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Department News
Congratulations Professor Nancy Steinhardt!
Professor Nancy Steinhardt has won the 2019 Provost's Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring. Currently the Chair of our department, Professor Steinhardt has mentored over 30 PhD students during her time with EALC.
A tour of the ancient world—in Mandarin
The Penn Museum offers tours of its exhibits in Mandarin, increasing cross-cultural access to its invaluable assemblage of objects on display, the only known museum in Philadelphia with regularly scheduled tours in the langua
Nancy Steinhardt Wins College Art Association Award
Professor Steinhardt has been named the 2019 recipient of the 2019 College Art Association Award for Distinguished Teaching of Art History. The award was present on February 13 in New York during the CAA's annual conference. Awardees wer
The Japanese Language Program's Tadoku Project
The JLP's Tadoku project helps our students try to read more challenging texts and enjoy reading in Japanese. See the full article in the Penn Library Newsletter.
Two Students Make It to Final Round of J.LIVE Talk
Barbara Chen (Undergraduate, Arts & Sciences) and Zizhou Wang (MA Student, EALC) proceeded to the final round in the speech competition called J.LIVE Talk, organized by George Washington University.
Mongolian Language Taught at Penn
The Daily Pennsylvanian published an article about the Mongolian course being offered through EALC. This is the first time Mongolian has been offered at Penn.
Chinese Placement Test Results
Test Date: August 24, 2018
Fall 2018 Placement Exam Information
Chinese: There will be a second test for those students who could not make the first test on Friday, August 31, 2018 at 10:00AM in Fagin Hall, Room 103
Japanese: Monday, August 27, 8:00AM to 10:00AM in Williams 315
Dr. Paul Goldin Consulted on Ivanka Trump Tweet
POLITIFACT, a Pulitzer prize-winning fact-checking organization, consulted Dr. Paul Goldin on the origin of a recent Ivanka Trump tweet. "Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it." Ms.
Eugene Park interview on anticipated summit between President Trump and North Korea's Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un
One day in May or early June, President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un at an unprecedented summit to discuss North Korea’s nuclear program.
Events
A Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia: Revisiting Sayrāmī's Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī
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Professor Eric Schluessel, University of Montana
The Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī of Mullah Mūsa Sayrāmī (1836-1917) is celebrated as a monument of Uyghur literature and the preeminent Muslim history of nineteenth-century Xinjiang (East Turkestan). Sayrāmī's work is also…
