IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Events

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August 2008


"Munjado (Ideograph Painting) during the Joseon Dynasty: The Relation between Confucianism and Folk Art"

Byungmo Chung, Professor, Department of Cultural Properties, Gyeongju University

DATE:Friday, August 29, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSORS:Center for Korean Studies

"Efforts to Standardize Chinese Characters in the Last Twenty Years (近20年来的中国语言文字规范化工作)"

Guo Xi (郭熙), Director, Institute of Chinese Literature, Ji’nan University (暨南大学华文学院院长)
This lecture will be conducted in Chinese

DATE:Friday, August 29, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:33 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, National Center for K-16 Chinese Language Pedagogy

"In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul (寻找林昭的灵魂)"

Admission: $5 public; $3 member

DATE:Friday, August 29, 2008
TIME:6:00 PM
PLACE:Chinese Culture Center, Hilton Hotel (3rd Floor), 750 Kearny Street, San Francisco, 94108
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Chinese Culture Center SF

September 2008


"The Challenge of Reducing Energy Consumption in China's Industrial Sector"

Lynn Price, Research Scientist, Energy Analysis Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Audience must pre-register. Contact (510) 486-4835 or JMLambert@lbl.gov

DATE:Tuesday, September 2, 2008
TIME:12:00 PM
PLACE:Room 00-3122, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

"Water Pollution, River Currents, and Digestive Cancers in China"

Avi Ebenstein, Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard University

DATE:Wednesday, September 3, 2008
TIME:12:10 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:2232 Piedmont Avenue
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Demography Department, Center for Chinese Studies

"Book Talk: Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949"

Wen-hsin Yeh, Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Professor in History and Director, Institute of East Asian Studies

DATE:Wednesday, September 3, 2008
TIME:4:00 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, Center for Chinese Studies

"Sky Burial in Tibet: A Film Screening and Discussion with Tang Danhong"

Tang Danhong, Filmmaker and Poet

DATE:Thursday, September 4, 2008
TIME:5:15 PM
PLACE:Nestrick Room (142 Dwinelle Hall)
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land Development in Post Mao China"

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

DATE:Monday, September 8, 2008
TIME:12:40 PM to 1:40 PM
PLACE:Boalt Hall, Room 105
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

"Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection"

Museum Admission $3-$8

DATE:Wednesday, September 10, 2008 to Sunday, January 4, 2009
PLACE:Berkeley Art Museum, 2626 Bancroft Way
FORMAT:Exhibit
SPONSORS:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Book Talk: Veneration and Imagery of Buddhist "Saints" in Japan from 1700-Present"

Patricia Graham

DATE:Wednesday, September 10, 2008
TIME:4:00 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, Center for Japanese Studies

"Considering Anthropophagy in Tibet"

Frances Garrett, University of Toronto

DATE:Thursday, September 11, 2008
TIME:5:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Buddhist Studies

"The Women of The Tale of Genji"

John R. Wallace, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Liza Dalby
Ellen Susan Peel, Department of Comparative and World Literature, San Francisco State University

DATE:Thursday, September 11, 2008
TIME:6:00 PM
PLACE:San Francisco State University Downtown Campus, 835 Market Street, 6th Fl., Room #607, San Francisco
FORMAT:Panel discussion
SPONSORS:Japan Society, USF Center for the Pacific Rim, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Korean Women Artists: Two Perspectives"

Youngna Kim
Hyungmin Chung

DATE:Friday, September 12, 2008
TIME:3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSORS:Center for Korean Studies

"Artist's Talk by Mayumi Oda"

Mayumi Oda, Artist

DATE:Friday, September 12, 2008
TIME:5:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies

"Mayumi Oda and Lisa Dalby: A Conversation:"

Mayumi Oda
Liza Dalby

DATE:Friday, September 12, 2008
TIME:6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Conversation
SPONSORS:Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Still Life"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Friday, September 12, 2008
TIME:6:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Dong"  Preceded by short: "Our Ten Years"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Friday, September 12, 2008
TIME:8:45 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Places at the Table: Asian Women Artists and Gender Dynamics"

DATE:Saturday, September 13, 2008
TIME:9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSORS:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Mills College Art Department, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Korea Foundation

"Art, Censorship, and Politics"

Uli Sigg, Former Swiss Ambassador to China, Art Collector
Orville Schell, Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society
Museum Admission $3-$8. Programs free with museum admission.

