Past Events

August 2005

"Findings on the East Asian Library's Rubbings Collections"

Hui-ling Keng, Professor, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

DATE:	Tuesday, August 9, 2005
TIME:	10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
PLACE:	East Asian Library Annex, California Hall, Room 11
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	East Asian Library, Center for Chinese Studies

"Disciplinarity in Chinese Art Studies: an Historical Perspective"

Stacy Pierson, Curator/Head, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, University of London

DATE:	Wednesday, August 17, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Military Situation Across the Taiwan Strait: China, the United States... and Taiwan"

Bernard Cole, Professor, International History, National War College

DATE:	Friday, August 26, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

September 2005

"Collective Bargaining & Dispute Resolution in China Today"

Yanyuan Cheng, Associate Professor, Labor & Human Resources, Renmin University

DATE:	Friday, September 2, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	Institute of Industrial Relations, 2521 Channing Way
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Labor Research and Education, Center for Chinese Studies

"The Prehistory of Chinese Music Theory"

Robert Bagley, Professor, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

DATE:	Wednesday, September 7, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	Doe Library, 308J
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Music, Department of History, Asian Art and Visual Cultures Working Group

"Mark Leong: China Obscura - A Photo Exhibit"

DATE:	Thursday, September 8, 2005 to Tuesday, October 11, 2005
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Lobby, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Reporting from China"

Mark Leong, photographer and author of China Obscura

DATE:	Thursday, September 8, 2005
TIME:	Exhibit Opening and Panel discussion: 4:00 PM Reception: 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Korean Learning: Changing Patterns of Specific Investments"

Ingyu Oh, Visiting Professor, International and Area Studies, U.C. Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, September 9, 2005
TIME:	4:15 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Music, Community Politics, and Environmental Justice in Taiwan"

DATE:	Saturday, September 10, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	145 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Cal Performances, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Music, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley Consortium for the Arts

"Film and Round Table: Raise the Red Lantern"

DATE:	Thursday, September 15, 2005
TIME:	7:00 PM
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Cal Performances

"Evaluating the Japanese Election"

T.J. Pempel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Steve Vogel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Ethan Scheiner, Political Science, UC Davis
Robert Madsen, MIT Center for International Studies
Rob Weiner, Cornell University

DATE:	Friday, September 16, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"China, Macrohistory, Art: The Parallax of Relational Modernities"

Jonathan Hay, Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Fred Wakeman, Professor, History, UC Berkeley
William Schaefer, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, September 16, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Body in Naturalist Literature and Modern Social Imaginaries"

Christopher L. Hill, East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University

DATE:	Friday, September 16, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	370 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Air Pollution: Comparing Asian Cities"

Christine Loh, Chief Executive Officer, Civic Exchange

DATE:	Monday, September 19, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Globalization and the Intellectual Future of Women's Emancipation"

Nobuyo Goto, Political Economy, Fukushima Medical University

DATE:	Monday, September 19, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Funding Workshop for the UC Pacific Rim Research Program"

DATE:	Tuesday, September 20, 2005
TIME:	1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"What Mahayana Sutras Mean: Thinking about Interpretation and Commentary"

Jonathan Silk, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

DATE:	Thursday, September 22, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"South Korea's Education Fever: Origins, Impact and Challenges"

Michael J. Seth, James Madison University

DATE:	Friday, September 23, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Modern Girls (Unless They're French) Don't Wear Kimono"

Liza Dalby, author of Geisha, Kimono -- Fashioning Culture, and The Tale of Murasaki

DATE:	Sunday, September 25, 2005
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	Museum Theater, UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive

"Close Readings of Recently Excavated Manuscripts: The Evidence From Zhangjiashan"

Donald Harper, Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Michael Nylan, Professor, History, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, September 29, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Department of History, Center for Chinese Studies

"Race, Empire, and the Dominatrix in the Novels of Japanese Author Numa Shozo"

Christine Marran, Asian Languages & Literature, University of Minnesota

DATE:	Friday, September 30, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Between the Boudoir and the Global Marketplace: Shen Shou, Embroidery and Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"

Dorothy Ko, Professor, Chinese History, Barnard College
Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, History, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, September 30, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

October 2005

"How to do Things with Books: Science, Modernity, and the New Reference Books of Twentieth Century China"

