Past Events

August 2007

"Social Origins and Political Participation of Private Entrepreneurs in Beijing"

Björn Alpermann, Lecturer, Modern Chinese Studies, University of Cologne

DATE:	Friday, August 24, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Qing Servitude and its Antecedents"

Pamela Crossley, Professor, History, Dartmouth College

DATE:	Friday, August 31, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

September 2007

"The Evolution of Gender Gap in Beijing's Middle Schools: Are boys left behind?"

Fang Lai, Assistant Professor, International Education and Economics, New York University

DATE:	Tuesday, September 4, 2007
TIME:	2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	2515 Tolman Hall, Graduate School of Education
FORMAT:	BEAR Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center

"Please Vote for Me"

DATE:	Tuesday, September 4, 2007
TIME:	6:00 PM
PLACE:	Oakland Museum of California, James Moore Theater, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, ITVS, Independent Lens

"Eight Years of Human Rights Discourse and Practice under the Chen Shiu-bian's Administration: Creating a National Human Rights Commission"

Mab Huang, Director, Chang Fo-chuan Center for The Study of Human Rights, Soochow University

DATE:	Thursday, September 6, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Please Vote for Me"

DATE:	Tuesday, September 11, 2007
TIME:	6:00 PM
PLACE:	San Francisco Main Public Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, ITVS, Independent Lens

"The Center for Chinese Studies at 50: Past, Present, and Future"

DATE:	Friday, September 14, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative

"Policeman"

Sharon Hayashi, Assistant Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, York University, Toronto

DATE:	Sunday, September 16, 2007
TIME:	3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Exhibit: Forces: Paintings and Calligraphy by Lampo Leong"

DATE:	Monday, September 17, 2007 to Friday, December 14, 2007
TIME:	Monday-Friday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Why and How China is Pushing Deals Onshore"

Howard Chao, Head of Asia Practice, O'Melveny & Myers
Registration Required

DATE:	Monday, September 17, 2007
TIME:	12:40 PM
PLACE:	Room 105, Boalt Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

"2007 Fall Reception"

DATE:	Wednesday, September 19, 2007
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Reception

"Places Seen - Places Imagined: Reflections on Xuanzang's Xiyu-ji ('Records of the Western Regions')"

Max Deeg, Cardiff University

DATE:	Thursday, September 20, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Permanent Revolution: Architecture and Politics in North Korea"

Chris Springer, Author, "Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital"

DATE:	Friday, September 21, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Koret Foundation

"CAMPAIGN: 選挙"

Steve Vogel, Introduction

DATE:	Friday, September 21, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Different Data Tell Different Stories: A Revisit Of Some Highlights In Sino-American Relations During The Pacific War"

Hsi-sheng Ch’i, Professor Emeritus, Humanities and Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

DATE:	Tuesday, September 25, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Buddhism and Warfare: A Note on Mahāvaṃsa 25, 110"

Padmanabh S. Jaini, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, September 27, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture"

DATE:	Friday, September 28, 2007 to Saturday, September 29, 2007
TIME:	9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	The Faculty Club, Seaborg Room
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, Townsend Center, Berkeley China Initiative

"Hong Kong-Mainland Relations and Democratic Reform"

Alan Leong, Legislative Councilor, Kowloon East, Hong Kong SAR

DATE:	Friday, September 28, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative

"Shedding Light: Performance and Illumination"

Denise Uyehara, Performance Artist/Playwright

DATE:	Friday, September 28, 2007
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	Berkeley Art Museum Theater, 2626 Bancroft Way
FORMAT:	Performance and Booksigning
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Consortium for the Arts, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Berkeley Art Museum

October 2007

"Fukuzawa Yukichi's Asian Strategy"

Naoaki Hiraishi, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Political History, Tokyo University, Japan

DATE:	Monday, October 1, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Present and Future of Conservation of Mogao Caves" & "Digital Works of Dunhuang Mogao Caves"

Fan Jinshi, Director, Dunhuang Research Academy
Wang Xudong, Deputy Director, Dunhuang Research Academy
Lecture will be conducted in Chinese with English translation.

