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SUMMARY:Celebrate Learning with Asian Library: Spotlight on Collections and Innovations
DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of UBC Celebrate Learning Week and 
 explorASIAN festival \n\nAsian Library supports scholars\, students and 
 community members conducting research on\, or learning about Asia and Asian 
 heritage. Join us and hear how our users are engaged with our collections 
 and services for their research and studies. This event coincides with 
 Asian Heritage Month and showcases the resources available at Asian 
 Library. \n\n\nPresenters\n\nTanzoom Ahmed \n\nTanzoom Ahmed is a PhD 
 student in Asian Studies at UBC. Her research interests cover 
 gender-religious minorities\, ethnonationalism\, and xenophobia. She 
 studies cultural mediums and archives\; such as print-literary sources\, 
 theatre and films to recognize and understand exclusionary discourses 
 against gender and religious minorities in South Asia. Tanzoom is 
 originally from Assam--the northeastern "tea" state of India. She has 
 completed her MA from the University of Chicago\, where she focused on 
 Muslim women literature. She also received an MPP focused on International 
 Governance and Politics from George Mason University.\n\nStanley Chia\n\nIn 
 November 2021\, Stanley Chia graduated from the UBC MA in history program. 
 While at UBC\, he worked as a history graduate teaching assistant\, a 
 graduate research assistant for INSTRCC\, the Institute of Asian Research\, 
 and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada\, and volunteered with St. John's 
 College. His research interests include public and oral history\, Southeast 
 Asian history\, Chinese diaspora\, and Asian Canadian history. He currently 
 works as a program assistant and museum interpreter at the Museum of 
 Vancouver.\n\nVenice Dam\n\nVenice Dam is a 4th year Asian Studies student 
 graduating from a major in Asian Language and Culture (Korea) and a minor 
 in Asian Language and Culture (Japan). She enjoys learning new languages 
 and would be interested in studying Sinographs in Korea and Japan in the 
 future. After graduation this May\, Venice has plans to work in childcare 
 sector.\n\nHanyang Jiang\n\nHanyang Jiang is a PhD candidate in Theatre 
 Studies at UBC\, under the guidance of Prof. Siyuan Liu. His research 
 interests include the Stanislavsky System of acting\; the history and 
 theory of Russian Theatre\; stage acting and spoken drama actor training in 
 Modern China\; plus the interrelationship between theatre\, emotion\, 
 body\, and mind. \n\nLavanya Verma\n\nLavanya Verma is a MA student in the 
 Department of Asian Studies under the supervision of Prof. Joshua Mostow 
 and Prof. Christina Laffin. Her research interest lies in the study of 
 memoirs and women diaries of premodern Japan.\n\nModerator: Tomoko Kitayama 
 Yen\n\nTomoko Kitayama Yen is the first-generation settler and occupier on 
 the unceded lands of the Kwikwetlem First Nation whose traditiional 
 territory lies within the shared territories of the Tsleil-Waututh\, 
 Katzie\, Musqueam\, Qayqayt\, and Sto:lo First Nations. She is the Japanese 
 Studies Librarian at UBC Asian Library\, situated on the traditional\, 
 ancestral\, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. \n\nLocation 
 Details\n\n\n	Location:\n	*ONLINE*\n
ORGANIZER;CN="Phoebe Chow":MAILTO:phoebe.chow@ubc.ca
CATEGORIES:Library Research, Presentations
CONTACT;CN="Phoebe Chow":MAILTO:phoebe.chow@ubc.ca
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