STARTS: MARCH 12 9PM PST
ENDS: MARCH 13 9PM PST
DONORS MAKE IT HAPPEN
Whereas once IEAS was funded mainly from state support, it now only covers 7 percent of our budget. Most IEAS programs, student fellowships and faculty research projects are funded by donors.
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ACADEMIC LECTURES AND LARGE PUBLIC EVENTS
Between all 8 centers, over 300 hours of talks, symposiums, conferences, seminars, film screening and performances, either online or in-person, were presented last year. Most were free to the public.
FEATURED EVENTS: Center for Chinese Studies presented two large public events respectively in last April and October, in addition to the academic colloquium series. Both events can be viewed via CCS YouTube Channel On April 25, CCS will screen the documentary film: "Of Color and Ink: Chang Dai-chien After 1949" (万里千寻)at Berkeley. We look forward to your participation. With your support, we can do more.
In November 2023, the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, in collaboration with the Berkeley APEC Study Center(link is external) and the Malaysian Student Association, hosted the Honorable Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia, for a public talk(link is external) during his APEC visit, which allowed him to speak more frankly about important global and regional issues.
STUDENT SUPPORT
Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders. IEAS is strongly committed to students’ academic needs.
- $300 supports a week of one-hour tutorials for foreign language courses
- $3,500 allows a student to study or intern in Asia for one month
- $15,000 provides a partial fellowship to help bring strong graduate students to the university
- $20,000 can send 6 students with a professor to Asia for a summer research seminar
Each year, IEAS and its centers support undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate fellowships/scholarships, especially for travel and research related to East Asian and Southeast Asian Studies. Here are some of the scholarships we administer:
- Dr & Mrs. James C.Y. Soong Fellowship
- Bong Youn Choy Fellowship
- David Keightley Fellowship
- Ann H. Scott Memorial Undergrad Scholarship
- Dr. C.F. Koo & Cecilia Koo Chair Fellowship,
in addition to numerous Postdoctoral Fellowships in Buddhist Studies and the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS).
Hear what some of our students have to say about the impact of your gift!
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LANGUAGE LEARNING
Over 10 East and Southeast Asian Languages are taught at Berkeley. In 2023, the Center for Korean Studies and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures celebrated 80 years of Korean language instruction at UC Berkeley. An effort is underway to launch a Korean major in the near future.
BOOK PRIZES
Each year, the Toshihide Numata Book Award is awarded to an outstanding book in Buddhist Studies. In 2022, the Hong Yung Lee Book Award was created to acknowledge books and authors who make significant contributions to the field of Korean Studies.
PUBLISHING
IEAS supports a nonprofit academic publications program, publishing two or three books on East Asia annually. We sell both softcover books and PDF e-books to individuals, and our titles are available online to libraries. Submitted manuscripts undergo a rigorous review process, and those selected for publication are often reviewed in journals.
Learn more about our books here.
GRANT WRITING
Every four years, IEAS and its centers undertake the herculean task of submitting National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies Title VI grant applications to the Department of Education. This process gives us the opportunity to reflect on our work, and to look ahead and consider what additional programs and languages we would like to support in the teaching and research units.
In 2023, CSEAS was thrilled to receive a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for the three-year project, Southeast Asian Lives and Histories, on doing oral history and life biography projects.
ONGOING EDUCATION FOR TEACHERS
Since 1996, the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) has provided educational programs for teachers during the academic year and over the summer. This year,ORIAS is collaborating with the University of Hawaii and California Global Education Project to offer Investigating Angkor. This year-long online program explores the history, archaeology, geography, and legacies of the Khmer empire based at Angkor.