Let’s cheer for our colleagues contributing to their fields through publications:

Ph.D. Student Cameron White has an article in the December issue of the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute’s《電影欣賞》(Film Appreciation Journal), titled 「港台早期的雙語電影：「方言」的類型化」(Early Bilingual Films of Hong Kong and Taiwan: The Genrefication of "Dialect").

Please join me in congratulating our colleagues on the following achievements:

The Japanese Language Program sends in good news about two recent events. First, the JLP held a study abroad fair in person for the first time since the pandemic started. Many students gathered to listen to and ask questions of the returnees from each program. Japan has finally started easing its border control, so they are ready to go!

Second, the JLP has received the 2022 JBSD Foundation Grant from the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation. This will be used for an event for high school students learning Japanese all over Michigan, which will be held on campus in March 2023.

In October 2022, Premlata Vaishnava (Pinki) received a Certificate of Professional Development from the Southern Area International Language Network (SALIN) of The California World Language Project at San Diego State University, acknowledging her successful completion of Strand A, signifying 40 professional development hours.

Friday January 27, from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m., the department will host a Rackham-led workshop on Writing a DEI Statement. Stay tuned for more details (including the location). Graduate students and faculty are welcome.

Given the unpredictable publication schedule of the newsletter, I’d like to share this news now, so that people can put it on their calendars. On Friday March 10 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Professor Emerita of Japanese Religions (Princeton University) Jacqueline Stone will be presenting the Spring 2023 MEMS lecture, co-sponsored by ALC, in 3222 Angell Hall. Her talk is titled “In the Aftermath of the Divine Winds: Religious Responses to the Mongol Threat and the Medieval Reimagining of Japan.” For more information, check out this link.

We share the sad news of the passing of a former colleague last October, Vietnamese lecturer Nga Nguyễn. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies has posted a tribute to Cô Nga Nguyễn here.