Bridie Andrews Minehan, Assistant Professor, History, Bentley College

DATE:	Monday, October 3, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	140 Barrows Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Office for History of Science and Technology, UCSF History of Health Sciences, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for Chinese Studies

"New Modes of Economic Governance: Decentralized Government in Vietnam and Indonesia"

Alasdair Bowie, George Washington University

DATE:	Thursday, October 6, 2005
TIME:	12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"Fukuzawa Yukichi and Maruyama Masao: Two Visions of Japan"

Alan MacFarlane, Social Anthropology, King's College, University of Cambridge

DATE:	Thursday, October 6, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Heyns Room, Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Doxography, History, and Identity: Reflections on 'Theravada Buddhism'"

Peter Skilling, Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation, Thailand

DATE:	Thursday, October 6, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"China, India, Russia: Investing in Emerging Markets"

DATE:	Friday, October 7, 2005
TIME:	8:30 AM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	UC Berkeley Art Museum Theater, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	UCB Haas School of Business, Clausen Center for International Business & Policy, Institute of Management, Innovation & Organization, US Russia Technology Symposium at Stanford, ISEEES, Center for South Asia Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Fukuzawa and Maruyama: How to Understand Japan"

Alan MacFarlane, Social Anthropology, King's College, University of Cambridge

DATE:	Friday, October 7, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	O'Neill Rm, Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Preserving the Lore of Korean Antiquity: Iryon's Privileging of Local Discourse in the Samguk yusa"

Richard D. McBride, II, Washington University, St. Louis

DATE:	Friday, October 7, 2005
TIME:	4:15 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Kwaidan"

DATE:	Saturday, October 8, 2005
TIME:	Film screening: 1:00 PM Reception: 4:00 PM
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan

"Calligraphy by Venerable Master Hsing Yun"

Master Hsing Yun, Founder of Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order in Taiwan

DATE:	Tuesday, October 11, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Disciple of the Three Caverns: Lu Xiujing's renewal of medieval Taoism" and "Daoist Inner Alchemy and its views of other practices"

Franciscus Verellen, Director, École française d'Extrême-Orient
Fabrizio Pregadio, Acting Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Stanford

DATE:	Wednesday, October 12, 2005
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Edward Tompkins Lecture Series
SPONSORS:	Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"The Exquisite Art of Kunqu Opera – Lecture and Demonstration: 崑曲之美講習會"

DATE:	Wednesday, October 12, 2005
TIME:	Seminar and demonstration in Chinese--華語場次: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM Seminar and demonstration in English--英語場次: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Space Between: The Cartographic Imagination of Japanese Modernism"

DATE:	Friday, October 14, 2005 Saturday, October 15, 2005
TIME:	9:30 AM to 6:00 PM 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	370 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Center for Japanese Studies, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

"The Archaeology of the First Emperor's Burial Mound"

Jeffrey Riegel, Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, October 14, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Ma Jian, Stick Out Your Tongue"

DATE:	Monday, October 17, 2005
TIME:	4:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"60 Years after WWII: Japan's Complicated Relationship with China and Korea"

Yoshibumi Wakamiya, Chairman, Editorial Board, Asahi Shimbun

DATE:	Tuesday, October 18, 2005
TIME:	4:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"An Immortal in Politics: Abbot Gao Rentong and the Quanzhen Daoist Nexus of Patronage, Power, and Monastic Expansion in Ninteenth Century Beijing"

Xun Liu, Professor, History, Rutgers

DATE:	Wednesday, October 19, 2005
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Edward Tompkins Lecture Series
SPONSORS:	Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"The Rise and Demise of China's 'New Thinking' on Japan"

Peter Gries, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder

DATE:	Thursday, October 20, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Mao's Revolution: What Remains?"

Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University

DATE:	Thursday, October 20, 2005
TIME:	7:30 PM
PLACE:	Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism, Office of the Chancellor

"The Business of Lobbying in China"

Scott Kennedy, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Indiana University

DATE:	Friday, October 21, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"China's Cultural Revolution"

DATE:	Friday, October 21, 2005
TIME:	A Talk by Photographer Li Zhensheng: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM Opening Reception with Li Zhensheng: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM Panel Discussion: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Book Signing: 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM
PLACE:	North Gate Hall
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"Shirking or Shouldering Responsibility? Central-Local Dynamics in the Chinese Rural Tax Reforms"

Linda Che-lan Li, Associate Professor, Social and Public Administration, City University of Hong Kong

