IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Past Events

September 2002


"Wonhyo and the making of a Korean Buddhist identity"

Eunsu Cho (Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan)

DATE:Friday, September 6, 2002
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Remembering and Representing the Inextinguishable: The Trauma of Imprisonment in the early PRC"

Klaus Muhlhahn (Assistant Professor, Free University, Berlin)

Discussant: Wen-hsin Yeh (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, September 13, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Japanese Silent Cinema and the Art of the Benshi"

Midori Sawato

DATE:Monday, September 16, 2002
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Contradictory Scenarios: Various Media Versions of China"

Orville Schell (Professor and Dean, School of Journalism, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Wednesday, September 18, 2002
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Law and Society in China"

DATE:Friday-Saturday, September 20-21, 2002
TIME:Friday 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
FORMAT:Special Fall Workshop
PLACE:Room 105 and Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"In the Vortex of Confucianism, Christianity and Science: Coming Out in Contemporary South Korea"

Michael J. Pettid (Department of Korean Literature, Ewha University and Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, September 20, 2002
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"A Conversation on U.S.-Korea Relations"

Yang Sung Chul (Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States)
Thomas C. Hubbard (U.S. Ambassador-Designate to the Republic of Korea)

DATE:Monday, September 23, 2002
TIME:9:30 - 10:50 a.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Seminar
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Stone Tools and Cognitive Patterns in Japanese Palaeolithic Assemblages"

Peter Bleed (Professor, Japanese Palaeolithic Archaeology, University Nebraska-Lincoln)

DATE:Monday, September 23, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:160 Kroeber Hall
FORMAT:Joint Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Anthropology

"Chinese Immigrant Wives in Hong Kong: Adjustment and Marital Happiness"

Julian Chow (Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Xin Liu (Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, September 27, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Tradition and the Contemporary: Korean Composers Speak"

Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung (Center for Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow)

DATE:Friday, September 27, 2002
TIME:4:30 p.m.
PLACE:Morrison Hall, Room 128
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies, Department of Music

October 2002


"Travel and Research in Rural Tibet"

Shannon May (Graduate Student, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Wednesday, October 2, 2002
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Atmospherics"

Jun Aoki (Architecture, Aoki & Associates, Tokyo, Japan)

DATE:Wednesday, October 2, 2002
TIME:7:00 p.m.
PLACE:112 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:Joint Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture

"Korean Writers, Reading Forum: My Life and My Literature"

DATE:Friday, October 4, 2002
TIME:4:15-6:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"After the Bubbles: Linking the Recoveries of America and Asia"

Barry Eichengreen (Director of Institute for European Studies, UC Berkeley)
Shijuro Ogata (Former Deputy Governor for International Relations, the Bank of Japan)
Chantale Wong (Former U.S. Acting Executive Director, Asian Development Bank)
T.J. Pempel (IEAS Director, UC Berkeley), moderator

DATE:Monday, October 7, 2002
TIME:12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
PLACE:The Pan-Pacific Hotel, 500 Post St., San Francisco
FORMAT:Lunch and program, registration required

"After the Bubbles Burst: Examining the Economic Recovery of Japan and the United States"

Shijuro Ogata (Former Deputy Governor for International Relations, Bank of Japan)
T.J. Pempel (Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley)
Steven Vogel (Associate Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Monday, October 7, 2002
TIME:4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Shorenstein Seminars on Contemporary East Asia
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Becoming Ukifune: Sarashina Nikki and a Performance of Self"

Sudeshna Sen (Postdoctoral Fellow, Classic Japanese Literature, University of Oregon)

DATE:Thursday, October 10, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"The Rise of Touristic Consumerism and Tourist Citizenship in Urban China: A Sociological Perspective"

Ning Wang (Professor, Sociology, Zhongshan University, China)

Discussant: You-tien Hsing (Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, October 11, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"A Bilingual Reading of Contemporary Korean Fiction"

Yun Hung-gil (novelist)
Kang Sok-kyong, (novelist)
Bruce Fulton (University of Washington and UBC), translator

DATE:Tuesday, October 15, 2002
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Foreign Direct Investment and IT Industrial Clusters in Southern China"

Yanshu Hao (Associate Professor, Business Administration, Meiji University)
Chensheng Shi (Visiting Scholar, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Wednesday, October 16, 2002
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Those Naughty Teenage Girls: Assessments of the Kogal Identity"

Laura Miller (Associate Professor, Anthropology/Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago)

DATE:Wednesday, October 16, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"China's Changing Policies Toward the U.S."

