Past Events

July 2009

"A Poetry Reading with Ham Seongho"

Ham Seongho, Poet

DATE:	Monday, July 13, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Book reading
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Daesan Foundation

"Differences and Similarities in Han and Song Dynasty Studies of the Spring and Autumn Annals"

Ge Huanli, History, Shandong University

DATE:	Tuesday, July 21, 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

August 2009

"The Role of the Natural Environment in the Return Migration of Chinese Reservoir Resettlers"

Milton Wang, Sociology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

DATE:	Tuesday, August 4, 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

"Taiwan Nocturne: Post War Photographs of the New Republic"

DATE:	Monday, August 10, 2009 to Wednesday, October 7, 2009
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Exhibit
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"The Employee after Chinese Public Institutional Reform: The Changing Employee-Organizational Relationship"

Chang Li, Political Science and Public Management, Wuhan University

DATE:	Tuesday, August 18, 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

""Zen Practice at 50""

The symposium will be a mix of scholars and Zen teachers, including Hoitsu Suzuki, Norman Fischer, Edward Brown, Carl Bielefeldt, Grace Schireson, Robert Sharf, Richard Jaffe, and Wendy Adamek.

DATE:	Friday, August 28, 2009 to Saturday, August 29, 2009
TIME:	2-day event: 9:00 PM to 4:30 PM
PLACE:	Day 1: San Francisco Zen Center/ Day 2: Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, San Francisco Zen Center

September 2009

"The New Taiwanese Identity"

Xi Cao, PhD Student, Taiwan Research Institute, Xiamen University

DATE:	Tuesday, September 1, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	Numata Seminar Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"A Lifetime is a Promise to Keep: Artistic Expression and Resistance in the work of Huang Xiang"

Huang Xiang, Poet and Calligrapher
Michelle Yeh, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Davis

DATE:	Wednesday, September 2, 2009
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

"Why Doesn't Foreign Direct Investment Flow into Western China?: An Industrial Perspective"

Yang Xianming, School of Development Studies, Yunnan University

DATE:	Tuesday, September 8, 2009
TIME:	12:30 PM to 1:45 PM
PLACE:	Numata Seminar Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	CCS Visiting Scholar Talk
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Lang Lang, pianist and author, in conversation with Sarah Cahill"

DATE:	Tuesday, September 8, 2009
TIME:	7:30 PM
PLACE:	Zellerbach Auditorium, UC Berkeley Campus, 2430 Bancroft Way
FORMAT:	Book Talk
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, KPFA Radio, Berkeley Arts & Letters, Institute of International Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC)

"Legal Reform in China: The Domestic Debate"

Thomas Kellogg, Open Society and Soros Foundation

DATE:	Wednesday, September 9, 2009
TIME:	12:45 AM to 1:45 PM
PLACE:	Boalt Hall, Room 110
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE)

"Short-term (Organ) Memory: 100 Years of Chinese and Comparative Media Controversy from Dissection to the Bodyworlds"

Larissa Heinrich, Department of Literature, UC San Diego

DATE:	Thursday, September 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

"Narrativity and Rhetorical Excess in Gong Zizhen's Essay 'Zunyin' (Honoring the Recluse)"

Stephen Roddy, Pacific Studies, University of San Francisco

DATE:	Wednesday, September 16, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	3401 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Sounds of Korea: A Dialogue of Classic and Modern"

Aeri Ji, gayageum
Hoe-Seok Jeong, pansori
Woong-sik Kim, buk/janggo

DATE:	Wednesday, September 16, 2009
TIME:	7:30 PM
PLACE:	Wheeler Auditorium
FORMAT:	Concert
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Mr. Guen Do Gyun, Korea Times, San Francisco, Korean Consulate General, San Francisco

"Dynamics Across the Taiwan Strait, 1949-Present"

Yomi Braester, Literature, University of Washington
Melissa Brown, Anthropology, Stanford University
Leo Ching, Literature, Duke University
Lowell Dittmer, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Thomas Gold, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Andrew Jones, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Ming-cheng Lo, Sociology, University of California, Davis
Kevin O'Brien, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Shelley Rigger, History, Davidson College
Michael Szonyi, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Emma Teng, Literature, MIT
Robert Weller, Anthropology, Boston University
Wen-hsin Yeh, History, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Thursday, September 17, 2009
TIME:	8:00 AM to 5:45 PM
PLACE:	Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office

"Sixty Years of Cross-Strait Relations: From Conflict to Conciliation"

