IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Past Events

August 2004


"The Participatory Government's Role in Securing Greater Economic Cooperation between the Two Koreas"

Jin-Pyo Kim (Member, National Assembly)

DATE:Tuesday, August 24, 2004
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

September 2004


"What Happened to Japanese Telecom: Stumbling into the 21st Century"

Robert Cole (Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, UCB)

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

"Shōsō-in Treasures: Reconstructing Musical Instruments"

"Music From Japan - Reigaku and Gagaku: A Living Tradition"

DATE:Sunday, September 12, 2004
TIME:1:00-2:00 p.m. Lecture-demonstration
3:00 p.m. Concert
PLACE:Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Lecture-demonstration and concert
SPONSOR:Lecture-demonstration: Institute of East Asian Studies, Department of Music; Concert: Cal Performances

"Living on the Brink in Post-Bubble Japan"

Edward Fowler (East Asian Languages and Literatures, UC Irvine)

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

"Analyzing the Korean 'Comfort Women' Tragedy: Truth, Justice, and Structural Violence"

Chunghee Sarah Soh (San Francisco State University)

DATE:Friday, September 17, 2004
TIME:1:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"neo-eiga: New Japanese Cinema"

DATE:Friday-Sunday, September 17-19, 2004
PLACE:Pacific Film Archive Theater
FORMAT:Film festival
SPONSOR:Pacific Film Archive, Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco; The Japan Foundation; NAATA; Institute of East Asian Studies; and Japan Society of Northern California

"Japanese Cinema Now"

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (Professor of East Asian Studies at New York University)

DATE:Saturday, September 18, 2004
TIME:3:30 p.m.
PLACE:Pacific Film Archive Theater
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Is Taiwan Chinese? The Politics of National Identity"

DATE:Wednesday, September 22, 2004
TIME:5:00-6:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
6:30 p.m. Reception
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Panel Discussion
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"On the Vision and Voice in Modern Chinese Art"

Xiaobing Tang (Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)

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

"Errant(d?) letters: Issues of Ownership and Place in Heian Period Nikki by Women"

John Wallace (East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Monday, September 27, 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

"US Responsibilities as a World Leader: An Overview"

Michael Nacht (Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Tuesday, September 28, 2004
TIME:11:30 a.m. Check In and Brown Bag Lunch
12:00 p.m. Program
PLACE:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor Reception Room, San Francisco
FORMAT:Fall 2004 Study Group Series, registration required
SPONSOR:World Affairs Council, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Religions and Democracy in Taiwan"

Chengtian Kuo (Professor, Chinese Studies, National Chengchi University)

DATE:Wednesday, September 29, 2004
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

October 2004


"Rewriting the 'Orient' in Post-Colonial South Korea"

DATE:Friday, October 1, 2004
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Panel Presentations and a Discussion
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"The Voyage of the Senzaimaru to Shanghai in 1862 and Its Representation in Wartime Japanese Cinema"

Joshua Fogel (Comparative East Asian History, UC Santa Barbara)

DATE:Monday, October 4, 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

"Beauty and the Beast: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, and Historical Epistemology"

Haiyan Lee (Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado, Boulder)

DATE:Friday, October 8, 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 12th Annual Bakai (バークレー大学研究大会)

DATE:Monday, October 11, 2004
TIME:1:30-6:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Han Ong, The Disinherited"

DATE:Thursday, October 14, 2004
TIME:5:00-6:00 p.m. Lecture
6:00 p.m. Reception and Book Signing
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture and book signing
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"Expanded Visions - JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video, 1955–Now"

DATE:Tuesday, October 19, 2004
TIME:7:30 p.m.
PLACE:Pacific Film Archive Theater
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSOR:Pacific Film Archive; Image Forum Archive; University of California, Irvine; University of Chicago; Center for Japanese Studies; Institute for East Asian Studies

"Dealing with a Globalized Economy"

Vinod K. Aggarwal (Professor of Political Science, Business and Public Policy, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Wednesday, October 20, 2004
TIME:11:30 a.m. Check In and Brown Bag Lunch
12:00 p.m. Program
PLACE:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor Reception Room, San Francisco
FORMAT:Fall 2004 Study Group Series, registration required
SPONSOR:World Affairs Council, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Elizabeth Economy, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future"

