Announcements

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Prof. Nazry Bahrawi Interviewed by Northwest Asian Weekly for Organizing Indonesia’s 1965-66 Mass Killings Commemoration
December 8, 2025
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Ted Mack Wins Inaugural Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies from MLA
December 13, 2023
Bao Tran, Director
December 5, 2023: Local Filmmakers on Martial Arts Film
November 29, 2023
Hanuma and Anuradha Kodavalla
New Endowed Chair in Telugu Featured in College of Arts and Sciences News
November 28, 2023
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Missing Women Authors: Songs from the Kishangarh Zenana
October 31, 2023
Nobuko Horikawa
Nobuko Horikawa Wins Distinguished Dissertation Award
June 21, 2023
Nazry Bahrawi
Nazry Bahrawi inaugurates Asian L&L column in Northwest Asian Weekly
May 26, 2023
Belle Arkham
New Administrative Assistant Belle Arkham
May 1, 2023
Nobuko Horikawa
Paul Atkins and Nobuko Horikawa co-author article in Nature
May 1, 2023
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Jieyu Zhou and Chan Lü Featured in CTL's Teaching & Learning Showcase
April 20, 2023
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Asia Notes 2022
March 7, 2023
Jennifer Dubrow
March 10: Jennifer Dubrow talk on "The Prose Poetry of Partition: Saadat Hasan Manto’s Siyah Hashiye (Black Margins) and Formal Experimentation"
March 6, 2023
Assunta Ng in a beret holding a newspaper.
Assunta Ng Endowment and Celebration
February 21, 2023
Holi Festival India
NEW South Asian Languages and Cultures Major and Minor
February 7, 2023
In Memoriam: Harold Schiffman
December 27, 2022
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami Wins National Award
November 14, 2022
Nobuko Horikawa
Nobuko Horikawa receives fellowship awards for dissertation research
October 27, 2022
Ying-Hsiu Chou
Ying-Hsiu Chou Wins Film Festival Award
October 13, 2022
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Chinese Language Flagship Program updates
September 19, 2022
Taipei at Dusk
UW Chinese Language Flagship Students Travel to Taiwan
May 12, 2022
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Learn about our Sanskrit Program and Support South Asian Studies at UW
April 21, 2022
Ungsan Kim
Asian L&L Welcomes New Faculty Member Ungsan Kim
March 24, 2022
The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
Heekyoung Cho Publishes The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
March 23, 2022
Yen Kim Nguyen
Asian L&L welcomes new faculty member Yen Kim Nguyen
February 16, 2022
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Asian L&L welcomes new faculty member Nazry Bahrawi
February 16, 2022
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Asian L&L Summer Courses
February 11, 2022
Amarsanaa rides a reindeer in East Taiga, Khuvsgul province, Mongolia, while visiting the Tsaatan in August 2018.
From the land of the Reindeer People to Red Square: Teacher brings the Mongolian language to the UW
November 8, 2021
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Alumni Dr. Christopher L. Diamond Launches ANUBhasha Project (अनुभाषा)
November 2, 2021
Asian L&L Seeks Assistant Professor in Korean Literature, Cultural Studies, or Film and Media Studies
September 7, 2021
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Asian L&L seeks a part-time Telugu lecturer for Winter and Spring 2022
August 17, 2021
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Graduate Student John Carlyle wins the Graduate School Distinguished Thesis Award 
July 8, 2021
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New gift to support students studying India at the University of Washington
June 14, 2021
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Prof. Richard Salomon Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
May 3, 2021
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New Titles Recognize Department’s Teaching Faculty
November 30, 2020
Photo of Chair Zev Handel, teaching in a class.
Letter from the Chair - Fall 2020
August 19, 2020
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Announcing the George Takahashi Endowed Fellowship in Japanese Studies
August 19, 2020
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Asian L&L Welcomes New Chair, Professor Zev Handel
August 12, 2020
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Professor Joseph Marino interviewed by the South Asia Center
August 7, 2020
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Applications to the Chinese Flagship Program are open!
August 5, 2020
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Professor Richard G. Salomon Awarded the 2020 Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Buddhist Translation
May 29, 2020
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Watch the Chinese Flagship Information Session video!
May 15, 2020
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Associate Professor Jennifer Dubrow receives award; publishes essay on Urdu poetry and India's anti-CAA protests
April 20, 2020
Asian Languages and Literature to Host Chinese Flagship Program
April 20, 2020
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Asian L&L Summer Courses offered online
April 9, 2020
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New Opening for Full-Time Lecturer in Vietnamese
October 10, 2019
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Congratulations to our new Asian Languages and Literature graduates!
June 19, 2019
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Calligraphy event and demonstration by renowned calligrapher Ustàd Ali Rouhfar
June 11, 2019
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Professor Zev Handel publishes new book, Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script
March 6, 2019
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New Chinese grammar teaching book by Senior Lecturer Liping Yu published
February 19, 2019
Chinese Literacy Learning in an Immersion Program
Professor Chan Lü's new book, Chinese Literacy Learning in an Immersion Program has been published by Palgrave Macmillan. 
January 25, 2019