Past Events

August - September - October - November - December
January - February - March - April - May - June - July

August 2003

"Forestry Reform and the Transformation of State Capacity in Fin de Siecle China"

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

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

DATE:	Wednesday, August 27, 2003
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Where the Girls Are: Establishing Japanese Girlhood and Identity in Women's Magazines"

Kazue Sakamoto (Associate Professor, Sociology, Ochanomizu University)

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

"Identity Politics and its Discontents: Postmodernity-as-Coloniality in Hong Kong since the 1990s"

Mirana Szeto (Instructor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon)

Discussant: Andrew Jones (Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

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

September 2003

"The Japanese Constitution in the 21st Century"

Taro Nakayama (Chairman, Research Commission on the Constitution, House of Representatives, Japan)

DATE:	Tuesday, September 2, 2003
TIME:	12:00-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:	Alumni House
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State: Japan in Comparative Perspective"

Junko Kato (Associate Professor, Law and Politics, Tokyo University)

DATE:	Tuesday, September 2, 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 Archaeology of Ferry Money: An Archaeological Approach to Numismatics and Monetary History of 14th-18th Century Japan"

Kimio Suzuki (Professor, Archaeology and Ethnology, Keio University, Japan)

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

"Appropriating the Past: How an Ancient 'Korean' State Became Newly 'Chinese'"

Mark Byington (Department of History, Harvard University)

DATE:	Friday, September 19, 2003
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Transforming Life in China: Big Pharma, Biotech & Science"

Nancy Chen (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz)

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

DATE:	Friday, September 26, 2003
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

October 2003

"The Circulatory System: Blood Donation, 'Gift' Exchange, and the AIDS Epidemic in China"

Kathleen Erwin (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UCSF)

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

"Naturalism, Westernesque Femme Fatale, and Matsui Sumako"

Indra Levy (Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Culture, Rutgers, The State Unviersity of New Jersey)

DATE:	Thursday, October 2, 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 Apology in Korean Dispute Settlement"

Ilhyung Lee (School of Law, University of Missouri)

DATE:	Friday, October 3, 2003
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"The Tripods of Yu and the Politics of Picturing"

Patricia Berger (Associate Professor, History of Art, UC Berkeley)

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

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

"Choice as a Form of Governing: Neo-Liberal Rule, Late-Socialism, and Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China"

Lisa Hoffman (Assistant Professor, Urban Studies, University of Washington, Tacoma)

DATE:	Wednesday, October 15, 2003
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Massacre of Koreans: A Note on the Connection between Homo Sacer and the Emergence of Japan's Modern National Sovereignty"

Sonia Ryang (Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University)

DATE:	Friday, October 17, 2003
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"New Singaporean Writing: Readings and Poems"

Daren Shiau (Poet, 2002 Young Artist Award, Singapore National Arts Council)

DATE:	Friday, October 17, 2003
TIME:	4:30-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	160 Dwinelle Hall
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

"Old Photo Fever in 90's China: An Art Historical Perspective"

Hung Wu (Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago)

Discussant: William Schaefer (Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, October 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

"Japan's Surrender and Redefinition of the Kokutai"

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (Professor, History, UC Santa Barbara)

DATE:	Monday, October 27, 2003
TIME:	12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown Bag Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Identity vs. Development: Taiwan's Dilemma with China"

Chien-min Chao (Professor, Sun Yat-sen Graduate Institute, National Chengchi University, Taiwan)

DATE:	Monday, October 27, 2003
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"East Asia at Berkeley"

DATE:	Friday-Sunday, October 31-November 2, 2003
PLACE:	Faculty Club, Zellerbach Hall, PFA Theater
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Defining 'Our Country': Exploring Historical Changes in the Conceptions of Korea and Korean-ness"

John Frankl (Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, October 31, 2003
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

November 2003

"Japan's Politics of Apology with Korea"

Alexis Dudden (Department of History, Connecticut College)

DATE:	Monday, November 3, 2003
TIME:	12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown Bag Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"Qualifying 'Quality': Locating and Defining Suzhi in Contemporary Beijing"

Terry Woronov (Postdoctoral Fellow, CCS, U.C. Berkeley)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 5, 2003
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Shan Sa and Diaspora Literature: a roundtable discussion"