DATE:Wednesday, October 20, 2004
TIME:5:00-6:00 p.m. Lecture
6:00 p.m. Reception and Book Signing
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture and book signing
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Migrants, Markets and the State: The Formation and Transformation of the Lhasa Market"

Xiaojiang Hu (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, October 22, 2004
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Exploded States: War, Politics, and National Identity - JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video, 1955–Now"

DATE:Tuesday, October 26, 2004
TIME:7:30 p.m.
PLACE:Pacific Film Archive Theater
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSOR:Pacific Film Archive; Image Forum Archive; University of California, Irvine; University of Chicago; Center for Japanese Studies; Institute for East Asian Studies

"East Asia: Careers in the Non-Profit Sector"

DATE:Wednesday, October 27, 2004
TIME:3:00-4:30 p.m.
PLACE:Tan Oak Room, 4th Floor, MLK Student Union
FORMAT:Panel
SPONSOR:Institute for East Asian Studies, UCB Career Center

"Resident Korean Literature in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952"

Christopher D. Scott (Asian Languages, Stanford University)

DATE:Thursday, October 28, 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, Center for Korean Studies

"Indonesia-China after 1998: A Story of Unrequited Love?"

Wibowo Wibisono (Director, Center for Chinese Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia)

DATE:Thursday, October 28, 2004
TIME:4:00-5:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

"The Centennial of Korean Immigration to America: A Look Back at the Role of the United States and Japan in the Events of 1902-05"

Wayne Patterson (Department of History, St. Norbert's College)

DATE:Friday, October 29, 2004
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"A First Reading of the Shanghai Museum Bamboo-Strip Manuscript of the Zhou Yi"

Edward Shaughnessy (Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)

DATE:Friday, October 29, 2004
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

November 2004


"Seth Faison, South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China"

DATE:Monday, November 1, 2004
TIME:5:00-6:00 p.m. Lecture
6:00 p.m. Reception and Book Signing
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture and book signing
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"China, Japan and the Two Koreas"

T.J. Pempel (Professor of Political Science and Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Tuesday, November 2, 2004
TIME:11:30 a.m. Check In and Brown Bag Lunch
12:00 p.m. Program
PLACE:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor Reception Room, San Francisco
FORMAT:Fall 2004 Study Group Series, registration required
SPONSOR:World Affairs Council, Institute of East Asian Studies

"The Politics of Postal Savings Reform in Japan"

Jennifer Amyx (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania)

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

"Blogging North Korea: One Journalist's Experiment with Participatory Media"

Rebecca MacKinnon (Fellow, Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society)

DATE:Thursday, November 4, 2004
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"Asian Financial Politics: An ACTA Model"

Chengtian Kuo (Professor, Chinese Studies, National Chengchi University)

DATE:Friday, November 5, 2004
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Café Society in Japan, or Why Starbucks May Not Prevail"

Merry White (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University)

DATE:Monday, November 8, 2004
TIME:4:30-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"In Search of Korean-American Identity for a New Century"

Woon-Ha Kim (Chairman, Korean Foundation of Central California and former editor and publisher, New Korea)

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

"Taisho 'Modernity' or Japanese Civil War?: Political and Cultural Conflict in the Shadow of the Great War, 1919-1931"

Frederick Dickinson (History, University of Pennsylvania)

DATE:Thursday, November 18, 2004
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"The Society for East Asian Anthropology Mini-Conference"

DATE:Thursday-Saturday, November 18-20, 2004
PLACE:UC Berkeley campus
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSOR:Society for East Asian Anthropology

"Migrants' Tales: Life in China's Boomtowns"

Peter Hessler (China Correspondent, The New Yorker)

DATE:Friday, November 19, 2004
TIME:12:00-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:Journalism Library, North Gate Hall
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, School of Journalism

"Gillian Tett, Saving the Sun: How Wall Street Mavericks Shook Up Japan's Financial World and Made Billions"

DATE:Monday, November 22, 2004
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m. Lecture
1:00 p.m. Reception and Book Signing
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture and book signing
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Strategies for Korean Business in a Rapidly Changing World Economy"

