IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Events

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November 2009


"Somewhere I Have Never Travelled"

Fu Tien-Yu, Director

DATE:Monday, November 9, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Film screening
SPONSORS:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, San Francisco Film Society, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office

"The Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture in Chinese Studies: Chinese Reforms in Historical and Comparative Perspective"

Prasenjit Duara, Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore
Wen-hsin Yeh, History, UC Berkeley, discussant

DATE:Thursday, November 12, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:Heyns Room, Faculty Club
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"Wartime Economy and Culture in Chinese Daily Life, 1937-49"

Shana Brown, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Parks Coble, University of Nebraska
Susan Glosser, Lewis and Clark University
Matthew Johnson, Oxford University
Elisabeth Koll, Harvard Business School
Kubo Toru, Shinshu University
Kwan Man Bun, University of Cincinati
Sophia Lee, Cal State East Bay
Micah Muscolino, Georgetown University
Brett Sheehan, University of Southern California
Wang Chaoguang, Institute of Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Wang Di, Texas A & M University
Wen-hsin Yeh, UC Berkeley

DATE:Friday, November 13, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
TIME:9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Workshop
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies, The Li Ka-shing Foundation Program in Modern Chinese History at Berkeley

"Sixty Years of Labor and Employment  Policy in China: Development and Transition"

Yang Xue, Associate Professor, Northeast Asian Studies Academy, Jilin University, Changchun, China

DATE:Sunday, November 15, 2009
TIME:12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:Numata Seminar Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:CCS Visiting Scholar Talk
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"The Monroe Doctrine and National Self-identity in the Late Qing Period"

GUO Shuanglin, History, Renmin University

DATE:Wednesday, November 18, 2009
TIME:12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

"Indigenous Knowledge? The Politics of Traditional Chinese Medicine"

Judith Farquhar, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Xin Liu, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, discussant

DATE:Thursday, November 19, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

December 2009


"Fiction Reading and Commentaries in Ming/Qing China: Zhang Zhupo's 'Jinpingmei dufa' (How to Read The Plum in the Golden Vase)"

Wei Shang, Chinese Literature, Columbia University
Sophie Volpp, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley, discussant

DATE:Friday, December 4, 2009
TIME:4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:Colloquium
SPONSORS:Center for Chinese Studies

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