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Department News
Vietnamese Language Program Featured in Penn Today
The Vietnamese Language Program was recently featured in Penn Today.Japanese Language Program Featured in The Daily Pennsylvanian
Japanese Language Program director, Tomoko Takami, was featured in The Daily Pennsylvanian following a discussion about the use of generative AI in modern Japanese language courses.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.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: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.
Events
EALC Speakers' Colloquium
Shaoling Ma, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Cornell University
Prior to Taiwan’s electronics exportation boom and global domination in the semiconductor industry, computers helped process data for the island-state’s state and private entities, modeled the…
A Talk with Sang Young Park
Sang Young Park
Meet bestselling South Korean author Sang Young Park as he discusses his Booker Prize-longlisted novel, Love in the Big City—a funny, surprising, and poignant story of a young gay man searching…
Kin and Kind
The Vocabulary of Ethnicity in Medieval China
Shao-yun Yang
While the standard terms for an ethnic group in modern Chinese are minzu …