DATE:	Wednesday, October 26, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"How Taoist Masters Engaged with the Modern Spiritual Market: The Case of Peking, 1800-1949" and "The Qigong Movement, Taoist Revival, and Nationalism in Post-Mao China"

Vincent Goossaert, Vice-Director, Institute of Sociology of Religions and Secularism, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
David Palmer, Director, Hong Kong EFEO Centre, Chinese University of Hong Kong

DATE:	Wednesday, October 26, 2005
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Edward Tompkins Lecture Series
SPONSORS:	Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Chinese Minorities of Yunnan Province and The Ancient Tea Road: 雲南少數民族與茶馬古道"

Yao Jide (姚继德), Director, Southwest Asia Institute,Yunnan University
Mu Jihong (木继红), Professor, Chinese Language and Literature, Yunnan University

DATE:	Wednesday, October 26, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Making Sense of North Korea"

Mike Chinoy, CNN's Senior Asia Correspondent

DATE:	Wednesday, October 26, 2005
TIME:	Reception: 5:45 PM Colloquium: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
PLACE:	North Gate Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Goldman Forum on Press and Foreign Affairs, Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley

"Miracles and Visions Among the Monastic Communities of Kucha, Xinjiang"

Angela Howard, Professor of Asian Art, Department of Art History, Rutgers

DATE:	Thursday, October 27, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Occupational and Environmental Health in the Developing World: Making a Difference: (coeh.berkeley.edu)"

DATE:	Friday, October 28, 2005
TIME:	7:00 AM to 4:30 PM
PLACE:	Krutch Theatre, Clark Kerr Conference Center
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Center for Chinese Studies

"Spirits of the State"

John Nelson, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco

DATE:	Friday, October 28, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Homecoming Diaries: Inhabiting and Dis-inhabiting the Theatrical in Postwar Shanghai Cinema"

Bao Weihong, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies
Andrew Jones, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, October 28, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Third Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Colloquium"

DATE:	Saturday, October 29, 2005
TIME:	11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Slide Ranch
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Koizumi's Gamble and Its Consequences"

Gerald Curtis, Political Science, Columbia University

DATE:	Monday, October 31, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

November 2005

"Mark Leong: China Obscura - A Photo Exhibit"

DATE:	Tuesday, November 1, 2005 to Friday, December 9, 2005
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Lobby, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"The Harvard Buddha Reconsidered"

Roderick Whitfield, Professor, Chinese and East Asian Art, SOAS

DATE:	Wednesday, November 2, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	Doe Library, 308J
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Asian Art and Visual Cultures Working Group

"Brook Larmer, Operation Yao Ming"

DATE:	Wednesday, November 2, 2005
TIME:	Reception: 5:30 PM Lecture: 6:00 PM
PLACE:	North Gate Hall, Graduate School of Journalism
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"Lao She's 'Teahouse' and Modern China"

Peter Li, Professor Emeritus, Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Rutgers

DATE:	Thursday, November 3, 2005
TIME:	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan"

Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Japanese Theater, UCLA

DATE:	Friday, November 4, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"A Book Reading with Novelist Hwang Suk-Young"

DATE:	Friday, November 4, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Book reading
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Colonial Modernity in Korean Literature"

DATE:	Friday, November 4, 2005
TIME:	9:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Townsend Center, 220 Stephens Hall
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

"Taishō Chic on Screen"

DATE:	Saturday, November 5, 2005 to Sunday, December 11, 2005
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive

"'Buddhist Relics Redux' Workshop"

DATE:	Saturday, November 5, 2005
TIME:	10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Seaborg Room, Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"In Conversation with China's AIDS Ambassador Pu Cunxin"

Pu Cunxin (濮存昕), Actor, AIDS Activist
Humphrey Wou, Director, AIDS Relief Fund for China

DATE:	Saturday, November 5, 2005
TIME:	2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	Zellerbach Playhouse
FORMAT:	Reception
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, AIDS Relief Fund for China, The Asia Society, Berkeley Chinese Student Scholar Association (BCSSA)

"Japan's FTAs with Southeast Asia: Economic Interests and a Contest with China"

Kitti Prasirtsuk, Political Science, Thammasat University, Thailand

DATE:	Monday, November 7, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story"

DATE:	Monday, November 7, 2005
TIME:	7:00 PM
PLACE:	Andersen Auditorium, Haas School of Business
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Journalism, Cody's Books

"Interrelationships between the Arts of China and Korea"

