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October 28, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom Webinar 

Speaker: Rika Niikura, Visiting Student Researcher, UC Berkeley

Cemented by decades of positive engagement and shared history, the United States and Taiwan enjoy a very robust relationship that spans a multitude of public and foreign policy issues. Important to these efforts are the people-to-people ties between researchers, scholars, and practitioners that explore new avenues for cooperation and collaboration between both sides.

The Fellowship is intended to foster the academic careers of recent Ph.D’s and to allow the revision of the dissertation for publication, or for research on a new project. The Postdoctoral Fellow is expected to be in residence during the entire term. They will give a public lecture on their research as part of the Center for Chinese Studies Colloquium Series, and they are expected to take part in all regular Center for Chinese Studies events and workshops.

The Audibility of Strangers: Music and Disparate Japanese Communities in Prewar "White Australia" 
September 7, 2021
Colloquium
Speaker:
Hugh de Ferranti, Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology

September 16 | 5-5:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom Webinar 

Speaker: Keiko Yamanaka, Continuing Lecturer, UC Berkeley

September 7, 2021 | 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom Webinar

Speaker: Hugh de Ferranti, Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Does cultural interaction foment cultural change?: A case study from the proto-Silk Road in northwestern China

Lecture: Tang Center for Silk Road Studies | February 20 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker: Andrew Womack, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University

Sponsor: Tang Center for Silk Road Studies

From the Upper Indus to the East Coast of China: On the Origin of the Pictorial Representation of the Lotus Sūtra

Lecture: Center for Buddhist Studies: Tang Center for Silk Road Studies | January 30 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library

Speaker/Performer: Haiyan Hu-von Hinüber, Peking University

Sponsor: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)

The Center for Chinese Studies will launch a new working group program in the AY2021-22 in support of research in the humanities and the social sciences. This program will provide opportunities for smaller groups of Berkeley faculty and advanced graduate students to share their research in progress, garner thoughtful and detailed feedback on papers or grants, brainstorm new projects, and discuss the latest published research related to their working group.

CSEAS has awarded Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for the 2021-22 academic year to Christian Gilberti (South & Southeast Asian Studies) to study Burmese and Daniel Owen (South & Southeast Asian Studies) to study Indonesian, and to Paul Salamanca (Sociology) and Alex Mabanta (Jurisprudence and Social Policy) to study Filipino.

Cheryl Yin is joining the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies as a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Yin received her Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Michigan, with a dissertation on Khmer honorifics. She is from Long Beach, California and received her undergraduate degree from Pitzer College.

China and Taiwan are becoming digital states in parallel — China as a digital authoritarian regime, and Taiwan as a digital democracy.

Webcast, March 12, 2021

CSEAS is now hosting the website for the Filipinx and Philippine Studies Working Group. The working group offers an intellectual space on campus for graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty to discuss new and critical scholarship on the Philippines and the diaspora. It receives funding support from the Townsend Center for the Humanities. 

New exhibition on ancient Gandhara at the Berkeley Art Museum, curated by Julia White and Osmund Bopearachchi. The exhibition will run until March 2022. For a virtual introduction to the exhibition, please click here. For practical information please visit the Berkeley Art Museum website.

Published by IEAS in 2013, this anthropological study of corporal punishment in Japan has gained international attention.  The author, Aaron L. Miller, teaches about sports and education at Cal State East Bay and St. Mary's College.

More info can be found at- https://www.hanmoto.com/bd/isbn/9784907986117