Lectures and Events

Professor Zev Handel delivers the 2024 Washin Kai spring lecture to an audience of more than 200 on April 3.
Washin Kai 2024 Spring Lecture Delivered by Professor Zev Handel
(April 18, 2024)
Bao Tran, Director
December 5, 2023: Local Filmmakers on Martial Arts Film
(November 29, 2023)
Adjunct Prof. Yomi Braester presents his paper "Save the Green Planet as a Response to the Diversification of South Korean Media"
The Origins of the South Korean Film Renaissance Conference
(November 28, 2023)
poster for Missing Women Authors
Missing Women Authors: Songs from the Kishangarh Zenana
(October 31, 2023)
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Korean Cybersecurity Summer Camp Combines Cybersecurity with Korean Language Instruction
(October 5, 2023)
Korean Music Workshop
Korean Music Workshop inspires language learners
(May 1, 2023)
Zev Handel, Michel Hockx, and Chris Hamm at the 2023 Markus lecture
Recap: 2023 Markus Lecture with Professor Michel Hockx (University of Notre Dame)
(April 11, 2023)
Cover of Asia Notes 2022 newsletter
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)
Shusenjo
Event Recap: Miki Dezaki's "Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the 'Comfort Women' Issue"
(February 22, 2023)
Assunta Ng in a beret holding a newspaper.
Assunta Ng Endowment and Celebration
(February 21, 2023)
Singa-Pura-Pura
March 2: Talk by Nazry Bahrawi on Translation as a Decolonial Act in Southeast Asia
(February 1, 2023)
Shusenjo
Feb 15: Film Screening & Director Q&A: Miki Dezaki's "Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the 'Comfort Women' Issue"
(February 1, 2023)
Washin Kai Haiku Event
Washin Kai "What is Haiku?" Lecture, Paul Atkins
(November 3, 2022)
Asian L&L 2022 Convocation Program Booklet
2022 Convocation and Awards Ceremony and Reception
(June 22, 2022)
Davinder Bhowmik, Sharalyn Orbaugh, and Chris Hamm
2022 Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture: "Japanese Propaganda and the Power of Love: Mobilizing the Wartime Empire", Sharalyn Orbaugh
(June 16, 2022)
Joe Marino, Richard Salomon and Amruta Chandekar
Reflections on Fifty Years of Sanskrit Studies with Professor Emeritus Richard Salomon
(June 16, 2022)
Translation Studies Hub Logo
Translation Studies Hub Colloquium To Feature AL&L Faculty
(January 11, 2021)
Image of Dr. Chang Hwang's face next to his Powerpoint slide
Asian L&L hosts our first Korean Sign Language colloquium 
(December 18, 2020)
Professor Atkins speaking at the podium
REIWA:  Paul Atkins speaks about the new Japanese reign name at Japan Fair 2019
(July 9, 2019)
presenter shows Urdu calligraphy
Calligraphy event and demonstration by renowned calligrapher Ustàd Ali Rouhfar
(June 11, 2019)
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Graduate students collaborate and share ideas at the annual Asian L&L Graduate Student Colloquium
(May 21, 2019)
Professor Atkins speaks to alumni
Professor Paul Atkins speaks to alumni at UW Converge Tokyo
(February 14, 2019)
Professor Lu delivering her lecture
Professor Chan Lü delivered a SHACS lecture: "Language and literature learning through dual language immersion"
(November 8, 2018)
Washin Kai Lecture
Washin Kai Lecture: "Friends from a World Unseen: Fujiwara no Teika and Medieval Poetry"
(November 1, 2018)
Image from Markus lecture, showing Dr. Paul Atkins (Department chair), Dr. Ronald Egan and his wife (lecturer), and Dr. Ping Wang
2018 Andrew L Markus Memorial Lecture: "The Appropriation of Tang Poetry in Later Chinese Painting"
(June 29, 2018)
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Watch: Prof. Zev Handel delivers the 71st Societas Koreana Lecture on "The Hidden Influence of Chinese Characters and Words on Korean Vocabulary and Writing"
(January 3, 2018)