2014-2015 Academic Year
September 4, 2014
BAKAI: Graduate Student Presentations
Moderator: Ti Ngo, EALC, UC Berkeley
Kamikaze: the Constitutive Use of Religion in Suicide Attacks
Deirdre Martin, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Distant Bodies and Naked Words: Mediating Immediacy in Performances of 3.11
Christopher James Gregory, EALC, UC Berkeley
September 15, 2014
Colloquium: The Continuing Allure of Hayao Miyazaki
Speakers: Beth Cary, Translator/Interpreter; Frederik L. Schodt, Translator/Writer
Moderator: Daniel O’Neill, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
If you have been thrilled by the images and touched by the heart-warming stories of Hayao Miyazaki’s feature-length animated works, you may count yourself among the vast numbers of fans of this revered filmmaker. Yet Miyazaki’s legions of fans include not only his viewing audience, but also many manga and animation professionals, both in Japan and around the world. Miyazaki is also one of the founders of Japan’s famous Studio Ghibli, where, along with his fellow director, Isao Takahata, and long-term producer, Toshio Suzuki, he has created one hit after another. To the shock of fans, in 2013, Miyazaki announced his retirement, creating many questions about the future of not only Studio Ghibli, but of Japan’s entire feature-length animation industry.
Less known outside of Japan is the fact that Miyazaki is also a prolific writer, speaker, and controversial intellectual, who boasts two giant volumes of interviews and essays. Translated into English as Starting Point: 1979-1996, and Turning Point: 1997-2008, these books total over 900 pages of text, and are both published by Viz Media in San Francisco. In an illustrated talk, Beth Cary and Frederik Schodt, the translators of the works, will explore the reasons for the appeal of Miyazaki and his films, in both Japan and the United States, and examine the role of his studio.
September 18, 2014
Film - Documentary: Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in the World War II Internment Camps
Speakers: Shirley Muramoto Wong, Filmmaker
“Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in the World War II Internment Camps” uses historical footage and interviews from artists who were interned to tell the story of how traditional Japanese cultural arts were maintained at a time when the War Relocation Authority (WRA) emphasized the importance of assimilation and Americanization. This film is the first major presentation of the existence of traditional music, dance and drama in the camps. Filmmaker Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto-Wong has been searching, researching and collecting for over 20 years information on who these artists were.
This event is being held to honor the memory of Masako Martha Suzuki, and to celebrate the new Masako Martha Suzuki Endowment in support of the activities of the Center for Japanese Studies to continue the promotion of educating students and the general public about Japanese history, culture and arts as well as the Japanese-American experience immediately before, during and after World War II.
Co-sponsors: The Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, The Japanese American Women Alumnae of University of California, Berkeley
September 26-27, 2014
Symposium: Long-term Sustainability through Place-based, Small-scale economies
Organizer: Junko Habu, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
This symposium examines the importance of place-based, small-scale and diversified economies for the long-term sustainability of human societies and explores what needs to be done for promoting alternative food systems. Experts in archaeology, ethnology, agronomy from Japan and the United States will present their research on the past and present practice of place-based smaller-scale food production systems, for reevaluating their advantages and limitations and exploring their future potential. This symposium will also aim to discuss how contributions the archaeology of the North Pacific could make to understand the mechanisms of long-term cultural and societal changes and to mitigate environmental issues at multiple scales
Co-sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Department of Anthropology, Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley Food Institute
October 3-4, 2014
Conference: The History of the Early Modern Japanese Family
Organizers: Mary Elizabeth Berry, History, UC Berkeley; Marcia Yonemoto, History, University of Colorado Boulder
The importance of the family and the family system in early modern Japan is incontestable, and considerable research, largely centered in the social sciences, was done on the subject between the 1970s and 1990s. But the humanistic dimensions of the family have seldom been examined in a sustained and focused way, and the subject in general has not received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent years. This conference will bring together twelve leading scholars of early modern Japanese history and literature, who will present and discuss papers on key aspects of the construction, development, maintenance, and representation of the family in general, and of specific families in particular.