DATE:	Thursday, October 4, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Catching the Wave: Connecting East Asia Through Soft Power"

DATE:	Friday, October 5, 2007 to Saturday, October 6, 2007
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, Institute of International Studies, Asia Society of Northern California, The Japan Society of Northern California

"The Rise of Phono-centricism and Its Implications for the Korean Language"

Young-mee Yu Cho, Associate Professor of Korean Language and Culture, Rutgers University

DATE:	Friday, October 5, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Koret Foundation

Aeju Lee, Korean National Treasure (Intangible Cultural Property) No. 27, Professor of Seoul National University, President of Korean Traditional Dance Society
Kum Ju Lee, Korean Traditional Dance Society
Yeon Hee Joo, Korean Traditional Dance Society
Ji Hyun An, Korean Traditional Dance Society

DATE:	Friday, October 5, 2007
TIME:	8:00 PM
PLACE:	Hertz Hall
FORMAT:	Performance
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Korea Foundation, Koret Foundation

"Challenges and Opportunities for American Lawyers in China or with Chinese Companies"

Carmen Chang, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Registration Required

DATE:	Tuesday, October 9, 2007
TIME:	12:40 PM
PLACE:	Room 105, Boalt Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

"History, Culture, and Aesthetics of Bunraku"

Peter Grilli, President, Boston Japan Society
Mary Elizabeth Berry, Chair, Department of History
Janice Kanemitsu, East Asian Languages and Cultures

DATE:	Thursday, October 11, 2007
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Cal Performances, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center

"China's Information Revolution"

Xiao Qiang, Director, the China Internet Project; Professor, Graduate School of Journalism Barrows Hall

DATE:	Friday, October 12, 2007
TIME:	3:30 PM
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative

"The Rise of Manchu Power in Northeast Asia (c. 1600-1636): local and global dimensions"

Nicola Di Cosmo, Professor of East Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

DATE:	Friday, October 12, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Cal Performances presents Bunraku: The National Puppet Theatre of Japan"

a company that includes four "Living National Treasures"

DATE:	Saturday, October 13, 2007 Sunday, October 14, 2007
TIME:	8:00 PM 3:00 PM
PLACE:	Zellerbach Hall
FORMAT:	Performance
SPONSORS:	Cal Performances, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"The Magic Of Chinese Animation"

Duan Jia, Professor, Beijing Film Academy

DATE:	Sunday, October 14, 2007
TIME:	2:00 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Susan L. Mann in conversation on her new book: "The Talented Women of the Zhang Family""

Susan Mann, Professor, History, UC Davis
Sophie Volpp, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, October 16, 2007
TIME:	5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way
FORMAT:	Conversation
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, University Press Books

"Landscapes of Ritual: China and the Performative Body"

Thomas H. Hahn, Assistant Professor, Asian Studies; Curator, Wason Collection, Cornell University

DATE:	Wednesday, October 17, 2007
TIME:	7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	Homeroom, International House
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, International House, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

"Events Celebrating the Opening of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library and Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies"

DATE:	Thursday, October 18, 2007 to Saturday, October 20, 2007
PLACE:	various, click link for details
FORMAT:	Special Events
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Berkeley China Initiative

"The Concept of “Heaven” in Japanese Intellectual History"

Naoaki Hiraishi, Emeritus Professor of Japanese Political History, Tokyo University, Japan

DATE:	Thursday, October 18, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Cal Performances presents the Guangzhou Ballet--Mei Lanfang"

DATE:	Friday, October 19, 2007 to Sunday, October 21, 2007
PLACE:	Zellerbach Hall
FORMAT:	Performance
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Cal Performances

"Mei Lanfang, Peking Opera, and the Chinese Aesthetic"

Joshua Goldstein, Associate Professor, History, USC
Zhang Dandan, Artistic Director, Guangzhou Ballet
Ban Wang, Professor, Chinese Literature, Stanford University

DATE:	Friday, October 19, 2007
TIME:	1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Cal Performances, Berkeley China Initiative

"The Changing Asian Security Landscape: From Subordinate to Region-dominant System "

Muthiah Alagappa, Distinguished Senior Fellow, East-West Center

DATE:	Tuesday, October 23, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Corporate Environmentalism and the Aesthetics of Industrial Ruins in Post-Industrial Japan"

