Events

Japanese Studies 


お茶三昧
Ocha Zanmai
2012 San Francisco International Conference on Chanoyu and Tea Cultures 

Saturday, November 10, 2012 

Co-sponsors: San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco 


Ocha Zanmai: San Francisco International Conference on Chanoyu and Tea Cultures (SFICCTC) is an interdisciplinary conference that presents the latest research findings and significant work in the study of chanoyu (Japanese tea ceremony). Scholars, researchers, tea masters of various schools, museum curators, professionals, artists, and other individuals whose work concerns the fields stated above are all welcome to present at SFICCTC. By opening its presentations with Q & A sessions to the general public, SFICCTC provides a forum for meaningful exchanges between presenters and the audience that is expected to include ― in addition to presenters’ peers ―college students, tea ceremony practitioners outside of academia, and other interested laymen. 


Location: Humanities Auditorium (Room 133, Humanities Building), San Francisco State University

Time: Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 9:00 am--5:30 p.m.


The complete program of presentations and events can be found at: http://japanese.sfsu.edu/current-event

 

Chinese

Chinese Publications:


Zhiqiang Li (accepted), “Phonological contrast and non-distinctive features (in Chinese)”, Journal of Chinese Phonetics.


Zhiqiang Li (forthcoming), “Phonetics,” In Linguistics, eds. by Zhijie Wang and Chen Dongdong, to be published by Press of People’s University.


Aijun Li, Yiqing Zu and Li Zhiqiang (2010), “The first national speech synthesis corpus with prosodic annotation for standard Chinese,” In Computer Processing of Asian Spoken Languages, eds. by Shuichi Itahashi and Chiu-yu Tseng, TranNet K.K.


Chinese Program Awards:


2010-2011


July 2010: Four USF students have been awarded the Chinese Government Scholarship to study Chinese in China this year. The scholarship will sponsor their study of Chinese for a year or two years.


Samuel Patterson (Xi'an Foreign Studies University) and Joshua Evetushick (Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan) received a two-year scholarship.


Kimberly Steffen (Shanghai Normal University) and Chelsea LaLancette (Yunan University) received a one-year scholarship. They will start their studies in September.


French

French Publications


Karen Bouwer’s book has just come out:

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
http://us.macmillan.com/genderanddecolonizationinthecongo
The French Studies Program presents:

THE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH IN SAN FRANCISCO

Wednesday, November 7, 2012
4:30-6:30 pm
The Handlery Room, Lone Mountain 100
University of San Francisco

In this presentation Father Etienne Siffert of the Notre Dame des Victoires church will address the arrival of the major French families in San Francisco and will trace the role that the French have played in San Francisco from the mid-nineteenth century up to today. He will focus, among other things, on the regions that the various families came from and will pay particular attention to the Béarnais and the vehicles they continue to use to celebrate their origins. Audience members will have an opportunity to mingle with individuals whose families have long histories in San Francisco while enjoying refreshments.

The talk will be conducted in English.

Father Siffert is the resident historian at Notre Dame des Victoires and is the author of Notre Dame Des Victoires, San Francisco 1856 - 2006

Sponsored by Jean Philippe Lassegues BS '65 MS '67 in memory of Yvonne Lassegues

RSVP by Wed 10/31 to Karen Bouwer at (415) 422-6390 or bouwerk@usfca.edu

The full page flyer for the History of the French in San Francisco

Human-Animal / Humain-Animal Conference

In collaboration with Anne Simon, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, Anne Mairesse is organizing the annual 20th/21st Century International French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, March 30-April 2, 2011 at the Westin San Francis in San Francisco.

The conference title is:

Human-Animal / Humain-Animal

March 30th- April 2, 2011

Westin St. Francis, San Francisco

The call for papers has been posted on the conference web site:

http://www.usfca.edu/artsci/humananimal/ 

USF friends and colleagues are invited to participate, and send submission proposals before the deadline of August 30, 2010 to:

human-animal@usfca.edu

Tagalog Program Awards:

 

AFAP (Advanced Filipino Abroad Program) is funded by the Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad. It is supported by the SEA Consortium Centers and the Consortium for the Advancement of Filipino (CAF) in cooperation with De La Salle University at Dasmariñas, Cavite, and funded by the US Department of Education. The eight-week language immersion program is held outside of Manila and consists of classroom learning, task-based activities, weekend field trips, and three culminating projects. Each week a special topic is featured on culture, history, literature, arts, economics, political issues, and globalization. The program is the equivalent of two semesters of language coursework and "aims to fill a void in the academic community by providing third year level students a one-of-a-kind opportunity to acquire the linguistic foundation necessary to engage in academic research, professional discourse, and cultural interaction with all segments of Philippine society” (AFAP). The program runs from June 11 until August 7.
James Binauhan, a junior majoring in Asian Studies with a Philippine concentration and minoring in Japanese Studies, won a scholarship to AFAP 2010. James is born of immigrant parents and learned Tagalog from his grandparents, who helped raise him and his brother. James is fascinated by language. Besides English and Tagalog, he is also fluent in Spanish and Japanese. James plans to learn French and Italian in the future.