Co-sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, The Japan Foundation, New York, Townsend Center for the Humanities, The AAS Northeast Asia Council
October 9, 2014
Colloquium: International Politics in East Asia: Abe's Diplomacy - Global and Regional
Speaker: Akihiko Tanaka, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has visited more countries than any previous prime minister of Japan. On the other hand, one could point out conspicuous omission in his itinerary: China and South Korea. How do we explain Abe's active global diplomacy and strained relations between Japan and its immediate neighbors? History issues and differences over territories are obviously relevant to explain the current international relations in Northeast Asia. But Abe's "globe-trotting diplomacy" cannot be reduced to reactive responses to the increasing influence of China globally. Tanaka will discuss more fundamental, long-term interests of Japan that can explain Mr. Abe's diplomacy.
Co-sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco
October 23, 2014
Colloquium: Monkey Business: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry from Japan and the US
Speakers: Tomoka Shibasaki, Writer; Hiromi Itoh, Writer; Roland Kelts, Writer; Ted Goossen, York University
Moderator: John Wallace; EALC, UC Berkeley
Monkey Business is a Tokyo- and Brooklyn-based annual literary journal which showcases Japanese fiction & poetry newly translated into English. Two award-winning Japanese authors visit the Bay Area to discuss their writing, contemporary Japanese culture, and what it feels like to live in post-disaster Japan. They will be joined by Roland Kelts, author of Japanamerica, and professor Ted Goossen, co-editor of Monkey Business, the only English-language journal focused on Japanese literature, culture and visual art. There will be readings, discussions and a lively Q&A.
Co-sponsors: Japan Foundation, The Nippon Foundation, A Public Space, Japan Society of Northern California
October 31, 2014
Colloquium: The Sarashina Diary: A new collaborative translation and study
Speaker: Sonja Arntzen, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto
The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Columbia University Press, 2014) recounts the life of Japanese noblewoman over a forty-year period, offers a portrait of the writer as reader, and explores the power of reading to shape one’s expectations and aspirations. This talk will discuss the diary itself and the process of collaboration that produced this new translation and study.
November 12, 2014
Exhibit/Workshop: Arising Wind 風立ちぬ: Kaze Tachinu
Speakers/Performers: Yoko Nishina, Calligrapher; Liza Dalby, Mounter
In a Japanese or Chinese hanging scroll, paintings are attached to pieced- and backed- paper or silk, fashioned to unroll for display but re-roll for storage and safekeeping. In this manner of presentation, the mounting is what enables paintings to be fashioned into objects of appreciation according to culturally determined aesthetic rules.
While the art of East Asian scroll mounting originated in China, other principles developed in Japan, such as the use of a wider array of fabrics, different paper and tools, altered proportions, and a different architectural context of display. In this presentation we will explore the theme and variations of this overlooked but essential complement to artistic expression.
November 13, 2014
Colloquium: The Forest in the Words, or Rewildering the Classical Canon
Speaker: David T. Bialock, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
This talk will look at some of the ways that the notion of wildness might productively complicate our understanding of nature-culture relations in Japanese literature. The talk will focus mainly on classical Japanese literature, including the Man’yōshū, The Tale of Genji, and garden treatises among other works, but there will also be some comparisons to modern writers such as Kawabata Yasunari and Akutagawa Ryῡnosuke.
November 13, 2014
Panel Discussion: Is it Possible to Achieve Work-Family Balance in Japan?: Culture, Institutions, and Personal Agency
Panelist/Discussants: Masako Ishii-Kuntz, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Family Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo; Kumiko Nemoto, Professor, Department of Global Affairs, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto; Yuko Onozaka, Associate Professor, UiS Business School, University of Stavanger, Norway
Moderator: Susan Holloway, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
For the last several decades, an unstable economy and shifts in women’s opportunity to participate in the labor force have significantly altered the rhythm of Japanese family life. What tensions occur when changes in the macro sphere collide with personal and collective desires regarding marriage, parenting, and work? Which institutional and ideological forces enable some men and women to attain their career goals and achieve a satisfying family life while others appear resigned to focusing exclusively on work or family? This panel brings together leading scholars on the issues of work, family, and gender to present their research and discuss its application to family-relevant policy in Japan.