The Honorable Lien Chan, Former Vice-President, Taiwan, Chairman, Lien Chan Foundation for Peace and Development, Honorary Chairman, Kuomintang Party
Introduced by: Robert Price, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

DATE:	Thursday, September 17, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	Heyns Room, The Faculty Club
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, San Francisco

"The Dreamscape of Early Medieval China"

Robert Campany, Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Robert Ashmore, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley, discussant

DATE:	Friday, September 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

"Religious Policies in the PRC: A Sociopolitical History"

Fenggang Yang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Purdue University

DATE:	Wednesday, September 23, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IIS Conference Room, 223 Moses Hall
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Religion, Politics and Globalization Program (RPGP), Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity, Sociology Department, Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Tracing Japanese Buddhism: An International Conference"

DATE:	Friday, September 25, 2009 Saturday, September 26, 2009 Sunday, September 27, 2009
TIME:	8:30 AM to 5:30 PM 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Shinnyo-en Foundation, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai/Numata Foundation

"The Problem with Anthologies: The Case of the Poems of Ying Qu (190-252)"

David Knechtges, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington
Paula Varsano, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley, discussant

DATE:	Friday, September 25, 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

"A Place of Nowhere: Spatial Practices in a Tourist Village in Southwest China"

Rongling Ge, visiting scholar, and PhD student in Anthropology at Xiamen University

DATE:	Friday, September 25, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	2251 College Avenue, room 101, The Archaeological Research Facility
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Tourism Studies Working Group, Townsend Center for the Humanities

"Islam and Democracy in East Asia"

Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Opposition Leader and Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

DATE:	Tuesday, September 29, 2009
TIME:	6:00 PM
PLACE:	Chevron Auditorium, International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley CA
FORMAT:	Special Events
SPONSORS:	Goldman School of Public Policy, International House, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Domestic Challenges to China's 'Peaceful Development'"

Katherine Kaup, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies, Furman University
Peter Lorentzen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Alex Wang, Director of the China Law Project of the Natural Resources Defense Council
Timothy Weston, Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder

DATE:	Wednesday, September 30, 2009
TIME:	Light refreshments: 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM Panel: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, National Committee on United States-China Relations, Center for Chinese Studies

October 2009

"Saving the World through Commerce: Buddhism, Merchants, and Mercantilism in Early India"

Andrew Rotman, Associate Professor of Religion, Smith College

DATE:	Thursday, October 1, 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

"Globalization and Made in China: The Innovation of a Price-Killer"

Sun Guangsheng, Associate Professor , Industrial Economics, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China

DATE:	Tuesday, October 6, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
PLACE:	Numata Seminar Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies

"Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America, and the Persecution of John S. Service"

Lynne Joiner, Broadcast journalist, news anchor, and documentary filmmaker

DATE:	Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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

"A Pure and Remote View: Visualizing Early Chinese Landscape Painting"

James Cahill, Professor Emeritus, History of Art, UC Berkeley

DATE:	Wednesday, October 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

"The Great Socialist Transformation: Capitalism without Democracy in China"

Kellee Tsai, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Kevin O'Brien, Political Science, UC Berkeley, discussant

DATE:	Thursday, October 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

"US-Japan Relations: A Japanese American Perspective"

Norman Mineta, former US Secretary of Commerce, Clinton Admin., US Secretary of Transportation, Bush Admin., Cal Class of '53

DATE:	Friday, October 9, 2009
TIME:	7:30 PM to 8:45 PM
PLACE:	Goldman Theater, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley
FORMAT:	Keynote Lecture I
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Japan and Japanese America: Connections Across the Pacific Rim"

DATE:	Saturday, October 10, 2009
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, UC Berkeley Asian American Studies Program, San Francisco Consulate General of Japan, National Japanese American Historical Society

"Romance, Insularity, and Representation: Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love"

Giorgio Biancorosso, School of Humanities, University of Hong Kong
Andrew Jones, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley, discussant

DATE:	Tuesday, October 13, 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, Film Studies

"A Tribute to Robert Scalapino"

Han Sung-Joo, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs; Former President, Korea University; Chairman, ASAN Institute for Policy Studies; President, Seoul Forum for International Affairs; Chairman, International Policy Studies Institute of Korea
George T Yu, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana
Chongsik Lee, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Hong Yung Lee, Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Host and Moderator: Wen-hsin Yeh, Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Professor of History and Director, Institute of East Asian Studies

