Christopher Atwood (CEUS) has a new book out. Young
Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades, 1911-1931
has been published by E.J. Brill (Leiden, 2002) as volume 6 in "Brill's
Inner Asian Library."
Christopher Beckwith (CEUS) received a Japan Foundation
research fellowship, which ran from August, 2001 to August, 2002, to work
on a book project entitled The Koguryo Language and Japanese. He spent
the year in Tokyo at the Research Institute for the Study of Languages and
Cultures of Asia and Africa at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He gave
lectures at the Institute, at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, and
at Kyushu National University in Fukuoka, and he presented a paper at the
47th International Conference of Eastern Studies held in Tokyo and Kyoto in
May, 2002.
Stephen Bokenkamp (EALC) is on leave this term on a President's
Arts and Humanities grant. He is finishing a book with the provisional title
Early Medieval Daoism and the Threatened Family.
Eugene Eoyang (CMLT & EALC) gave a paper titled, "The Uses of the Useless: Comparative Literature and the Multinational Corporation" as one of the keynote addresses at the 7th Triennial Conference of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association in Nanjing on August 15, 2002. He presented another paper "Tongue-tied and Close-mouthed: 'Language' and 'Literature' in the 21st Century," at the 22nd Triennial Congress of FILLM (Federation of Internationale des Langues et Litteratures Modernes), held at Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand on August 19, 2002. He recently prepared two manuscripts for publication; Borrowed Plumage: Polemic Essays on Translation and Two-Way Mirrors: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Chinese-Western Comparative Literature. A third book, A Liberal Arts Education: Lingnan University and the World, which he edited, and to which he contributed several essays, was published in September. Eoyang has also been re-elected to another three-year term as the Vice President of FILLM.
Gregory Kasza (EALC & Politics) was a fellow at Hitotsubashi
University's Economics Research Institute from December 2001 to June 2002,
supported by an Abe Fellowship from the Center on Global Partnership. On the
same grant, he will be a fellow of the U.S.-Japan Program at Harvard University
this coming spring semester (2003). He is working on a project titled "Japan
in Comparative Politics." He has recently published "Japan's Kakushin
Right in Comparative Perspective," in Stein Ugelvik Larsen, ed., Fascism
Outside Europe; "The Illusion of Welfare 'Regimes,'" Journal
of Social Policy (April 2002), and "War and Welfare Policy in Japan,"
Journal of Asian Studies (May 2002).
Scott Kennedy (EALC) presented the paper "China's Political Economies: An Economic Explanation for Patterns of Government-Business Relations" at the International Symposium on Political Science and China in Transition, held at Renmin University, Beijing, July 15-16, 2002. He also gave a lecture, "America's Middle Kingdom Complex," at Tongji University, Shanghai, July 9, 2002.
Hyo Sang Lee (EALC) was selected as a member of the College
Board Committee that develops the SAT II Korean exam for the academic year
2002-2003, joining four other members. He also gave an invited talk entitled
"Korean Language Education and Teaching Methodology in American Universities:
Is there a magical way to teach Korean?" at the 12th International Conference
of the International Association of Korean Language Education, in Seoul, Korea,
Aug. 10-11, 2002. Lee gave a lecture entitled "A theory of grammaticalization
as an explanatory tool for synchronic variation with reference to Korean,"
at the Language Research Workshop of Department of Linguistics, Seoul National
University, August 12, 2002. He gave a presentation entitled "Grammaticalization,
recategorization, and lexicalization: with reference to the development of
some adjectives in Korean," at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization
Symposium 2, April 4-6, 2002, Amsterdam.
Jan Nattier (REL & EALC) was invited to speak at the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture at UCLA in February 2002. Her talk was titled "Gender and Enlightenment: Sexual Transformation in Buddhist Scriptures." She gave another lecture "A New Look at Buddhist Translations of Zhi Qian" at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo (Hachioji), Japan, May 2002.
Michael Robinson (EALC & History) was promoted to Full Professor beginning with the 2002-2003 school year. This summer he traveled to Korea, where he was hosted through the university's exchange program with Yonsei University, and he did research for his current project on Korean Broadcasting. From June 15 through July 8 he served as the scholar in residence for the 2002 Japan/Korea Study Tour sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center and the Freeman Foundation
Richard Rubinger (EALC) has been invited by the University
of Paris to give a series of three lectures in May 2003. A response to his
essay on illiteracy in Japan (Monumenta Nipponica, Summer 2000) appeared
in Monumenta Nipponica in the fall of 2001 along with his response
to the response. Kimura Masanobu, a guest scholar invited by Professor Rubinger,
is visiting IU from Chikushi Jogakuen in Fukuoka Japan. Kimura will be at
IU until March 2003. He is meeting with graduate students on Fridays to read
old documents and any interested student or faculty member is invited to join
the group. You can read more about Professor Kimura in Profiles.
Natsuko Tsujimura (EALC & Linguistics) was invited to the Lexicon Workshop at the Linguistics and Phonetics 2002 conference held at Meikai University in Chiba, Japan, from September 2 to September 6. She gave a paper entitled "Lexical Conceptual Structure and Telicity: A view from event cancellation in Japanese."
Sue Tuohy ( FOLK & EALC) participated in an international
symposium, "Nomads, Traders, and Holy Men Along China's Silk Road,"
in Fall 2001. The symposium was sponsored by the Asia Society and was held
in New York City in conjunction with the 2001-2002 museum exhibition, "Monks
and Merchants: Silk Orad Treasures from Northwest China, 4th to 7th Century."
Tuohy's paper, "Musical Intersections: Local Festivals as Cosmopolitan
Centers of Exchange," will be published this year in an edited volume
of symposium papers.
In 2001, Tuohy also travelled to University of Heidelberg to
participate in a symposium on the culture of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Her paper, "Making Sense of Chinese Revolutionary Music: Standards, Covers,
and Crossovers," will be published along with others on the arts and
culture of the Cultural Revolution in a volume titled Rethinking Cultural
Revolution Culture. Her article, "The Sonic Dimensions of Nationalism
in Modern China: Musical Representation and Transformation," was published
in 2001 in Ethnomusicology, the journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Jeff Wasserstrom (History & EALC) has recently written commentaries
on China for Current History and the international edition of Newsweek.
His new edited volume, Twentieth Century China: New Approaches, will
be published by Routledge next month.
Yasuko Ito Watt (EALC) received an ISS Active Learning
Grant to enhance kanji learning through crossword puzzles. The American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) collaborated with The National
Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) for the first time
this year. Watt was one of the first five people nominated by ACTFL and has
become a member of the NCATE Board of Examiners after intensive training.
She will serve as a Board member for three years. Watt also participated as
a co-organizer of a workshop for secondary school Japanese language teachers
at Earlham College on June 15, 2002.
Margaret Yan (EALC) recently retired from 27 years of
teaching Chinese language and linguistics at IU. She received a Trustees Teaching
Award for her lifetime teaching achievements. She is now an EALC Professor
Emerita.
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