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  • BeHere / 1942 A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration

    Created by the visionary Japanese media artist Masaki Fujihata and co-presented by JANM and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA and Waseda University, Tokyo.

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  • Tadashi Yanai gives ALC $25 million

    Largest individual gift in the history of UCLA Humanities will support graduate studies, research, and programming in Japanese humanities

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  • Professor Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    Distinguished Professor Stephanie Jamison of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) has been named to the 237th class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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  • Michael Berry Receives NEA Fellowship

    Professor Michael Berry receives Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

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  1. Department receives $3.7 million in gift commitments

    Department receives $3.7 million in gift commitments

    Gifts from UCLA Buddhist Studies scholar Robert Buswell and his wife Christina will establish first permanent endowed chair in Korean Buddhist Studies outside of Korea By Margaret...

  2. Augmented reality exhibition places viewers in midst of WWII-era forced removal of Japanese Americans

    Augmented reality exhibition places viewers in midst of WWII-era forced removal of Japanese Americans

    Eighty years ago, during World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast, incarcerating 120,000 in concentration camps. This May, an exhibition...

  3. Oscars 2022: UCLA lecturer helps guide cultural representation on ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’

    Oscars 2022: UCLA lecturer helps guide cultural representation on ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’

    Asian languages and cultures lecturer Juliana Wijaya worked as a linguist for Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon.” As a member of the Southeast Asia Story Trust,...

  4. New Major Fall 2021: Southeast Asian Studies BA

    New Major Fall 2021: Southeast Asian Studies BA

    The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures is excited to announce a brand new undergraduate major, Southeast Asian Studies, starting Fall 2021. Southeast Asia is a critically...

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