November 14, 2014
Colloquium: Safety Countermeasure of Onagawa NPS after the Great East-Japan Earthquake, and the current situation of nuclear power in Japan
Speaker: Akiyoshi Obonai, Chief Nuclear Reactor Engineer and Chief Electrical Engineer, Tohuko Electric Power Company
This talk will first address what happened at Onagawa Nuclear Power Station (NPS), and how the plant was managed in order to reach a cold shut down.
Co-sponsor: Department of Nuclear Engineering
November 20, 2014
Colloquium: The Tokyo Model: Lessons in Slum Non-clearance from the World's First “Megacity”
Speaker: Jordan Sand, Georgetown University
Jordan Sand will present his research on the activities of a Tokyo slumlord at the turn of the 20th century. Sand is Professor of Japanese History and Culture at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He teaches modern Japanese history and other topics in East Asian history, as well as urban history and the world history of food. He has a doctorate in history from Columbia University and an MA in architecture history from the University of Tokyo. His research and writing has focused on architecture, urbanism, material culture and the history of everyday life.
Co-sponsor: Global Urban Humanities
November 24, 2014
Workshop: TEN-YOU GUMI: Calligraphy Workshop
Speakers/Performers: Ten-You, Artist, TEN-YOU GUMI; Shoko Sakai, Artist, TEN-YOU GUMI
Join artists Ten-You and Shoko Sakai of TEN-YOU GUMI in this exciting workshop. Try your hand at Kodai-moji (ancient characters), and learn about an ideogram and the origins of modern kanji.
Much more than just being a good calligrapher, TEN-YOU gives importance to the intention of calligraphy, which allows us to appreciate that writing is not only a technique or practice with utilitarian purposes, but a path of evolution and personal development.
February 9, 2015
Colloquium: From Landscape Theory to Media Theory: Metamorphosis of Cinema and Revolutionary Theory in the Early 70s Japan
Speaker: Go Hirasawa, Meiji Gakuin University/NYU
Masao Matsuda (critic), Masao Adachi (director) and Takuma Nakahira (photographer) proposed “landscape theory” (Fûkeiron) as film/image and revolutionary theory during the end of 1960s and early 1970s in Japan. Joined by Takashi Tsumura (critic), they developed the theory into something that argues the metamorphosis from landscape theory to Media/reportage theory during that time. Go Hirasawa will shed light on the significance of such arguments presented in their writings and works in pioneering conceptual changes in how directors, photographers, artists, critics, and radical movements understood the influence of the state and capital conglomeration in everyday life at this time.
February, 2015
Colloquium: Volunteer Tourism and Public Anthropology: In the Aftermath of the 3.11 East Japan Disaster
Speaker: Shinji Yamashita, The University of Tokyo/The UCLA Center for Japanese Studies
On March 11, 2011, a mega-earthquake of 9.0 magnitude struck East Japan, followed by a huge tsunami and the meltdown of several nuclear reactors in Fukushima. This was a disaster of unprecedented complexity. The disaster left approximately 20,000 dead, including missing people, and it is said that the damage can be estimated at 17 trillion Japanese yen. However, what we should understand is that disaster is a long process. As of August 2014, more than three years after the disaster, there were about 250,000 evacuees and displaced people and the local economic situation is still shaky. In this situation, this paper first pays special attention to tourism that could play a positive role in the reconstruction of devastated communities. In particular, it examines the implications of “volunteer tourism,” as a new form of tourism that emerged after the disaster and helped form kizuna or “social ties” between the devastated areas and the rest of the world. At the same time, the paper discusses new developments of anthropological practices in Japan in the post-disaster context. Reviewing what role anthropology can play in the process of reconstruction, I argue that anthropologists should engage in the public issues in pursuit of a new relationship of anthropology and society. In so doing, we could practice a kind of public anthropology that contributes to the understanding and solution of contemporary social issues. The East Japan Disaster is exactly the kind of challenge we have to respond to.
