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James Lee co-edits a special issue of Global Asia on Taiwan's Security －Taking Taiwan: The Risk, and Costs, of China Choosing Conflict

October 19, 2022 | 5-6:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom Webinar

Speaker: Yu Korekawa, Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

September 30, 2022 | 5-6:30 p.m. |  David Brower Center

Featured Speaker: YU Miri

Speaker: Karen Tei Yamashita

September 29, 2022 |  ASUC Student Union: Martin Luther King Jr. Building, Stephens Room

Speakers: YU Miri, YANAGI Takeharu

Call for Proposals 

September 12 | 2-4 p.m. | Anthropology and Art Practice building, Rm 221, UC Berkeley

Speaker: Enrico Crema, University of Cambridge

chinese_studies_capstone_workshop_call for proposals.pdf

The Center for Japanese Studies welcomes internationally acclaimed novelist, playwright, and essayist YU Miri to the campus as the recipient of the 5th Berkeley Japan Prize for her genre-defying work as an author. YU Miri, a citizen of South Korea, was born in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan, in 1968 and grew up in Yo

CSEAS awarded Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for Summer 2022 to UC Berkeley graduate students Alex Mabanta (Jurisprudence & Social Policy) to study Filipino and to Jenny Pham (History), and Sydney To (English) to study Vietnamese. These FLAS recipients will all study at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI), the intensive summer language program hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. SEASSI will offer instruction this summer in-person for the first time since 2019.

May 10, 2022 | 5-6:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom Webinar

Speaker: Angelo Ishi, Professor, Musashi University

Discussant: Keiko Yamanaka, Lecturer, UC Berkeley

CSEAS continues to post videos of recent webinars to its YouTube channel, including the May 2 webinar book talk on 'Amnesia: A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand' by Dr. Arjun Subrahmanyan, the April 27 Burmese poetry reading, the April 20 webinar book talk on 'The Road to Dien Bien Phu' by Prof.

Investigating the U.S. Military Crimes in Japan
January 26, 2022
Colloquium
Speaker:
Hanayo Oya, Journalist/Documentary Filmmaker

April 30 | 2-5 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall, Room 7

A Stage Reading of Nagahara Hideaki's --The Ones Who Leave-- translated by Andrew Way Leong with Q & A moderated by Philip Kan Gotanda.

Congratulations to Alex Mabanta - a CSEAS affiliated graduate student - who has received a 2021-22 Chancellor’s Award for Civic Engagement for his public service!