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Professor Yoshiko Matsumoto was elected to serve as the Incoming President of the International Pragmatics Association 2026-2027, as President 2028-2029, and as Outgoing President 2030-2031. The International Pragmatics Association…

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Winner, 2025 John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian history since 1800, American Historical Association

Co-winner, 2025 John Boswell Prize, LGBTQ+ History Association

Finalist, 2025 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies

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“When I think back to my time in Stanford’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, what stands out most to me is how interdisciplinary the environment was. Even though my main focus was in literature, I constantly benefitted from…

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The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau hosted the Macao Humanities Forum, featuring a lecture by Professor Ronald Egan, Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D. Professor and Confucius Institute Professor of Sinology in Stanford’s…

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The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures is pleased to welcome Hyun Suk Park as a new Assistant Professor. Professor Park specializes in Korean literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with research interests that span…