DATE:Sunday, September 14, 2008
TIME:3:00 PM
PLACE:Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:Conversation
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley Art Museum

"Deliberative Democracy in China: A Deliberative Poll on Zegou Township’s 2008 Budget"

Alice Siu, PhD Candidate, Communication, Stanford University

DATE:Wednesday, September 17, 2008
TIME:12:00 PM
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"Xiao Wu" a.k.a. "Pickpocket"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Thursday, September 18, 2008
TIME:8:20 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"A Tale of Two Cities: Imperial Space and Commercial Space in Song-Dynasty Kaifeng, 960-1127"

Christian DePee, Assistant Professor, History, University of Michigan

DATE:Friday, September 19, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"Xiao Shan Going Home"  Preceded by short: "In Public"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Friday, September 19, 2008
TIME:8:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"China’s Emerging Art"

Hou Hanru, Curator and Critic, San Francisco Art Institute
Jane DeBevoise, Chair, Board of Trustees of Asia Art Archives
Ou Ning, Multimedia Artist
Museum Admission $3-$8. Programs free with museum admission.

DATE:Sunday, September 21, 2008
TIME:3:00 PM
PLACE:Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:Conversation
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Art Museum

"In Conversation: Uli Sigg and Wen-hsin Yeh"

Uli Sigg, Art Collector
Wen-hsin Yeh, UCB Professor, History

DATE:Monday, September 22, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Conversation
SPONSORS:Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Center for Chinese Studies

"How Can China and the US Work Together to Address Climate Change?"

DATE:Thursday, September 25, 2008
TIME:10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
PLACE:Sibley Auditorium
FORMAT:Symposium
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Federation of American Scientists (FAS)

"Gallery Talk with Uli Sigg and Ai Weiwei"

Uli Sigg, Former Swiss Ambassador to China, Art Collector
Ai Weiwei, Artist
Museum Admission $3-$8. Programs free with museum admission.

DATE:Thursday, September 25, 2008
TIME:12:00 PM
PLACE:Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:Conversation
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"China and the United States"

James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly

DATE:Thursday, September 25, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:2008 Sanford S. Elberg Lecture in International Studies
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of International Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Institute of Governmental Studies, International House, Osher Lifelong Learning Program

"The Six Faces of Genji: Manga Versions of The Tale of Genji"

Lynne K. Miyake, Japanese Studies, Women’s Studies, and Asian American Studies, Pomona College

DATE:Thursday, September 25, 2008
TIME:6:00 PM
PLACE:Mechanics’ Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Japan Society, Mechanics’ Institute, USF Center for the Pacific Rim, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Useless"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Friday, September 26, 2008
TIME:6:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"In Conversation: Ai Weiwei and Jeff Kelley"

Ai Weiwei, Artist
Jeff Kelley, Art critic and curator
Museum Admission $3-$8. Programs free with museum admission.

DATE:Tuesday, September 30, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:Museum Theater, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2621 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:Conversation
SPONSORS:Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Center for Chinese Studies

October 2008


"The Increasing Significance of Guanxi in the Chinese Transitional Economy"

Yanjie Bian, Professor, Sociology, University of Minnesota

DATE:Friday, October 3, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"Unknown Pleasures"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Friday, October 3, 2008
TIME:8:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Book Talk: Tradition, Treaties, and Trade Qing Imperialism and Chosôn Korea, 1850–1910"

Kirk W. Larsen, History, George Washington University

DATE:Wednesday, October 8, 2008
TIME:4:00 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, Center for Korean Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"The World"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Wednesday, October 8, 2008
TIME:7:00 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Raw Encounters: Labor Relations in Africa's Chinese Enclaves"

