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The University of California at Berkeley is hiring a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in the Islamic Worlds of Southeast Asia, in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies.

Weihong Bao, Associate Professor of Film & Media and East Asian Languages & Cultures, has been appointed to the Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies. Please refer to this link for more details. 

Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch Fellowship

The Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch Fellowship comprises two distinct programs: the "Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch Fellow of Political Science '' and the "Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch Fellow of East Asian Studies," each provides one fellow with $2,000 of funding. The Fellowship program aims to provide interested students, especially those of AAPI heritage, with financial support to conduct academic research focused on political/social/cultural/economic aspects of East Asia. 

CCS Fall 2023 Newsletter

Taiwan Plus explores the dynamics of #TaiwaneseIdentity with the help of Christina Hu, a director at the Taiwanese American Citizens League, and Evan Dawley, a researcher of Taiwanese and East Asian history, identity formation and imperialism at Goucher College. Dawley is also a memebr of the second cohort of the U.S.-Taiwan Next Generation Working Group. 

Are you interested in U.S. foreign policy? Want to learn more about how it's made? Enroll in "The Architects of Power!"

PubPol 198 sec. 005: INDO-PACIFIC ALLIANCES (2 units)

We are pleased to welcome Professor Osmund Bopearachchi (CNRS, France) at UC Berkeley this academic year, under the auspices of the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies. 

This Fall, don't miss out on the opportunitiy to enroll in Music 146B (Balinese Gamelan). The class meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 - 5:00 pm in Room 255 of Morrison Hall, lead by Lisa Gold & Ni Nyoman Srayamurtikanti. 

Prof. Lisandro E. Claudio is the new Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, following Prof. Nancy Lee Peluso, who served as Chair since July 2020. CSEAS extends deep thanks to Prof. Peluso in appreciation of her guidance of the Center and achievements in supporting Southeast Asia Studies at Berkeley, especially during the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic. With much excitement, CSEAS extends further thanks to Prof.

Dr. Dalferro received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2021. Her dissertation examined silk production in Thailand, in particular among communities of Khmer silk producers in Surin province.

Time：Wednesday June 28,2:00-3:30

Topic：“Ethnogenesis in Colonial Taiwan (1880s – 1950s): Reflections on Becoming Taiwanese

Speaker：Evan Dawley, Associate Professor of History, Goucher College

Moderator：Luo Shih-Chieh, Associate Professor of History, National Taiwan University

Location：Room 301, Center for Culture and Arts, National Library, Taipei

Registration： https://reurl.cc/2LW9En

This talk will be delivered in English

CSEAS is thrilled and honored to share that CSEAS core faculty member Khatharya Um, Associate Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious Academic Prize for 2023 by the Fukuoka Prize Committee.

New book by UC Professor Emeritus David Johnson on ritual opera in village Shanxi.  The Stage in the Temple discusses a number of old village scripts, reconstructs where and how village opera was performed, and considers the role of ritual opera in premodern rural Chinese culture.

'Journey to the South: Buddhist Connections across the South China Sea' - the keynote lecture given by Jack Meng-Tat Chia (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, National University of Singapore) at the April 2023 UC Berkeley-UCLA CSEAS Conference on Networks and Knowledge in Southeast Asia has been posted to the CSEAS YouTube channel.