Past Events

July 2008

"USA Women's Olympic Indoor Volleyball Intrasquad Scrimmage"

"Jenny" Lang Ping, U.S. Team Coach, 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist
Team USA players will sign autographs after the scrimmage
Tickets: $5 for everyone. On sale at 4 p.m. the day of the scrimmage at the facility.

DATE:	Thursday, July 31, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Haas Pavilion
FORMAT:	Athletic Event
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, California Athletic Department

August 2008

"Japan's Multicultural Multiethnic Future: Problems and Solutions for the 21st Century"

Arudou Debito, Hokkaido Information University

DATE:	Wednesday, August 27, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"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

"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

"Converging Interests: Foreign Firms, the Chinese State, and the Solution to the Common Agency Problem"

Doug Guthrie, Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University
For more information, contact "cliff_mak@haas.berkeley.edu"

DATE:	Wednesday, September 3, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	Room C-330, Haas School of Business
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Seminar in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations, Haas School of Business

"Tunneling in China: the Remarkable Case of Inter-Corporate Loans"

Charles Lee, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
with Professors Guohua Jiang and Heng Yue, Peking University

DATE:	Thursday, September 4, 2008
TIME:	4:10 PM to 5:40 PM
PLACE:	Room C-210, Cheit Hall, Haas School of Business
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Haas School of Business

"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, Center for Buddhist Studies

"God's New Whiz Kids?: Korean American Campus Evangelicals and Reverse Korean Missionaries in America"

Rebecca Kim, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Pepperdine University

DATE:	Wednesday, September 10, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	223 Moses Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Religion, Politics and Globalization Program (RPGP), Institute for Leadership Development & the Study of Asian North American Religion (PANA Institute), Center for Korean 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

"Dwelling in Guangzhou:The Housing Design in Guangzhou's Central Business" and "Taoism and Thoroughfare in the Design of Cities and Buildings of Ancient China"

Liming Tang, Vice-Chair, Department of Urban Planning, College of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou
Chun Xie, Vice-Chair, Department of Urban Planning, College of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou

DATE:	Thursday, September 11, 2008
TIME:	6:00 PM
PLACE:	315A Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

"Korean Women Artists: Two Perspectives"

Hyungmin Chung, Professor of Art History, Director of the Museum of Art, Seoul National University
Youngna Kim, Professor of Art History, Seoul National University

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, Artist
Liza Dalby, Writer

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

"Prehistoric Jomon of Japan and Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways"

DATE:	Friday, September 19, 2008 Saturday, September 20, 2008
TIME:	9:00 AM to 3:00 PM 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Henry Luce Foundation, Archaeology Research Facility

"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

"Economic Growth and the Medium-long Cycles in Modern China"

Yuru Wang, Institute of Economics, Nankai University

DATE:	Wednesday, September 24, 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

"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

"Cultural Tourism Movements: Articulating and Problematizing Indigeniety"

DATE:	Friday, September 26, 2008 Saturday, September 27, 2008
TIME:	9:00 AM to 6:00 PM 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
PLACE:	Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Tourism Studies Working Group, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Ethnic Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies Program, Native American Studies Program, Division of Social Sciences, Division of Arts and Humanities, Canadian Studies Program, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Rhetoric

"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

"Anime Masters and Masterpieces: Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓)"

DATE:	Saturday, September 27, 2008
TIME:	2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film Screening and Panel
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization)]

"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

"Hedging Their Bets: Southeast Asian Responses to the Rise of China"

John D. Ciorciari, National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

DATE:	Wednesday, October 1, 2008
TIME:	12:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies

"Performance of a Book: The 'Yaolüe' chapter of Huainanzi as a Western Han Fu"

Martin Kern, Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University

DATE:	Thursday, October 2, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"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:	CCS Shorenstein Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"
Bridges Across the Taiwan Strait
"

Dr. Hung-mao Tien, President and Chairman of the Board, Institute for National Policy Research

DATE:	Friday, October 3, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Women's Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"Morning Sun (八九点钟的太阳)"

Admission: $5 public; $3 member

DATE:	Friday, October 3, 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

"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

"The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: A Springboard to a New Era of Entertainment Deal-Making in China"

Kelly C. Crabb, Morrison & Foerster
Seagull Song, King & Wood (presently Arnold & Porter)
RSVP Required, 510/642-0532 or BCLBE@law.berkeley.edu

DATE:	Tuesday, October 7, 2008
TIME:	12:40 PM to 1:40 PM
PLACE:	Boalt Hall, Room 110
FORMAT:	BCLBE Luncheon Speaker Series
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and Economy

