East Asian Studies Center Office of International Affairs Title VI NRC/FLAS

sUMMER 2015 In This Issue

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From the Director Although the 2014-2015 academic year started rather quietly and slowly, we concluded Spring 2015 busy and strong . In Spring 2015 alone, the Institute for Chinese Studies (ICS), Institute for Japanese Studies (IJS), and Institute for Korean Studies (IKS) organized 22 lectures on diverse topics from 21st century Chinese art to smuggling and illicit markets in China, from the acquisition of Japanese pronunciation to the Korean collections at the American Museum of National History . In March and April, EASC and IJS hosted two manga symposia, “Manga at a Crossroads,” with the OSU Libraries and the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum . ICS organized an interdisciplinary symposium, “China and the Jews in the Modern Era,” with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies in April . Also in April, IKS hosted the inaugural Sungkyu Chris Lee Korean Performance Program event, “Korean Wind and Stream,” with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL) . In addition to these lectures, symposia and performances, with the Title VI grant, EASC supported a variety of courses . Two levels of Uzbek Language courses were offered with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Center for Slavic and East European Studies . A Cantonese language course was offered with DEALL . The Cantonese course was a huge success and had 19 students enrolled . We also provided support for an assistant for teaching methods courses in the College of Education and Human Ecology . This collaboration will produce new materials and research findings related to Chinese language teacher preparation . We have been similarly busy working on a variety of projects with our partners outside OSU . We officially established a partnership with the US Department of Defense’s Defense Language Institute . Our new Mid-

exp OSU re Career Professional Track of the Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies MA Program is now integrated for their Foreign Area Officers . We also work closely with the history faculty at Columbus State Community College and are in the process of developing 12 East Asian history modules for their World History courses . In April, we hosted the inaugural lecture in the OSU-Spelman East Asian Lecture Series at Spelman College in Georgia . To start new projects, it is important to have good partnerships . To lead successful events and programs, it is imperative to know local conditions and needs of students, faculty and different units and organizations . We have been extremely lucky to have great supporters and partners at OSU and beyond who help us identify our directions . We look forward to working closely with them to continue to deliver what is important for students, faculty, local communities and our fields . To implement projects and programs, it is equally indispensable to have a dedicated team . At the beginning of this academic year, one of our staff members left us, and we had been operating with limited manpower . Nonetheless, all of our staff members, Amy Carey, Jeff Chan, Janet Stucky, and Dani Cooke, worked selflessly and tirelessly to bring us to the strong conclusion of this academic year . Similarly, Professor Marjorie Chan, ICS director, Professor Hajime Miyazaki, IJS director, and Professor Chan Park, IKS director, all lead each institute actively and dynamically while working with EASC closely . I am grateful to the devotion and professionalism of our EASC team .

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The Institute for Chinese Studies hosted its fourth year of graduate forums in 2014 and fifth year in 2015 . These area-or theme-based forums feature presentations by OSU graduate students in China-related fields . The 2014 forum, titled “Understanding China—Its Roots and New Frontiers,” was held on March 18 . The 2015 forum, titled “Global and Transnational Experiences,” was held on March 10 . For more information, contact Participants of the 2014 ICS Graduate forum discuss presentations. Jeffrey Chan at chan .184@osu edu. .

2014 “Understanding China – Its Roots and New Frontiers” Graduate Forum Presenters:

Cynthia Johnson & Tsz-Him Tsui . “Distribution and Meaning of Cantonese ge3” Ziying You . “Entertaining Deities and Humans: Performance of Puju at Temple Fairs in Southern Shanxi” Di Luo . “Reading and Writing Modernity: Rural Literacy Education in the Communist Base Areas in Shanxi in the 1930s and 1940s” Hyun Kyung Kim . “Naturalism and Idealism: A Comparison between Leon Battista Alberti’s On Painting and Guo Xi’s Linquan Gaozhi” Yanfei Yin . “Who is Viewing What? The Qianlong Emperor Viewing Paintings by Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766)” Mengjun Li . “Genre, Audience, and the Staging of Talent: A Comparative Study of Ping Shan Leng Yan and its Two Dramatic Adaptations” Qiong Yang . “The Rigid Scientist: Fascist Virus and the Invention of a Social Group in Chinese Theater” Yutian Tan . “Humor in The Phoenix Pavilion: A Comparative Study of the Peking and Cantonese Operas” Summer 2015 Litong Chen . “Behind Literature Hiding Linguistics: Character Frequency and Rhyme Occurrence Correlation in Huajian-Ji”