Young Shin CHANG (Chairperson, Aekyung Group)

DATE:Tuesday, November 30, 2004
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

December 2004


"AIDS in China: Sex Work, Drug Use, and Health Care Reform"

DATE:Wednesday, December 1, 2004
TIME:4:30-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Panel discussion, coinciding with World AIDS Day
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Global Production Networks in East Asia: Taiwan's High-Tech Industry in Transition"

DATE:Friday, December 3, 2004
TIME:12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Democracy, History, and Migrant Labor in South Korea: Korean Chinese, North Koreans, and Guest Workers"

Hyun Ok Park (New York University)

DATE:Friday, December 3, 2004
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"An Evening With Novelist Lee Ho-Chul"

DATE:Thursday, December 9, 2004
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture and book reading
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Translation and Modernity in Korea"

DATE:Friday-Saturday, December 10-11, 2004
TIME:Friday 9:00 a.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
PLACE:Toll Room, Alumni House
FORMAT:International Conference
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies, Korea Research Foundation, Korea Literature Translation Institute, Korea Foundation

"Agrarian Sovereignty vs. Coastal Economy: The Mystery of the Wenzhou Model"

Mayfair Yang (Professor, Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara)

DATE:Friday, December 10, 2004
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

January 2005


"Sex Underground - JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video, 1955–Now"

DATE:Tuesday, January 18, 2005
TIME:7:30 p.m.
PLACE:Pacific Film Archive Theater
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSOR:Pacific Film Archive; Image Forum Archive; University of California, Irvine; University of Chicago; Institute for East Asian Studies

"A Stitch in Time: The Sewing Machine and the Modern Transformation of Japan"

Andrew Gordon (History, Harvard University)

DATE:Thursday, January 20, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"The Art of the Japanese Tattoo from Kuniyoshi to Longfellow"

Christine Guth (Japanese Art History)

DATE:Monday, January 24, 2005
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

"Implications of China's Emergence for Asia's Economies"

Duck-Koo Chung (Former Vice Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy of the Republic of Korea)

DATE:Tuesday, January 25, 2005
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Funeral Parade of Roses - JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video, 1955–Now"

DATE:Tuesday, January 25, 2005
TIME:7:30 p.m.
PLACE:Pacific Film Archive Theater
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSOR:Pacific Film Archive; Image Forum Archive; University of California, Irvine; University of Chicago; Institute for East Asian Studies

"The 'Modern Enlightenment Era,' A Doubly Paradoxical Space"

Go Mee Suk (Visiting Professor, Cornell University)

DATE:Friday, January 28, 2005
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Democracy without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State"

Ethan Scheiner (Political Science, UC Davis)

DATE:Monday, January 31, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

February 2005


"Contemporary Film, Video, and Animation - JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video, 1955–Now"

DATE:Tuesday, February 1, 2005
TIME:7:30 p.m.
PLACE:Pacific Film Archive Theater
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSOR:Pacific Film Archive; Image Forum Archive; University of California, Irvine; University of Chicago; Institute for East Asian Studies

"China's Economic Regionalization and Uneven Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment"

François Gipouloux (Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris)

DATE:Wednesday, February 2, 2005
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Re-inventing Local Tradition: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Early 19th Century Suzhou"

Seunghyun Han (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, February 4, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"So Is Japan Changing or Not?"

Robert Madsen (Asian Studies and Economics, Center for International Studies, MIT)

DATE:Monday, February 7, 2005
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

"Speaking for the Buddha? Buddhism and the Media"

DATE:Tuesday-Wednesday, February 8-9, 2005
PLACE:Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSOR:Center for Buddhist Studies and Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

"Special Screening of Kundun"

DATE:Tuesday, February 8, 2005
TIME:7:30 p.m.
PLACE:Wheeler Auditorium
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSOR:Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute for East Asian Studies, International Buddhist Film Festival

"From a Vanguard to a Bastard: Rollercoaster-like History of the Industrial Relations at a Gigantic Shipyard in Korea"

Jun Kim (Visiting Scholar, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, February 11, 2005
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Hong Kong and Shanghai: The Growing Rivalry Between Two Global Logistics Hubs"

François Gipouloux (Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris)