"History Recycled: Photographs of Architectural Design by Deng Kunyan"

DATE:	Wednesday, October 8, 2008 to Saturday, November 15, 2008
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

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

Kirk W. Larsen, History, Brigham Young 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, Professor, Sociology, UCLA

DATE:	Thursday, October 9, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	Newman Hall, 2700 Dwight Way (at College Avenue)
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
Seung Hye Suh, Scripps College
Ramsay Liem, Boston College

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

"Haruki Murakami in Conversation"

Haruki Murakami, Writer

DATE:	Saturday, October 11, 2008
TIME:	8:00 PM
PLACE:	Zellerbach Hall
FORMAT:	A Reading and Lecture followed by a Conversation
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Cal Performance

"Haruki Murakami : Japanese Literature on the Global Stage"

DATE:	Sunday, October 12, 2008
TIME:	10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	Alumni House
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Townsend Center for the Humanities

"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

"Recycling Shanghai’s Industrial Heritage"

Deng Kunyan, Architect

DATE:	Thursday, October 16, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Global Metropolitan Studies

"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

"Forbidden City, U.S.A. (美国紫禁城)"

Admission: $5 public; $3 member

DATE:	Friday, October 17, 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

"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

"Inaugural Khyentse Foundation Lecture in Tibetan Buddhism: Rethinking Tibet's Dark Age: Demons, Tantras, and the Formation of Tibetan Buddhism"

Jacob Dalton, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, October 21, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	Heyns Room, Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Khyentse Foundation

"Japan's Political Climate"

Masaki Taniguchi, University of Tokyo

DATE:	Thursday, October 23, 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, Consul General of Japan, IEAS Shorenstein Program

"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

"Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People: Film Screening and a Conversation with the Directors"

Y. David Chung, Professor of Art and Design, University of Michigan
Matt Dibble, Documentary Filmmaker

DATE:	Friday, October 24, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Gaia Arts Center, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund

"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

"Writing and Censorship During the Japanese Colonial Period: The Strange Case of Yi Sang's Poetry"

Kwon Youngmin, Professor of Korean Literature, Seoul National University

DATE:	Tuesday, October 28, 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

"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

"New Perspectives in Cross-Straits Relations"

DATE:	Friday, October 31, 2008 to Saturday, November 1, 2008
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

November 2008

"The Kawakita Film Series"

DATE:	Saturday, November 1, 2008 to Wednesday, December 17, 2008
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"The Government Role in (E)Quality of Higher Education in China"

Zhou Zuoyu , Professor of Higher Education, Institute of Higher Education - Beijing Normal University

DATE:	Monday, November 3, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	768 Evans Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Studies in Higher Education, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Bridges Across the Taiwan Strait"

Dr. Hung-mao Tien, President and Chairman of the Board, Institute for National Policy Research

DATE:	Monday, November 3, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Women's Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies

"The View from the Riverbank: Pluralization without Democratization in China’s Rural West"

Kristen McDonald, Director, China Rivers Project

DATE:	Wednesday, November 5, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Curriculum Design and Objectives of Chinese Language Pedagogy: 汉语教学的目的与教材编写"

Li Xiaoqi (李晓琪), Director, International College for Chinese Language Studies, Peking University (对外汉语教育学院院长)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 5, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	33 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, National Center for K-16 Chinese Language Pedagogy

"2008-2009 Numata Lecture: Searching for a Better Return: "Preparatory Cultivation" [nixiu 逆修, yuxiu 預修] and the Economy of Salvation in East Asian Buddhism"

James Robson, Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University

DATE:	Thursday, November 6, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

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

Li Zhang, Chancellor's Fellow & 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

"Maritime Customs in the 1880s: A New Look at Korea's 'Chinese Decade'"

Wayne Patterson, Professor of History, St. Norbert College

DATE:	Friday, November 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

"Crossing the Line"

Nicholas Bonner, Co-Producer

DATE:	Saturday, November 8, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Film Department, Institute of East Asian Studies, Asian Cultural Studies Working Group

"A talk & book-signing by Amitav Ghosh, author of "Sea of Poppies""

Amitav Ghosh, Author

DATE:	Monday, November 10, 2008
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	315 Wheeler (Maud Fife Room)
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for South Asia Studies, Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of History, Department of Anthropology, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for British Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, SACHI

"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

"Recovering Afghanistan's Past: Cultural Heritage in Context"

See conference website for list of participants.

DATE:	Friday, November 14, 2008 to Saturday, November 15, 2008
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Chevron Auditorium, International House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, See conference website for complete list of sponsors.