2015 “Global and Transnational Experiences” Graduate Forum Presenters:

Yu (Claire) Fan . “Chinese Rap Music: Exploring Chinese Urban Youth Identity” Kati Fitzgerald . “Historicizing Scripts of Tibetan Opera: Bibliographic Significance of the Biography of Nangsa Ohbum” Wenyuan Shao . “The Making of Second Mother Tongue in Aku Wuwu’s Micro-Blog Fragments on Latbbu Oprro” Jia Shi . “The Female Body as a Site of Urban Struggle: On Chen Qiulin’s Early Art” Maria Salvador . “Chinese Art Exhibitions in Spain, 1939-1990: Discovering a Chronology” Yanzhuang Zhang . “Exotic or Local: Visual Arts Constructed in the First Park of Guangzhou (1918-1938)” Yuhan Lin . “Comparing Xiamen and Taiwan Mandarin: A Case Study of Sibilants” Haiyan Fu . “Deviant Chinese Characters on the Internet” Tsz-Him Tsui & Marjorie K.M. Chan . “Cantonese Hip-Hop Songs and Their Linguistic Devices for Identity Formation”

exp OSU re ICS co-sponsors Second Premodernist Grad Conference In collaboration with the Institute for Chinese Studies, OSU’s Department of History hosted the second annual “Premodernist Grad Conference” on April 24 . Philippe Foret, a specialist of Qing China from the University of Zurich, presented “Antarctica, China’s Last Frontier” as the keynote lecture . Two of EASC’s graduate students presented . Alex Jania (East Asian Studies) presented “Burning Rice to Save Lives: Emotion and Morality in Early Modern Japanese Disaster Folklore” and Zeyuan Wu (Chinese literature) presented on “How Do We ‘Read’ Objects?: Rethinking the EASC Connoisseurship of Qin Zither as A Musical Instrument in Late 12 Imperial China .” Prof. Scott Levi welcomes Philippe Foret to OSU. East Asian Studies Center The Ohio State University easc .osu .edu Center News Ohio-Japan Alumni Network continues outreach activities

With Year 3 funding from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership for the project titled “Strengthening the Infrastructure to Produce Future Leaders through Educational Outreach, Career Development, and Development in the State of Ohio and the Midwest,” the Institute for Japanese Studies continues cooperative activities in Ohio, the Midwest and Japan to enhance outreach to all levels of educational institutions and the community, as well as expand internship programs in the US and Japan . This project supports the Ohio-Japan Alumni Network (OH-JAN), whose members serve as mentors through on-campus talks at universities across the state on the topic of “The Role Japan-related Programs Played in My Life and Career .” This year, Acting IJS Director Hajime Miyazaki (left) converses with OH- alumni of Ohio-based Japan programs delivered the JAN panelists at the March 24 event: (from left to right) Erica following presentations: Brown, Keith Albrecht, Abigail Shelton and Mark Huber.

University of Cincinnati: September 4, 2014 Michael Oakley (Compucom) Kent State University: February 17, 2015 “As a dual major, it was Elizabeth Bender (Templefield Translations) cool to see how some of University of Mount Union: March 17, 2015 the alumni who had dual Ashley Gauer (Bucyrus Precision Tech Inc) Melody Brown (Stow-Monroe High School) degrees were able to find The Ohio State University: March 24, 2015 jobs utilizing Japanese and Keith Albrecht (Fuserashi International Technology, Inc .) their other pursuits, in Ohio.”