Tak Watanabe, Lecturer, Anthropology, Sophia University

DATE:	Friday, October 26, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Alley-Level State: Residents and Neighborhood Organizations in Beijing and Taipei"

Ben Read, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Iowa

DATE:	Friday, October 26, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	CCS Shorenstein Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"The Xinfang System Reform and Constitutional Politics Building in China: 中国的信访改革与宪政建设"

Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), Director, Institute of Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

DATE:	Monday, October 29, 2007
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	C320 Cheit Hall, Hass School of Business
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Review

"Reactions to China’s Control Crisis--an Analysis of Recent Incidents of Social Unrest: 中国的管制危机与对策--近年来社会骚乱事件分析"

Yu Jianrong (于建嵘), Director, Institute of Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

DATE:	Tuesday, October 30, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	CCS Shorenstein Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative

"Strategic Deterrence: A Chinese Scholar’s Perspective"

Bao Shixiu, Chief Expert, Marxist Military Theory Studies Program, Academy of Military Sciences, PLA

DATE:	Wednesday, October 31, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Dancing in the Streets of Contemporary Beijing: Improvised Uses of Space by Niu Yangge Fan-Dancers within the Urban System"

Caroline Chen, Ph.D. Student, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, October 31, 2007
TIME:	1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	315A Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

November 2007

"The Conceit of Self-Loathing"

Maria Heim, Amherst College

DATE:	Thursday, November 1, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Quanzhen Daoism in Modern Chinese Society and Culture: An International Symposium: 全真道與近現代中國社會和文化: 國際學術研討會"

DATE:	Friday, November 2, 2007 to Saturday, November 3, 2007
PLACE:	Alumni House, Toll Room
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, CNRS-EPHE, Paris, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and Culture, Graduate Theological Union, Department of History, Berkeley China Initiative

"North Korea Between Hope and Despair: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Reality in the Juche State"

Darren Zook, Lecturer of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, November 2, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Koret Foundation

"Forces: Artist's Talk by Lampo Leong"

Lampo Leong, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art, University of Missouri-Columbia

DATE:	Wednesday, November 7, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Opening Reception and Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Wen-hsin Yeh in conversation on her new book: 'Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949'"

Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, History, UC Berkeley
Margaret Tillman, Graduate Student, History, UC Berkeley
Allison Rottman, Graduate Student, History, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, November 7, 2007
TIME:	5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way
FORMAT:	Conversation
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, University Press Books

"Chinese Calligraphy Workshop with Professor Lampo Leong"

Lampo Leong, Art Dept. Chair, University of Missouri-Columbia

DATE:	Thursday, November 8, 2007
TIME:	3:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative

"The Americas of Korean American Cinema"

Elaine Kim, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, November 9, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Koret Foundation

"Touristic Ritual, Sacred Journeys, and Tourism's Effects on Religious Life in Tibet"

Jinfu Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Tourism, Xiamen University, China

DATE:	Friday, November 9, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Tourism Studies Working Group

"Being Chinese and Modern: Three Unlikely Case Studies"

Sarah Fraser, Associate Professor, History of Art, Northwestern University

DATE:	Wednesday, November 14, 2007
TIME:	4:15 PM
PLACE:	308J Doe Library
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, History of Art

"Western Zhou Bell Music in Texts and Archaeology"

Haicheng Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, November 15, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan"

Takeo Hoshi, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

DATE:	Friday, November 16, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	CJS Shorenstein Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Autos, Transit and Bicycles: Comparing the Costs in China"

Rui Wang, Ph.D. Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard

DATE:	Monday, November 19, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	305 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of Urban and Regional Development

"The Hierarchical Regional Space Model of China's Spatial Economy/Society"

Mark Henderson, Postdoctoral Researcher, Anthropology, UC Davis

DATE:	Monday, November 19, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Survey Research Center, 2538 Channing Way, Corner of Bowditch & Channing Way
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Survey Research Center

"Iconicity and Advertising: Shanghai, Mukden, Tianjin and the Modern Commodity Girl"

Tani Barlow, Professor, History and Women's Studies, University of Washington

DATE:	Tuesday, November 27, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, Beatrice Bain Research Group, Center for the Study of Race and Gender