"Sadako Ogata and Japan's International Relations"

DATE:	Friday, November 14, 2008
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Featured Speaker and Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Japan society for the Promotion of Science, Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco

"What is Laozi's Ziran (naturalness): from Ancient text to Modern Implication"

Xiaogan Liu, Professor, Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong

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

"Wind Over Water: An Anthropology of Migration From an East Asian Setting"

DATE:	Tuesday, November 18, 2008
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 AM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Wenner-Gren Foundation, George Mason University, Institute of East Asian Studies

"A Great Wind: China and the Era of Revolution - Posters from the Hok Pui and Sally Yu Leung Collection"

DATE:	Wednesday, November 19, 2008 to Thursday, February 12, 2009
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Making an Interactive Anthropology in Asia and Beyond"

DATE:	Wednesday, November 19, 2008
TIME:	9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Wenner-Gren Foundation, George Mason University, Institute of East Asian Studies

"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

"The State of the Chinese Lexicon in the Recent Era: 新时期的汉语词汇状况"

Shi Dingguo (石定果), Professor , Humanities Institute, Beijing Languages University (北京语言大学人文学院教授)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 19, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	33 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, National Center for K-16 Chinese Language Pedagogy

"Music and organology of the Chinese bamboo flute"

DATE:	Friday, November 21, 2008
TIME:	4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	128 Morrison Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Music Department

"Inside/Outside: The Great Wall of China"

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

DATE:	Sunday, November 23, 2008
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Art Museum, Institute of East Asian Studies

December 2008

"Crafting Cultural Heritage in South Korea"

Roger Janelli, Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, December 2, 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

"Master Plans and Model Communities: Rationalities of Planning in Contemporary Urban China"

David Bray, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Sydney

DATE:	Wednesday, December 3, 2008
TIME:	12:10 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Department of City and Regional Planning, Center for Chinese Studies

"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 in China: The Documentary Impulse"

DATE:	Friday, December 5, 2008
TIME:	Colloquium: 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM Documentary film screening: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	Sproul Room, International House
FORMAT:	Luce Colloquium Series
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"'FOURTH WAVE’ on the Korean Peninsula: The U.S. Role toward a New Vision for Peace in Northeast Asia"

Chung Dong-Young, Former Minister of Unification of South Korea; 2007 Democratic Presidential Candidate of South Korea; Visiting Scholar, Public Policy, Duke University

DATE:	Friday, December 5, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"U.S.-Japan Baseball Symposium: History and Prospects (Part I)"

DATE:	Saturday, December 6, 2008
TIME:	9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
PLACE:	Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Symposium and Film Screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Yomiuri Shimbun, Department of Ahletics

"U.S.-Japan Baseball: History and Prospects (Part II): A screening of American Pastime"

DATE:	Sunday, December 7, 2008
TIME:	2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	Berkeley Art Museum Theater
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Yomiuri Shimbun

"The North Korean Nuclear Issue: Recommendations for the Obama Administration"

Lee Jong Seok, Former Minister of Unification; Senior Fellow, Sejong Institute; Visiting Scholar, Stanford University

DATE:	Tuesday, December 9, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"CANCELLED: Korean Youth, Nationalism, and Transnationalism"

Katharine H. S. Moon, Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College

DATE:	Friday, December 12, 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

"The Global Financial Crisis: Implications for Asia"

Kim Yong-Duk, Former Governor of Financial Supervisory Service; Former Economic Advisor to the President; Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Department of Economics

DATE:	Monday, December 15, 2008
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"A Conversation with Jo Kyung Ran"

Jo Kyung Ran, Daesan Foundation Writer-in-Residence at the Center for Korean Studies

DATE:	Friday, December 19, 2008
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

January 2009

"China's Environmental Crisis & Solutions: On Pandas, Carbon Trade, and Tibetan Sacred Lands"

DATE:	Thursday, January 15, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	714C University Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, BCI, School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

"China's New Antimonopoly Law - What's Next?"