Erica Brown (THK Manufacturing of America) Summer 2015 Student attendee of March 24 event at OSU Mark Huber (Hirschvogel Incorporated) Abigail Shelton (Honda Project)

JASCO’s Japanese Speech Contest and Career Expo supported by IJS

This March saw the conclusion of another successful Japan-America Society of Central Ohio (JASCO) Japanese Speech Contest, as well as the second Career Exploration Event . The event, hosted by JASCO and OSU’s Japanese Student Organization, showcased some of Ohio’s most talented students of the Japanese language . Additionally, the Career Expo exposed these gifted students to Japan-related companies in the Central Ohio area . Judges for the Speech Contest were Hiroshi Fukuda, COJAC, Nissin Travel Service (Head Judge); Kazuyuki Katayama, Consulate General of Japan in Detroit; Isao Shoji, The Schumacher Group; and Deborah Solomon, Otterbein University . Winners in the University category were First Place - Cong Li (The Ohio State University), Second Place - Jon Foissotte (Case Western Reserve University), Third Place - Nicholas

Fleming (Ohio University), Consul General Award - Pallavi Rao (The Ohio State University), Pronunciation Award - Lindsay Bodi exp OSU re (University of Toledo) . Winners in the High School category were: First Place - Christopher Cathis (Dublin Jerome High School), Second Place - Gill Im (Dublin Scioto High School), Third Place - Evan Seitz (Westerville High School), Consul General Award - James Keleman (Kirtland High School), and Pronunciation Award - Jabreal Calis (Dublin Coffman High School) . Companies participating in the Career Expo included HL - A Co ,. Inc .; Honda of America Mfg ., Inc ;. Honda Logistics North America, Inc .; THK Manufacturing of America, Inc .; Honda Marysville; Nifco America Corp .; The Ohio State University - Department of East Asian Languages and Literature/Fisher College of Business; Wittenberg University; Bowling Green State University; The University of Findlay and the Japanese Student Organization, The Ohio State University . The contest was co-sponsored by Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese, Central Ohio Japanese Association of Commerce (COJAC), the Consulate General of Japan in Detroit, the Japan Foundation (Los Angeles) and the Institute for Japanese Studies . Donations were also provided from the City of Dublin, Sunny Street Café, Yoshi’s Japanese Restaurant EASC Prof. Scott Levi welcomes Philippe Foret to OSU. and Tensuke Market . 13 Focus onTeacher Training

Summer 2015 14 EASC expOSUre Center News East AsianStudiesCenter ICS hostsNewYear’s celebrationsforcommunity, students,faculty Focus onculturalperformances Chinese NewYear Hall,whichincludedalion inHagerty attended eventforthecampuscommunityincelebrationof exhibition ofspectacularscenicphotographyfromChina. from differentminoritygroups,ateaceremonyandan costumeshows painting, colorful includingcalligraphy,arts showcased traditionalChinese demonstrations Informative choir, popularsongsand music. arts, ethnic dances,martial musical instruments,Chinese Chinese instruments,Western dances, ballet,traditional including Pekingopera,lion forms, a varietyofartistic over Ohio.Theshowsfeatured fromall and amateurartists fromprofessional performances of Chineseculture.Therewerethreeshowsstaged,with 31, 2015.TheChineseFestivalpresentedmanyfacets at Westerville CentralHighSchoolonSaturday, January Studies co-sponsoredthe8thAnnualOhioChineseFestival national andlocalorganizations,theInstituteforChinese ChineseSchoolandadozen the OhioContemporary 34th AnnualDEALLLangFestheldinSpring2015 by CharlesQuinn,languagedirector, ofEastAsianLanguagesandLiteratures Department ABOVE ANDRIGHT more, seehttps://osu .boxcom/s/l6jeeor5cg1crub1tz0441y3kquowtqi .) language facultyandGTA organizers,and toProf.KarenManclandSHOCCC(Photocredits,MsYuko Kuwai;for bythe SHO ChineseCulturalConnection.ManythankstoDEALL down withanAsianbuffetprepared andserved winnersoftheShootoutandDEALL’sperformances, annualstudentawardswerehonored,andLangFest 2015wound panel ofbilingualjudgesfrom the localcommunity;eachlanguagegrouppostedatleastone win.Attheconclusionof competed inmediatingaconversation betweentwomonolingualspeakersofdifferentEastAsian languages,beforea and thepublic.InInterpretationShootout, teams ofstudentinterpretersfromLevels1and2ineachlanguage songs,speeches,dances, drumming,videosandmore—beforeanaudienceofstudents,faculty performances—skits, annual studentvarietyshowinChinese,JapaneseandKorean .Therewasvarietyaplenty:249studentsin26 ext, on February 23,ICS co-sponsored awell- Next, onFebruary In collaboration with the Chinese Culture Link and In collaborationwiththeChineseCultureLinkand On April 24, the Department ofEastAsianLanguagesandLiteratures(DEALL)hostedits34thLangFest,the On April24,theDepartment : A udienc TheOhioStateUniversity members