Robert Mowry, Curator of Chinese Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum

DATE:	Wednesday, November 9, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	Doe Library, 308J
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Asian Art and Visual Cultures Working Group

"Modern Girl in East Asia"

DATE:	Sunday, November 13, 2005
TIME:	2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
PLACE:	Museum Theater, UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive

"Baby Showers: Ajanta Ceiling Paintings and Festivals of Kathmandu Valley"

Gautama Vajracharya

DATE:	Monday, November 14, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	425 Doe Library
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Department of Art History

"The Cheonggyecheon Restoration: Background, Meaning, and Challenges"

Chang, Seok Hyo, Vice Mayor, Seoul Metropolitan Government

DATE:	Wednesday, November 16, 2005
TIME:	10:30 AM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Humans, Ghosts, and Spirits in Chinese Late Antiquity"

Michael Puett, Professor, History, Harvard

DATE:	Wednesday, November 16, 2005
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Edward Tompkins Lecture Series
SPONSORS:	Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"The Manuscript Legacy of the Tang"

Stephen Owen, Professor, Harvard University

DATE:	Thursday, November 17, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Anne Allison, Millennial Monsters"

DATE:	Thursday, November 17, 2005
TIME:	4:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Predicting Rural School Enrollments: How Wealth and Politics Close the Gender Gap"

Deborah Davis, Professor, Sociology, Yale University
Tom Gold, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, November 18, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"From the Roji to the World: Nakagami Kenji and the Politics of Translation"

Sayuri Oyama, Japanese Studies, Sarah Lawrence College

DATE:	Monday, November 21, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Becoming Hevajra"

Harunaga Isaacson, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania

DATE:	Tuesday, November 22, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Debates on Reform of Personal Income Tax in China"

DATE:	Tuesday, November 29, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Recent Developments in China's Criminal Law"

Zuo Weimin, Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Sichuan University School of Law

DATE:	Tuesday, November 29, 2005
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Goldberg Room, Boalt School of Law
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"James McGregor, One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China"

DATE:	Wednesday, November 30, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley China Initiative

December 2005

"Thinking Outside the Boxes: Nesting Reliquary Caskets from a Ninth-Century Chinese Monastic Crypt"

Eugene Wang, Department of Art History, Harvard University

DATE:	Thursday, December 1, 2005
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Social Repercussions of AIDS in China"

Jenny X. Liu, Public Policy, UC Berkeley, UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Joseph D. Tucker, MD, UCSF Internal Medicine Department
Humphrey Wou, Program Director, AIDS Relief Fund for China

DATE:	Friday, December 2, 2005
TIME:	10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, AIDS Relief Fund for China

"Mishima Yukio: Camp, Kitsch, or Crazy?"

Keith Vincent, Japanese Literature, New York University

DATE:	Friday, December 2, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Democratization and Anti-American Sentiment in South Korea"

Chang Hun Oh, Kaya University

DATE:	Friday, December 2, 2005
TIME:	4:15 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Fiscal Decentralization and Education in USA and Japan"

Hiroaki Hayashi, Economics, Kansai University

DATE:	Monday, December 5, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Publishing and the Creation of a Cultural Identity: Selling Modern Japanese Literature"

Ted Mack, Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington

DATE:	Friday, December 9, 2005
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

January 2006

"Confessions of a Diplomatic Interpreter"

Cornelius Iida, Simultaneous Interpreter

DATE:	Friday, January 20, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Speaking Pacific: A Poetic Fête"

DATE:	Saturday, January 21, 2006
TIME:	1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	The Korean Center, Inc., The Intercultural Institute of California, The Korean Literature Translation Institute, Center for Korean Studies

"Exhibit: Ink Paintings by Changming Meng"

DATE:	Tuesday, January 24, 2006 to Friday, March 24, 2006
PLACE:	IEAS Lobby & Conference Room
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"An Analytical Approach to the Moral Economy of the Late Tokugawa Rural Society"

Mario Oshima, Economics, Osaka City University

DATE:	Friday, January 27, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Behind "I'm Lovin' It": Some Observations of Globalization and Cultural Conflicts in Urban China"

Yunxiang Yan, Professor, Anthropology, UCLA

DATE:	Friday, January 27, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Japanese Polysemous Verb Yaru: Change of Location, Change of Possession and Their Extensions"

