives Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2024-2025
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!
Prof. Howard Chiang awarded 2024 Howard Foundation Fellowship
Congratulations to Howard Chiang, the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, who was recently awarded a Howard Foundation Fellowship to support his work on the history of psychoanalysis in the Sinophone Pacific!
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation is an independent foundation administered at Brown University. It awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields.
Humanities Decanted 5/14: Thomas Mazanec in conversation with Xiaorong Li
Please join us for an in-person conversation between EALCS Professors Thomas Mazanec and Xiaorong Li about Mazanec’s new book, Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China. The event, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, will take place at 4pm on May 14, 2024, in HSSB 6020. Refreshments will be served.
Yiming Ma receives AAS Grant for Dissertation Research
We are pleased to announce that EALCS graduate student Yiming Ma has recently received an AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC) small grant to support a research trip for his dissertation, “In Search of Industrial Modernity: Working Cultures and Literature in Modern China, 1873-1953.” With this funding, Yiming will be conducting archival research in Shenyang, Fushun, and Harbin for a dissertation chapter focused on post-WWII workers’ factory-protection movements, internationalism, and literature in Northeastern China. Congratulations, Yiming!
