BUCSA News Archives
Apply for Manager of Strategic Research, Asian Cultural Council (NY) (deadline March 18, 2020)
Apply for ACC’s Manager of Strategic Research The Asian Cultural Council is honored to be selected as one of 21 organizations in the 2020 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program, which places recent PhDs from the humanities and related social sciences in two-year staff positions in government and the nonprofit sector. ACC’s Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow would work closely with ACC’s Programs staff as Manager of Strategic Research in New York. Applications close Wednesday, March 18, 9 PM EDT, so apply today! All applications and questions must be submitted through ACLS. Please do not contact ACC for any inquiries. For more information, visit the ACLS website at https://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp. If you know any candidates qualified for... More
Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2020 “Life on the Edge: Borders and Boundaries in East Asia” (Feb. 8-9, 2020)
The Harvard East Asia Society is pleased to invite you to take part in its Conference 2020: Life on the Edge: Borders and Boundaries in East Asia Saturday, February 8 and Sunday February 9, 2020, at CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA The HEAS Graduate Student Conference is an annual event, an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to East Asia. The conference allows young scholars to present their research to both their peers as well as renowned scholars of East Asian Studies. The conference will also allow participants to meet others conducting similar research... More
Library of Congress Asian Division’s 2020 Florence Tan Moeson fellowships (due Jan. 31, 2020)
Applications are now being accepted for the Asian Division’s 2020 Florence Tan Moeson fellowship, which supports a minimum of five business days of research in the Asian Reading Room of the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). Here’s the link for the online application: http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian/ftm.html. Deadline is midnight January 31, 2020. All research trips need to be completed before September 15, 2020. After notification, Asian Division staff will work with awardees on scheduling their trip to the Asian Reading Room. The Moeson fellowship is open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty at all levels, librarians, and independent scholars and researchers. Applications from outside the United States are accepted, but please be... More
The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design (Worcester Art Museum, March 28-June 28, 2020)
The Worcester Art Museum is pleased to present The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design March 28 – June 28, 2020 Keisai Eisen, Modern-Style Beauties in Snow, early-mid 1820s, published by Sanoya Kihei (Japanese), color woodblock print, John Chandler Bancroft Collection, 1901.146, Worcester Art Museum The Kimono in Print is the first ever show devoted to examining the kimono as a major source of inspiration and experimentation in Japanese print culture from the Edo period (1603-1868) to the Meiji period (1868-1912). Artists during these periods, through the wide circulation of prints, documented ever-evolving trends in fashion, popularized certain styles of dress, and even designed kimonos. More
Kimono Couture: The Beauty of Chiso (Worcester Art Museum, April 25 – July 26, 2020)
The Worcester Art Museum is pleased to present Kimono Couture: The Beauty of Chiso April 25 – July 26, 2020 https://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/kimono-couture/ CHISO,Furisode, 1938, Yuzen dyeing, embroidery, Collection of CHISO Co. Ltd, © CHISO The first ever exhibition outside Japan of historic and contemporary kimonos from the collection of Chiso—the distinguished Kyoto-based kimono house founded in 1555—will include 13 kimonos from the mid-1600s to 2000s. Also on display will be an original, handcrafted contemporary wedding kimono specially commissioned by the Worcester Art Museum with motifs inspired by the seven hills of Worcester—as well as a video documenting the contemporary creation of a kimono from start to finish. More
Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series (Nov. 20, 2019)
Boston University Creative Writing proudly presents Viet Thanh Nguyen at the Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 7 pm Kenmore Classroom Building, room 101 565 Commonwealth Ave, Boston Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction, a Gold Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and the Asian/Pacific American Literature Award from the... More
Suffolk University Rosenberg Institute Scholar applications now open (due Dec. 15, 2019)
Rosenberg Institute Scholar College of Arts and Sciences, Suffolk University Boston welcomes applications from scholars who wish to be considered for a short term appointment as a Rosenberg Institute Scholar. This nonresidential appointment is for scholars who wish to complete a research and writing topic of contemporary or current policy relevance that focuses on Greater China, Southeast Asia or South Asia. We especially encourage applicants who are willing to disseminate their scholarship to a broad audience, or engage in public scholarship across various platforms. The program supports a six month appointment on a nonresidential basis, as well as a brief residential component of a... More
The Plight of the Uyghur Muslims, lecture by James Millward (Georgetown) and Aydin Anwar (Nov. 12, 2019)
Rudolf G. Wagner (1941-2019)
It is with great sorrow that the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia (BUCSA) has learned of the passing of Rudolf G. Wagner on 25 October 2019. Professor Wagner was one of the world’s leading sinologists and founder and co-director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He was also the husband of Catherine Vance Yeh, Professor in Boston University’s Department of World Languages and Literature and former Director of BUCSA. In a long and eminent career, Professor Wagner established himself as one of the world’s... More
Kinh Vu’s Journey from Vietnam Orphan to BU Music Professor
A new book examines what music can do for displaced persons, which this CFA faculty member knows firsthand. See the full video in BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/kinh-vus-journey-from-vietnam-orphan-to-bu-music-professor/?utm_campaign=bu_today&utm_source=email_20191024_full&utm_medium=1_featured_story&utm_content=faculty