Ching Kwan Lee, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan

DATE:Thursday, October 9, 2008
TIME:12:00 PM
PLACE:Center for Labor Research and Education, 2521 Channing Way
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Labor Research and Education, Center for African Studies

"REUNIFICATION: Building Permanent Peace in Korea"

Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago
Selig Harrison, Center for International Policy and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Christine Ahn, Korea Policy Institute
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus
Martin Hart-Landsberg, Lewis and Clark College
Thomas P. Kim, Korea Policy Institute and Scripps College
Karin Lee, The National Committee on North Korea
Gi-Wook Shin, Stanford University
Jae-Jung Suh, Johns Hopkins University
Philip W. Yun, The Asia Foundation

DATE:Friday, October 10, 2008
TIME:9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSORS:Korea Policy Institute, International and Area Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"Holding China Accountable?: Strategies for Protecting Consumers in a Globalized World"

DATE:Friday, October 10, 2008
TIME:9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Political Science, Center for the Study of Law & Society, School of Public Health, The Commonwealth Club

"Platform"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Wednesday, October 15, 2008
TIME:7:00 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"China Transformed: Artscape/Cityscape"

DATE:Friday, October 17, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2621 Durant Avenue, Berkeley
FORMAT:Conference
SPONSORS:Division of Arts and Humanities, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Department of History of Art, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

"Still Life"

Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Friday, October 17, 2008
TIME:8:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"For Fun"

with director Ning Ying in-person

DATE:Thursday, October 23, 2008
TIME:7:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"The Emergence of New Media in Premodern China"

DATE:Friday, October 24, 2008
TIME:1:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:Sproul Room, International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue
FORMAT:Luce “New Media in China” Colloquia Series
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Luce Foundation

"On the Beat"

with Director Ning Ying in-person
Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Friday, October 24, 2008
TIME:8:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"I Love Beijing"

with Director Ning Ying in-person
Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Saturday, October 25, 2008
TIME:6:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Railroad of Hope"  Preceded by shorts: "In Our Own Words" and "Looking for a Job in the City"

with Director Ning Ying in-person
Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Sunday, October 26, 2008
TIME:1:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Perpetual Motion"

with Director Ning Ying in-person
Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249

DATE:Sunday, October 26, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Master Class with Ning Ying"

Ning Ying, Director & Pacific Film Archive Artist in Residence

DATE:Monday, October 27, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:Master class
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive, Center for Asian American Media, Consortium for the Arts

"Book Talk: Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line"

Michael Szonyi, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University

DATE:Wednesday, October 29, 2008
TIME:4:00 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, Center for Chinese Studies

November 2008


"Revalorizing Gendered Self-Worth in China’s New Age of Private Property"

Li Zhang, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Davis

DATE:Friday, November 7, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"The Image of China in the American Classroom"

Ban Wang, Professor, Asian Languages and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

DATE:Wednesday, November 12, 2008
TIME:12:00 PM
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"Leveraging the Power of the State: Citizen Protests and the Reactionary State"

Guang Lei, Professor, Political Science, San Diego State University

DATE:Friday, November 14, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"Inside/Outside: The Great Wall of China"

Peter Hessler, Author
David Spindler, Historian
Museum Admission $3-$8. Programs free with museum admission.

DATE:Sunday, November 16, 2008
TIME:3:00 PM
PLACE:Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Art Museum

"Patterns of Interaction in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Painting"

James Cahill, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus

DATE:Wednesday, November 19, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Lecture
SPONSORS:History of Art, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

December 2008


"Book Talk: Negotiating Islam and 'Matriarchy' in Indonesia"

Jeffrey Hadler, Assistant Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:Wednesday, December 3, 2008
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on Asia
SPONSORS:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"New Media and the Documentary Impulse"

DATE:Friday, December 5, 2008
TIME:1:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:Sproul Room, International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue
FORMAT:Luce “New Media in China” Colloquia Series
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, Luce Foundation

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