Nathan Bush, of O'Melveny & Myers, China

DATE:	Tuesday, January 20, 2009
TIME:	12:40 PM to 1:40 PM
PLACE:	Boalt Hall Room 110
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy

"The Future of Democracy in Northeast Asia"

Robert Scalapino, Professor Emeritus, Political Science; Director Emeritus, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Fredrick Chien, Chairman, Cathay Charity Foundation; former Foreign Minister of Taiwan, 1990-96
Han Sung-Joo, former foreign minister of South Korea, current president of Korea University
Michael Armacost, Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, Stanford University; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan

DATE:	Tuesday, January 20, 2009
TIME:	6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter Street, Suite 200, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Asia Society, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Commentary-writing in Chinese Buddhism "

Imre Hamar, Fulbright Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia

DATE:	Thursday, January 22, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"The Pacific War Revisited: Scholars' View on "Letters from Iwo Jima""

DATE:	Friday, January 23, 2009
TIME:	2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	Berkeley Art Museum Theater, 2621 Durant Ave
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Department of History

"The Pacific War Revisited: A Screening of "Letters from Iwo Jima""

Takashi Fujitani, History, University of California, San Diego
Carol Gluck, History, Columbia University
Akira Mizuta Lippit, Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

DATE:	Friday, January 23, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM to 8:30 PM
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive Theater
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"

Lincoln Cushing, Archivist, art historian, former UC librarian
Ann Tompkins, Co-author, with Lincoln Cushing, of "Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"

DATE:	Wednesday, January 28, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Philip Gotanda and Asian American Art and Culture: Yohen"

Philip Gotanda, Playwrighte, Asian American Theater
Miryam Sas, Moderator, Comparative Literature, UCB

DATE:	Thursday, January 29, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Durham Studio Theater
FORMAT:	A Reading and Lecture followed by a Conversation
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Buddhist Dreams, Erotic Dreams, and Herophilus of Calcedon "

Giulio Aogstini, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, January 29, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"The Poems of Mao Zedong"

Willis Barnestone, translator,scholar and poet

DATE:	Thursday, January 29, 2009
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way
FORMAT:	Book reading

"Globalization and Middle-Class Anxiety in South Korea"

Hagen Koo, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii

DATE:	Friday, January 30, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

February 2009

"The American Financial Crisis and the Korean Economy"

Chung Un-chan, Professor of Economics, Seoul National University

DATE:	Tuesday, February 3, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"From Leavenworth to Lhasa: Living in a Revolutionary Era"

Robert Scalapino, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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

"Kazuo Inamori: A Conversation on Business Innovation and Philosophy"

Kazuo Inamori, Founder of Kyocera Corporation and KDDI Corporation

DATE:	Thursday, February 5, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
FORMAT:	Conversation
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Consul General of Japan, San Francisco, Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California, Haas School of Business

"Opening the Gates: A Critical Appraisal of China’s Urban Development Practices"

Harrison Fraker
Ming Zhang
Yung Ho Chang
Xing Ruan
Thomas J. Campanella
Alexander D'Hooghe
Dan Abramson
Renee Chow
Margaret Crawford
Galen Cranz
Li Zhang
Robert Mangurian
Mary-Ann Ray
Qingyun Ma
Jianfei Zhu
John Kriken
Kongjian Yu, Dean, School of Landscape Architecture, Peking University
Peter Bosselman
Elizabeth Deakin
Jennifer Day, Architecture, Univ. of Melbourne
William Fain
John Ellis
Marco Cenzatti

DATE:	Friday, February 6, 2009 Saturday, February 7, 2009
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	112 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Berkeley China Initiative, The City of Jiaxing, China, The Berkeley/Tongji Research Center for Sustainable Transit Oriented Development, Global Metro Studies, China Project, PLACES Journal, Eva Li Chair in Design Ethics

"Chinese New Year Banquet"

DATE:	Friday, February 6, 2009
TIME:	6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
PLACE:	168 Restaurant, Pacific East Mall, 3288 Pierce Street, Richmond
FORMAT:	Special Events
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"New Trade Policy Directions in the Korea-EU FTA Talks: A Comparison with the Korea-US FTA"

Dr. Heung Chong Kim, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Institute of East Asian Studies; Head of European Studies, SNU-KIEP Center for EU Studies

DATE:	Wednesday, February 11, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"Doctrine and Destiny: Religious-Historical Connections in Colonial Korea"

Ken Wells, Visiting Professor of History, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, February 13, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix Symposium"

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rhetoric, Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley
Viet Le, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Yong Soon Min, Studio Art, UC Irvine
Lan Duong, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
Kyu Hyun Kim, History, UC Davis, and film critic
Hyun Sook Kim, Sociology, Wheaton College
H. Lan Thao Lam, Artist, NYC
Viet Nguyen, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Christine Hong, English, UC Berkeley
Jonathan Hall, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
Sowon Kwon, Artist, NYC
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University
Clare You, Center for Korean Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Saturday, February 14, 2009
TIME:	10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Gender & Women's Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

"Safeguarding and Revitalizing Historic Urban Quarters: Zhongshan Road Historical District Revitalization"

