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Tadashi Yanai gives ALC $31 million
Largest individual gift in the history of UCLA Humanities will support graduate studies, research, and programming in Japanese humanities
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Japanese Silent Film Tour ‘The Art of the Benshi’ to Debut at BAM
The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities present a world tour of restored Japanese silent films coupled with live narrators, known as benshi.
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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
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Professor Michael Berry has received a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in translation
The award follows a tumultuous, but very productive, last three years.
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Michael Berry Awarded the Baifang Schell Book Prize for Outstanding Literature on or from China and the Sinophone World
The UCLA Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is pleased to announce that Professor Michael Berry, alongside author Fang Fang, have been awarded the 2025 Baifang Schell...
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Thousands of early modern Japanese books from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco to be digitized in Yanai Initiative project
Sean Brenner/UCLA Humanities The project will create digital versions of thousands of books from the early 1600s through 1868, including many with beautiful illustrations of the natural...
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When walking becomes a message
Cetera Jacobs Buddhist monks have endured frigid temperatures during their 100-plus-day Walk for Peace from Texas to Washington, D.C. Asian Languages and Cultures professor Stephanie Balkwill explains...
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2 Humanities Ph.D. candidates chosen to develop, teach undergrad seminars
Courtesy of Ryan Schaller; Courtesy of Suong Thai Ryan Schaller (left) will teach about the cultural and political impact of colonial-era imagery on the francophone world; Suong...
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