Christopher Beckwith (CEUS), published the article "On Korean
and Tungusic Elements in the Koguryo Language" in Transactions of
the International Conference of Eastern Studies, No. XLVII, 2002, pp.
82-98.
Sumie Jones (CMLT & EALC) chaired an AAS panel about what was discovered
during the course of the research which went into cataloguing the Japanese
rare books at the Library of Congress. The entire panel will be published
in two journals.
Scott Kennedy (EALC), presented the paper "Protectionism by the
Book: How Global Regimes and Competing Interests Shape Chinese Trade Policy,"
to the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York
City, March 27, 2003.
John McRae will be a Distinguished Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist
Studies at the University of Hawai'i this fall semester. During that time
period he plans to do a video-conference section for the reading of Chinese
Chan and Japanese Zen texts, allowing faculty and students from both IU and
UH to participate simultaneously. In addition, he has received a Japan Foundation
grant for twelve months, beginning in spring 2004, for research on "The
Lotus Sutra Commentary of Prince Shôtoku in transcultural perspective."
Jan Nattier (REL & EALC) has received two one-year grants from
the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the
Humanities, both for work on her lexicon of the extant works of Zhi Qian,
a third-century translator of Buddhist texts into Chinese.
Anne Prescott (EASC) gave the paper "Orff, Debussy and Twinkle
Gamelan" at the College Music Society Great Lakes Chapter Annual Meeting
in South Bend, IN on April 5, 2003. She was also a featured presenter at the
Michigan Music Educators Conference in Ann Arbor, MI on Jan. 17, 2003. The
topic was "Japanese Music for the Elementary Music Classroom."
Natsuko Tsujimura (EALC & Linguistics) presented a
paper entitled "Mimetic Verbs as Contextuals" at the Annual Meeting
of the Linguistics Society of America held in Atlanta, Georgia, January 2-5,
2003. She also presented a paper (with Masanori Deguchi) entitled "Semantic
Integration of Mimetics in Japanese" at the 39th Annual Meeting of the
Chicago Linguistic Society held at the University of Chicago April 10-12,
2003.
Jeff Wasserstrom (History & EALC), who has just been
promoted to the rank of Full Professor, recently had a short essay, "Letter
from Nanjing," appear in the TLS (January 3, 2003). In January, he also
organized and spoke at a roundtable (on the global impact of E.P. Thompson's
studies of the English working class) that was part of the program of the
annual meetings of the American Historical Association and gave a History
Department brown bag talk at I.U. on "Global Shanghai, 1925: A Turning
Point Year as Event, Myth, and Experience." His other recent activities
have included chairing a panel (on art and dissent in contemporary China)
at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies and giving a talk
on Shanghai history at Duke University.
Yasuko Ito Watt (EALC) served as the head judge at the 17th Japanese
Language Speech Contest of the Japanese Consulate in Chicago on March 29,
2003. Forty students selected from 109 applicants participated in the contest.
She participated as a panelist on, "Articulation: Concerns and Issues"
at the 15th Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ) conference
at Earlham College on April 12, 2003. She was also elected to serve as a member
of the national Board of Directors of the Association of Teachers of Japanese
for the next three years.
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