Tao Qi, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

DATE:	Wednesday, February 18, 2009
TIME:	2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	316 Wurster Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, UCB Archaeology

"The 'Problem of China' in the Study of Korean History: The Case of History of Science"

Yung Sik Kim, Director, Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies

DATE:	Wednesday, February 18, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Portraits of Buddhist Bhutan: Photographs by Mark Tuschman"

DATE:	Thursday, February 19, 2009 to Wednesday, April 15, 2009
TIME:	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 Buddhist Studies, Center for South Asia Studies

"The Cultural Politics of the Brushstroke"

Martin Powers, Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan

DATE:	Friday, February 20, 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

"The Uncertain Future of Chinese Law Reform"

Stanley Lubman, Professor, Law School, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, February 24, 2009
TIME:	12:40 PM to 1:40 PM
PLACE:	Boalt Hall, Room 170
FORMAT:	BCLBE Luncheon Speaker Series
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

"Love, Passion, and Patriotism: Sexuality and the Philippines Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892"

Raquel A.G. Reyes, Research Associate, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

DATE:	Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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 Southeast Asia Studies

"Biographies of Non-Eminent Monks : Situating Contemporary Japanese Buddhist Priests"

Mark Rowe, Assistant Professor of Japanese Religions, McMaster University

DATE:	Thursday, February 26, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"The Irony of Korean Financial Reform: Why Does Korea Suffer More?"

Myung-koo Kang, Assistant Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College

DATE:	Friday, February 27, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

March 2009

"Thinking About Not Thinking: Buddhism, Film, and Meditation (Week 1): After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda,Japan, 1999)"

Robert Sharf, Chair, Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Monday, March 2, 2009
TIME:	3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Pacific Film Archives, L&S Discovery Course Program

"Popular Protest in China"

Kevin O'Brien, Political Science, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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

"Making Room for the Dao, Getting Rid of the Buddha: The Case of Qianfo Dong"

SHENG JIANG, Head, Institute of Religion, Science and Social Studies, Shandong University

DATE:	Wednesday, March 4, 2009
TIME:	12:05 PM to 1:05 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies

"Colloquium on Bhutanese Culture and Buddhism"

Mark Tuschman, Photographer
John Johnston, Curator of Asian Art, San Antonio Museum of Art
Jacob Dalton, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, March 4, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, Center for South Asian Studies

"Yu Hua, author of Brothers"

Yu Hua (余华), Author

DATE:	Thursday, March 5, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Lost Heritage: Chinese Christians in a Modernizing Society"

Carol Lee Hamrin, Global China Center

DATE:	Friday, March 6, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Berkeley and the World: 50 Years of International Education"

DATE:	Friday, March 6, 2009
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	Doe (Main) Library, Morrison Reading Room
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	International and Area Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, Institute of European Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Berkley Language Center, Fellowship Office Graduate Division, International House, ORIAS, The University Library

"Land Rights, Resources, and Chinese Development in Long-run Perspective"

Kenneth Pomeranz, Chancellor's Professor of History, UC Irvine

DATE:	Friday, March 6, 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

"STRAIT TALK: China-Taiwan-US Relations"

Robert Berring, School of Law
Tom Gold, Sociology
AnnaLee Saxenian, School of Information
Lan Chih Po, International Area Studies
Po Chi Wu, Managing Director of DragonBridge Capital
Andrew Jones, Chair of Center for Chinese Studies
Melissa Brown, Anthropology, Stanford
Darren Zook, Political Science
Hong Yung Lee, Political Science
Lowell Dittmer, Political Science
Julie Shackford-Bradley, Peace and Conflict Studies

DATE:	Monday, March 9, 2009 to Saturday, March 14, 2009
PLACE:	Multiple locations
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Berkeley Law, ASUC, Institute of East Asian Studies, Student Opportunity Fund, Center for Chinese Studies, School of Information, KTSF, TECO

"Higher Education and the University Today : From a Japanese Perspective"

Takeshi Sasaki, Professor of Politics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo

DATE:	Wednesday, March 11, 2009
TIME:	3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Art History Seminar Room, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
FORMAT:	Maruyama Seminar
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Studies in Higher Education

"Diagnosis and Policy Directions for the Korean Economy:
한국경제의 진단과 경제정책 방향
"

Kim Jong In

DATE:	Wednesday, March 11, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Anthropology of Contemporary China: Graduate Student Conference"

DATE:	Friday, March 13, 2009
TIME:	9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of Anthropology

"Reform, Political Culture and Globalization:
Japanese Party Politics and the Problem of Political Integration
"