"China's Global Environmental Footprint"

Peter Bosshard, Policy Director for International Rivers
Please RSVP to cepp@berkeley.edu by November 26

DATE:	Wednesday, November 28, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	Room 355, Goldman School of Public Policy
FORMAT:	CEPP Fall 2007 Speaker Series
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Environmental Public Policy (CEPP)

"How Sustainable are Sustainable Development Programs?: The Case of the Sloping Land Conversion Program in China"

Pauline Grosjean, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, November 28, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	201 Giannini Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

"A Strange Buddha for Strange Buddhists: The Silk Road and the Sogdians"

Etienne de la Vaissière, Associate Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
Opening Remarks by Sanjyot Mehendele, Program Coordinator, Silk Road Initiative

DATE:	Thursday, November 29, 2007
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	The Great Hall, Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
FORMAT:	CBS Silk Road Initiative Inaugural Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies

"Foreign Direct Investment and Wages: Differential Impacts by Worker Rank at Japanese Manufacturing Firms"

Masao Nakamura, International Business, The University of British Columbia

DATE:	Friday, November 30, 2007
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	CJS Shorenstein Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Turning Things Around: Daughters and Their Natal Families in Qing China"

Maram Epstein, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

DATE:	Friday, November 30, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

December 2007

"Hierarchy, Power, and Poetry: Haiku Groups from an Anthropological Viewpoint"

Hideaki Matsuoka, Anthropology, Shukutoku University, Japan

DATE:	Monday, December 3, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Publishing in China Quarterly"

Julia Straus, Senior Lecturer, Political Studies, SOAS; Editor, The China Quarterly

DATE:	Thursday, December 6, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"China's Environment: What do we know, and how do we know it?"

DATE:	Friday, December 7, 2007 Saturday, December 8, 2007
TIME:	9:00 AM to 6:00 PM 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Another 'Language that Failed'? The Beginnings of 'Soviet' Korean in the Russian Far East, 1922-1937"

Ross King, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia

DATE:	Friday, December 7, 2007
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Koret Foundation

January 2008

"Disturbing Difference: Translation, Naturalization, and the Global Publication of Japanese Fiction"

Stephen Snyder, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Japanese Studies, Middelbury College

DATE:	Friday, January 25, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The Attractions of Spurned Love: Hur Jin-ho's Cinema and Film-Induced Tourism"

Dr. Youngmin Choe, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of San Diego

DATE:	Friday, January 25, 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

"Opening Reception: Cycle of Life - Awakening: Works by Asian Women Artists"

Pattaratorn Chirapravati
Brenda Louie
Koo Kyung Sook
Dinh Thi Tham Poong

DATE:	Monday, January 28, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Opening Reception, with Talks by Artists and Curator
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"Contextual Design In Yunnan Province, China"

Nancy L. Fleming, Principal, Sasaki Associates, San Francisco

DATE:	Wednesday, January 30, 2008
TIME:	1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	315A Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning Spring Collo
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

"China's Information Revolution"

Qiang Xiao, Director, Berkeley China Internet Project
Admission is $5 for the general public, free for I-House residents, members and alumni

DATE:	Thursday, January 31, 2008
TIME:	7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	International House, Home Room
FORMAT:	I-House Globalization Series
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, International House

February 2008

"15th Annual Bakai: バークレー研究者大会"

DATE:	Friday, February 1, 2008
TIME:	Lunch Reception to follow: 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Will the Rise of Chinese Nationalism Make China's Rise Less Peaceful?"

Suisheng Zhao, Professor and Executive Director, Center for China-US Cooperation, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver

DATE:	Friday, February 1, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Shorenstein Seminar on Contemporary East Asia
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"China at the Crossroads between Economics of Tobacco and Health"

Teh-wei Hu, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health

DATE:	Tuesday, February 5, 2008
TIME:	12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	714C University Hall
FORMAT:	Health Services Research Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Health Services & Policy Analysis PhD Program

"Rewriting the Genealogy of Mencius's '500-year Sage'"

Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Associate Professor, Chinese and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin

DATE:	Wednesday, February 6, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"China, Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise"

Susan Shirk, Ho Miu Lam Professor of China and Pacific Relations, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego, and Director, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

DATE:	Wednesday, February 6, 2008
TIME:	5:00 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

"Japanese Society and Culture"

Mariko Fujiwara, Research Director of Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living
Roland Kelts, author of "Japanamerica"

DATE:	Wednesday, February 6, 2008
TIME:	6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
PLACE:	Delancey Screening Room, 600 Embarcadero Street, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Japan Society of Northern California, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

"Bodies, Names, and the Confusion of Tragedies: Memorializing the Tokyo Air Raids."