Xuetong Yan (Director, Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University)

DATE:Thursday, October 17, 2002
TIME:12:30-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"On Recent Work"

Waro Kishi (Professor, Architecture, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto)

DATE:Monday, October 21, 2002
TIME:7:00 p.m.
PLACE:112 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:Joint Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture

"Is Democracy Moving Forwards in Korea? The Prospect of Democratic Consolidation in Post-Three Kims Era"

Hyug Baeg Im (Professor of Political Science, Korea University, Visiting Professor, Stanford University)

DATE:Thursday, October 24, 2002
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Mirror, Map, and Medieval Chinese Virtuality -- Transformation Tableaux in an Eighth-Century Buddhist Cave-Shrine at Dunhuang"

Eugene Wang (Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard)

Discussant: Patricia Berger (Associate Professor, Art History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, October 25, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

The 10th Annual Bakai (バークレー大学研究大会)

DATE:Monday, October 28, 2002
TIME:2:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Party-peasant relations in the Communist base areas in the 1930s"

Nobuo Takahashi (Associate Professor, Political Science, Keio University)

Discussant: Kevin O'Brien (Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Tuesday, October 29, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

November 2002


"Pungsu or Chinese geomancy in Korea: Its nature and impact on the Korean mind-set and social behavior"

Hong-key Yoon (School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Auckland)

DATE:Friday, November 1, 2002
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Post-9/11 Views on Engaging South East Asia"

Simon S.C. Tay (Singapore Institute of International Affairs and 2002 Eisenhower Fellow)

DATE:Monday, November 4, 2002
TIME:12:00-1:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

"China's Future in the Light of the 16th Party Congress"

Panelists:
Rick Baum (Professor, Political Science, UCLA)
Gaye Christoffersen (Professor, Naval Postgraduate School)
Lowell Dittmer (Professor, Political Science, Berkeley)
Jing Huang (Shorenstein Fellow, A/PARC, Stanford; Associate Professor, Political Science, Utah State University)
Harlan Jencks (Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley; Analyst, Non-Proliferation, Arms Control, and International Security Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Lyman Miller (Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
Susan Shirk (Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UCSD; Research Director, IGCC)
James Tong (Associate Professor, Political Science, UCLA)
Wing T. Woo (Professor, Economics, UC Davis)

DATE:Tuesday, November 5, 2002
TIME:2:00-5:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Special Fall Workshop
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

"Cherry Blossoms and the Tokkôtai: Aesthetics and Totalitarian Ideologies"

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Professor, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison)

DATE:Wednesday, November 6, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"The Human Rights Issue in US-China Relations post September 11th"

Rosemary Foot (Professor, Int'l. Relations, St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Discussant: Joyce Kallgren (Professor Emerita, Political Science, UC Davis)

DATE:Friday, November 8, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"The China Historical GIS"

Ge Jianxiong (Director, Institute of Chinese Historical Geography; Professor, Center for Historical Geographic Studies, Fudan University)

DATE:Monday, November 11, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00pm
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Geographic Information Science Center

"The Paradox of Korean Globalization"

Gi-Wook Shin (Institute for International Studies, Stanford University)

DATE:Tuesday, November 12, 2002
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Religious Systems in Prehistoric Japan: Clay Figurines in Jomon and Yayoi Periods"

Hiromi Shitara (Archaeology, National Museum of History in Sakura)

