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April 13, 2024

September 6, 2023

The Tang Center for Silkroad Studies has been awarded its fifth Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant and is planning travel for summer 2024, conditions permitting. Applications are now available with more details about the program and travel itinerary. We are currently only accepting applications from K-12 Librarian candidates.

August 23, 2023

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. 

March 10, 2023

The Institute of East Asian Studies thanks everyone who participated in the UC Berkeley BIG GIVE campaign on March 9 to raise funds for student awards and fellowships. Our special Big Give web page presents some of the stories of students who have benefited from fellowships and grants they have received from IEAS and its centers in recent years, making a difference to their academic careers.

October 4, 2022

Just published in Open Access by Amsterdam University Press, and based on a conference organized by the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies in 2018, The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes.

June 18, 2021

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.