Asian Studies Brown Bag Series
Asian Studies Brown Bag Series
The Asian Studies Brown Bag Talk Series was established as a small group of UAlberta interdisciplinary researchers in 2017. It focuses on topics that connect Japan with its neighbours, including China, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and India as well as promoting transnational studies in Asia. It offers a great opportunity for both international and Canadian graduate students who are interested in Asia to expand their networks, meeting other students and faculty members at the University of Alberta. Everyone is welcome to join our talk as part of the audience or as a speaker. For more information, please contact ptjc@ualberta.ca
Past Talks
February 3, 2022
Yutao Lu
Jolyon Baraka Thomas and Religious Freedom: The Development of Japanese Buddhism and Christianity in Pre-1947 Japan
November 16, 2021
Keisuke Harada
Quotations in Japanese Conversations
February 10, 2021
Jennifer Quist
World Literature and Chinese-English Creative Writing: A Translingual Way
January 20, 2021
Wenzhu Li, Femininity
Zhai Yongming’s “Lightly Injured People, Gravely Wounded City”
October 20, 2020
Laura Velazquez
Wor(l)d to Belong: Mobility in Zheng Chouyu’s “Life in the mountains” and “Buddhist Chant”
February 12, 2020
Chiho Ogawa and Yoshi Ono
The Ikema Dialect of Miyako: Some Challenges Working on an Endangered Language in Okinawa, Japan
January 22, 2020
T.M. Mamos
Database Animals: Postmodernism and OTAKU culture in Azuma Hiroki's OTAKU
November 27, 2019
Clara Iwasaki
Gendered Translation: The Transpacific Career Of Lao She's The Drum Singers
November 6, 2019
Haiyan Xie
Misreading The Politics Of Chinese Fiction: The Case Of Yan Lianke's Child
September 25, 2019
Xiaoting Li
Interpersonal Touch in Mandarin Interaction
April 10, 2019
Christopher Lupke
How Translation Can Rescue the Humanities:Personhood, Narrative, and Global Modernity in Soseki's Kokoro
March 20, 2019
Anne Commons
Cautionary Tales: Danger and Didacticism in the Toshiyori zuinō
March 6, 2019
Mei Mingxue Nan
Making sense of nonsense: Revisioning Liu Na'ou (1905-1940) from a Sinophone perspective
February 13, 2019
Daniel Fried
"SIGNS OF SUBLIMATION: TEXT AND MATERIALITY IN MEDIEVAL DAOISM"
January 16, 2019
Ashley Esarey
Struggle for 100% Freedom': The Legacy of Nylon Cheng (鄭南榕) and Taiwan's Democratization
November 21, 2018
David Quinter
Performing Icons and Bodies: Chōgen, Kujō Kanezane, and the Restoration of the Tōdaiji Great Buddha
September 26, 2018
Ryan Dunch
Making Books to Make Readers to Make Converts: Early Protestant Missionary Publishing in Chinese, 1818-1843
March 28, 2018
Saori Daiju, MA Student, Department of East Asian Studies
The unspecified use of the Japanese demonstrative are 'that' in everyday speech
The Case of Dr. Masajiro Miyazaki: Health Care Provisions by and for the Nikkei in Canada during World War II
January 24, 2018
Yoichi Mukai, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Linguistics
The Effect of Speech Style on Phonetic Reduction of Nasals and Voiced Stops In Japanese
November 22, 2017
Tsugumi Okabe, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Manga, Murder & Mystery: Mapping the Boundaries of Detective Fiction