DATE:Thursday, November 14, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Evolving Business-State Clientelism in China: The Institutional Organization of a Smuggling Operation"

David Wank (Associate Professor, Sociology, Sophia University)

Discussant: Tom Gold (Associate Professor, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Wednesday, November 20, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00pm
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"The E-Historical Atlas of China and the Chinese Historical GIS System"

I-Chun Fan (Project Director, GIS Research Program, Academia Sinica)

DATE:Thursday, November 21, 2002
TIME:1:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Library, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, Center for Information Research in the Interest of Society

"The Impact of International Law on Japan: Comparing Trade and Human Rights"

Keisuke Iida (Professor, International Politics and Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University)

DATE:Thursday, November 21, 2002
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Thinking through chaos: who was to blame for the fall of the Ming Dynasty?"

Jonathan Spence (Professor of History, Yale University)

Discussant: Frederic Wakeman (Professor of History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, November 22, 2002
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:370 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Are Humans Enough? Or must we have more?"

Jonathan Spence (Professor, History, Yale University)
and a panel of graduate students

DATE:Saturday, November 23, 2002
TIME:10:30 a.m.
PLACE:2327 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Special Fall Workshop
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Department of History

December 2002


"TimeMap Korea: a 'moving map' of the history of Korea in the first millenium C.E."

Roland Fletcher (Department of Archaeology in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Syndey)

DATE:Monday, December 2, 2002
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Why the monumental iron Buddha image was popular in the Unified Silla period of Korea"

Junghee Lee (Department of Art, Portland State University)

DATE:Friday, December 6, 2002
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"The Wen of the When: Contemporary Chinese Historiography"

DATE:Saturday-Sunday, December 7-8, 2002
TIME:Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Sunday 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Workshop
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

January 2003


"On the Literature of Epilogues"

Ho-Ung Jung

DATE:Wednesday, January 15, 2003
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Bag Lunch Series
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Fashioning Womanly Confucian Virture: the Virtuous Woman (Yollyo) in Post-war Literary Discourse"

Michael Pettid (CKS Postdoctoral Fellow)

DATE:Wednesday, January 21, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Japan Mapped: Historical Maps For Digital Display and Research"

David Rumsey (Founder/Director, Cartography Associates)

DATE:Wednesday, January 22, 2003
TIME:3:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE:Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
FORMAT:Digital presentation
SPONSOR:East Asian Library, Center for Japanese Studies, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, GIS Center

"About the Elementary Structures of Kinship"

Hua Cai (Director of Anthropology, Institute of Sociology & Anthropology, Peking University)

Discussant: Nancy Chen (Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz)

DATE:Friday, January 24, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"A Blast from The Past: Meiji Sound Recordings of Oral Storytelling"

Scott Miller (Professor, Japanese Language and Literature, Brigham Young University)

DATE:Thursday, January 30, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Foreclosed Performance: Yu Shangyuan's Huijia and Other Possibilities of Spoken Drama"

John Zou (Assistant Professor, Bates College)

DATE:Thursday, January 30, 2003
TIME:5:15 p.m.
PLACE:3335 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Job talk
SPONSOR:Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"The Dynamics of Implementing Education and Human Resource Policy Reform in Korea"

Chon Sun Ihm (Professor/Dean, College of Humanities and Letters, Sejong University)

DATE:Friday, January 31, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

February 2003


"The Writing of the Postwar Constitution and the Promulgation of Equal Rights for Men and Women in Japan"

Beate Sirota Gordon

DATE:Tuesday, February 4, 2003
TIME:12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:Journalism Library, Northgate Hall
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"The Geography of Exchange, or An Atlas of the Huaben"

Tina Lu (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania)

DATE:Tuesday, February 4, 2003
TIME:5:15 p.m.
PLACE:3119 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Job talk
SPONSOR:Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Gutai group and Mono-ha: Art Movements in Japan, 1950's - 1970's"

Akira Tatehata (Professor, Japanese Modern Art, Tama Art University)

DATE:Thursday, February 6, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"The Story of 'Heart of Fortune,' A Wandering Buddhist Monk in Eighteenth-Century China, Who Became a Cross-Dressing Actor, Prostitute, and Confidence Man -- Only, in the End, to be Beheaded for Foolishly Impersonating an Imperial Censor"

Matthew Sommer (Associate Professor, History, Stanford University)

Discussant: Wen-hsin Yeh (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, February 7, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Korean Hereditary Shamans and Their Washing Rituals for the Dead"

Mikyung Park (Department of Music, Keimyung University)

DATE:Monday, February 10, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Allah and the Wuji: Ma Zhu Ponders a Neo-Confucian Creating God"

Jonathan Lipman (Professor, History, Mt. Holyoke College)

Discussant: Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein (Acting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford)

DATE:Tuesday, February 11, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Comparative Study on Enterprising Behavior -- China and Japan"

Lixing Chen (Professor, Sociology, Nihon Fukushi University)

DATE:Wednesday, February 12, 2003
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Information, Technology and Democracy in Japan: From Internet to I-mode"

Laurie A. Freeman (Assistant Professor, Political Science, UC Santa Barbara)

DATE:Thursday, February 13, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:Journalism Library, Northgate Hall
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"The North Korean Nuclear Crisis and Challenges Ahead for the Roh Moo-Hyun Government"

Chung-In Moon (Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University)

DATE:Friday, February 14, 2003
TIME:12:00-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"The Vanishing City"

Deborah Sang (Assistant Professor, University of Oregon)

DATE:Friday, February 14, 2003
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:3119 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Job talk
SPONSOR:Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"The United States and the Fall of the Syngman Rhee Government"

Steven Lee (Department of History, University of British Columbia)

DATE:Friday, February 14, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Perils of the Yellow Race: Nationalism and Literature in China, 1895-1937"

Jing Tsu (Society of Fellows, Harvard)

DATE:Tuesday, February 18, 2003
TIME:5:15 p.m.
PLACE:3335 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Job talk
SPONSOR:Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"The Present State of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development and Delivery Missiles Systems"

Dae-Hyun Chung (Pan Pacific University)

DATE:Thursday, February 20, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"From Intellectuals to Academics: On Professionalization with Chinese Characteristics in the 1990s"

Timothy Cheek (Professor, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia)

Discussant: Michelle Yeh (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Davis)

DATE:Friday, February 21, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Science in a Chinese Entrepot: Art, Commerce, and Natural History in the Early Modern World"

Fa-ti Fan (State University of New York at Binghamton)

DATE:Monday, February 24, 2003
TIME:5:00-6:30 p.m.
PLACE:123 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Office for History of Science and Technology

"The Appeal of Anime: From Akira to Spirited Away"

Susan Napier (Professor, Japanese Studies, University of Texas)

DATE:Tuesday, February 25, 2003
TIME:12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:Journalism Library, Northgate Hall
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"Politics of Land Development in Chinese Cities"

You-tien Hsing (Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Kevin O'Brien (Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Tuesday, February 25, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Shadows, Relics, Landscape: Writing, Photography, and Shanghai's Projected Past"

William Schaefer (Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota)

DATE:Thursday, February 27, 2003
TIME:5:15 p.m.
PLACE:370 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Job talk
SPONSOR:Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Nuclear Crisis in Korea: Peering Into the Abyss"

K. Anthony Namkung (Council on Foreign Relations, Korea)

DATE:Friday, February 28, 2003
TIME:12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Imperial Japan's Language Policies in Colonial Korea"

Yeounsuk Lee (Hitotsubashi University/UBC)

DATE:Friday, February 28, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

March 2003


"Worldly Stage: the Figure of the Theater in Seventeenth-Century China"

Sophie Volpp (Assistant Professor, University of California Davis)

DATE:Tuesday, March 4, 2003
TIME:5:15 p.m.
PLACE:3335 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Job talk
SPONSOR:Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Labor Issues in South China"

Kaiming Liu (Founder and Executive Director, Institute of Contemporary Observation, Shenzhen, China)

DATE:Wednesday, March 5, 2003
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:Director's Lounge, Institute of Industrial Relations, 2521 Channing Way
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of Industrial Relations

"Anti-Object"

Kengo Kuma (Kengo Kuma & Associates, Tokyo, Japan)

DATE:Wednesday, March 5, 2003
TIME:7:00-9:00 p.m.
PLACE:112 Wurster Hall
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture

"The Question of Violence"

DATE:Friday-Saturday, March 7-8, 2003
PLACE:Great Hall, Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way
FORMAT:Annual Symposium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Why It Matters: A Human Look at North Korea with Helie Lee"

Heilee Lee (Author)

DATE:Thursday, March 13, 2003
TIME:7:30 p.m.
PLACE:Alumni House
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Rethinking a Classic of Chinese Historiography: Three Lectures on the Zuozhuan"

Stephen Durrant (Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon) "Names and Narrative in Zuozhuan"
Wai-Yee Li (Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard) "Rhetoric and Power in the Zuozhuan"
David Schaberg (Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA) "Anecdote Collections and Sources of the Zuozhuan"

DATE:Thursday-Friday, March 13-14, 2003
TIME:Thursday, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Friday, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:3335 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Special Spring Workshop
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Composing Identity: Korean Sentiment and Sounds in an American Context"

DATE:Friday, March 14, 2003
TIME:1:30-6:30 p.m.
PLACE:Elkus Room, 125 Morrison Hall
FORMAT:Seminar
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Educate a women, educate a nation: Islamic education as a force for change among China's Muslim minority population"

Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein (Acting Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford)

DATE:Wednesday, March 19, 2003
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems & Prospects"

David Shambaugh (Professor, Political Science and International Relations and Director, China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University)

DATE:Wednesday, March 19, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Hybrid Heaven"

Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham, Tokyo, Japan)

DATE:Wednesday, March 19, 2003
TIME:7:00-9:00 p.m.
PLACE:112 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture

"Sino-Japanese Relations Since World War II"

Ezra Vogel (Henry Ford II Research Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard)

Discussant: Fred Wakeman (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Thursday, March 20, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"The Authority of Heaven and the Five Elements in the Shiji of Sima Qian (second century B.C.)"

Hans van Ess (Professor, Chinese Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen)

Discussant: David Johnson (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, March 21, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

April 2003


"Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry"

Janine Beichman (Professor, Japanese Literature, Daito Bunka University)

DATE:Tuesday, April 1, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Civil Service and Regime Consolidation on the Two Sides of the Taiwan Straits in the 1950's"

Julia Strauss (Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, SOAS, London)

DATE:Wednesday, April 2, 2003
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"The Influx of Katakana Japanese"

Yoshimi Nagamine (Journalist, Yomiuri Shimbun)

DATE:Wednesday, April 2, 2003
TIME:12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Brown Bag Seminar (in Japanese)
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Keeping Good Companies: Embeddedness in Buyer-Supplier Relationships in Taiwan's Computer Motherboard Industry"

Kuang-chi Chang (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Tom Gold (Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, April 4, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Semantics of Korean Causative Constructions Revisited"

Jeong Woon Park (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

DATE:Monday, April 7, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"The Battle for the Japanese Corporate Soul"

Ronald Dore (Economics, Political Science, Centre for Economic Performance at London School of Economics)

DATE:Tuesday, April 8, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Shiina Rinzo and the Questions of Tenko and Subjectivity"

Seiji Mizuta Lippit (Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)

DATE:Wednesday, April 9, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Religion in Japanese History"

DATE:Tuesday, April 15, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Culture and Cognition in Chinese Contexts"

Kaiping Peng (Assistant Professor, Psychology, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Wednesday, April 16, 2003
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"The Mystery of Yunnan's Snub-nosed Monkey"

