Christopher Beckwith (CEUS) gave a paper entitled "Archaic Koguryo, Old Koguryo, and the relationship of Japanese to Korean" at the 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, in East Lansing, August 1-3, 2003. He also attended the tenth International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS X) conference, held from September 6-12 in Oxford, England. He convened the second Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium (MTBLS II) there, gave a paper entitled "Old Tibetan Syllable Margins," and chaired one of the MTBLS panels. He also chaired a day of IATS panels on Language and another day of IATS panels on the Tibetan Empire.
Robert Campany (Religious Studies) presented a paper at the AAS meeting this past spring entitled "The Social Production of Hagiography in Early Medieval China." He spoke on the same topic at the Harvard-Yenching Institute and in a paper presented at a conference on Chinese religions and literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His article "On the Very Idea of Religions (in Early Medieval China and in the Modern West)" was published in History of Religions in May 2003. Professor Campany received a Humanities Initiative research grant and is on leave this semester, writing a book tentatively titled The Making of Transcendents in Early Medieval China, a study of the religious, social, and narrative processes by which individuals came to be recognized as xian or "transcendents"- deathless, wonder-working beings.
Jacques Fuqua (EASC) is teaching an E101 course titled "East Asia and Global Security." The course is geared toward helping students make sense of and place into historical perspective the current crisis in world affairs, focusing mainly on the relations among China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and North Korea, as well as the relations of all of these countries with the United States. The course includes lectures by specialists in the following overlapping areas: Korean security issues; Chinese history; Sino-American relations; and the history of Japanese colonialism.
Sumie Jones received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to compile an English language anthology of early modern Japanese Literature. Professor Jones is directing the project which involves more than 30 translators and scholars. The three volumes will cover Japanese literature from the beginning of the Edo period in 1600 to the end of the Meiji period in 1912. The project is in its second of three years and when complete will be the only English anthology of its kind, directly translated from the original documents and written for a general audience so that it can be used in undergraduate courses. Translators involved in this project are winners of awards such as The American Pen Club Award, The US-Japan Friendship Commision Award and the MOMA Award. Besides Professor Jones, several other I.U. affiliates are also involved in this project including EALC Emeritus Faculty Jurgis Elisonas, and I.U. graduates Roger Thomas (EALC, Ph.D., 1991), Sara Langer (EALC Ph.D., 2002), William Farge (EALC, Ph.D., 1997), Christopher Robbins (EALC, Ph.D., 199), Aiko MacPhail (Comp. Lit., Ph.D., 2001), Eiji Sekine (EALC, Ph.D., 1988), amd Takashi Wakui (Comp. Lit., M.A., 1984).
Scott Kennedy's (EALC) new book The Business of Lobbying in China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) is due out in 2004. In it Professor Kennedy argues that economic circumstances are just as important as domestic political institutions in shaping the ways in which firms interact with the state and their relative influence over state policy.
Yoshihisa Kitagawa (Linguistics) presented his research at two conferences during the summer: the Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics 2003 held at MIT and GLOW in Asia held at Seoul National University, Korea. His paper entitled "Copying Variables" also appeared in Functional Structures: Form and Interpretation edited by Yen-hui Audrey Li and Andrew Simpson. This volume was published from Routledge Curzon in England.
Jennifer Liu (EALC) had two contracts with IU Press this year. They will publish her intermediate Chinese language series four separate books: Connections I: A Cognitive Approach to Intermediate Chinese, Connections I: Workbook, Connections II: A Cognitive Approach to Intermediate Chinese, and Connections II: Workbook. IU Press will also publish a DVD she produced in collaboration with Indiana University Instructional Services, with additional funding from EASC, called Chinese in Action.
Susan Nelson's (EALC) most recent article: "The Bridge at Tiger Brook: Tao Qian and the Three Teachings in Chinese Art," appeared in Monumenta Serica 50 (2002), 257-94.
Scott O'Bryan (EALC and History) is co-organizer along with John Tucker of East Carolina University and Mark Ravina of Emory Univ of a conference, jointly sponsored by the Southern Japan Seminar and Emory University, on the 150th anniversary of the Perry Mission to Japan. The conference will be held September 2004 at Emory in Atlanta and will feature international scholars of modern and early modern Japan and those who will place the Perry mission in a global context.
Anne Prescott (EASC) will teach E202, "Contemporary Music and Culture in Japan" in the Spring. The class will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:45 until 7:00 p.m.
Jean Robinson (Political Science) is directing the project "Toward Gender Equitable Outcomes in Information Technology Higher Education: Beyond Computer Science," for which she received a National Science Foundation grant. Christine L. Ogan (Journalism and Informatics), Manju Ahuja (Business), and Susan C. Herring,(Library Science) are also working on this three-year research project, which investigates 15 tertiary education programs in information science, information systems, instructional systems technology and informatics, with computer science programs as a baseline comparison, in five major IT degree-granting institutions across the United States, in order to determine which are most successful at recruiting and retaining female students, and what factors favor success over time.
Professor Robinson has also been appointed as Content Editor for the Comparative Politics Teacher Resources Catalog for APCentral.com, intended for high school AP teachers in Government and Politics. She also serves as chair of the Comparative Politics Working Group for the College Board. Professor Robinson has ceded the position of Dean for Women's Affairs and is on leave this semester, but will return in the spring. Her new office is in Woodburn 410; starting in January she will be Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Political Science Department.
Natsuko Tsujimura (EALC) presented a paper entitled "The Role of Mimetic Words in Japanese" at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference held at the University of Kentucky, April 24-26. She also presented the paper, "Motion Verbs, Telicity, and Argument Projection" at the 13th Japanese/Korean Linguistic Conference held at Michigan State University in August.
Jeff Wasserstrom (History) has recently had articles published in the summer issue of the World Policy Journal ("The Second Coming of Global Shanghai") and in the September issue of Current History ("China's Brave New World") - a magazine to which he has just been made a contributing editor. Professor Wasserstrom also wrote a short essay, "A Mickey Mouse Approach to Globalization," for the new online magazine YaleGlobal, and this piece was then reprinted several places including on the editorial page of the Singapore Straits Times. In addition, an op-ed of Professor Wasserstrom's on recent developments in China ("What in the World is Going on in Beijing?") appeared in the August 25 issue of the Orlando Sentinel as well as on various web sites, and a his commentary of his on American academic trends was recently published in the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement.
Yasuko Watt's (EALC) review of Earnesto Marco's Learning Strategies in Foreign and Second Language Classrooms appeared in The Modern Language Journal, vol. 87, no.3 (Autumn 2003).
Last updated: 10/10/2003
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