DATE:Monday, February 14, 2005
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"The Jewish Diaspora in Modern China"

Xin Xu (Center for Jewish Studies, Nanjing University)

DATE:Wednesday, February 16, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Jewish Studies Department

"From Globalization to Planetarity: The Ecological Imperative in Japanese Studies"

Richard Okada (Japanese Literature, Princeton University)

DATE:Thursday, February 17, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Decoration and Signification: The TLV Mirror Revisited"

Lillian Lan-ying Tseng (Assistant Professor, History of Art, Yale)

DATE:Friday, February 18, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Building a Regional Community of the Northeast Asia: Possibilities, Obstacles, and Korea's Role"

Sang-Ki Chung (Consul General of the Republic of Korea)

DATE:Tuesday, February 22, 2005
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"The Long March through the Tibetan areas in Western Sichuan: the interaction between Red Army and local Tibetans (1934-1936)"

Jiangbian Jiacuo (Professor, Institute of Ethnic Literature Studies, CASS)

DATE:Wednesday, February 23, 2005
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Talk in Chinese, with English translation
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"The Economic Structural Reform and Market Opportunities in Japan"

Charles Lake II (President and Representative in Japan, AFLAC Japan)

DATE:Wednesday, February 23, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Yomiuri Speaker Series
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"The India-China Connection: Rising Powers and Shifting Relations"

Harry Harding (Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs, Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, The George Washington University)

DATE:Thursday, February 24, 2005
TIME:5:30 p.m. (registration)
6:00 p.m. (program)
PLACE:Public Policy Institute of California, 500 Washington Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco
FORMAT:Lecture, registration required
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies, Asia Society, Commonwealth Club of California

"The Work of A Lifetime: History and Religion in Japan and East Asia. A Symposium in Honor of Prof. Emeritus Delmer Brown"

DATE:Friday, February 25, 2005
TIME:1:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:Alumni House
FORMAT:Symposium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, University of San Francisco

"The Rule of Law in China: If They Build It, Who Will Come?"

Mary Gallagher (Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Michigan)

DATE:Friday, February 25, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

March 2005


"Eluding the Past: Chinese Views of Mao"

Philip Short (Author of Mao: A Life)

DATE:Tuesday, March 1, 2005
TIME:5:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Japan's Foreign Policy Challenges in East Asia: Responding to New Realities"

Makoto Yamanaka (Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco)

DATE:Wednesday, March 2, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:Journalism Library, North Gate Hall
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies, Yomiuri Simbun, Graduate School of Journalism

"Changing Geographies of War Memory in Postwar Japan"

Franziska Seraphim (History, Boston College)

DATE:Thursday, March 3, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Peasant Resistance to Conscription During the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945)"

Lucien Bianco (Professor Emeritus, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

DATE:Friday, March 4, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Planning 'Little Taipei' in Kunshan: Cross-border Flows and China's Institutional Innovation"

Lan-chih Po (Assistant Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University)

DATE:Wednesday, March 9, 2005
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Knowledge Value Society and Japanese Economy"

Taichi Sakaiya (Author and Former Minister of State for Economic Planning)

DATE:Thursday, March 10, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Yomiuri Speaker Series
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

23rd San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

DATE:March 10-20, 2005
PLACE:AMC Kabuki 8 and Castro Theaters in San Francisco, Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley
SPONSOR:NAATA, selected films co-presented by IEAS

"Beyond the Age of Innocence - A Worldly View of America"

Kishore Mahbubani (Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore)

DATE:Friday, March 11, 2005
TIME:12:00-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium, followed by reception
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Reconstructing National Identity during the Late Chosǒn Period: the Political Use of King T'aejo's Portraits and Royal Portrait Halls"

Insoo Cho (Assistant Professor, Korean Art, University of Southern California)

DATE:Friday, March 11, 2005
TIME:4:15 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Japanese Social Science and Bureau-pluralism under Globalization"

Yasuo Goto (Political Economy, Fukushima University, CJS Visiting Scholar)
Kaoru Ishiguro (Economics, Kobe University, CJS Visiting Scholar)