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The Central Association of Teachers of Japanese 2015 Conference, hosted by the Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese (OATJ) and The University of Findlay, was held on the University of Findlay campus from April 11-12, 2015 . Co-sponsored by EASC, the event featured numerous iInvited speakers, including Daniel Dewey, Brigham Young University, “Immersion During Study Abroad: What Does it Mean?”; Shinji Shimoura and Kazumi Katasa, Purdue University, “Bring Learners outside the Classroom: the Application of Augmented Reality Place Based Game Editor ARIS”; Mari Noda, The Ohio State University, “Field Guide in Study Abroad Curriculum”; William Matsuzaki, St . Paul’s School, Attendees of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese 2015 Conference gather with Consul General Kazuyuki “Marketing Your Language from the Inside Out”; and Katayama and the other speakers after dinner on Saturday, Mieko Kawai, University of Virginia, “A Next Generation April 11. Articulation Model for Facilitating Curricular Articulation .” Numerous breakout sessions during both days highlighted many aspects of Japanese language instruction . Dinner included a welcome by Kazuyuki Katayama, Consul General of Japan in Detroit, and a keynote address by Motoko Tabuse, Eastern Michigan University and AATJ President, on“Current Issues in Japanese Language Education in the US .” Co-sponsors included OSU’s East Asian Studies Center and a US Department of Education Title VI grant; Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies; Japan Foundation, Los Angeles Office; Friends of Findlay (a consortium of 14 Japanese companies in Northwest Ohio); Office of Academic Affairs, The University of Findlay; College of Liberal Arts, The University of Findlay; and Department of Language and Culture, The University of Findlay .

Summer 2015 Teaching resources on Japan shared at poster sessions

The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership On May 11, IJS was part of the “Innovate: (CGP) grant activities were the focus of two poster Community” conference held at the Ohio Union . The session events this spring . On May 6, IJS presented two poster session, “Transforming a Blog into a Teaching posters, “Connecting Alumni and Building Relationships Tool” detailed how the u .osu .edu (wordpress) blog across the State: Ohio-Japan Alumni Network” and platform has been transformed into a content-rich “Japan-Related Resources Help Teachers Globalize resource to teach about Japan’s history and culture the Curriculum in Schools” at the OSU Outreach and through two different blog sites . The “Journey along Engagement Forum held in the Ohio Union . the Tokaido” blog looks at Japan’s National Road using various primary source material, lesson plans, background materials and videos to show change over time . The “Japan Discovery Boxes” blog incorporates Japanese items and culture into the K-16 classroom exp OSU re using thumbnail galleries linking to pages filled with descriptions, 360° photos, lesson plans, videos and Ohio standards . To access the teaching resources developed as part of the CGP grant, visit http://u .osu .edu/ journeyalongthetokaido/ and http://u .osu .edu/ japanbox/ . For futher inforamtion, contact Janet Stucky at stucky .7@osu .edu .

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Summer 2015 17 EASC expOSUre Summer 2015 18 EASC expOSUre Honoring ProfessorMaureenDonovan Faculty News East AsianStudiesCenter by RichardTorrance, professor, ofEastAsianLanguagesandLiteratures Department This, thatresearch.This, meofnewsourcesconcerning the directionmyresearchisheadingandtoanticipateinform in Worldcat andarefromprovincialpublishersorhavelong been outofprint.Shehasakeenabilitytounderstand obscurematerials, mostofwhichdonotappear and othersourcesinJapan,shehasbeenabletofindobtain very collection, whichisattributabletoMaureen’s reputation. andhernationalinternational efforts our collection.AmajorfactorinsuccesstheTitle VINRCgrantcompetitionhasbeenthestrengthofourJapanese a reviewerfornumberofoutsideJapanesecollectionsintheUS, andhaswonnumerousoutsidegrantstostrengthen aspresidentoftheacademicorganizationforJapaneselibrariansin US,as collection hereatOSU.Shehasserved knownmanga in anumberofotherareasaswell.Shehassingle-handedlyestablishedthenationallyandinternationally Japanesecompanyhistories,hostingtheU.S’spedagogy journals, majorscholarlyon-lineblogonJapanesefilm,and ofpsychology,at theforefrontinestablishingstrengthonlinebibliographicalsources,obtainingJapanesejournals reputationshehasestablished.Shebeen Japanese collectionsintheUS,andthroughnationalinternational for afirstrateJapanesecollection,throughherknowledgeoftherelativestrengthsandweaknessesothermajor has gainednationalprominence.Sheaccomplishedthisthroughherknowledgeoftherequisitetitlesnecessary she hasbeeninengagingundergraduatesbyworkingwiththemonhonorsprojectsandteachingcoursesmanga. care shehastakeninbuildingacollectionthatmeetstheneedsofourfacultyandstudents.Inaddition,Ihaveseenhowadept and liaison forDEALLsince1992,IhavehadclosedealingswithMaureenandseentheconcern my capacityaslibrary andfacultyresearch.In graduate studentsandanticipatingpurchasingthematerialsneededforMAtheses,dissertations incommunicatingwithfacultyand built themostextensivecollectioninUSShehasalwaysbeenaheadofcurve onthesubject,and,inend, Maureen subscribedtoandobtainedbackissuesofthemajorJapanesescholarlyjournals When Japaneselanguagepedagogywasjustbeginningasafieldofstudy, a fieldthatDEALLwaspioneeringintheUS, inteachingJapanese800. partner sources .Icouldnothavehopedforamoreknowledgeableandforward-looking asanexcellentguidetotraditionalprint JapanintheUS,anditalsoserves of onlinebibliographicsourcesconcerning acrossavarietyoffields.Itisqualitativelyonethemostcompletecollections Her blogcontainsawealthofinformation been replacedbyonlinesourcesandthatMaureenhadalreadyobtainedthesefortheuseofOSUcommunity the yearswehavebeenteachingcoursetogether, Ihavefoundthatmanyoftheprintsourceswasteaching Collections &AreaStudies,University Libraries resource thatitistoday. Japanese StudiesCollection thedistinguishing that otherswerenotconsidering, makingour that ledMaureentocollect earlyinareas of informationandconnecting itwithusers “

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well asaccessingJapan’s libraries . catalogs andothermaterialsfrom Japan’s bookstores,as newpublicationsinJapanandissurveying concerning of course,meanssheisconstantlyreviewinginformation cannot expresshow deeplyIamgoingtomiss her recognizedprograms .I of nationallyand internationally herself tobean indispensable presenceinthecreation the 25plusyearsthatIhaveknown her, shehasproven system.During assettotheOSULibrary extraordinary Professor Maureen Donovan has been an Professor MaureenDonovanhas beenan Those of us in .Thoseofusin .

