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Department News
Professor Teemu Ruskola Named 2024-2025 Penn Fellow
Professor Teemu Ruskola was selected as a Penn Fellow for 2024-2025. To read more about this appointment, see here. Congratulations, Teemu!Professor Ayako Kano Featured in Omnia
Professor Ayako Kano was featured for Omnia's "Origin Stories" video series. To watch the video, please click here.2023-2024 EALC Student Prize Winners Announced!
Please join us in congratulating the 2023-2024 student prize winners in EALC: Sophia Liston was awarded the Adele Austin Rickett Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate paper on Chinese humanities.Korean Language Program Students Win at Korean Speech Contest
Three students from EALC's Korean Language Program participated in the third Mid-Atlantic Korean Speech Contest and won the following awards:Matthew Y Wang Memorial Fund Mental Health Wellness Series #10
The Chinese Language Program hosted the 10th event in the Matthew Y Wang Memorial Fund Mental Health Wellness Series on February 28, 2024.Xiuyuan Mi Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Xiuyuan Mi, who received her PhD from EALC in 2022, has been appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Events
Not-so-Famous Plants
Garden Culture, Botanical Knowledge and Regional Painting Traditions in Ming China
Katie Ryor
Scholarship on the bird-and-flower genre of Chinese painting has almost exclusively focused on their function as visual rebuses that convey auspicious messages or has explored the ways that the scholar-elite used…
EALC Speakers' Colloquium
Vyjayanthi Selinger
This EALC Speakers' Colloquium lecture is co-sponsored with Global Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
The Outbreak of the Jōkyū War (1221)
Triangulating Myth and History in Medieval Japan
Michael McCarty
In the Jōkyū War of 1221, retired emperor Go-Toba declared war on the Hōjō warrior family in attempt to destroy Japan’s first warrior government, the Kamakura bakufu, which had shared power with the imperial…
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