Dr. Or Porath (EAC affiliate and Assistant Professor in Religious Traditions of Japan at Leiden University) recently published an article entitled, “Japan’s Forgotten God: Jūzenji in Medieval Texts and the…
East Asia Center Posts
Naoki Yamamoto’s (Film and Media Studies) new book Dialectics without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame (UC Press) explores Japan’s active but previously unrecognized participation in…
Congratulations to Kate McDonald (Associate Professor, History)! Professor McDonald has been awarded a year-long Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The fellowship will support the writing of…
Congratulations to Mayfair Yang (Religious Studies Department & East Asian Studies Department) on her new publication, “Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China” (Duke UP, 2020). In Re-enchanting…
Please join us in congratulating the 2020 Japan Foundation/UCSB Graduate Division Research Accelerator Award Recipients! The EAC faculty and affiliates warmly congratulate the awardees and thank the selection committee for…
EAC was awarded the Korea Foundation Visiting Professor Award for 2018-19. Professor Eunjin Choi is teaching courses on Korean film and other media in the Department of East Asian Languages…
Come July 1, 2019, Professor Xiaorong Li (Department of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) and Professor Luke Roberts (Department of History) will be taking the reins of EAC! Best…
The Japan Foundation IPS Grant (PI Frühstück, Co-PI Jessica Nakamura) is designed to fund a multi-layered project titled “Japanese Culture En Route: Transnational Connections in Japanese Performance Traditions.” Generously matched…
Professor Eunjin Choi will teach on Korean film and other media in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies for another year.