Co-sponsor: Tourism Studies Working Group
February 24, 2014
Colloquium: Interpreting the flexibility in music meter of Japanese Noh drama
Speaker: Takanori Fujita, Kyoto City University of Arts
The music meter of Japanese Noh drama has attracted scholars because of its flexibility, which, according to Professor Takanori Fujita, is related to Noh’s learning process. Faithful imitation of a teacher for life is the central moral in lesson community. In performance, players are taught not to synchronize too much with each other. Especially, singers are strictly kept ignorant of basic music meter that underlies songs. How do players, under such condition, coordinate with each other beat by beat and develop the flexibility of meter? Showing basic variants of the original 8 beats meter produced by drummers, Fujita will first demonstrate the range of flexibility in beats. Then he will introduce players’ devices to allow for occasionally enormous flexibility in performance. The sound track no. 22 in Music in Japan (Bonnie Wade, 2004) will be focused on for analysis and explanation.
March 13, 2015
Colloquium: Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan
Speakers: Levi McLaughlin, NC State University; Steven Reed, Chuo University
Panelist/Discussants: Mark Blum, UC Berkeley; T.J. Pempel, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Steven Vogel, UC Berkeley
Levi McLaughlin and Steven R. Reed will discuss their new book, Komeito: Religion and Politics in Japan, co-edited with George Ehrhardt and Axel Klein. The Soka Gakkai (the Value Creation Study Association), a lay Buddhist organization and Japan's largest collective of active religious participants, began supporting political candidates in 1955 and founded the Komeito (Clean Government Party) in 1964. The Komeito has been a significant player in Japanese politics since 1967. It has participated in coalition governments off and on since 1993, including the current ruling coalition since December 2014. McLaughlin and Reed will discuss the role of religious groups in politics in Japan, review the history of the party, and analyze the party’s evolving strategies and roles.
Co-sponsor: Institute of East Asian Studies
March 21, 2015
Symposium: The Sixth International Ryūkoku Symposium on Buddhism and Japanese Culture
Organizer: Mark Blum, UC Berkeley
Co-sponsors: Institute of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University
March 22-23, 2015
Workshop: International Workshop on Nuclear Safety: From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations
Organizers: Joonhong Ahn, UC Berkeley; Franck Guarnieri, MINES ParisTech
In this workshop, first, we share various observations about "damages" in a severe nuclear accident, and then address the central questions: How can we utilize knowledge of natural science and engineering in monitoring system’s exogenous and endogenous conditions with a suite of performance measures that reflect different needs of resilience by different stakeholders after an accident, and in developing recipes that enable a resilient society? The discussion will focus on (1) state of the art for measurement methodologies and (2) challenges that must be overcome. Then, on the second day, three roundtable sessions are arranged to identify and discuss future research questions.
Co-sponsors: Department of Nuclear Engineering, Institute for Resilient Communities, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MINES ParisTech, France-Berkeley Fund, Resilience Engineering Research Center at the University of Tokyo
March 31, 2015
Colloquium: The Sun Rises Again? Regaining the Industrial Competitiveness of Japan in a Science Based Economic Era: Japan's Competitive Strength Going Forward
Speaker: Kazuyuki Motohashi, The University of Tokyo
Discussant: Robert Cole, UC Berkeley
[THIS EVENT WAS CANCELED] This talk is based on Motohashi Kazuyuki’s new book, “Hi wa Mata Takaku (The Sun Rises Again)” published by Nikkei. In it, he explains how Japan should proceed to regain its industrial competitiveness. He analyzes the shift in the sources of industrial competitiveness, taking into account science revolutions (IT, life science etc.) and the growing importance of emerging economies such as China and India. Based on this, he lays out a new model of innovation-led growth driven by the concept of a “science based economy”. His talk also touches on the subject of differences of economic institutions among nations, and he proposes new model of Japanese innovation system in 21st century stressing the importance of labor market liberalization to proceed structural reforms to adjust to the new global environment.
