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BERKELEY, CA - The Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) at the University of California, Berkeley, is proud to announce the selection of the third cohort for the newly expanded U.S.-Taiwan-European Next Generation Working Group. Supported by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in San Francisco, this three-year program (2026–2028) identifies and nurtures a new generation of experts focused on the critical trilateral relationship between the U.S., Taiwan, and Europe.

Materials in Japanese Literature: Interactions between the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
日本文学の資料―中世と近世の往還―
August 29, 2025
Workshop

Apply Now! - Academic Explorers in China Program for Undergraduates in Summer 2026

Recently highlighted in Smithsonian Magazine (December 2025)

The Center for Japanese Studies grants full scholarships to the Japan-American Student Conference for Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students. Awards are open to any full-time student with an interest in Japan.

Berkeley - Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
April 10-11, 2026
UC Berkeley

Initiated in 2010, the annual Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities brings together current graduate students from across the U.S. and around the world to present innovative research on any aspect of modern Chinese cultural production in the humanistic disciplines. Read more

Fall 2025 CCS Newsletter

We are excited to be partnering with BAMPFA and CSEAS to bring director Rithy Panh to Berkeley.  You can check out his in-person screenings in the BAMPFA program, https://bampfa.org/program/cambodian-elegist-rithy-panh-person

The job listing for the East Asian Library Director position at UCB is now live!  

Click here for more details. 

[Aspects of Japanese Studies] Both Eyes Open: Recasting History as Living Opera 
January 29, 2025
Colloquium
Speaker: Philip Kan Gotanda, Professor, UC Berkeley

UNESCO started the Memory of the World Programme (世界の記憶) in 1992 to specifically bring attention to the preservation of historical documents that have been influential throughout the world, with the goal of increasing recognition and access to these cultural achievements. Each country is allowed to submit one application per year of a document or collection of documents associated with an institution or an individual.

Introducing the latest book from IEAS on Korean language education- Sociolinguistics and Korean Language Education: Linking Language Learning, Society, and Culture (KRM 40), edited by Hye-Sook Wang.

Dear Center for Southeast Asia Studies and Institute of East Asian Studies community,

On behalf of the Faculty Chair and Program Director of CSEAS and the Director, Associate Director, and team at IEAS at UC Berkeley, we express our deepest sympathy and support to the people of Myanmar and Thailand and all those affected by the earthquake on March 28. 

The ex-president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, could soon become the first Asian former head of state to be tried at The Hague.

The populist politician was arrested on Mar. 11, 2025, after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant relating to his “war on drugs.”

Some 6,000-plus people were killed during the crackdown. But despite the controversy surrounding his policies and the end of his presidency in 2022, Duterte remains an influential figure.

October 9-12, 2025, Banatao Auditorium, UC Berkeley, USA

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