Takeshi Sasaki, Professor of Politics, Gakushuin University, Tokyo

DATE:	Friday, March 13, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House
FORMAT:	8th Maruyama Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Pyongyang, Capital of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Alternate Realities"

Marsha Haufler, Professor of Art History, University of Kansas

DATE:	Friday, March 13, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Thinking About Not Thinking: Buddhism, Film, and Meditation (Week 2): I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, U.S., 2004)"

Robert Sharf, Chair, Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Monday, March 16, 2009
TIME:	3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Pacific Film Archive, L&S Discovery Course Program

"The Politics of Intimacy in China"

Sara L. Friedman, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Indiana University

DATE:	Wednesday, March 18, 2009
TIME:	12:30 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, Center for Chinese Studies

"The Chinese Lubitsch Touch: A Forgotten History of the Art of Ellipsis"

Xinyu Dong, Stanford IHUM Fellow

DATE:	Wednesday, March 18, 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

"Strikes in Vietnam and China: The Impact of the State on Workers' Struggles for Their Rights"

Anita Chan, Professor, Sociology, Australian National University

DATE:	Monday, March 23, 2009
TIME:	5:30 PM
PLACE:	Institute for the Study of Social Change, 2420 Bowditch Street (at Haste)
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute for the Study of Social Change, UC Berkeley Labor Center, Center for Chinese Studies

"Thinking About Not Thinking: Buddhism, Film, and Meditation (Week 3): Fearless (Peter Weir, U.S., 1993)"

Robert Sharf, Chair, Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Monday, March 30, 2009
TIME:	3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Pacific Film Archive, L&S Discovery Course Program

April 2009

"Enemy Under My Skin: Contingent Transcendence and the Seduction of the Underground"

Haiyan Lee, Stanford University

DATE:	Wednesday, April 1, 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

"In An Age of Depoliticization: Some Reflections on Contemporary Intellectual Debates in China Since the 1990s"

Wang Hui, Professor of Chinese, Tsinghua University; Townsend Center Scholar-in-Residence in East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Pheng Cheah, Associate Professor, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Martin Jay, Professor, History, UC Berkeley
Colleen Lye, Associate Professor, English, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, April 1, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
FORMAT:	Conversation
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Townsend Center, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Shorenstein Foundation

"A Korean Wave: Lunch Poems Series"

Choi Jeongrye (최정례)
Choi Young Mi (최영미)
Hwang In Suk (황인숙)
Moon Chung-hee (문정희)
Ra Hee-duk (나희덕)

DATE:	Thursday, April 2, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	Morrison Library in Doe Library
FORMAT:	Book reading
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Lunch Poems, Department of English

"Love Revelations in the Autobiography of a Tibetan Ḍākinī"

Sarah Jacoby, Columbia University

DATE:	Thursday, April 2, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies

"Moment and Methodology: Chinese Intellectual and Cultural History in Global Modernity"

Christopher Connery, Professor, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Harry Harootunian, Professor, History, New York University
Wang Hui, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University; Former Editor of Dushu (读书)
Theodore Huters, Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Andrew F. Jones, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Rebecca Karl, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, New York University
Li Tuo, Research Scholar, East Asian Languages Cultures, Columbia University
Lydia Liu, Research Scholar, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Viren Murthy, Assistant Professor, History, University of Ottawa
Xiaobing Tang, Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan
Alan Tansman, Professor, Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Yiching Wu, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan

DATE:	Friday, April 3, 2009 Saturday, April 4, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	The Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Shorenstein Foundation, Townsend Center for the Humanities

"Strong Voices: Korean and Korean American Women Poets"

Choi Jeongrye (최정례)
Choi Young Mi (최영미)
Hwang In Suk (황인숙)
Moon Chung-hee (문정희)
Ra Hee-duk (나희덕)
Cathy Park Hong
Myung Mi Kim
Suji Kwock Kim
Sandra Lim

DATE:	Friday, April 3, 2009
TIME:	1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
PLACE:	Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Book reading
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

"Symposium on Women's Writing"

DATE:	Saturday, April 4, 2009
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Wheeler Hall 315 (Maude Fife Room)
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Department of English

"Chinese Instruction and Grammar Learning"

Chaofen Sun 孙朝奋教授, Professor and Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University

DATE:	Saturday, April 4, 2009
TIME:	2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	Dwinelle Hall, Room 370
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	NCCLP, Center for Chinese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures

"Thinking About Not Thinking: Buddhism, Film, and Meditation (Week 4): Memento (Christopher Nolan, U.S., 2000)"