Masanobu Ueda, CJS Visiting Scholar, Linguistics, Fukuoka Jogakuin University Jr. College

DATE:	Monday, January 30, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

February 2006

"Inside Stories from the rise & demise of the journal ‘Strategy & Management’: 《战略与管理》杂志兴亡的内幕 "

Yeliang Xia, Professor, Economics, Peking University

DATE:	Wednesday, February 1, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Fighting HIV/AIDS Discrimination in Rural China"

DATE:	Wednesday, February 1, 2006
TIME:	Registration: 5:30 PM Program: 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Asia Society, 500 Washington St., 5th Floor, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Lecture, registration required
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Asia Society, Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, AIDS Relief Fund for China

"Social Repercussions of AIDS in China"

DATE:	Thursday, February 2, 2006
TIME:	2:00 PM
PLACE:	Numata Seminar Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, AIDS Relief Fund for China

"Locating Buddhist Nuns in the Urban and Cultural Landscape of Early North India"

Gregory Schopen, Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

DATE:	Thursday, February 2, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"A Text of Madness: The Multiple Versions of Kurutta Ippeiji"

Aaron Gerow, Film Studies Program, Yale University

DATE:	Friday, February 3, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	142 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Film Studies Program

"How European abstract words took root in the Korean language"

Kyung-Chul Jou, Professor of History, Seoul National University

DATE:	Friday, February 3, 2006
TIME:	4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Institute of East Asian Studies, 2223 Fulton Street, Sixth Floor Conference Room
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Wisdom in Selection"

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, VP of Google, President of Google (China)
Pre-registration required
Lecture will be conducted in Chinese

DATE:	Saturday, February 4, 2006
TIME:	10:30 AM
PLACE:	Room 155, Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture, registration required
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Chinese Students & Scholars Association

"Myths and Realities of Wage Reform: Evaluating 'Pay for Performance' in the Japanese Firm"

Tsuyoshi Tsuru, Economics, Hitotsubashi University

DATE:	Monday, February 6, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	IIS Director's Room, 2521 Channing Way, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, IIS

"North Koreans Beyond the Border"

DATE:	Thursday, February 9, 2006
TIME:	5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	North Gate Hall Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"Yoshinokuzu's Fort-Da Games"

Marghereta Long, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, UC Riverside

DATE:	Friday, February 10, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Daoist Modern: Inner Alchemic Body, Science, and Nation in Early 20th Century Shanghai"

Xun Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies

DATE:	Friday, February 10, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Incestuous Ancestries: the Family Origins of Gautama Siddhartha and a Comparison with Stories of Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 12 & 20"

Jonathan Silk, Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

DATE:	Friday, February 10, 2006
TIME:	4:15 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	Building 60, Room 61G, Main Quad, Stanford University
FORMAT:	Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies

"Doing Business in China: Panasonic’s Growth Strategy"

Yukio Shohtoku, Corporate Advisor, Matsushita Electric Industrial Company

DATE:	Tuesday, February 14, 2006
TIME:	4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Electronic Resources on China—An Introduction"

Susan Xue, Head Librarian, Center for Chinese Studies Library

DATE:	Wednesday, February 15, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Japan and China: Toward a Better Understanding"

Akira Chiba, Assistant Press Secretary/Director of International Press Division, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs

DATE:	Thursday, February 16, 2006
TIME:	2:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Theos Bernard and 1930s Tibet"

Paul Hackett, Visiting Scholar, Center for Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, February 16, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, The Bancroft Library

"Reception: Ink Paintings by Changming Meng"

Changming Meng, Bay-area based artist and columnist

DATE:	Thursday, February 16, 2006
TIME:	5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Lobby & Conference Room
FORMAT:	Reception
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Northeast Asian Regional Integration: South Korean Initiatives"

Jehoon Park, University of Incheon

DATE:	Friday, February 17, 2006
TIME:	4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Fishing Your Wish: Sex Selective Abortion in Taiwan"

Avi Ebenstein, Graduate Student, Economics, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, February 22, 2006
TIME:	12:10 PM
PLACE:	Room 100, 2232 Piedmont Ave
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Demography

"Japanese Architecture Series - Hitoshi Abe: The Elephant and The Architecture"

Hitoshi Abe, Architect, Professor at Tohoku University

DATE:	Wednesday, February 22, 2006
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	112 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Architecture, Center for Japanese Studies

"The 13th Annual Bakai"

DATE:	Friday, February 24, 2006
TIME:	1:50 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop

"First Annual China Law Symposium: 第一届中国法研讨会"

DATE:	Friday, February 24, 2006
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall School of Law
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Graduate Assembly at the University of California, Berkeley, Davis Polk & Wardwell, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

"The Virtual Shanghai Project"

Christian Henriot, Professor, History, Lumière-Lyon 2 University
Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, History, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, February 28, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

March 2006

"Current Legal Reform in Japan"

Yuichi Sato, Partner, Abe Sato LLP; Professor, Tohoku University's School of Law

DATE:	Wednesday, March 1, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	Room 123, Boalt Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Social Repercussions of AIDS in China"

DATE:	Thursday, March 2, 2006
TIME:	2:00 PM
PLACE:	Numata Seminar Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, AIDS Relief Fund for China

"Buddhism and the Environment: The Birth of Flood Control Politics and Disaster Management in the Battle for Lhasa’s Jo-khang Temple"

Per Sörensen, Professor, Institute of Central Asian Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany

DATE:	Thursday, March 2, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	341 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Reconsidering Nonprofit Human Service Organizations in Japanese Civil Society: Their Structure and Characteristics"

Gen Miyagaki, CJS Visiting Scholar, Sociology, Konan University

DATE:	Friday, March 3, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Korea's Recovery from the Asian Financial Crisis: An IMF success story?"

Thomas Kalinowski, Postdoctoral Fellow

DATE:	Friday, March 3, 2006
TIME:	4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Tropes of ‘Home’: Shifting Views of the Global Shanghai"

Haiping Yan, Professor, Department of Theatre, Film, and Television, UCLA

DATE:	Wednesday, March 8, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Film Studies

"Architecture is More"

Mark Dytham, Architect, Klein Dytham, Tokyo, Japan

DATE:	Wednesday, March 8, 2006
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	112 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Architecture, Center for Japanese Studies

"Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific"

DATE:	Thursday, March 9, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Into Space: The Political Economy of Urban Land Use in Xinji"

Marc Blecher, Professor, Politics, Oberlin College

DATE:	Friday, March 10, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Family Matters: Kinship Bonds and Buddhist History in Tibet"

Bryan Cuevas, Assistant Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Florida State University

DATE:	Friday, March 10, 2006
TIME:	7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
PLACE:	Building 200, Room 030, Stanford University
FORMAT:	Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies

"The Theater of Panorama: Modern Chinese Popular Theater at the turn of the 20th century"

Weihong Bao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, March 15, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Film Studies

"Consciousness, Self and Intermediate State: Some Problems in Theravada Buddhism"

Mudagamuwe Maithrimurthi, Visiting Lecturer of Buddhist Studies, University of Michigan

DATE:	Wednesday, March 15, 2006
TIME:	4:15 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	Building 60, Room 61G, Main Quad, Stanford University
FORMAT:	Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies

"Benevolence, Compassion, Joyousness and Equanimity: Cultivation of Mind, Ethics and Soteriology in Buddhism"

Mudagamuwe Maithrimurthi, Visiting Lecturer of Buddhist Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

DATE:	Thursday, March 16, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"24th Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival"

DATE:	Friday, March 17, 2006 to Sunday, March 26, 2006
PLACE:	Kabuki 8 and Castro Theatres in San Francisco, Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, and Camera 12 Cinema in San Jose
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Asian American Media, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Tension in the US-ROK alliance is structural, not emotional"

Dave Kang, Dartmouth College

DATE:	Friday, March 17, 2006
TIME:	4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Buddhism at Dunhuang"

DATE:	Saturday, March 18, 2006
TIME:	9:30 AM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Silkroad Foundation

"City, Country, Man, Woman: Recent Documentary Film From China"

11:15 a.m. The Storm 暴风骤雨, (89min., Mandarin, NO SUBTITLES)
1:25 p.m. Before the Flood 淹没, (150 min., Mandarins with English subtitles)
4:35 p.m. Floating 飘, (133 min., Mandarin with English subtitles)
7:30 p.m. The Man 男人, (95 min., Mandarin with English subtitles)
Tickets $5 per screening, available online at www.ticketweb.com

DATE:	Sunday, March 19, 2006
TIME:	multiple screenings: 11:15 AM to 9:05 PM
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Documentary Film Roundtable Discussion"

DATE:	Monday, March 20, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Women and Poetry in 20th Century Japan : Ishigaki Rin (1920-2004)"

