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Seminars / Events

Painting Live to Music performance by Okinawan vocalist Misako Koja and Avant garde Japanese artist Seitaro Kuroda is to be held on Thursday, 29 March, 7 pm, Jack Mann Auditorium, Dovedale Campus, admission free (donations welcome).
See poster >>

8 March 2012, 2.10pm, room 401 Logie Building.
Dr Mike Nicholson (University of Oxford) will give a guest lecture on Khrushchev's Thaw and the Emergence of Gulag Literature. Read more >>

News and Features

Russian Federation announces new scholarships
Three state scholarships have been launched by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for New Zealand students to study in Russian federal state tertiary institutions in 2012-2013. See all Russian scholarships >>

Prestigious Japanese Scholarships
Congratulations to Ruben van Mansum, an Honours student in Japanese, who is the recipient of a Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) graduate scholarship to study Art History at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2012.
Also to Chloe Song, a stage 2 Japanese language student, who was awarded a Monbukagakusho undergraduate scholarship at the end of 2011 and is now studying at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Applications are now open for the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarships for 2012 for Japanese Studies students. The guidelines and application forms are available
on the Study In Japan website.

School staff feature prominently in the 2011 College of Arts Teaching and Research Awards Congratulations!
• Winner of the Award for Excellence in Teaching:
Ms Maki Tokumoto, Japanese Programme
• Winner of the Award for Excellence in Research:
Professor Henrietta Mondry, Russian Programme

Prize for Chinese Language
Congratulations to Josh Longley Toohey, a stage 1 student of Chinese, who has been awarded a prize for Chinese language by the Christchurch branch of the NZ China Friendship Society which presents these annual awards to the best first year students of Chinese in local schools and tertiary institutions.

Japanese Consul's Prize
The inaugural Japanese Consul's Prize, an award for excellence in Japanese presented to the top undergraduate student at stage 3, was recently awarded by the Consul, Mr Shoichi Kawai, to BA(Hons) student Sacha Winfield, for her academic achievements in Japanese last year. Congratulations Sacha, well done!

Recently published books
by staff of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Read more >>

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