Cary Karacas, Department of Geography, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, February 7, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"All in this Tea: A Film Screening with Les Blank"

DATE:	Thursday, February 7, 2008
TIME:	7:00 PM
PLACE:	Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, (Main Gallery)
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

"Are We There Yet?: Prospects for Two-Party Politics in Japan"

Robert Weiner, Political Science, the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey)

DATE:	Friday, February 8, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"The New Trend toward Bilateral PTAs: Implications for the Global Trading System"

Vinod Aggarwal, Professor and Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center, University of California, Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, February 8, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room
FORMAT:	Shorenstein Seminar on Contemporary East Asia
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund

"Continuity and Change in Japanese Party Politics: Pursuing the Advantage of a Median Party in Policy Competition"

Junko Kato, Law and Politics, Tokyo University

DATE:	Tuesday, February 12, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Political Science

"Historiography on Japanese Colonial History and Industrialization under the Manchukuo Regime: Development, War Damage and Reconstruction of the Iron & Steel Industry"

Toshiro Matsumoto, Professor, Economics, Okayama University

DATE:	Wednesday, February 13, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Bloody Lips and Buried Texts: Some Early Chinese Speech Genres and their Occasions"

David Schaberg, Associate Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA

DATE:	Wednesday, February 13, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Education and Training Issues in Dealing with China's Environmental Challenges"

Robert Spear, Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, February 13, 2008
TIME:	7:00 PM
PLACE:	170 Barrows Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Society of Hong Kong and Chinese Affairs

"Bark unto Dust: Recovering the Ancient Buddhist Texts of Gandhāra"

Collett Cox, University of Washington

DATE:	Thursday, February 14, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Inequality in China: Findings from the China Household Income Project"

Terry Sicular, Professor, Economics, University of Western Ontario

DATE:	Friday, February 15, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Politics and Diplomacy in Japan"

Andrew Oros, Washington College
Yuki Tatsumi, Henry L. Stimson Center
Robert Weiner, Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey)

DATE:	Tuesday, February 19, 2008
TIME:	6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
PLACE:	Union Bank of California, 400 California Street, 11th Floor Assembly Hall, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Japan Society of Northern California, World Affairs Council of Northern California, University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

"Engaging Buddhism in Cambodge: Ven. Chuon Nath, Ven. Huot That, Mlle. Suzanne Karpelès, and the Making of the “New Mahanikay”"

Penelope Edwards, Assistant Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, February 20, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:00 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 Buddhist Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Power to the East"

Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY SPP) of the National University of Singapore

DATE:	Friday, February 22, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	IGS Library
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of International Studies, Institute of Governmental Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley Programs for Study Abroad

"After the End of Literature: Notes on Writing from Contemporary Korea"

Youngju Ryu, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, University of Michigan

DATE:	Friday, February 22, 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

"A Japanese Immigrant Origin of Japanese Studies in the Western United States"

Eiichiro Azuma, History, University of Pennsylvania

DATE:	Friday, February 22, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	370 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Public Announcements and 'the Public' in Early China"

Enno Giele, University of Münster, Germany

DATE:	Tuesday, February 26, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

"Marx in Shanghai: Is China the Emerging Epicenter of World Labor Unrest?"

Beverly J. Silver, Professor, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Please R.S.V.P. to Myra Armstrong <zulu2@berkeley.edu>

DATE:	Wednesday, February 27, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, 2521 Channing Way
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)

"Far-reaching Environmentally Friendly Motor Vehicle Technologies: Eying 2020 and Beyond"

Yosuhiro Daisho, Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, Japan

DATE:	Thursday, February 28, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	290 Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, CITRIS Program, Consul General of Japan, SF

"Is There Still Buddhism Outside Japan?: Some Thirteenth-Century Perspectives"

Jacqueline Stone, Japanese Religion, Princeton University

DATE:	Thursday, February 28, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies

"Li Ka-shing Foundation workshop on Republican Chinese History"

DATE:	Friday, February 29, 2008 Saturday, March 1, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:30 PM 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Red, White, and Bruised: Japanese Disabled Veterans of the Second World War"

Lee Pennington, East Asian History, US Naval Academy in Annapolis

DATE:	Friday, February 29, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Excessive Cult or Proper Ritual?: Religious Boundaries and Imperial Politics as Seen from a Shanghai Manuscript"

Guolong Lai, Assistant Professor, Art History, University of Florida

DATE:	Friday, February 29, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

March 2008

"Chinese, European, and American Universities: Challenges for the 21st Century"

William C. Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Chairman of the Harvard China Fund, and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University
C. Judson King (Moderator), Director, Center for Studies in Higher Education, and former Systemwide Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Introduced by George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

DATE:	Monday, March 3, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Seaborg Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for Studies in Higher Education, Institute of European Studies

"Yoshida Shoin's Encounter with Commodore Perry: A Review of Cultural Interaction in the Days of Japan's Opening"

Tao Demin, Chinese Literature, Kansai University

DATE:	Tuesday, March 4, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"Artist's Talk: Xu Bing"

Xu Bing, Artist

DATE:	Wednesday, March 5, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Arts Research Center, Department of History of Art, Berkeley Art Museum

"Who Cares About the Environment in Japan?"

Paul Waley, School of Geography, University of Leeds

DATE:	Friday, March 7, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, History

"Religion and the Rise of Printing Reconsidered"

Timothy Barrett, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

DATE:	Monday, March 10, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies

"Chinese Glass Art and 'Liuli Gongfng'--Loretta Hui-shan Yang & Chang Yi Talk About Their Path To Glass Art Creation:
中國琉璃與琉璃工房 --- 楊惠姍與張毅談他們的琉璃創作之路
"

Loretta Hui-shan Yang, Liuligongfang Co-founder
Chang Yi, CEO of Liuligongfang

DATE:	Monday, March 10, 2008
TIME:	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Adjusting to Globalization: Moving Forward with the Toyota Way"

Yoshio Ishizaka, Advisor, former Vice-President, Toyota Corporation

DATE:	Wednesday, March 12, 2008
TIME:	2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	Room C135, Haas School of Business
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Yomiuri Shimbun, Haas School of Business

"Asia's New Institutional Architecture: Evolving Structures for Managing Trade, Financial, and Security Relations"

Vinod Aggarwal, University of California, Berkeley
Min Gyo Koo, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

DATE:	Wednesday, March 12, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:00 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

"Y.R. Chao’s Teaching Tradition and New Developments in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language:
赵元任的教学传统与汉语教学的新发展
"

Shengli Feng (馮勝利), Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

DATE:	Wednesday, March 12, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	130 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, National Center for Chinese Language Pedagogy

"Missions Without Missionaries?: Politics of Secularity in the Case of Korean Evangelicals in Afghanistan"

Ju Hui Judy Han, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, March 13, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Barbara Christian Room, 554 Barrows Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Asian Cultural Studies Working Group

"The SARS Epidemic in China: Facts and Consequences"

Sake J. de Vlas, Senior Researcher, Infectious Disease Control, Department of Public Health, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

DATE:	Thursday, March 13, 2008
TIME:	4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	150 University Hall, (At Oxford Street Between University and Addison Avenue)
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

"Chinese and Indian Buddha Images: A Study of Early Cultural Interaction"

Madhuvanti Ghose, Art Institute of Chicago

DATE:	Friday, March 14, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture and Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies Silk Road Initiative, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Intimate Diplomacy: Overseas Korean Adoption and Cold War Geopolitics"

Eleana Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester

DATE:	Friday, March 14, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Shorenstein Seminar on Contemporary East Asia
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund

"China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Culture"

Haicheng Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, March 19, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	Room 101, Archaeological Research Facility, (2251 College Building)
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Archaeological Research Facility

"Passing on History: The Problems for Youth in Hiroshima"