DATE:Monday, March 14, 2005
TIME:12:00-2:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Brown Bag Lectures in Japanese
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"A Never-ending Story - On the Rediscovery of Buddhist Sanskrit Texts"

Michael Hahn (Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Tuesday, March 15, 2005
TIME:5:00-7:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium, followed by reception
SPONSOR:Center for Buddhist Studies

23rd San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

DATE:March 10-20, 2005
PLACE:AMC Kabuki 8 and Castro Theaters in San Francisco, Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley
SPONSOR:NAATA, selected films co-presented by IEAS

"Guilt and Redemption in China: Theses on the History of Criminal Justice in the 20th Century"

Klaus Muhlhahn (Professor, Sinology, Freie Universität Berlin)

DATE:Wednesday, March 16, 2005
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Korean Traditional Music Today: P'ansori"

Chan E. Park (Korean Language, Literature, & Performance Studies, Ohio State University)

DATE:Thursday, March 17, 2005
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture/Musical Demonstration
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"The 'Globalization' of Japanese Studies: Southeast Asian Perspectives"

DATE:Friday, March 18, 2005
TIME:9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
PLACE:Toll Room, Alumni House
FORMAT:Joint Colloquium
SPONSOR:Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Center for Japanese Studies

"'Globall' Flight"

Hsiao-hung Chang (Professor, Foreign Languages & Literatures, National Taiwan University)

DATE:Friday, March 18, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Blue Train by Ryohei Hirose and Other Japanese Modern Music"

Nagoya Flute Ensemble Academy (NFEA), Akira Aoki, Conductor

DATE:Saturday, March 19, 2005
TIME:3:00 p.m.
PLACE:Auditorium, International House
FORMAT:Concert in celebration of International House's 75th and the Japan Society of Northern California's 100th anniversaries, followed by reception
SPONSOR:International House, Japan Society of Northern California, Center for Japanese Studies

April 2005


"Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy Exhibit"

DATE:April 1-15, 2005
PLACE:IEAS Lobby, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Exhibit
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy Lecture"

Keiji Onodera (President of the Shodô Journal Research Institute)

DATE:Tuesday, April 5, 2005
TIME:5:00-6:30 p.m. Lecture - Demonstration
6:30 p.m. Reception
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture - Demonstration
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Takeuchi Yoshimi: Inheriting the Past"

Richard Calichman (Asian Studies, The City College of New York)

DATE:Thursday, April 7, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:370 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Remaking Economic Strengths in East Asia: Dealing with the Repercussions of Increased Interdependence"

DATE:Friday-Saturday, April 8-9, 2005
PLACE:Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Recent Discoveries of Ancient Chinese Manuscripts"

Donald Harper (Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago)
Imre Galambos (Overseas Project Manager, International Dunhuang Project, The British Library)
Jeffrey Riegel (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Friday, April 8, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:O'Neil Room, Faculty Club
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Culture and Commerce in Hong Taeyong's Peking Memoir"

Gari Keith Ledyard (King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies Emeritus, Columbia University)

DATE:Friday, April 8, 2005
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"The Sera Project: Representing a Tibetan Monastery in a Digital Environment"

José Cabezón (Department of Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara)

DATE:Friday, April 8, 2005
TIME:5:00 p.m.
PLACE:370 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Buddhist Studies

"Good Science, Bad Science, and Taste Cultures: A Short History of MSG"

Jordan Sand (Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University)

DATE:Monday, April 11, 2005
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

"Places of Nostalgia, Landscapes of the Dispossessed: Contemporary Chinese Photoessays"

William Schaefer (Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Wednesday, April 13, 2005
TIME:6:00-7:30 p.m.
PLACE:308B Doe Library
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Asian Art and Visual Cultures Working Group

"Myths, Mandalas, and Monuments: Art of the Newar Buddhist Monasteries of Nepal"

Dina Bangdel (Ohio State University)

DATE:Thursday, April 14, 2005
TIME:5:00 p.m.
PLACE:425 Doe Library
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Buddhist Studies, Department of Art History

"Second Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Colloquium"

DATE:Friday, April 15, 2005
TIME:2:00-5:30 p.m.
PLACE:Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Avenue, Stanford
FORMAT:Colloquium, followed by reception
SPONSOR:Center for Buddhist Studies

"Are Chinese Managers Ready to be Successful?"