April 10, 2015
Film: Screening of "Our Homeland" and Q&A with filmmaker YANG Yonghi
Speaker: Yonghi Yang, Filmmaker Panelist/Discussants: John Lie, UC Berkeley; Byung Kwang Yoo, UC Davis
Zainichi
Ethnic Koreans in Japan (often called "Zainichi") have experienced struggles for recognition in and by mainstream Japanese society as well as over loyalty to and identification with the divided Koreas. Zainichi writers have produced a library of outstanding writings, many of them about Zainichi struggles, but Zainichi cinematic expressions and representations have been scant. The discussion will seek to place Director Yang's oeuvre against the backdrop of Zainichi life in general and Zainichi visual representations in particular.
Our Homeland
One hot summer day, Rie, a 31-year-old second-generation Korean born and raised in Japan was looking forward for her brother Sungho's return. Sungho, 10 years her senior, was relocated to North Korea in the 1970's under the "repatriation program." After 25 years, he was finally allowed to return to Japan for three months to get medical treatments. The night that the family reunites, Rie realizes how difficult his life must have been in North Korea. In this trip, Sungho recognizes the dramatic differences of the town that he grew up in. Also, he reunites with his old friends and his first love. This gathering brings up mixed emotions among the friends. When a North Korean surveillance agent, Yang, asked Sungho to give a 'job' to his beloved sister Rie, everyone reprimands Sungho. Despite the conflict among the family, Sungho's medical test result comes out... Will the family and friends be able to make up for the 25 years' lost time?
Co-sponsor: Center for Korean Studies
April 14, 2015
Colloquium: Japan as a “Silver Democracy”
Speaker: John Creighton Campbell, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
It is often argued that Japan is the world’s leading example of a “silver democracy.” It provides generous benefits to older people because there are so many of them, they vote at such a high rate, and they often live in over-represented rural areas. On closer examination, this depiction of Japanese old-age policy does not stand up to comparisons with other advanced nations; moreover, the timing of policy changes indicates that older people did better when they were fewer. The old-age vote does have policy implications but these are much narrower than implied by “silver democracy” as an analytic hypothesis—it is better understood as a motto for conservative politicians.
April 17-18, 2015
Conference: When Modernity Hits Hard: Redefining Buddhism in Meiji-Taisho-Early Shōwa Japan
Organizer: Mark Blum, UC Berkeley
This conference aims to present new research on the turbulent period between the Meiji Restoration and the onset of full-scale warfare in 1931 when the central government of Japan expressed open hostility toward Buddhism for the first time since its introduction in the 6th century. These papers explore various efforts made in response to powerful pressures to redefine Buddhism's place in a redefined Japanese society.
April 17-18, 2015
Conference: Media and Transmission: UC Berkeley Japan Studies Graduate Student Conference
Organizers: Valerie Black, Group in Asian Studies; Deirdre Martin, Political Science; Matthew Mewhinney, EALC; Kerry Shannon, History
This conference will bring together graduate students from all disciplines in the field of Japanese Studies to explore the past and present role of media in Japan. What can the examination of various media (including images, texts, discourses, objects, and anything else that functions as a medium of transmission) tell us about the formation and transmission of culture and knowledge in Japan?