Steve Leeper, Director, Hiroshima Peace & Culture Foundation

DATE:	Wednesday, March 19, 2008
TIME:	2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Yomiuri Shimbun

"The Ancient Jomon and the Pacific Rim"

DATE:	Thursday, March 20, 2008 to Saturday, March 22, 2008
PLACE:	Seaborg Room, TFC, and IEAS Conference Room -- see details
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Department of Anthropology, Archaeological Research Facility, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Henry Luce Foundation

"The Formal Drift: On the History of Chinese Revolutionary Cinema"

Jason McGrath, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

DATE:	Thursday, March 20, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures

"The Word of the Buddha or the Disputations of his Disciples?: The Buddhist Path as Presented in the Pali Nikāyas"

Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol

DATE:	Thursday, March 20, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Numata Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"The 2008 US Presidential Election and Japan"

Glen Fukushima, Director and CEO, Airbus Japan KK

DATE:	Friday, March 21, 2008
TIME:	12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	Wells Fargo Room, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Haas School of Business, Political Science

"Buddhist Studies Conference and Workshop"

Faculty and graduate students only

DATE:	Friday, March 28, 2008 to Sunday, March 30, 2008
PLACE:	Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA
FORMAT:	Conference and Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

April 2008

"Trauma in Public and Private: Songs of the South Korean Survivors of the Japanese Military 'Comfort Women'"

Joshua Pilzer, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music, Columbia University

DATE:	Tuesday, April 1, 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

"Fungi Treasures"

Mo Mei Chen, Visiting Scholar, Mycology and Plant Pathology, University and Jepson Herbaria

DATE:	Wednesday, April 2, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Eyes of Dew: Poems of Dr. Chonggi Mah"

Dr. Chonggi Mah

DATE:	Wednesday, April 2, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Book reading
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Intercultural Institute of California

"Land And Territorial Politics In China"

You-tien Hsing, Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley
Allie Thomas, Ph.D. student, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, April 2, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	106 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of City and Regional Planning

"Post-Minjung Art: Urban Explorations of South Korean Political Art Movements since the Late 1990s"

Chunghoon Shin, Ph.D. Candidate, Studies in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture, State University of New York at Binghampton

DATE:	Thursday, April 3, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Barbara Christian Room, 554 Barrows Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Asian Cultural Studies Working Group

"Are External Objects Spiritually Harmful or Philosophically Impossible?: Some Remarks on the Criticism of External Reality in South Asian Buddhist Thought"

Birgit Kellner, Visiting Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, April 3, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade"

Ha-Joon Chang, Reader in the Political Economy of Development, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

DATE:	Monday, April 7, 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, Center for Latin American Studies

"Rethinking the Characteristics of Traditional Historiography in Ancient China: 中国古代传统史学特点的再思考"

Wu Huaiqi (吴怀祺), Professor, Institute of Historiography, School of History, Beijing Normal University

DATE:	Wednesday, April 9, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Impressions of the East: Treasures from the C. V. Starr East Asian Library"

Deborah Rudolph, Senior Editor, East Asian Library

DATE:	Wednesday, April 9, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:00 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

"CSPAN Book Event: Challengers or Latecomers? How Chinese and Muslim Economies are Reshaping Capitalism"

Loretta Napoleoni, Author, "Rogue Economics"

DATE:	Wednesday, April 9, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Institute of International Studies, Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, Religion, Politics and Globalization Program

"The Internet Revolution in China"

Xiao Qiang, Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, April 9, 2008
TIME:	6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	150 University Hall, 2199 Addison Street, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture Series: "The Emerging Narrative of China"
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

"Chinese Voices"

DATE:	Thursday, April 10, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Film Screening with Question and Answer session
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism

"Collaboration and the Limits of Empire: The Korean Populist Reformers and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896-1910"

Yumi Moon, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University

DATE:	Friday, April 11, 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

"Striking a Balance: Development and Conservation in Rural China Today"

Mui Ho, Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, April 16, 2008
TIME:	6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	150 University Hall, 2199 Addison Street, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture Series: "The Emerging Narrative of China"
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Osher Lifelong Learning Center

"The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage"