Shan Sa (Novelist)
Fred Wakeman (Professor, History, UC Berkeley)
Karl Britto (Associate Professor, French and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 5, 2003
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Roundtable, Lecture will be conducted in French, Chinese, and English, with translation
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of French, French Studies Program

"The New Chinese Empire"

Ross Terrill (Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard; Visiting Professor, University of Texas at Austin)

Discussant: T.J. Pempel (Director, IEAS, UC Berkeley)

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

"Chinese Emigration: Aspects of a World History"

Philip Kuhn (Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Harvard)

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

DATE:	Friday, November 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

Film Screening: One Hundred 一百个

DATE:	Monday, November 10, 2003
TIME:	7:30 p.m.
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium
FORMAT:	Film Festival and Director's Roundtable
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

Film Screening: The Fragrance of Bitter Tea 苦茶香

DATE:	Wednesday, November 12, 2003
TIME:	7:30 p.m.
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium
FORMAT:	Film Festival and Director's Roundtable
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Art Imitates Life: The Avant-Garde Works of Akasegawa Genpei"

Reiko Tomii (Independent Scholar, Japanese Modern Art)

DATE:	Thursday, November 13, 2003
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies, History of Art

Film Screening: Spring Subway 开往春天的地铁

DATE:	Thursday, November 13, 2003
TIME:	7:30 p.m.
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium
FORMAT:	Film Festival and Director's Roundtable
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Female Experience and Feminist Identity: The Case of Lee Tai-Young (1914-1988), the First Woman Lawyer in South Korea"

Haesook Kim (Long Island University)

DATE:	Friday, November 14, 2003
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

Director's Roundtable -- Beijing: Cinema City

DATE:	Friday, November 14, 2003
TIME:	5:00-7:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium
FORMAT:	Film Festival and Director's Roundtable
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

Film Screening: Missing Gun 寻枪

DATE:	Friday, November 14, 2003
TIME:	7:30 p.m.
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium
FORMAT:	Film Festival and Director's Roundtable
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Theoretical Issues in the Study of Rural and Small-Town China"

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, November 14-15, 2003
TIME:	Friday 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Saturday 8:30 am - 1:30 pm
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Changing Security Relations in East Asia: New Challenges for Japan"

Donald Emmerson (Stanford University)
Lowell Dittmer (UC Berkeley)
Yoshihide Soeya (Keio University)
Matake Kamiya (Japanese Defense Academy)
Akiko Fukushima (Tokyo University)

DATE:	Tuesday, November 18, 2003
TIME:	10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Japan Society of Northern California, Asia Foundation

"'One Thousand Bodies of Impotence': Social Restratification in Post-socialist China"

Everett Zhang (Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Medicine, Harvard)

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

"Imaging War: Japanese Media Printed between 1931 and 1948"

David Earhart (Museum of Art & Culture, University of Montana)

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

"Translating Early Chinese Song-Drama circa 1829: Print Culture and the Formation of Sinology"

Patricia Sieber (Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University)

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

DATE:	Friday, November 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

"Changing Security Relations in East Asia: New Challenges for China"

Panelists:
Zhang Yijun (former Chinese Ambassador to Canada, Special Consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Tao Wenzhao (Deputy Director-General, Institute of American Affairs, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Yuan Jian (Deputy Director-General, Institute of International Relations)
Lowell Dittmer (Professor, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley)
T.J. Pempel (Professor, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley and Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Tuesday, November 25, 2003
TIME:	3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

December 2003

"Kanze Nobumitsu and Furyû Noh: an Examination of Late Muromachi Noh"

Beng Choo LIM (Japanese Drama, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB)

DATE:	Monday, December 1, 2003
TIME:	12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Reality within Literature"

Hua Yu (Novelist)

DATE:	Thursday, December 4, 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

January 2004

"One Size Doesn't Fit All: Why Western Democracy Won't Work in East Asia"

Daniel Bell (Associate Professor, Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong)

Discussant: Lowell Dittmer (Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, January 23, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Three Rapes: The Status of Forces Agreement and Okinawa"

Chalmers Johnson (President, Japan Policy Research Institute)

DATE:	Thursday, January 29, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Historical Thinking and Contemporary Chinese Humanistic Studies"

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, January 30-31, 2004
PLACE:	Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Special Spring Conference
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Representing Nation and Gender on the Vernacular Korean Internet: The Case of Lee Kyung-sil"