Keynote: Marketing Health, Marketing Modernity: Advertising Pharmaceuticals in the Japanese Empire
Susan Burns, Professor, University of Chicago
Co-sponsor: The Japan Foundation
April 24, 2015
Colloquium: Unwilling to Work under a ‘Zombie’: Mass Dictatorship and Normative Voluntarism in Japan and North America during WWII
Speaker: Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto
During the Second World War “zombies” were said to be taking part in the Canadian war effort, but in ways that the mainstream population and press mocked as cowardly and insufficiently patriotic. Above all, these strange beings apparently lacked the will to fight. In fact, these were not the undead but real live men who had been drafted into the military but who were labelled zombies because they did not step forward to volunteer for overseas duty. This talk takes the figure of the zombie – the soulless and enslaved monstrosity of popular culture dating from the 1930s – as an allegory of the insufficient national subject (hikokumin) during wartime. It attempts to show that both the Allied and the Japanese wartime regimes insisted that the mindless cooperation of its people, including colonial subjects and minorities, was not enough -- that everyone should actively participate in the war effort as conscious and self-reflexive subjects. The talk addresses the tension between coercion and volunteerism by thinking critically about “freedom” and what might be called normative volunteerism during wartime. The talk’s primary examples come from North America and Japan, and aims to disrupt the usual binary categories through which we often find comfort and complacency such as fascist/non-fascist, freedom/enslavement, and liberal democracy/totalitarianism.
May 6-8, 2015
Workshop: 2015 Kuzushiji Workshop
Organizers: Toshie Marra, UC Berkeley; Sachie Noguchi, Columbia University; Setsuko Noguchi, Princeton University
Instructor: Yuichiro Imanishi, National Institute of Japanese Literature
After a successful workshop was held at Columbia University in 2014, we are now pleased to announce the second Kuzushiji Workshop in North America with Prof. Yuichiro Imanishi, Director-General of the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) as the instructor, to be held at the University of California, Berkeley.
Co-sponsors: National Institute of Japanese Literature, AAS/CEAL Committee on Japanese Materials (Subcommittee on Japanese Rare Books), C. V. Starr East Asian Library at UC Berkeley
May 8, 2015
Colloquium: Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana: 「漢字・片仮名と平仮名」
Speaker: Yuichiro Imanishi, National Institute of Japanese Literature
日本語は、漢字、片仮名、平仮名という3つの文字体系の混在した、世界でも珍しい言語である。しかし、その3つは、最初から対等な文字だったわけではない。2種類の仮名は「仮名」ということばが示しているように、もともとは「仮」すなわち、かりそめの文字、本当の文字ではない文字、であり、漢字に対して価値の劣る文字であった。前近代においては、「文字を知っている」ということは、「漢字」を知っているということを意味した。
また、同じ仮名でも片仮名と平仮名との間にも優劣があった。片仮名は漢文訓読から生まれた学術的文字であり知識階層が使用した文字、それに対し、平仮名は漢字を極端に簡略にし、漢字を使用できない階層の人々も使用できる平易な文字として、片仮名より低く見られた文字であった。文字にも身分があったのである。平仮名が使用され始めた平安時代中期には、平仮名は「女手（おんなで）」、すなわち女性文字と見なされていたのである。
そのような文字観のもとで、学問や宗教、歴史といった知的な書物は漢文や漢字片仮名交じりで書かれ、読み物や啓蒙的な書物は平仮名で書かれるというのが基本であった。
しかし、その基本は必ずしも厳密に守られたわけではない。読書人口の増加とともに、また宗教の分野では女性信者を対象として、本来は片仮名で書かれていた書物が、徐々に平仮名でも出版されるようになる。そして、平仮名の持つ啓蒙性は、その理解を助けるために多くの場合挿絵を取り入れることになった。
このような日本古典籍の表記の移り変わりを、江戸時代の版本を例に見ていきたい。
May 21-23, 2014
Workshop: Berkeley Sōseki Workshop 2015
Organizer: Alan Tansman, UC Berkeley
Soseki's Diversity: A Workshop, is a three day workshop event in which 16 scholars who have written essays on various aspects of the work of the novelist Natsume Sôseki gather to closely read and critique one another's work. This follows upon a conference held in 2014 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The purpose of the workshop is to transform the essays into publishable work to be included in a volume edited by the workshop conveners, Keith Vincent and Alan Tansman, to be published in English, and also in Japanese translation, by Iwanami Press.
