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The UpdateA bi­weekly roundup of news in the Department of Asian Studies

For our Students, Faculty and Staff

(In)visible Exhibition Program at MOA: Artists’ CreativeResponse to the Exhibition

A personal and creative response to the (In)visible exhibition by Jen Sungshine and SammyChien, Taiwanese artists­activists based in Vancouver. Don’t miss this exciting closing event forthe last day of the exhibition!

Sunday, April 3, 20162:30 PM – 4:30 PM Michael Ames Theatre at MOA *Free with museum admission

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Como: Angry Spirits And Urban Soundscapes In AncientJapan

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Ghosts in the city? From the late seventh to the late eighth centuries, Japanese rulers built nofewer than six capitals, with the largest housing as many as 70,000 to 100,000residents. Michael Como suggests that the buildings, roads and tools of these capitals functionednot simply as inert matter, but also as active forces that reshaped the ritual means by whichurban residents mediated their relationship with their physical environment and with thesuperhuman world.

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Crossing the Lines of Caste: Visvamitra and theConstruction of Brahmin Power in Hindu Mythology

New work in South Asian Studies at UBC!

Adheesh Sathaye will discuss his most recent book, Crossing the Lines of Caste. There will beplenty of tea, coffee, and snacks for attendees.

Wednesday, 6 April, 2016 4 p.mRoom 604, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall

To Touch or Not To Touch

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Charlotte Townsend­Gault, Professor, UBC Art History, Visual Art & Theory

The visible mend of the Nuu­chah­nulth canoe, currently positioned in MOA prominently nearthe confluence of the ramp and the Great Hall, actually makes it difficult, for one standing there,to be what David Garneau has called a "panopticonic flaneur unaffected by touch". What elsethen might the canoe be doing?

Conveners: Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura, MOA Curator, Asia, Dr. Nuno Porto, MOA Curator, Africa & LatinAmerica and Dr. Anne Murphy, UBC Asian Studies.

Thursday, April 7, 2016 4 PM –5 PMRoom 213 at MOA (Located near the MOA administrative entrance to the right to the mainmuseum entrance and MOA café.)

Korean Studies Lab Seminar

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Speaker: Professor Kye­young Cho (Seoul National University)Language: Korean

Thursday, April 7, 2016 3pm ­ 6pmRoom 506, Asian Centre

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From Hiroshima to Fukushima ­ Free Tickets forStudents!

Poetry of Nuclear Survival

Readings by actor Sayuri Yoshinaga (with English text). Speech and piano accompaniment bypianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. The event will be followed by a reception.

Free student tickets available until April 15 at tickets.ubc.ca using promo code: SAYURI

Tuesday, May 3, 2016 3:00 PM ­ 4:30 PM Chan Telus Studio Theatre

VIDEO: Christopher Rea and Henry Jenkins on HowVaudeville Differed Between Hollywood and China

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Slapstick performance and trick cinematography dominated early global cinema. People climb intoboxes and are tossed around; they jerry­rig all manner of dwellings and conveyances. But whatdid such visual gags look like in films made in Shanghai, as opposed to Los Angeles?

This conversation between Henry Jenkins, a media scholar who works primarily on Americanpopular culture, and Christopher Rea, Associate Professor at UBC Asian Studies, will explorecomic convergences on the silver screen, focusing on filmmakers who embraced a vaudevillianaesthetic of visceral comedy and variety entertainment.

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2016 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

UBC's annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program, which celebrates the life of Punjabi in BC andis now in its eighth year, was held on March 16­17, 2016. On March 16, we gathered to hear ashort talk on the early twentieth century revolutionary Ghadar movement, which sought toestablish a free and secular India and an end to British colonial rule, by Sunit Singh (University ofChicago); present awards to student winners in a Punjabi­language essay contest; honour BC­based Punjabi­language author Jarnail Singh Sekha with a life­time achievement award; andview performances in Punjabi by students in Punjabi 200 and films by students from ASIA 475,"Documenting Punjabi Canada." The event was well attended by students and members of thecommunity. On Thursday March 17 at 4 p.m. we gathered to hear a longer scholarly talk bySunit Singh about the connections between members of the Punjabi Canadian community andthe Canadian Left.

The Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program occurs every year in the Department of Asian Studies atUBC. It is designed to celebrate the rich life of Punjabi language and culture in BC, and to honourthe people ­­ writers, students, teachers, and scholars ­­ who contribute so much to Punjabi'slegacy and present in this province.

Congratulations to our essay contest winner!

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Our guest speaker, Sunit Singh (University of Chicago).

A picture of local Punjabi language writer, Ajmer Rode, during the Q&A session.

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Jarnail Singh 'Sekha' (in centre) after he received the writer's award, (from left to right)withProfessor Ross King, Head of the Department of Asian Studies; Anne Murphy Associate Professorin the Department of Asian Studies and Chair of Punjabi Language, Literature, and Sikh Studies;Sukhwant Hundal, who teaches Punjabi in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, and Dr. RaviSidhu, from UBC's Faculty of Medicine, who established this annual program in loving memory ofhis mother, Harjit Kaur Sidhu, an advocate for women's rights, education, and the Punjabi

language.

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2016 Asian Studies Careers Night

The Department of Asian Studies held its annual Careers Night on March 21st, 2016. The eventstarted with a keynote from Canada's Ambassador to China, Guy Saint­Jacques, titled "WhereAsian Studies Fits Into Canada's Growing Engagement with China". Next was a panel featuring 4alumni with over a decade each of experience living and working in Asia. Finally, students rotatedamong the 12 participating alumni asking questions while enjoying a Korean dinner. The eventwas well attended by students and the alumni stories were as inspiring as ever. We would like tothank our amazing alumni who participated in this year's event as well as the volunteers whohelped make the event such a success.

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Dr. Ross King and our keynote speaker, Canadian Ambassador Guy Saint­Jacques on video­callfrom Beijing.

Our panel of speakers in action. Left to right: Paula Bennett, Ron Shimoda, Jimmy Mitchell &Richard N. Liu.

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A huge thanks to all our guest speakers for making our 2016 Careers Night a huge success.

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2016 Asian Studies Graduate Conference

The 2016 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference was a great success! We would like tothank all our wonderful presenters and everyone who came to show their support and participatein the very stimulating conversation that followed each and every presentation! We are verygrateful to Doctor King and our Chairman Professor Rea, for closing and opening the Conference,respectively. We hope to see many of you next year!

Dan, Elsa and Haley

Graduate student Casey Collins

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Graduate Student Jiaqi Yao

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Bruce Fulton's Recently Published Books

Check out these latest books from our Department's Bruce Fulton and his wife Ju­Chan Fulton!The Fultons are the translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction, including theaward­winning women’s anthology, Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (SealPress, 1989), and with Marshall R. Pihl, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, rev. andexp. ed. (M.E. Sharpe, 2007).

The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women

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Published by Zephyr Press, the book contains five stories from Fulton's 1997 anthologyWAYFARER, which is out of print, and five stories from the new millennium.In the earliest of thestories, Pak Wan­so, considered the elder stateswoman of contemporary Korean fiction, opensthe door into two “Identical Apartments” where sisters­in­law, bound as much by competition aslove, struggle to live with their noisy, extended families. O Chong­hui, who has been compared toJoyce Carol Oates and Alice Munro, examines a day in the life of a woman after she is releasedfrom a mental institution, while younger writers, such as Kim Sagwa, Han Yujoo and Ch’on Un­yong explore violence, biracial childhood, and literary experimentation.