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East Asian Studies Center The Ohio State University easc .osu .edu Faculty News Symposia and events examine past, present and future of manga by Etsuyo Yuasa, director, East Asian Studies Center In honor of Professor Maureen Donovan, who single-handedly developed OSU’s manga collection (the largest manga collection outside Japan), two symposia, “Manga at a Crossroads,” were held to examine the past, present and future of manga . On March 6, four manga scholars, Professors Maureen Donovan (OSU), Thomas LaMarre (McGill University), Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University) and Natsu Onoda Power (Georgetown University), gave presentations on the topic of Classic Manga . They analyzed classic manga, such as Yomiuri Sunday Manga and Jiji Manga, and elucidated how manga depicted people’s struggle to endure economic deprivation and catastrophe . On April 4, Professors Masami Toku (California State University, Chico), Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso University), Kerim Yasar (OSU) and Casey Brienza (City University, London) talked about the development and globalization of manga and showed how manga changed in response to readers’ expectations over the years and then became an international phenomenon . All presentations delved into the issues of art, history and culture from multiple perspectives and in a highly scholarly manner . They revealed the richness of this unique Japanese art form and reinforced the joy and excitement of Japanese art, Japanese culture, Japanese studies and manga research . Over 200 participants from OSU, other universities, such as Bowling Green State University and Wittenberg University, and the local community listened to the presentations and took part in lively discussions . These manga symposia were part of a series of manga-related events held throughout this year: a manga open house (October 27, 2014), the “World of Shojo Manga” exhibit (March 28 - July 5, 2015), and a manga and storytelling K-12 teacher seminar (June 12, 2015) . In addition, the presenters all discussed manga materials in the OSU manga collection or those displayed in the exhibit . Thus, the presentations provided analyses and contexts to these materials and helped the participants appreciate and deepen the understanding of manga on exhibit and in the collections of OSU . Four OSU faculty members, Namiko Kunimoto, Mineharu Nakayama, Kerim Yasar and Etsuyo Yuasa, led the “Manga at a Crossroads” symposia with support from East Asian Studies Center; Institute for Japanese Studies; The OSU Libaries; Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum; Department of East Asian Summer 2015 Languages and Literatures; Department of History of Art; Department of Arts Administration, Education & Policy; Division of Arts and Humanities; the Japan-US Friendship

Commission exp OSU re and the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies; Japan Foundation New York; and a US Department of EASC Education Title VI grant . 19 Summer 2015 20 EASC expOSUre Honoring ProfessorTom Kasulis East AsianStudiesCenter by Barry Shank,professorandchair,by Barry ofComparativeStudies Department Faculty News interdisciplinary andtransnational humanitiesscholarship. interdisciplinary Sciences, TheOhioStateUniversityandtheprofessionof and of ComparativeStudies,theCollegeArts the reorganization of the Religious Studies major and the reorganization oftheReligiousStudiesmajor and been avoiceof reason, calmandfar-sightedness during of thefirstReligious Studiesmajor Ohio State.Hisarrivalsolidifiedthecomparative aspect developmentofReligious Studiesat cross-departmental significantly, playerinthe Kasuliswasavitallyimportant the MAprograminEastAsianStudies .Perhapsmost Chair protemporeandasGraduate StudiesChairof asarecentDepartment faculty university-widebyserving Languages andLiteraturestheEastAsianstudies ofEastAsian Studies .HecontinuedtoaidtheDepartment programs inAsianAmericanStudiesandLatina/Latino he chairedtwoseparateplanningcommitteestoestablish aid ofComparativeStudiesandtheCollegelaterwhen purview work andcomparativescholarshipoutsidehisnormal role, Kasulisextendedhiscommitmenttocollaborative for CollaborativeResearchandPublicHumanities.Inthis asthefoundingdirectorofInstitute and thenserved the committeethatplannedOhioState’s humanitiescenter with hischairingComparativeStudies,Kasulischaired and resourcesfromthecentraladministration.Coinciding national reputation,andreceivedincreasedrecognition Comparative Studiesaddedfaculty, itsgrowing nurtured the Universityasawhole.UnderKasulis’s leadership, and vitalityoftheunit’s contributiontotheCollegeand reviewthatestablishedthesignificance through anexternal During histenureaschair, ComparativeStudieswent appointed chairoftheDivisionComparativeStudies. fortwoyears,Kasuliswas leading thatdepartment of EastAsianLanguagesandLiteraturesin1993.After academic leadershippotential,appointinghimaschair Comparative Studies.OSUquicklyrecognizedKasulis’s Marilyn Waldman tojoinwhatwasthentheDivisionof in from P rofessor S Tom joinedOhioStatein1991.Hewasrecruitedby pring T he This willingness to extend himself came to the .Thiswillingnesstoextendhimselfcamethe O 2015. T om hio K S asulis tate U

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tremendously even aswestrivetobuildonhislegacy hehasgivenus. Weall gratefulforeverything willmisshim theCollegeand theUniversityare OSU .TheDepartment, scholarly productivitythatTom Kasulis hasestablishedat from theintellectualleadershipand modelofgenerous before that,Ihavebenefittedpersonally andprofessionally for twelveyears years andasacolleagueinthedepartment truly distinguished.Hewantsusalltounderstand recognized workis internationally large bodyofimportant fundamental scholarlycontributionandthereasonwhyhis be impressedbutthatyouunderstand.”ThisisKasulis’s Shinto: TheWay Home,Kasulis’s isnotthatyou “concern Richie, wroteinareviewofKasulis’s work, important Japaneseculture,Donald As onescholarofcontemporary ideas innowayreducestheirsignificanceorcomplexity educated person.Yet inwhichhepresentsthose theform understood byanysincerelyinterestedandgenerally thatcanbe and deeplycontextualizedideasinaform Kasulis’s greatskills.Hecanrenderextremelycomplex .Thisisoneof needed tomovetheirownworkforward lead studentstojusttherightbodyofscholarshipthey wide knowledgeofmanyfieldsstudyenabledhimto Studies werewellknownfortheirclarityandinsight.His philosophy center forthecomparativestudyofJapanesereligionand and AsianPhilosophywouldthinkofOhioStateasa leading scholarsinReligiousStudies,EastAsianStudies fields ofstudy, Kasulis’s presencehereensuredthatthe recognizedpioneerinseveralemergent internationally of thiswidespreadreligioustradition.Asanationallyand (2004) wasthefirstsystematicscholarlystudyinEnglish andWesternEastern traditions.Shinto:TheWay Home unique abilitytosynthesizephilosophicalconceptsfrom Cultural Difference(2002),exemplifiedKasulis’s almost authored book,IntimacyorIntegrity:Philosophyand scholarly panelsdevotedtohiswork.Hissecondsingle- in series andkeynotetalks,directsymposiaparticipate dozens ofspecialinvitationstodeliverdistinguishedlecture thatstanding,leadingto the nexttwentyyearsconfirmed with thefivevolumesheedited,co-editedortranslatedover onJapanesephilosophy world expert Hawaii Press.ItestablishedKasulis’s positionasaleading leading Western pressinJapanese studies,Universityof Z of religiousstudiesandAsian.Hisfirstbook, foremost inhisscholarlyworkandintellectualcommand. work, Kasulis’s leadershiphasbeenanchoredfirstand andadministrative of Religion.Throughoutallthisservice planning committeethatdevelopedtheCenterforStudy provided equallyvaluableintellectualleadershipforthe , was published in 1981 by the en Action/ZenPerson,waspublishedin1981bythe As Chair of Comparative Studies for almost three As ChairofComparativeStudies foralmostthree Kasulis’s seminars and lecture courses for Comparative Tom’s scholarlyleadershipbeganinhiscentralareas . is 47 essays, along .His47essays,along .

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“Spiritual Values and the Physical World” conference held in April 2015

A conference honoring Professor Tom Kaulis, “Spiritual Values and the Physical World: A Comparative Exploration of China, Japan, and the West,” took place on Thursday, April 9 through Saturday, April 11 at The Ohio State University . The conference was held in the Ohio Union (OSU); Hagerty Hall (OSU) and Dawes Arboretum (Newark, OH) and featured a film screening and discussion, addresses, activities and roundtable conversations . On Thursday, April 9, the Emmy-award winning documentary