Supported/Co-sponsored
August 28, 2014
Lecture: Power: Architectural Evidence of Things Unseen
Speaker: Dana Buntrock, Architecture, UC Berkeley
Moderator: John Lie, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Organizer: Institute of East Asian Studies
September 2, 2014
Lecture: Visualizing Consciousness: Hybrids, Fractals, and Ritual
Speakers: Saya Woolfalk, Visual Artist; Jeff Durham, Assistant Curator of Himalayan Art, Asian Art Museum
Organizer: Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
September 19, 2014
Symposium: Nuclear Options: Behind the US-South Korea Conflict
Featured Speaker: Ro-byug Park, Ambassador for Nuclear Energy Cooperation and Special Representative for ROK-US Nuclear Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea Speakers: Yoon Il Chang, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory; Chaim Braun, Consulting Professor, Stanford University; Yongsoo Hwang, Director General, Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control; Yusuke Kuno, Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Management, University of Tokyo/Japan Atomic Energy Agency; Andrew Newman, Senior Program Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Michael J. Apted, Vice President, INTERA Incorporated; In-Tae Kim, Vice President for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Technology Development, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute Panelist/Discussant: Thomas Isaacs, Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Moderator: Joonhong Ahn, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley
Organizer: Center for Korean Studies
Co-Sponsor: Institute of East Asian Studies
October 6, 2014
Colloquium: Comparative Responses to Atrocity
Speakers: Alan Tansman, EALC, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Andrew Jones, EALC, UC Berkeley
Organizer: Institute of East Asian Studies
This talk is part of the IEAS Residential Research Fellows series.
October 24-25, 2014
Conference: Mega-FTAs and the Global Economy
Speaker: Vinod Aggarwal, UC Berkeley; Mignonne Chan, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan; Deborah Elms, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Simon Evenett, St. Gallen University, Switzerland; Stephen Krasner, Stanford University; Seung-Joo Lee, Chung-Ang University, Korea; To-Hai Liou, National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan; Charles Morrison, East-West Center; Seung Youn Oh, Bryn Mawr College; Bora Park, UC Berkeley; TJ Pempel, UC Berkeley; Cai Penghong, Shanghai Institutes For International Studies; Michael Plummer, Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center; John Ravenhill, University of Waterloo; Yi-feng Tao, National Taiwan University; Hans Tung, National Taiwan University; Shujiro Urata, Waseda University, Japan; Yu-Shan Wu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Organizer: Institute of East Asian Studies
Co-sponsors: Berkeley APEC Study Center, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of International Studies, EU Center of Excellence, Clausen Center for International Business & Policy
October 29, 2014
Lecture: Early Pottery in Asia: from Jordan to Japan
Speaker: Kevin Gibbs, Research Associate, UC Berkeley
Organizer: Archaeological Research Facility
November 10, 2014
Colloquium: Corporations, Junk, and the Wind: Three Women Artists after 3.11
Speaker: Miryam Sas, Comparative Literature and Film, UC Berkeley
Moderator: An Jinsoo, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies
November 17, 2014
Colloquium: Greeting the Dead: Managing Solitary Existence in Japan
Speaker: Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Organizer: Department of Anthropology
November 17, 2014
Colloquium: Family life and Parenting in Contemporary Japan
Speaker: Susan Holloway, Education, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Laura C. Nelson, Gender & Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies
February 4, 2015
Colloquium: Expanding Networks of Cooperation in East Asia
Speaker: T. J. Pempel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Peter Lorentzen, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Institute of East Asian Studies
March 11, 2015
Workshop: Food Diversity and Long-Term Sustainability
Speakers: Junko Habu, Anthropology, UC Berkeley and Research Institute for Humanities and Nature; Soichiro Kusaka, Research Institute for Humanities and Nature; Kaori Adachi, Research Institute for Humanities and Nature
Organizer: Department of Anthropology
March 17 – August 31, 2015
Exhibit: Revealing the Treasures of Buddhist Studies at Berkeley
Organizer: UC Berkeley Library
Sponsors: Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies
March 18, 2015
Colloquium: Polling, Public Opinion, and Political Responsiveness in Korea and Beyond
Speaker: Taeku Lee, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Moderator: T.J. Pempel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies