Department Newsletter Volume 9 Fall 2016
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURAL STUDIES Department Newsletter Volume 9 Fall 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS MISSION Volume 9 • Fall 2016 STATEMENT Words from the Chair Fabio Rambelli 2 Words from the Outgoing Chair DEPARTMENT FEATURES: The Department of East Asian Faculty Profile: An Interview with Xiaowei Zheng 6 Languages and Cultural Studies Local Religious History in Kyushu 12 is committed to providing This past year was dense with activities and students with the opportunity achievements for our department, faculty, Faculty Profile: Hsiao-jung Yu 22 to understand the many and students. In addition to numerous lectures, movie shows, and other events, we Allan Grapard, EALCS Professor Emeritus, Publishes New Book 23 facets of East Asian cultures, On Mountain Mandalas organized and hosted four large international including (but not limited to) conferences: a symposium and workshop Translating the Unspoken in “The Tale of Genji” languages, literature, history, 24 on Japanese religions (November 2015, co- society, politics, economics, organized by the Shinto Studies Chair), a Faculty Profile: William Fleming 27 religiosities, media, and art. In a conference on ecology across China and the Visiting Scholar Profile: Carina Roth 30 world of increasing international US (April 2016, organized by the UCSB cooperation and globalization, Confucius Institute based in our department), Reinventing ‘Japan’ Research Focus Group: Year 4 32 students we prepare face a the conference on Taiwan Studies (June 2016, Fabio Rambelli society in which Asia is now a organized by the Center for Taiwan Studies), RECENT ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS: significant factor in the foreign and the conference “Sea Religion in Japan” Faculty and Lecturers 14 relations of the United States, (June 2016, organized by the Shinto Studies Chair).
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