Robert Sharf, Chair, Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Monday, April 6, 2009
TIME:	3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archives
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Pacific Film Archive, L&S Discovery Course Program

"Notes on North Korea"

T. J. Pempel, Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Tuesday, April 7, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Modern Thai Buddhist Poetry by Women Poets: A Transformation of Wisdom"

Suchitra Chongstitvatana, Director of Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University

DATE:	Thursday, April 9, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, English Department

"Interstate Relations and China’s Unification in 221 BCE: A Lesson for Modern International Relations Theory"

Dingxin Zhao, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Chicago

DATE:	Friday, April 10, 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

"Toyo Ito: A Conversation on Japanese Architecture"

Toyo Ito, Architect
Dana Buntrock, Architecture, UC Berkeley, Interviewer

DATE:	Saturday, April 11, 2009
TIME:	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conversation
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture, Berkeley Art Museum

"The Pain of Our Society: On Contemporary Chinese New Documentary Movement"

Xinyu Lu, Professor and Chair of the Broadcasting Department, School of Journalism, Fudan University

DATE:	Wednesday, April 15, 2009
TIME:	12:05 PM to 1:05 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"CANCELLED - Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Choson, 1392-1910"

JaHyun Kim Haboush, King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and History, Columbia University

DATE:	Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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 Buddhist Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"North American Graduate Student Conference in Buddhist Studies"

DATE:	Friday, April 17, 2009 to Sunday, April 19, 2009
PLACE:	370 Dwinelle Hall, http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2009.04.17z.html
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities

"Republican Era Newspapers: The Journalistic and the Literary"

Timothy Cheek
Lucie Cheng
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow
Michel Hockx
Christopher Rea
Carlos Rojas
Shen Shuang
Wang Di
Timothy Weston
Xu Xiaoqun
Catherine Yeh
Wen-hsin Yeh

DATE:	Friday, April 17, 2009 Saturday, April 18, 2009
TIME:	Faculty Club: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM IEAS Conference Room: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
PLACE:	The Faculty Club / IEAS Conference Room
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Luce Foundation, Li Ka-shing Foundation

"Respite from War in 1595: Did Korea Spend the Year Well?"

Nam-lin Hur, Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia

DATE:	Friday, April 17, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"New Media and Civil Society in China: A Roundtable Discussion on the Political Impact of the Internet"

Ashley Esarey
Hu Yong
Perry Link
Liu Jiangqiang
Liu Xiaobiao
Isaac Mao
Xiao Qiang
Wang Lixiong
Zhang Ping

DATE:	Saturday, April 18, 2009
TIME:	2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Shorenstein Foundation, Luce Foundation, Berkeley China Initiative, China Internet Project of the Graduate School of Journalism

"Thinking About Not Thinking: Buddhism, Film, and Meditation (Week 5): Waking Life (Richard Linklater, U.S., 2001)"

Robert Sharf, Chair, Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Monday, April 20, 2009
TIME:	3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Pacific Film Archive
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Pacific Film Archives, L&S Discovery Course Program

"A Thematic Study of Chosŏnjok Novels from the Late 1990s to the Present: 전환기 조선족 소설에 대한 주제학적 연구"

Kim Ho-woong (Jin Huxiong), Professor and Director, Asia Research Center, Yanbian University

DATE:	Tuesday, April 21, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Eternal Sky: Reviving the Art of Mongol Zurag"

Narmandakh Tsultem, Institute of Fine Art (IFA), Mongolian University of Arts and Culture (MUAC)

DATE:	Wednesday, April 22, 2009 to Wednesday, July 15, 2009
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Christianity and Political Culture in North Korea: Challenges for Reunification"

Jong Sun Noh, Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Peace Studies, Yonsei University

DATE:	Wednesday, April 22, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IIS Conference Room, Moses Hall 223
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Religion, Politics and Globalization Program, Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity

"Music of Hyeon-ok Kim"

Jin-young Su, Pop Singer
Dong-hee Shin, Baritone
Aaron R. Miller, Piano
Hyeon-ok Kim, Piano
Jory Fankuchen, Violin
Paul Rhodes, Cello
Sung-yul Kim, Contrabass
Yoo-jin Kim, Keyboard

DATE:	Thursday, April 23, 2009
TIME:	4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Morrison Hall Room 125, Department of Music, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Concert
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Collective Killings in Rural China During the Cultural Revolution: Evidence From Guangxi and Guangdong"

Yang Su, Assistant Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine

DATE:	Friday, April 24, 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

"Making Confucian Music: Kisaeng Performers and Their Kagok Songs"