DATE:	Wednesday, October 14, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Symposium
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies

"War and its Aftermath in North Korea: Images from the 1950s"

Chris Springer, Author, North Korea Caught in Time

DATE:	Thursday, October 15, 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

"Intellectuals, Professions, and Knowledge Production in Twentieth-Century China"

Clayton Brown, History, Rhodes College
Timothy Cheek, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia
Xiaomei Chen, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Davis
Zhihong Chen, History, Guilford College
Robert Culp, History, Bard College
Bryna Goodman, History, University of Oregon
J. Meghan Greene, History, University of Kansas
Tze-ki Hon, History, SUNY Geneseo
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
John Lie, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Xin Liu, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Ming-chen Lo, Sociology, UC Davis
David Luesink, Ph.D. Candidate, University of British Columbia
Susan Mann, History, UC Davis
Klaus Muehlhahn, History, Indiana University
Bridie Minehan, History, Bentley College
Dan Shao, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Thomas Mullaney, History, Stanford University
Ling Shiao, History, Southern Methodist University
Matthew Sommer, History, Stanford University
Huei-min Sun, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Glenn Tiffert, Ph.D. Candidate, History, UC Berkeley
Eddy U, Sociology, UC Davis
Peter Zarrow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Li Zhang, Anthropology, UC Davis

DATE:	Friday, October 16, 2009 Saturday, October 17, 2009
TIME:	9:00 AM to 5:00 PM 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, American Council of Learned Societies, funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Li Ka-shing Foundation Program in Modern Chinese History at Berkeley

"The Instant City and the Postspatial Turn in Chinese Cinema"

Yomi Braester, Department of Comparative Literature and Program in Cinema Studies, University of Washington
Pheng Cheah, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley, discussant

DATE:	Thursday, October 22, 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, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Multiethnic/Multicultural Korea"

Hae Yeon Choo, University of Wisconsin
Henry Em, New York University
Sue-Je Gage, Ithaca College
EuyRyung Jun, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elaine Kim, University of California Berkeley
Minjeong Kim, Virginia Tech
Nadia Kim, Loyola Marymount University
John Lie, University of California Berkeley
Timothy Lim, California State University Los Angeles
Gi-Wook Shin, Stanford University
Hwa-Ji Shin, University of San Francisco
John Skrentny, University of California San Diego
Keiko Yamanaka, University of California Berkeley

DATE:	Friday, October 23, 2009
TIME:	10:00 AM to 5:30 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Workshop
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Korea Foundation

"China on the World Stage: Ready for Prime Time?"

Thomas Fingar, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

DATE:	Wednesday, October 28, 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

"Beyond Exams and Universities: Alternative Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Thailand"

Justin McDaniel, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

DATE:	Wednesday, October 28, 2009
TIME:	3:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	New Perspectives On Asia
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"Mater Dolorosa: Māyā and Mahāprajāpatī in Grief"

Reiko Ohnuma, Associate Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College

DATE:	Thursday, October 29, 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

"Object Knowledge: Art, Artifact, and Authority in Southeast Asia"

DATE:	Friday, October 30, 2009
TIME:	10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	Berkeley City Club
FORMAT:	Conference
SPONSORS:	Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

"The War of Scripts: The Emergence of a Korean National Vernacular Space during the Imjin War of the Late Sixteenth Century"

JaHyun Kim Haboush, Columbia University

DATE:	Friday, October 30, 2009
TIME:	12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies

"Staging History - Action and Reenactment in the Cultural Revolution"

Carma Hinton, History and Art History, George Mason University
Alexander Cook, History, UC Berkeley, moderator

DATE:	Friday, October 30, 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

November 2009

"The Construction of a ‘Pre-Modern Nation’ in Korea: Methodologies and Sources"

JaHyun Kim Haboush, Columbia University

DATE:	Monday, November 2, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies

"How the Basic-Level People's Court Operates: The Case of W District of X City in Northwest China"

Wei Ding, Associate Professor of Law, Xi’an University of Architecture & Technology

DATE:	Tuesday, November 3, 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

"Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West"

Shoji Yamada, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

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

"Chinese Investment and Aid in Cambodia"

Michael Sullivan, Acting Director, Center for Khmer Studies (Cambodia)

DATE:	Wednesday, November 4, 2009
TIME:	12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
PLACE:	IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor
FORMAT:	Brown-bag lunch lecture
SPONSORS:	Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