Janine Beichman, Japanese Literature, Daito Bunka University

DATE:	Monday, March 20, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	EALC, Center for Japanese Studies

"The Vocal Hand of Opera in (Horror) Movie Theater: The Vicissitudes of the Voice in Film Adaptations of 'The Dream of the Red Chamber'"

Ling Hon Lam, Ph.D candidate, University of Chicago

DATE:	Wednesday, March 22, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Film Studies

"Kevin J. O'Brien, Rightful Resistance in Rural China"

Kevin J. O’Brien, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, March 22, 2006
TIME:	4:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Taiwan: Advancing Peace and Prosperity - Ma Ying-jeou in Conversation with T.J. Pempel"

Ma Ying-jeou, Mayor of Taipei, and Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT)

DATE:	Friday, March 24, 2006
TIME:	9:00 AM
PLACE:	Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Exhibit: Hideo Hagiwara - Mount Fuji Woodblock Prints"

DATE:	Monday, March 27, 2006 to Friday, August 11, 2006
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Lobby, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"New Sounds from Old Instruments - The Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort"

DATE:	Friday, March 31, 2006
TIME:	6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Performance
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Cal Performances

April 2006

"New Directions in Research on Chinese Law"

DATE:	Wednesday, April 5, 2006
TIME:	8:45 AM
PLACE:	Seaborg Room, Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Boalt School of Law

"Challenges to East Asian Security: Perspectives from the Region"

DATE:	Wednesday, April 5, 2006
TIME:	10:00 AM to 11:45 AM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Western Theatre, Japanese Shinpa, and the Formation of Chinese Wenmingxi"

Steven Liu, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh

DATE:	Wednesday, April 5, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Film Studies

"Japanese Proletarian Cultural Production: Japanese Inflection of Global Proletarian Cultural Production in the First Decades of the 20th Century"

DATE:	Wednesday, April 5, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	EALC, Center for Japanese Studies

"Covering HIV/AIDS in China"

DATE:	Thursday, April 6, 2006
TIME:	10:30 AM
PLACE:	North Gate Library, Graduate School of Journalism
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"Contemporary Issues in Japanese Education and Society"

DATE:	Saturday, April 8, 2006
TIME:	9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	Alumni House
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, International & Area Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University

"What Makes Holy Scriptures Holy? Rethinking the Idea of a Buddhist Canon"

Oliver Freiberger, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas

DATE:	Monday, April 10, 2006
PLACE:	Stanford University, Room TBA
FORMAT:	Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies

"'Fictionalizing' Indigenous Mourning: Taiwanese Funerals under Japanese Imperialization"

Huei-chu Chu, CJS Visiting Scholar, Social Science, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Naha

DATE:	Monday, April 10, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria"

Hyun Ok Park, Department of East Asian Studies, New York University

DATE:	Tuesday, April 11, 2006
TIME:	4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Karl Taro Greenfeld, China Syndrome"

Karl Taro Greenfeld, former editor of TIME Magazine’s Asian edition

DATE:	Tuesday, April 11, 2006
TIME:	5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	North Gate Hall Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:	IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Journalism, Asia Society of Northern California

"Reflections on the Legacy of Tian Han: Proletariat Modernism and So Much More"

Xiaomei Chen, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Davis

DATE:	Wednesday, April 12, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Film Studies

"Social Repercussions of AIDS in China"

DATE:	Thursday, April 13, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Numata Seminar Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, AIDS Relief Fund for China

"Landscape Plasticity vs. State Landscape Visions: Akha Land Use in the Modernizing States of China and Thailand"

Janet Sturgeon, Professor, Geography, Simon Fraser University

DATE:	Thursday, April 13, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	223 Moses Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"Symposium: Archaeology and Japanese Identity"

DATE:	Friday, April 14, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Archaeological Research Facility, Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Anthropology

"Prostitutes and Painters: Japanese Migrants and Settlers in Shanghai from the 1860s"

Joshua Fogel, Professor, History, York University

DATE:	Friday, April 14, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"Current Findings in Chinese Archaeology: Reports from the Field"

DATE:	Monday, April 17, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

"Japanese Architecture Series - Takaharu Tezuka & Yui Tezuka: Roof-Less Architecture"

Takaharu Tezuka, Architect
Yui Tezuka, Architect

DATE:	Tuesday, April 18, 2006
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	112 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Architecture, Center for Japanese Studies