Lihong Shi (Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Thursday, April 17, 2003
TIME:4:00-5:30 p.m.
PLACE:Room 104, North Gate Hall
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSOR:Graduate School of Journalism

"Something Rotten in the State of Song: The Frustrated Masculinity of the Generals of the Yang Family"

Wilt Idema (Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard)

Discussant: Stephen West (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, April 18, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Lessons from the 20th Century and Visions for the 21st Century Korea"

DATE:Saturday, April 19, 2003
TIME:8:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Second Annual Graduate Symposium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Machiavelli's Children: Leadership and Historical Choices in Italy and Japan"

Richard Samuels (Political Science, Center for International Studies, MIT)

DATE:Monday, April 21, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
FORMAT:Distinguished Speaker Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"The Transformation of Familism in Modern Korean Society"

Dongno Kim (Department of Sociology, Yonsei Univerity)

DATE:Monday, April 21, 2003
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"You are What You See: Shaping the Subject in Early Chinese Poetics"

Paula Varsano (Associate Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Smith College)

DATE:Monday, April 21, 2003
TIME:5:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"The Woman Trap. Beauty and Syphilis in Late Qing Shanghai"

Paola Zamperini (Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Wednesday, April 23, 2003
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Developing a Taiwanese Consciousness: From Lee Teng-Hui to Now"

Bruce Chun-ming Chen (IEAS Visiting Scholar)

DATE:Thursday, April 24, 2003
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Writing Personally: Self-Knowledge and Space in the Informal Prose of Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Korea"

Jiwon Shin (Yale Postdoctoral Fellow/UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, April 25, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Treasures from the History of Chinese Printing: A Study of Berkeley's Invaluable Chinese Rare Book Collection"

Xianxing Chen (Visiting Scholar, East Asian Library, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Tuesday, April 29, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium, Conducted in Chinese
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"The Military Directives of Mao Zedong and Jiang Jieshi"

Zongzhen Zhu (Researcher, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Modern History Research Institute)

DATE:Wednesday, April 30, 2003
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture, Conducted in Chinese
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

May 2003


"War Memory, Tourism, and the Politics of Peace at Okinawa's Himeyuri Peace Museum"

Linda Isako Angst (Anthropology, Lewis and Clark College; Reischauer Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard)

DATE:Thursday, May 1, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Hearing the Imperial Voice in Traditional Chinese Poetry"

Jack Chen (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Robert Ashmore (Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, May 2, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

K-12 Teachers' Workshop: "Teaching about Korea"

DATE:Saturday, May 3, 2003
TIME:9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
PLACE:33 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Workshop
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"A Roundtable Discussion on SARS"

Panelists:
Tom Gold, Moderator (Sociology and Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies at Tsinghua University)
Lawrence Cohen (Anthropology)
Teh-wei Hu (School of Public Health)
Kevin O'Brien (Political Science)
Arthur Reingold (School of Public Health)
Carolyn Wakeman (School of Journalism)

DATE:Monday, May 5, 2003
TIME:4:00-5:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Roundtable Discussion
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"The Innovation of New Model Development: Case of TOYOTA"

Takashi Shimizu (Accounting, Waseda University; Visiting Scholar, UCB)

DATE:Thursday, May 8, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Korean American Literature and the Visual Arts"

DATE:Saturday, May 10, 2003
TIME:8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
PLACE:117 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Regional Seminar, for the Centennial Commemoration of Korean Immigration to the United States
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"How Asia Got Rich: Japan, China, and the Asian Miracle"

Edith Terry (Opinion Pages Editor, South China Morning Post)

DATE:Friday, May 16, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Shorenstein Seminar
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

June 2003


"Chinese labor disputes in the 1990s: State coercion or legal resolution?"

Mattias Burrell (Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden)

Discussant: William Hurst (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science,  UC Berkeley)

DATE:Thursday, June 12, 2003
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

Association of American Teachers of Korean (AATK) Annual Conference

DATE:Tuesday-Saturday, June 24-28, 2003
PLACE:370 Dwinelle Hall
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies
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