Alexandra Harney, Former Editor, The Financial Times

DATE:	Thursday, April 17, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	Center for Labor Research and Education, 2521 Channing Way
FORMAT:	Book reading
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Labor Research and Education

"China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections"

Norman J. Ornstein (Via webcast), Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Stephen A. Orlins (Webcast moderator), President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
Sidney Rittenberg (in-person), President, Rittenberg Associates, Inc,

DATE:	Thursday, April 17, 2008
TIME:	3:45 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Stephens Lounge, 3rd Floor, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
FORMAT:	webcast/lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

"Origin of the Shingon Patriarchal Portraiture: Or, Disjunction between History and Theory"

Ryûichi Abé, Japanese Religions, Harvard University

DATE:	Thursday, April 17, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Joint Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies

"Symposium on Literati Buddhism in Middle-Period China"

DATE:	Saturday, April 19, 2008
TIME:	9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities

"The Nuts and Bolts of Social Science Research in China"

Jenny Chio, PhD. Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Rachel Stern, PhD. Candidate, Polical Science, UC Berkeley
Leslie Wang, PhD. Candidate, Sociology, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, April 22, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Buddhism and Technology: Attitudes, Philosophy, and Practices"

Marcus Bingenheimer, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan

DATE:	Tuesday, April 22, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

"China From Space: Cities, Land, and Preservation Policies"

Peng Gong, Professor, College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, April 23, 2008
TIME:	6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	150 University Hall, 2199 Addison Street, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture Series: "The Emerging Narrative of China"
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI @Berkeley)

"The Art of Translation"

DATE:	Friday, April 25, 2008
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Heyns Room, The Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Enigma of an Absence: Buddhist Archaeology, Art and Inscriptions in the Transit Zones of Xinjiang and Northern Pakistan"

Jason Neelis, University of Florida

DATE:	Friday, April 25, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture and Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies Silk Road Initiative, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Heritage Language Development and Placement of College-Level Korean Learners"

Sung-Ock Sohn, Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

DATE:	Friday, April 25, 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

"Beijing's Red Guard Movement: The Cultural Revolution in Retrospect"

Andrew Walder, Sociology, Stanford University

DATE:	Friday, April 25, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Seaborg Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Ecological Design and the Paradox of the Proxy: Lessons from Bill McDonough's Huangbaiyu"

Shannon May, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, April 30, 2008
TIME:	1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	Room 315A, Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

"A History of Misunderstanding"

Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, April 30, 2008
TIME:	6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	150 University Hall, 2199 Addison Street, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Lecture Series: "The Emerging Narrative of China"
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI @Berkeley), California Magazine

May 2008

"A Beijing Olympics Primer: Place, Performance, and Performative Space"

DATE:	Thursday, May 1, 2008
TIME:	1:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, California Magazine, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI@Berkeley), Center for Chinese Studies

"Subtitling Can be Disturbing: Memories of Agano and Abusive Translation"

Abe Markus Nornes, Screen Arts & Culture/Asian Languages & Cultures, Unviersity of Michigan

DATE:	Friday, May 2, 2008
TIME:	2:15 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Film Studies, Berkeley Film Seminar

"Special Spring Workshop: The Beijing Olympics"

DATE:	Friday, May 2, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Shorenstein Seminar on Contemporary East Asia
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"The Role of Innovation in the Transformation of Taiwan to a Technology-based Economy, 1975 to 2000"

Otto C.C. Lin, President and CEO, China Nansha Technology Enterprises, Ltd., Hong Kong

DATE:	Tuesday, May 6, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	768 Evans Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Studies in Higher Education, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Still Life"

Advance Tickets $12.50: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Tuesday, May 6, 2008
TIME:	8:45 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, 51st San Francisco International Film Festival at PFA Theater

"Berkeley Students Working in China on the Future of a Water Village in the Pearl River Delta and on the Grand Canal in Hangzhou"

Peter Bosselmann, Professor, City and Regional Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, May 7, 2008
TIME:	1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	Room 315A, Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

"Up the Yangtze"

Advance Tickets $12.50: (510) 642-5249

DATE:	Thursday, May 8, 2008
TIME:	8:55 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, 51st San Francisco International Film Festival at PFA