The Moving Castle

Hwang Sunw?n’s The Moving Fortress (1972) is a panorama of Korea and Koreans coming toterms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. By turns hard­boiled and lyrical, rootedin the workaday lives of slum­dwellers as well as the bizarre dreams of the affluent, alive withvibrant images of the metropolis of Seoul as well as the immemorial countryside, the novelepitomizes the rich variety of Hwang Sun­w?n's art. The Fulton's translation of this novel, titledTHE MOVING CASTLE, was originally published in Seoul in 1985 but was never marketedoverseas. For the new release they did a new translation and re­titled it.

UBC Students Compete at the Canada National JapaneseSpeech Contest

The first prize winners of the 28th BC Japanese speech contest from UBC, Tsuyoshi Hamanaka,Christopher Goeb and Jeremy Sit, presented their speeches at the 27th Canada NationalJapanese Speech Contest held at the University of Toronto on March 19th. Chris won third prize

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in the Intermediate level category and Jeremy placed second in the Advance levelcategory. Congratulations!

Student Opportunities

Hiring Work Study for Centre for Japanese Research Position Inviting applications for an assistant position involving a minimum of ten and maximum oftwenty hours per week from May 1 to August 31, 2016. Primary duties will involve preparationfor a large­scale conference. Review of applications will begin Monday, March 28. Applications arecurrently being accepted via Careers Online (Job ID: 824175).

Submit to the Asian Studies Northwest Graduate Conference by April 8, 2016

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Asian Studies MA Program Info Session

Hiring Japanese speaking Research Assistant. May ­ August 2016

2016 Confucius Institute Scholarship

Call for Papers ­ The Asian Conference on Education 2016

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On­Campus Events

Monday, April 4, 2016How Huang Zunxian Helped Canadian­Chinese in an Age of Chinese Exclusion (1882­1885)12:00 PM ­ 2:00 PMRoom 604, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall

Monday, April 4, 2016 Do Rewards Work to Maintain and Increase Tax Compliance? Evidence from the Randomization ofPublic Goods3:30 PM ­ 5:00 PMRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall

Monday, April 4, 2016 From Hanshin to Fukushima: 20 Years of Researching Disasters in Japan5:00 PMRoom 604, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall

Tuesday, April 5, 2016Utopia, Dystopia and Uchronia: From 'The Fat Years' to 'The Second Year of Jianfeng: AnAlternative History of New China'4:00 PM ­ 6:00 PMSt. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall

Tuesday, April 5, 2016Discourses and Networks of North Korean Defector­Activists3:30 PM ­ 5:00 PMRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall

Wednesday, April 6, 2016Virtual + Digital Art Gallery Launch Party12:00 PM ­ 1:00 PMInstitute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, 038 – 2080 West Mall

Wednesday, April 6, 2016Fifty Years Later in Indonesia: The Violence of 1965­66 in Historical Perspective12:00 PM ­ 1:30 PMRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall

Thursday, April 7 Weaker States under the Shadow of Sino­US Great Power Competition: Myanmar and Thailand'sForeign Policy Choices4:00 PM ­ 6:00 PMSt. John's College, 2111 Lower Mall

Thursday, April 7, 2016The (Non) Strategic Thinking of Japan’s Decision­makers for World War II4 PM ­ 5:30 PM Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall

Friday, April 8, 2016What would Aristotle Have Thought? A Japanese Production of the Greek Tragedy 'Medea'4 PM ­ 5:30 PM Room 604, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall

Off­Campus Events

Friday, April 15, 2016Targeting Universities in Authoritarian India7:00 PM – 9:00 PMRoom 7000, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W Hastings St, Vancouver

Saturday, April 30, 20162016 8th Annual Translation and Interpreting Workshop 1:00 pm ­4:30 pmKaede Room at Nikkei Centre, 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby

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Saturday, May 14, 2016Student Workshop on Canada’s Engagement with Myanmar: Responding to the Rohingya Crisis10:00 am ­ 4 pmAsia Pacific Foundation Of Canada, 675 West Hastings Street (9th floor), Vancouver

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