Insuk Lee, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Auckland

DATE:	Monday, April 27, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"'The Other Half': film screening, and discussion with director Ying Liang"

Ying Liang, film director

DATE:	Tuesday, April 28, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Tang-Song Transition and Material Culture: A Case Study of Tombs in Hubei"

Huang Yijun, Associate Professor, History Department of Central University for Nationalities; 2008-2009 Visiting Scholar of Harvard-Yenching Institute

DATE:	Wednesday, April 29, 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

"Mongolia: On the Eve of Modernity"

Chair and Moderator: Professor Patricia Berger, History of Art, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, April 29, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

May 2009

"Scaling Up: From Green Buildings to Green Cities in the US and China"

Private sector and academic representatives

DATE:	Friday, May 1, 2009
TIME:	8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	PG&E Auditorium, 77 Beale St. (between Market and Mission), San Francisco, CA
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Asia Society, Institute of East Asian Studies, Bay Area Council

"Massive Unemployment and Worker Protests: So Why Were Workers More Restive in China than in France and Mexico?"

Dorothy Solinger, Political Science, School of Social Science, UC Irvine

DATE:	Friday, May 1, 2009
TIME:	1:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Rethinking Advanced Level Korean Teaching: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and More"

Hye-Sook Wang, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University

DATE:	Friday, May 1, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies

"Kazuo Hara: Documentary Film Making"

DATE:	Saturday, May 2, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch
FORMAT:	Film Screening with Featured Speaker
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

"Kazuo Hara and Japanese Film Studies"

Abe Mark Nornes, Screen Arts & Culture, University of Michigan
Aaron Gerow, Film Studies Program, Yale University
Akira Mizuta Lippit, Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

DATE:	Sunday, May 3, 2009
TIME:	10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Industrial Clusters and High-tech Enterprises 产业集群与高科技企业成长"

Ma Li, Professor, School of Management, University of Jinan

DATE:	Tuesday, May 5, 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

"Up the Yangtze"

DATE:	Tuesday, May 5, 2009
TIME:	6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
PLACE:	GAIA Arts Center, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, International Accountability Project, Friends of the Earth, Environment Pacific

"中共进攻台湾战役的决策变化及其制约因素 [Factors in the Changing Chinese Communist Battle Strategy for the Invasion of Taiwan]"

Shen Zhihua, Center for Cold War Studies, East China Normal University

DATE:	Wednesday, May 6, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Mongol Zurag: Artist's Talk with Narmandakh Tsultem"

Narmandakh Tsultem, Institute of Fine Art at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture, Ulaanbatatar, Mongolia
Translator: Uranchimeg Tsultem, Graduate Student, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Peter Marsh, Music Department, Cal State University-East Bay

DATE:	Thursday, May 7, 2009
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, East Asia National Resource Center

"Qing China's Perspectives on India before 1850: Some Approaches and Conclusions"

Matthew Mosca, CCS Postdoctoral Fellow

DATE:	Friday, May 8, 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

"Taiwan's Mainland China Policies and Current Cross-Strait Relations"

Dr. Chien-min Chao, Deputy Minister of Mainland Affairs Council of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

DATE:	Thursday, May 28, 2009
TIME:	2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"A New Era for Taiwan-PRC Relations"

Chien-Min Chao, Deputy Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan
Chong-pin Lin, Professor, Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan; former Deputy Minister of Defense, Taiwan
Kuo-ning Shuang, President, United Daily News
Robert Kapp (moderator), President of Robert A. Kapp & Associates, Inc.; former President, US-China Business Council

DATE:	Thursday, May 28, 2009
TIME:	5:30 PM
PLACE:	K&L Gates LLP, 4 Embarcadero, Suite 1200, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Asia Society, Institute of East Asian Studies, USF Center for the Pacific Rim, World Affairs Council of Northern California

June 2009

"From the Voice of God to the Self-Reflexive Voice: The Transformation of Narrative Style in Chinese Independent Documentary"

Luo Xianyong, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

DATE:	Tuesday, June 2, 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

"Nothing lasts forever, nobody lives forever: Cultural Heritage and Cultural Policy in Laos"

Catherine Raymond, Associate Professor of Art History and Director, Center for Burma Studies, Northern Illinois University
Alan Potkin, Adjunct Consultant, NIU Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Team Leader, Digital Conservation Facility Laos

DATE:	Monday, June 8, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Corporate Governance in China: An Investigation of the Interdependent Model"

Liu Pingqing, Department of Business Administration, Beijing Institute of Technology

DATE:	Tuesday, June 23, 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