Events

November 2009

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"The Buddha Sakyamuni and the Courtesan Utpalavarna in Gandhâran Buddhist Art"

Osmund Bopearachchi, Paris IV-Sorbonne University

DATE:	Monday, November 23, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

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"The Monroe Doctrine and National Self-identity in the Late Qing Period"

GUO Shuanglin, History, Renmin University

DATE:	Wednesday, November 25, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

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December 2009

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"Personal / Political Conciousness: South Korean Women Confront Breast Cancer"

Laura Nelson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, CSU East Bay

DATE:	Tuesday, December 1, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

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"Through a glass darkly: Colonial images of Burma"

Penny Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asia Studies

DATE:	Wednesday, December 2, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

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"Li Xiangting, guqin master: Guqin music presentation"

Professor Li Xiangting, Professor, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing

DATE:	Thursday, December 3, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

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"Jingdezhen Porcelain: Producing china and China"

Ellen Huang, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Art

DATE:	Thursday, December 3, 2009
TIME:	5:15 PM
PLACE:	308 Doe Library
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	History of Art, Institute of East Asian Studies

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"Fiction Reading and Commentaries in Ming/Qing China: Zhang Zhupo's 'Jinpingmei dufa' (How to Read The Plum in the Golden Vase)"

Wei Shang, Chinese Literature, Columbia University
Sophie Volpp, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley, discussant

DATE:	Friday, December 4, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

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"Japanese Studies at Berkeley: Past, Present,and Future"

DATE:	Sunday, December 6, 2009
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Foundation

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