Attendees of the “Spiritual Values and Physical World” conference join Prof. Tom “Journey of the Universe” was Kasulis (seated, center) in celebration of his 2015 retirement. screened, followed by a panel discussion with the co-writer and co-director, Mary Evelyn Tucker, of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and co-founder of the Forum on Religion and Ecology . Panelists included Roger T. Ames (University of Hawaii), James W. Heisig (Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan), John C. Maraldo (Emeritus, University of North Florida) and Graham Parkes (University College Cork, Ireland) . On Friday, April 10, “Nature, Spirit, Environment In China and Japan” was explored . Ames gave a talk, “The ‘Great Commentary’ and Chinese Natural Cosmology,” followed by a discussion including Judson Murray (Wright State University) and Parkes (founding director of the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies, University College Cork) . The group also visited the renovated Japanese garden at Dawes Arboretum in Newark, Ohio and finished the day with a talk from Parkes, “The Role of Rock in the Japanese ‘Dry Landscape’ Garden,” in 180 Hagerty Hall on the OSU campus . The last Summer 2015 day of the conference included philosophical roundtable conversations in the Ohio Union on the OSU campus . “The Body in Religion and Philosophy,” “Japanese Philosophy in a Global Context” and “East Asian Models of Teaching and Learning” were explored . Heisig, professor of philosophy at Nanzan University and director emeritus of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, delivered the closing lecture, “The Future of Japanese Philosophy: Reflections on This Conference .” The lecture was followed by a question-and-answer session . The conference was presented by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies with generous support from The Peking University Institute for Advanced Humanities and several OSU sponsors, including the Center for the Study of Religion, the East Asian Studies Center, the Environmental Sciences Network, the Humanities Institute, the Institute for Japanese Studies, and the Departments of Comparative Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Philosophy as well as a US Department of Education Title VI grant .

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21 Summer 2015 22 EASC expOSUre East AsianStudiesCenter Honoring ProfessorJimUnger Faculty News Japanese Studies andEastAsianStudiesCenter of EastAsianLanguages andLiteratures,Institute for .Theeventswere sponsoredbytheDepartment service Professor Ungerforhismanycontributions andyearsof technology intheMeijiperiod. in EdoperiodJapanandJapan’s adoptionofmodern how four sangaku .Ungerdiscussedthemathematicsofasample plaqueshunginshrinesandtemplescalled dedicatory go . indulged inteaceremony, flowerarranging,orgameslike Japanese mathematicsknownaswasanmuchothers who, regardlessofageorclass,enjoyedthetradition ofJapan,thereweremenandwomen corner almost every to apackedroomattheOSUFacultyClub. Proofs: JapaneseMathematiciansatWork inLate1700s,” languages andliteratures)deliveredalecture,“Sangaku by MarkBender, professorandchair, ofEastAsianLanguagesandLiteratures Department Talk andretirement receptionheldforProfessorJamesUnger Institute forJapaneseStudiesandtheEastAsianCenter(seebelow). Emeritus status.InhonorofJim’s to DEALL,tworetirementeventswereheldinSpring2015coordinationwiththe service butJimwillstillbeapresenceinDEALLwithhisnewlyawarded at theirhome.ThecoupleplantoretireinMaryland, the OSUWeiqi/Igo/Patwuk Club.Jim’s she organized wife,Mutsuyo,willbefondlyrememberedforthemanyparties an accomplishedpianistandisatrusteeofChamberMusicColumbus.Formanyyearshealsotookgreatjoyinadvising literatures, linguisticsandculturewhichareanoutstandingfeatureofDEALLtoday program inthe1990sandencourageddevelopmentofmulti-focusprogramsChinese,JapaneseKorean inhisroleas chairJimcontributedgreatlytoestablishingDEALLasapremierEastAsianlanguageteaching and service, Colleges inajointCollegeBoard-NEHprojectcoordinatedbytheationalForeignLanguageCenter JapaneseLanguageCurriculainAmericanHighSchoolsand team thatin1993producedAFrameworkforIntroductory Tsukuba University, theUniversityofTokyo andtheNationalMuseumforEthnographyinSenri,Japan .Healsoledthe T 2015. P he rofessor Wasan isknowntousthroughmanuscripts,booksand problems he has studied recently and explain sangaku problemshehasstudiedrecentlyandexplain O As Unger explained, from the 17th century onward, in onward,in As Ungerexplained,fromthe17thcentury On April20,JamesUnger(professor, EastAsian The lecture was followed by a reception to honor The lecturewasfollowedbyareception tohonor sheds light on culture, education and society wasan shedslightonculture,education andsociety hio S J im tate U U nger niversity

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Institute for Chinese Studies: Faculty Director: Marjorie K-M Chan Assistant Director: Jeffrey Chan

Institute for Japanese Studies: Acting Faculty Director: Hajime Miyazaki Assistant Director: Janet Stucky Smith

Institute for Korean Studies: Acting Faculty Director: Chan E. Park

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