The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS9) 9th Biennial Conference will be held in Adelaide July 5-9 2015. The conference will run over five days, and there will also be special sessions for post grad students. ICAS9 boasts the unique feature of also being held in conjunction with the annual/biennial conferences of the Malaysia and Singapore Society of […]
On December 4 and 5 2014 two dozen scholars from the US, Europe, Taiwan, and Vietnam convened at the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at Harvard to discuss their drafts for an Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature 1000 BCE-900 CE. The workshop was generously sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Study […]
Wiebke Denecke, Associate Professor of Chinese, Japanese and Comparative Literature in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department has won the first “New Directions Fellowship” from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ever awarded to a BU faculty member. Only a handful of early career scholars earn the honor each year and Denecke will use it over […]
During the fall 2014 semester, six freshman students at the BU School of Hospitality (SHA) collaborated with six students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Students explored the hospitality customs of their home country, focusing on two topics, wedding planning and “walking a guest” at a hotel. On December 8, 2014 students presented their findings to each […]
The study of visual piety and material religion has become a topic of immense concern in recent years. To enable his students in his course on Hinduism in the spring of 2015 to appreciate the popular iconography of the Hindu pantheon, Korom will travel to India over the winter break to assemble a variety of […]
Studies in Romanticism, BU’s flagship journal on the Romantic period in European, American, and world history, is pleased to announce the creation of a new undergraduate essay award. Its purpose is to encourage interest among BU undergraduates in the period conventionally known as “Romantic,” roughly extending from 1789, the year of the outbreak of the […]
The Middlebury Language Schools are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Kathryn Davis Fellows for Peace scholarships. Every summer since 2007, Fellows for Peace has brought 100 aspiring and experienced peacemakers to the Middlebury Language Schools to help develop their linguistic and cultural fluency. The Davis scholarships are merit-based and intended for exceptionally […]
Harvard Divinity School Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professorship in Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society in Southeast Asia November 2014 Harvard University’s Faculty of Divinity seeks to make a full-time, tenured appointment to the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair in Contemporary Islam. We seek a scholar whose work engages the social, intellectual, political, artistic, economic, or […]
The American Institute of Indian Studies welcomes applications for its summer 2015 and academic year 2015-2016 language programs. Programs to be offered include Hindi (Jaipur), Bengali (Kolkata), Punjabi (Chandigarh), Tamil (Madurai); Marathi (Pune), Urdu (Lucknow), Telugu (Hyderabad), Gujarati (Ahmedabad), Kannada (Mysore), Malayalam (Thiruvananthapuram), Mughal Persian (Lucknow), Sanskrit (Pune) and Pali/Prakrit (Pune). We will offer other […]
Co-sponsored by BU Center for the Study of Asia, OCAC Boston, TECO Boston Education Division, BU Taiwanese Student Association, Harvard Taiwanese Student Association. Free tickets are available for BU faculty and students. Email epark78@bu.edu for more information. For more information about the film, click here.