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Professor Nazry Bahrawi, AL&L’s resident specialist in Southeast Asian literature and cultures, was featured in the Northwest Asian Weekly, for organizing the 60th year commemoration event of Tragedi 1965, Indonesia’s mass killings of allege
Sixty years after one of the 20th centurys worst atrocities, three scholars gathered at the UW to confront a question that is still connected to Indonesia: What does it mean to commemorate a genocide? Nazry Bahrawi, assistant professor of Asian languages & literature at the UW, is quoted.
AL&L's Professor Ungsan Kim was recently featured in two Northwest Asian Weekly articles, "Halloween debate: Are Asian horror films scarier?" and "Want to scare yours
Several Asian countries adapted the Chinese writing system—the oldest writing system still in use—for their own languages.
Four faculty from the Department of Asian Languages & Literature have been featured in an article in UW Notebook on "New faculty books: Language instruction, the yoga of power, and more."
New faculty books from the University of Washington include those from Asian languages and literature, applied mathematics and the Jackson School of International Studies.
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This past spring, a group of four AL&L faculty offered a series of four workshops to colleagues at Montgomery College in Maryland for instructors of Asian languages. Coordinated by the Center for Applied Linguistics and AL&L's Prof.
This past spring, Professor Heidi Pauwels joined UW Librarians Verletta Kern and Dylan Burns and graduate and undergraduate students to launch the Hindi Song Book, the first installment in an open access Manifold-created journal in collaboration with UW Libraries. The group set out with the simple goal of sharing t
Meet the four graduating students selected by the College of Arts & Sciences as 2025 Graduate Medalists for their accomplishments.
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