Roger L. Janelli (Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Dawnhee Yim (Department of History, Dongguk University)

DATE:	Friday, January 30, 2004
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Shanghai: The Evolution of a City"

DATE:	Friday, January 30, 2004
TIME:	4:30-8:00 p.m.
PLACE:	121 North Gate Hall
FORMAT:	Panel, Reception, Slide lecture, and Book signing
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

February 2004

"Tales and Texts: Tang Stories Reconsidered"

Sarah Allen (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

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

DATE:	Friday, February 6, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Pride and Prejudice: Public Memory and the U.S.-Japan Relations"

Toru Suzuki (CJS Visiting Scholar, American Literature/Culture, Keio University)

DATE:	Monday, February 9, 2004
TIME:	12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Red-Hot Sociality: Peasant Culture and Temple Festivals in Rural China"

Adam Yuet Chau (Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, Skidmore College)

DATE:	Wednesday, February 11, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Different Roads, Same Destination: A Historical Background of Korea's Economic Growth in the 1950s"

Tae-Gyun Park (Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University)

DATE:	Wednesday, February 11, 2004
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"The Archaeology of Salt Production in China: Some Notes from the Field"

Lothar Von Falkenhausen (Professor, History of Art, UCLA)

Discussant: Jeffrey Riegel (Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Thursday, February 12, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

The 11th Annual Bakai (バークレー大学研究大会)

DATE:	Friday, February 13, 2004
TIME:	2:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Seaborg Room, Faculty Club
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Public Diplomacy in Foreign Policy: Lessons from the Cold War"

Harry Kendall (IEAS Research Associate, retired Foreign Service Officer)

DATE:	Tuesday, February 17, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch and Book Signing
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"IT Growth and E-Business in China"

Linbo Jing (Assistant Director, Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

DATE:	Wednesday, February 18, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Children's Bodies, China's Future: Suzhi Jiaoyu [Education for 'Quality'] and the Production of Post-Socialist Subjects"

Terry Woronov (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

Discussant: Li Zhang (Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Davis)

DATE:	Friday, February 20, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"From a Children's Colony on a Japanese Periphery: Postwar Counter-memories"

Leslie Pincus (History, University of Michigan)

DATE:	Monday, February 23, 2004
TIME:	12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown Bag Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"For your ears only: Literary soul-mates and the marketplace in late Qing fiction"

Paola Zamperini (Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College)

DATE:	Wednesday, February 25, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Antigone and Wu Zixu, or the Birth of Tragedy in China"

Dong Liu (Professor, Institute of Comparative Literature & Culture, Peking University)

DATE:	Thursday, February 26, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium, lecture conducted in Chinese
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Modernism in Colonial Seoul"

Jongyung Hwang (Department of Korean Literature, Dongguk University, Seoul)

DATE:	Friday, February 27, 2004
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

March 2004

"Parental Control of the 'Personal Domain' and Adolescent Symptoms of Psychopathology"

Yuki Hasebe (Educational Psychology, Western Illinois University)

DATE:	Monday, March 1, 2004
TIME:	12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown Bag Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Religion and the State: the PRC and Taiwan"

Richard Madsen (Professor, Sociology, UC San Diego)

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

DATE:	Tuesday, March 2, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Male Clients in China's Urban Sex Industry"

Tiantian Zheng (Assistant Professor, Sociology/Anthropology, State University of New York, Cortland)

DATE:	Wednesday, March 3, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"22nd Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival"

DATE:	March 4-11, 2004
PLACE:	AMC Kabuki 8 and Castro Theaters in San Francisco, Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley
SPONSOR:	NAATA, selected films co-presented by IEAS

"Social Withdrawal and Other Maladies: A New Paradigm for Understanding Japan's Contemporary Deadlock"

Michael Zielenziger (Journalist, Business / Economics, Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Discussant: Steven Vogel (Professor of Political Science, UCB)
Discussant: Scott North (Associate Professor of Sociology, Osaka University)

DATE:	Monday, March 8, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Discourse on Embroidery: Knowledge and Aesthetics from Female Hands in Late-Imperial China"

Grace Fong (Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, McGill University)

DATE:	Wednesday, March 10, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"John Nathan, Japan Unbound"

DATE:	Wednesday, March 10, 2004
TIME:	5:30-7:00 p.m.
PLACE:	World Affairs Bldg., 312 Sutter St., 2nd Fl., S.F.
FORMAT:	Lecture and book signing
SPONSOR:	IEAS, Japan Society of Northern California

"Northern Elite, Regional Identity, and Cultural Integration in Choson Korea"

Sun Joo Kim (East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

DATE:	Friday, March 12, 2004
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Xinjiang: Central Asia or China?"