Lei Wang (Professor, Psychology, Peking University)

DATE:Friday, April 15, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Korean Mask Drama and the Dance of Therapy: Five University Tour"

DATE:Monday, April 18, 2005
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Korean Dance Demonstration and Lecture
SPONSOR:UCB sponsor: Center for Korean Studies

"Human Trafficking from Asia to California"

DATE:Monday, April 18, 2005
TIME:5:30 p.m. registration
6:00 p.m. program, followed by reception
PLACE:Public Policy Institute of California, 500 Washington Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco
FORMAT:Panel discussion, registration required
SPONSOR:Asia Society, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Changing Lanes in China: Local Governments, Foreign Direct Investment and Auto Sector Development"

Eric Thun (Assistant Professor, Politics, Princeton University)

DATE:Wednesday, April 20, 2005
TIME:12:00-1:00 p.m.
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Brown-Bag Lunch Lecture
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"North Korean Food Security: A Humanitarian Perspective"

JOO Kim Pilju (CEO/Chairperson, Agglobe Services International Inc.; Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota)

DATE:Friday, April 22, 2005
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium on Korean Studies"

DATE:Saturday, April 23, 2005
TIME:9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
PLACE:Lipman Room (8th Floor, Barrows Hall), UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Annual Graduate Symposium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies, Berkeley Graduate Working Group in Korean Studies

"Whither a Buddhist Golden Age? The History of the Burmese in Northern Thailand"

Justin McDaniel (University of California, Riverside)

DATE:Monday, April 25, 2005
TIME:12:15-1:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

"Meeting Rising Community Expectations - From Landslide Prevention to Habour Enhancement in Hong Kong"

Lee Chack Fan (University of Hong Kong)

DATE:Monday, April 25, 2005
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Kim Dae-jung - Korea and its Strategic Role in the Peace, Security, and Prosperity of Northeast Asia"

DATE:Monday, April 25, 2005
TIME:5:00-6:00 p.m. Registration
6:00 p.m. Program
PLACE:Merchants Exchange Ballroom, 465 California Street, 15th Floor, San Francisco
FORMAT:Special address, reservations required
SPONSOR:The Asia Foundation, IEAS, Korean Center, Center for the Pacific Rim, Korean-American Chamber of Commerce, World Affairs Council

"An Introduction to 'China Digital Times'"

Xiao Qiang (Director, Berkeley China Internet Project, Graduate School of Journalism, UCB)

DATE:Tuesday, April 26, 2005
TIME:4:00-5:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies

"Interest Group Politics and the Battle for Structural Reform in Japan: The Case of the Post Office"

Patricia Maclachlan (Asian Studies and Government, University of Texas at Austin)

DATE:Thursday, April 28, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Pacific Rim Music Festival"

DATE:April 29 - May 7, 2005
PLACE:UC Santa Cruz
FORMAT:Concerts and symposia
SPONSOR:UC Berkeley sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"Late Imperial Perspectives on Political Participation in Twentieth-Century China"

Bin Wong (Professor, History, UCLA)

DATE:Friday, April 29, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics"

DATE:Friday-Saturday, April 29-30, 2005
TIME:Friday 2:15 - 8:30 p.m.
Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
PLACE:Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSOR:Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, IEAS, Center for Chinese Studies, Comparative Literature, Consortium for the Arts, Women's Studies, International and Area Studies, Dean of Humanities, Townsend Center, Center for Race and Gender, Dean of Social Sciences, Institute for Tongzhi Studies

May 2005


"How Did the Gakkyuu Hookai Happen? An Ethnography of Japanese Junior High School Girls' Linguistic and Spatial Resistance at the Crossroad of Japanese Education"

Ayumi Miyazaki (Education, CJS Visiting Scholar)

DATE:Monday, May 2, 2005
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

2nd Aobakai "Japan" Conference

DATE:Friday, May 6, 2005
TIME:1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
PLACE:370 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"The Uneven Burden of Vitality: College Rank, Class, and South Korea's 'New Generation'"

Nancy Abelman (Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

DATE:Friday, May 6, 2005
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

"Bushido, Masculinities and Foreign Policymaking in Japan"

