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EALCS at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference

We are proud that so many scholars who are core members or affiliates of our department will be presenting at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference, held both virtually on the conference website and in-person in Boston. Please join us if you plan to attend AAS!

  • Kaitlyn Ugoretz, participant in roundtable “Patchwork Ethnography, Elusive Archives, and the Burdens of Risk and Care,” Friday 2/17 (recording available online)
  • Keita Moore, participant in roundtable “Taking Place: The Dynamics of Physical Spaces within Japanese Digital Media,” Friday 2/17 (recording available online)
  • William Fleming, “Anomaly Accounts and the Margins of Tokugawa Control,” Friday 2/17 (recording available online)
  • Susan Hwang, “The Korean American Connection in 1990s’ South Korean Popular Music,” Friday 2/17 (recording available online): also organizer of the panel
  • Hangping Xu, “The Supercrip Figure of History in Socialist China,” Thursday 3/16, 7:00–8:30pm, HCC – Meeting Room 200 (Second Level)
  • Wandi Wang, “Good Taste in Gastronomy, Aesthetics, and Material Culture: On the Evolution of “Pure Offerings” (qinggong) from the Southern Song to the Qing,” Friday, 3/17, 9:00am–10:30am, HCC – Meeting Room 205 (Second Level): also organizer of the panel
  • Thomas Mazanec, “Fishy Materials: On a Late Tang Poetic Series on Fish Tackle,” Friday 3/17, 9:00am–10:30am, HCC – Meeting Room 205 (Second Level)
  • Suma Ikeuchi, “Jus Familia: Filipino Migrants, Ambivalent Intimacy, and Murmurs of Imperialism in Contemporary Japan,” Friday 3/17, 2:00–3:30pm, HCC – Meeting Room 205 (Second Level): also organizer of the panel
  • Anthony Barbieri, “Gaming the System: Ritual Board Games and Post-Mortem Paradises in Egypt and China,” Saturday 3/18, 2:00–3:30pm, Boston Sheraton Hotel – Back Bay A (2nd Floor)
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Sabra Harris receives Fulbright Fellowship

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Sabra Harris

EALCS graduate student Sabra Harris is among six grad students across UCSB to receive a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship. She will travel to Japan to continue her PhD research on “Emergent Indigeneities within Public-Facing Ainu Performance.” She and the other winners were recently featured in The Current, UCSB’s official news site.

Congratulations, Sabra!

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EALCS is Proud to Congratulate Several of Our Own!!

EALCS is proud to congratulate Linshan Jiang for earning her Ph.D. and moving to a postdoc at Duke University!  Way to go Linshan!!

Huge congratulations to Sophia Shi who just earned her MA and is entering the Princeton Ph.D. program in Religion!   We know Sophia will do GREAT!

We celebrate the 2022 Mochizuki award winners, Dr. Akiyo Cantrell and Aidan Pedersen. Congratulations!

Congratulations Prof Sabine Frühstück — New coeditor (with Morgan Pitelka) of The Journal of Japanese Studies

The Journal of Japanese Studies is excited to welcome Sabine Frühstück as new coeditor (with Morgan Pitelka).  Sabine has been a regular contributor to JJS (and a member of its boards) since submitting her coauthored article on the normalization and management of violence in Japan’s armed forces in 2000 (if not before), and we look forward to her new contributions to JJS.  JJS is also deeply grateful to Janet Hunter for her service as coeditor since 2015 and particularly for her commitment to supporting early-career scholars and to the interdisciplinary JJS readership.

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Established in 1974, the Journal of Japanese Studies is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary forum for communicating new information, interpretations, and research on Japan.  Its core objective is to maintain an enduring record of highest-quality and evidence-based scholarship through the publication of empirical and interpretive work on Japan.

Book Cover for "Re-Enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China" by Mayfair Yang

Prof Mayfair Yang Podcast Interviews On Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China

Here are two lectures Professor Yang gave on one of the main themes in the book:  “Ritual Economy”.

  1.  Online lecture at Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, March 2, 2022 on “The Significance of a Chinese ‘Ritual Economy’ in Global Capitalism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP3wQqRNbAg&ab_channel=CenterforChineseStudies%2CUCBerkeley

2.  Online Audio Interview:  “Re-enchanting Modernity:  Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China,”  on Mayfair Yang’s book, interview with Victoria Lupascu, New Books Network, July 2020.

https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/peoples-places/east-asian-studies/