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Marianne Janack, the John Stewart Kennedy Chair of Philosophy and director of the Levitt Center, and Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Kyoko Omori recently visited Japan to discuss a new program focused on social innovation and leadership.

Kyoko Omori, associate professor of Japanese and chair of East Asian Languages and Literatures, has been awarded a Hakuho Foundation Japanese Research Fellowship to support her research during her sabbatical in 2018-19.

Kyoko Omori, associate professor of Japanese and chair of East Asian Languages and Literatures, gave a presentation on Jan. 4 at MLA (Modern Language Association) in New York City.

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages Zhuoyi Wang recently gave an invited talk at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China.

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang was a guest lecturer at Skidmore College on April 17.

When Luke Jeton ’17 was growing up in rural Maine, he was a little kid in love with a book fat book.

Two exhibitions, Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe and Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné, open at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art on Saturday, Feb. 6, with a free, public reception from 4 – 6 p.m. Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, curated by Wellin Museum Director Tracy Adler, will be open through July 2. Pure Pulp will be open until April 20. Both shows will travel to other venues.

Six Hamilton faculty members were approved for tenure by the College’s Board of Trustees during a recent meeting. The board granted tenure to Emily Conover, economics, Andrew Dykstra, mathematics, John Eldevik, history, Nathan Goodale, anthropology, Adam Van Wynsberghe, chemistry, and Zhuoyi Wang, East Asian languages and literatures. The tenures are effective July 1. With the granting of tenure comes the title of associate professor.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature Zhuoyi Wang discussed his 2014 book on Chinese cinema in a recent interview by the Asia Society’s online multimedia magazine ChinaFile.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang presented “From Disaster to Laughter: Making Comedies in the Changing Political Landscape of the People’s Republic of China, 1959-1963” on April 6 at the University of Oklahoma (OU).