Yumiko Mikanagi (Politics, International Christian University, CJS Visiting Scholar)

DATE:Monday, May 9, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Modern Chinese State"

Elizabeth Perry (Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University)

DATE:Wednesday, May 11, 2005
TIME:4:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies

"Stanford-Berkeley Japanese Politics Workshop"

DATE:Friday, May 13, 2005
TIME:10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Workshop
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

"The Mystery of Encounters in Everyday Life; The Motivation behind Writing Hymn of the Spirit; A Talk with the Korean Novelist, Han Mahlsook"

DATE:Tuesday, May 17, 2005
TIME:4:00 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSOR:Center for Korean Studies

June 2005


"U.S. Role in Asia: An Overview"

Tsuneo Akaha (Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Monterey Institute of East Asian Studies)

DATE:Tuesday, June 14, 2005
TIME:11:30 a.m. - Check In
12:00 noon - Program
PLACE:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 2nd Floor Reception Room
FORMAT:Summer lecture series: Confronting Crises in Northeast Asia
SPONSOR:World Affairs Council, IEAS

"Lecture-demonstration by Nakamura Ganjiro III of Japan's Grand Kabuki Chikamatsu-za"

DATE:Wednesday, June 15, 2005
TIME:6:30-8:00 p.m.
PLACE:Hertz Hall
FORMAT:Lecture / Demonstration
SPONSOR:IEAS, Cal Performances, The Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco, Department of Music

"China-Taiwan Issues and China in the WTO"

Marsha Vande Berg (Executive Director, Pacific Pension Institute and Founding Director, IBAdvisors)

DATE:Tuesday, June 21, 2005
TIME:11:30 a.m. - Check In
12:00 noon - Program
PLACE:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 2nd Floor Reception Room
FORMAT:Summer lecture series: Confronting Crises in Northeast Asia
SPONSOR:World Affairs Council, IEAS

"The US Government's Response to the Tsunami: From Relief to Reconstruction"

Mark S. Ward (USAID - U.S. Agency for International Development)

DATE:Wednesday, June 22, 2005
TIME:2:00-4:00 p.m.
PLACE:Goldberg Lounge, Boalt Hall
FORMAT:Presentation
SPONSOR:Boalt Office of Career Development, IEAS

"Japan Confronts a Hostile Neighborhood"

T.J. Pempel (Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley)

DATE:Tuesday, June 28, 2005
TIME:11:30 a.m. - Check In
12:00 noon - Program
PLACE:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 2nd Floor Reception Room
FORMAT:Summer lecture series: Confronting Crises in Northeast Asia
SPONSOR:World Affairs Council, IEAS

July 2005


"Before the Flood - A film by Yan Yu and Li Yifan"

DATE:Friday-Sunday, July 8-10, 2005
PLACE:Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Screening Room, 701 Mission Street (at Third), Second Floor, San Francisco
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSOR:Asia Society of Northern California, IEAS, NAATA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

"North Korea: Nuclear Weapons and the Six-Party Talks"

Philip Yun (Pantec Fellow in Asian Studies, Stanford University)

DATE:Tuesday, July 12, 2005
TIME:11:30 a.m. - Check In
12:00 noon - Program
PLACE:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 2nd Floor Reception Room
FORMAT:Summer lecture series: Confronting Crises in Northeast Asia
SPONSOR:World Affairs Council, IEAS

"The Geopolitics of Energy"

Thomas G. Burns (Director of Planning, SEER - Strategic Energy & Economic Research, Inc.)

DATE:Tuesday, July 19, 2005
TIME:11:30 a.m. - Check In
12:00 noon - Program
PLACE:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 2nd Floor Reception Room
FORMAT:Summer lecture series: Confronting Crises in Northeast Asia
SPONSOR:World Affairs Council, IEAS

"China and the Environment"

Stephanie Ohshita (University of San Francisco)

DATE:Tuesday, July 26, 2005
TIME:11:30 a.m. - Check In
12:00 noon - Program
PLACE:World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, San Francisco, 2nd Floor Reception Room
FORMAT:Summer lecture series: Confronting Crises in Northeast Asia
SPONSOR:World Affairs Council, IEAS
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