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

JaHyun Kim Haboush, Columbia University

DATE:	Wednesday, November 4, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM to 6:00 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, Academy of Korean Studies

"The Uncertain Path of Chinese Law Reform"

Stanley Lubman, Lecturer in Residence, Boalt School of Law

DATE:	Wednesday, November 4, 2009
TIME:	4:00 PM
PLACE:	107 Boalt Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Boalt School of Law, Center for Chinese Studies

"Introduction to the Asian Area and the Chinese Medicinal Herb Garden"

DATE:	Thursday, November 5, 2009
TIME:	2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
PLACE:	UC Botanical Garden, Conference Center, Mirov Rm.
FORMAT:	Lecture, registration required
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Botanical Garden

"Japanese Food Culture on the Global Stage: Part I: Scholarly Roundtable"

DATE:	Sunday, November 8, 2009
TIME:	9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
PLACE:	Toll Room, Alumni House
FORMAT:	Panel discussion
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies

"Japanese Food Culture on the Global Stage: Part II: The World's Longest California Roll"

DATE:	Sunday, November 8, 2009
TIME:	12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
PLACE:	Sather Gate, UC Berkeley
FORMAT:	Special Event
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, Cal Dining

"Japanese Food Culture on the Global Stage: Part III: Washoku and Wine"

DATE:	Sunday, November 8, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM to 8:30 PM
PLACE:	Culinary Institute of America, 2555 Main St. St. Helena, CA 94574
FORMAT:	A Benefit Gala Dinner
SPONSORS:	Center for Japanese Studies, JETRO

"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

"Facing Japan: A Special Screening of 15 Short Videos Presented by Digital TV and the World Reporters"

DATE:	Monday, November 9, 2009 to Tuesday, November 10, 2009
TIME:	Reception begins at 6 pm, followed by a screening at 6:30 pm. A Q & A with the reporters will be held after the screening.: 6:00 PM
PLACE:	North Gate Hall Library 121 North Gate Hall UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	The Center for Digital TV and the World, a project of the Tides Center, Skirball Foundation, ANA, The Japan-United States Friendship Commission, The Henry Luce Foundation, Sony, Center for Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism, Institute of East Asian Studies

"Healing Without Harm: Traditional Chinese Medicine and Endangered Species in Asia"

Jill Robinson, Animals Asia Foundation
Lixin Huang, President of American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine

DATE:	Tuesday, November 10, 2009
TIME:	5:45 PM
PLACE:	Fromm Hall, University of San Francisco, Parker St. (between Golden Gate & Fulton)
FORMAT:	Lecture
SPONSORS:	Asia Society, USF Center for the Pacific Rim, Chinese Historical Society of America, Institute of East Asian Studies

"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

"Re-evaluating the Translations of Zhu Fonian 竺佛念: A Preliminary Report"

Jan Nattier, Research Professor of Buddhist Studies at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology (Soka University) in Tokyo, Japan

DATE:	Thursday, November 12, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
PLACE:	3335 Dwinelle Hall
FORMAT:	Colloquium
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist 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

"Public Construction and Viewing of a Vajradhatu-mandala"

Dr. Nareshman Bajracharya, Tribhuvan University

DATE:	Friday, November 13, 2009
TIME:	10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
PLACE:	342 Dwinelle Hall, SSEAS Lounge
FORMAT:	Special Event
SPONSORS:	Center for Buddhist Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities

"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

"Seoul Eunpyeong-gu City Choir Concert"

Seoul Eunpyeong-gu City Choir

DATE:	Monday, November 16, 2009
TIME:	5:00 PM
PLACE:	Upper Sproul Plaza, Mario Savio Steps
FORMAT:	Concert
SPONSORS:	Center for Korean Studies, Korea Times, San Francisco, Korean American Association of San Francisco

"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:	Tuesday, November 17, 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

"Buddhist Studies and Digital Technology: Computational Humanities"

Lewis Lancaster, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley

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

"Canceled --: 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

"Train to My Hometown (documentary film): Followed by panel discussion on "Rethinking Labor Migration""

Ai Xiaoming, Filmmaker
Abby Chen, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Eriberto Fernandez,, Instituto Laboral De La Raza

DATE:	Thursday, November 19, 2009
TIME:	7:15 PM to 9:00 PM
PLACE:	Bay Area Video Coalition, Second Floor, 2727 Mariposa Street, San Francisco
FORMAT:	Film screening
SPONSORS:	Center for Chinese Studies, Bay Area Video Coalition