DATE:	Saturday, March 13, 2004
TIME:	9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Special Spring Conference
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies, Silk Road Working Group, Caucasus and Central Asia Program, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies

"How the rebellion of the Catholics turned into factional warfares, 1946-1947"

Thi Minh-Hoang Ngo (Research Fellow, Waseda University, Tokyo)

DATE:	Wednesday, March 17, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Dilemma of Korean Conservatism"

Jung In Kang (Department of Political Science, Sogang University)

DATE:	Wednesday, March 17, 2004
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Transformations of Experience: Interpreting the 'Opening' of Japan"

DATE:	Friday, March 19, 2004
TIME:	1:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, IEAS

"Asia Pacific Studies in an Age of Global Modernity"

Arif Dirlik (Professor, History/Anthropology, University of Oregon)

Discussant: Aihwa Ong (Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, March 19, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"From Country to City: Urbanization in Contemporary Chinese Photography"

Zheng Gu (Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University)

DATE:	Wednesday, March 31, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

April 2004

"Bruce Cumings, North Korea: Another Country"

DATE:	Thursday, April 1, 2004
TIME:	12:30-1:30 p.m. (lecture) 1:30-2:00 p.m. (book signing)
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown Bag Lunch, lecture and book signing
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"After the Shipwreck: New Horizons for History-Writing"

Carol Gluck (George Sansom Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University)

DATE:	Thursday, April 1, 2004
TIME:	5:00-7:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Heyns Room, the Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Maruyama Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Maruyama and History"

Carol Gluck (George Sansom Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University)

DATE:	Friday, April 2, 2004
TIME:	10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	O'Neill Room, the Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Maruyama Seminar (reservation only)
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Traveling Words Across Japanese Studies"

DATE:	Friday, April 2, 2004
TIME:	1:15-7:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Heyns Room, the Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Problem of (Public) Intellectuals"

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, April 2-3, 2004
PLACE:	Great Hall, The Bancroft Hotel
FORMAT:	Annual Symposium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Review

"On Chinese Cities"

Ackbar Abbas (Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Culture, University of Hong Kong)

DATE:	Monday, April 5, 2004
TIME:	5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	112 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	"The City" Lecture Series
SPONSOR:	IEAS, Center for South Asia Studies

"Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China"

DATE:	Tuesday, April 6, 2004
TIME:	5:00 p.m. (reception) 5:30-7:00 p.m. (lecture and book signing)
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture and book signing
SPONSOR:	IEAS, Graduate School of Journalism

"Death at City Hall: Power and Corruption in Late Meiji Tokyo"

Peter Duus (Professor, Japanese History, Stanford University)

DATE:	Thursday, April 8, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Inter-Asian and U.S.-Asia Relations: Perspectives from the Region"

DATE:	Friday, April 9, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Roundtable Discussion
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"The Political Ecology of Famine: The North Korean Catastrophe and Its Lessons"

Meredith Woo-Cumings (Department of Political Science, University of Michigan)

DATE:	Friday, April 9, 2004
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Third Annual Graduate Symposium on Korean Studies"

DATE:	Saturday, April 10, 2004
TIME:	8:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
PLACE:	Alumni House Conference Room
FORMAT:	Annual Graduate Symposium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies, Graduate Working Group for Korean Studies

"'Soldier Zen' in WWII Japan: A Classic Case Study of 'Holy War'"

Brian Victoria (Buddhist Studies, University of Hawaii-Manoa)

DATE:	Tuesday, April 13, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Women as Mystics and Oracles in Tibet"

Hildegard Diemberger (Senior Assistant in Research, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)

DATE:	Wednesday, April 14, 2004
TIME:	12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"From Cellular Society to Open Society: The Expansion of the Moral Horizon in Contemporary China"

William Jankowiak (Professor, Anthropology, University of Nevada)

Discussant: Terry Woronov (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:	Friday, April 16, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"A Divided Taiwan - Understanding the 2004 Presidential Election"

DATE:	Monday, April 19, 2004
TIME:	4:30-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"A Fearful Symmetry: The Future of U.S.-North Korean Relations"

John Feffer (author of North Korea, South Korea: U.S. Policy at a Time of Crisis)

DATE:	Wednesday, April 21, 2004
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Changing World Views of the U.S."