"Building Ladders out of Chains: The Political Economy of China's Technological Development under Globalization"

Douglas Fuller, Postdoctoral Fellow, SPRIE/APARC, Stanford

DATE:	Wednesday, April 19, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Mount Fuji: Hidden in Plain Sight"

Christine Guth, Independent Scholar

DATE:	Wednesday, April 19, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"49th San Francisco International Film Festival"

DATE:	Thursday, April 20, 2006 to Thursday, May 4, 2006
PLACE:	Kabuki 8 Theatres in San Francisco, Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Aquarius Theatre in Palo Alto
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, San Francisco Film Society

"Writing the Virtual: Electronic Poetry Today"

Stephanie Strickland, New Media Poet and Scholar

DATE:	Thursday, April 20, 2006
TIME:	11:00 AM
PLACE:	102 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Fifth Graduate Symposium on Korean Studies"

DATE:	Friday, April 21, 2006 Saturday, April 22, 2006
TIME:	Welcome Reception: 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM Morning and Afternoon Sessions: 8:45 AM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Competing Perspectives: A Fresh Look at Cross-Straits Relations"

DATE:	Friday, April 21, 2006
TIME:	2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"The Depths of a Clam: Modern Korean Poetry from So Chong-ju to Kim Kwang-kyu"

DATE:	Friday, April 21, 2006
TIME:	4:15 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"After Orientalism: Working Across Disciplines"

DATE:	Saturday, April 22, 2006
TIME:	10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	554 Barrows Hall, Barbara T. Christian Rm
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Department of English, Center for Japanese Studies

"Lunch Poems with Ko Un"

Ko Un, Poet
Richard Silberg, Poet

DATE:	Tuesday, April 25, 2006
TIME:	12:10 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	Morrison Library in Doe Library
FORMAT:	Book reading
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Can China Prevent the ‘Japan Disease’: Reform of the RMB and Macreconomic Policy"

Kajitani Kai, Associate Professor, Economics, Kobegakuin University

DATE:	Wednesday, April 26, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"The Korean P’ansori, Past and Present: A Lecture and Demonstration Concert"

DATE:	Wednesday, April 26, 2006
TIME:	3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"China’s Environment at Berkeley"

DATE:	Wednesday, April 26, 2006
TIME:	4:30 PM
PLACE:	370 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Conversation
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Confucian Sagehood and/vs. Contemporary Politics"

Stephen Angle, Professor, Philosophy, Wesleyan

DATE:	Friday, April 28, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

May 2006

"The Growing Movement to Protect Rivers in China"

Yu Xiaogang, Director of Chinese NGO Green Watershed
Vinya Sysamouth, China/Lao Campaigner, International Rivers Network

DATE:	Tuesday, May 2, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	Journalism Library, North Gate Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism, International Rivers Network

"Mediums for Revolution: 75 Years of the Red Detachment of Women"

Kristine Harris, Associate Professor, History, SUNY, New Paltz

DATE:	Wednesday, May 3, 2006
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Film Studies

"The Precious Raft of History: The Chinese Women’s Question and the Politics of Time at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"

Joan Judge, Associate Professor, History, UC Santa Barbara

DATE:	Wednesday, May 3, 2006
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Three Gorges Dam: Art and Environment in Contemporary China"

DATE:	Wednesday, May 3, 2006
TIME:	6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
PLACE:	Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Lecture, registration required
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Asia Society, Asian Art Museum

"Corporate Governance in East Asia: Culture, Psychology, Economics and Law"

DATE:	Thursday, May 4, 2006 to Friday, May 5, 2006
PLACE:	International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

"Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade--Lessons from Shanghai"

Andrew Ross, Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

DATE:	Thursday, May 4, 2006
TIME:	1:00 PM
PLACE:	Institute of Industrial Relations, 2521 Channing Way (near Telegraph)
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley Labor Center

"The Birth of Japanese Buddhism: Books, Publishing, and the Awakening of Sectarian Consciousness in Tokugawa-Period Japan"

William Bodiford, Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

DATE:	Thursday, May 4, 2006
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Tibetan Religion and State in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian Perspectives"

DATE:	Friday, May 5, 2006 to Sunday, May 7, 2006
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Professor Frederic Wakeman in Conversation"

DATE:	Friday, May 5, 2006
TIME:	3:45 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Ave.
FORMAT:	Conversation
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies