A Japanese Major Wins a Gold Award in a National Speech Contest
Yi Zhao, junior majoring in Japanese, won J.LIVE Talk 2017 Japanese speech contest, competing against 30 students from 13 universities across the country.
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Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium
The colloquium offers an academic discussion of Korean art, history, literature, thought and religions in the context of East Asia and the world.
J.LIVE Talk
J.LIVE is an annual speech competition for college (and more recently, high school) students to demonstrate their presentation skills and Japanese proficiency.
Kim-Renaud East Asian Lecture Series
The lecture series brings specialists in East Asian humanities and cultures to GW to encourage cross-disciplinary discussions.
News from EALL
Our students won awards at the 2017 Jiangsu Cup Chinese Speech Contest
Our students James Olsen and Minji Kim (pictured on the left) won Silver and Bronze awards respectively...
A Festschrift for Professor Jonathan Chaves
Cambria Press published a Festschrift, The Poet as Scholar: Essays and Translations in Honor of...
Professor Seong-kon Kim is scheduled to teach Korean Literature in Translation and Korean Culture through Film in the spring of 2018.
Thanks to the generous support from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Japan,...