DATE:	Thursday, April 22, 2004
TIME:	6:30 p.m.
PLACE:	North Gate Hall Library
FORMAT:	International panel discussion
SPONSOR:	Graduate School of Journalism

"Why Modernization of the Legal System Failed in Late Qing Dynasty China: A Comparison Between China and Japan"

Ai Yongming (Dean, Kenneth Wang School of Law, Soochow University, Suchou, China)

DATE:	Tuesday, April 27, 2004
TIME:	1:30-3:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture conducted in Chinese, with interpretation
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits"

William Porter (author 'Red Pine')

DATE:	Thursday, April 29, 2004
TIME:	5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	IEAS, Group in Buddhist Studies, Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies

"The International Center for Chinese Studies: Its Significance and Activities"

Kazumi Yamamoto (Professor, Modern Chinese Studies, Aichi University; Director-General of the COE Committee, International Center for Chinese Studies, Aichi University)

"Contemporary Chinese Economic Studies in Japan in Historical Perspective"

Shinichi Kawai (Professor, Business Administration, Aichi University; Member of the COE Committee, International Center for Chinese Studies, Aichi University)

DATE:	Friday, April 30, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"China's Digital Future: Advancing The Understanding of China's Information Revolution"

DATE:	Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1, 2004
PLACE:	Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Hall
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSOR:	Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, Berkeley China Internet Project and New Media Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, IEAS

May 2004

"The Korean Diaspora"

DATE:	Saturday, May 1, 2004
TIME:	10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Seaborg Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Regional Seminar
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Egocentric Japanese?: Nature/Nurture Influence on Spatial Cognition"

Kyoko Inoue (Linguistics/Anthropology, Keio University)

DATE:	Monday, May 3, 2004
TIME:	12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Yi T'aejun's Private Orient"

Janet Poole (Department of East Asian Studies, New York University)

DATE:	Friday, May 7, 2004
TIME:	4:15 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

"Underneath the Political Radar - Japan's Quiet Transformation"

DATE:	Monday, May 10, 2004
TIME:	11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Panel discussion, please RSVP
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

Aobakai "Japan" Conference

DATE:	Tuesday, May 11, 2004
TIME:	12:30-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSOR:	Center for Japanese Studies

"James Lilley, China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia"

DATE:	Tuesday, May 11, 2004
TIME:	1:30-3:00 p.m.
PLACE:	The Women's Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Lecture and book signing
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Memory, Memorial and Commemoration: Chinese Texts of the Early Medieval Through Late Imperial Periods"

DATE:	Friday-Saturday, May 14-15, 2004
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSOR:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The U.S.-Hong Kong Relationship: Looking Forward"

James Keith (U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong)

DATE:	Monday, May 24, 2004
TIME:	4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	O'Neill Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Korean Literature Today"

DATE:	Monday, May 24, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Center for Korean Studies

June 2004

"China's Role in the International War on Terrorism"

Pan Guang (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)

DATE:	Thursday, June 3, 2004
TIME:	4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"The Korean Peninsula, East Asia, and the United States: The Search for Stability in a Time of Change"

DATE:	Wednesday, June 16, 2004
TIME:	9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
PLACE:	Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Panel discussions and luncheon, registration required
SPONSOR:	Asia Society Northern California

July 2004

"The Rise of a New Generation of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals"

Yu Jie (writer)

DATE:	Tuesday, July 6, 2004
TIME:	4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:	North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Talk and discussion, conducted in Chinese
SPONSOR:	UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, IEAS

"Mongolia, Northeast Asia, and the United States"

His Excellency Natsagiyn Bagabandi (President of Mongolia)

DATE:	Tuesday, July 20, 2004
TIME:	5:00-6:00 p.m. Registration 6:00 p.m. Program
PLACE:	The Asia Foundation, 465 California Street 15th Floor Ballroom (at California & Montgomery) San Francisco
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSOR:	The Asia Foundation