View the Spring 2013 Event List. Topics include the Korean Economy, Korea in 19th Century American Anthropology, Gender Politics of Coffee, 1937-1950 Korean Children's Magazines, Censorship of South Korean Advertising in the 2000s, Samsung vs Apple, Korea's Response to China's History Expansionism, Gender Gap & Korea's 2012 Presidential Election, Korean Papermaking, South Korea's Perception of China's Rise, Musical Lives of 'Comfort Women' Survivors, Finding Religion through Immigration, the Films of Hong Sangsoo, and Origins of the Korean War.
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July 26, 2013
June 17, 2013
The 7th issue of IEAS's interactive e-journal "Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review" is now online.
Special issue: "Law, Society, and Politics in Republican China"
Read the co-editors’ Note to our Readers for a description of the contents, or visit https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-7(link is external).
June 1, 2013
What is Otaku?: The Changing Meanings of Otaku in Japan
Colloquium
Speaker: Taishin Ikeda, Visiting Scholar, Center for Japanese Studies; Associate Professor, Konan Women's University
Date: February 1, 2013 | 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Location: IEAS Conference Room — 2223 Fulton, 6th Floor
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies
April 2, 2013
The 6th issue of IEAS's interactive e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now online.
March 1, 2013
Mday March 22, is World Water Day. We invite you or any of your colleagues to submit manuscripts dealing with water in contemporary Asian politics for possible publication in a special issue of Asian Survey.
February 1, 2013
The fifth issue of IEAS's interactive e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now online. This is a special issue devoted to the theme of "Transcolonial Film Coproductions in the Japanese Empire: Antinomies in the Colonial Archive" (guest edited by Takashi Fujitani (U Toronto) and Nayoung Aimee Kwon (Duke University). The issue also features book review essays and a photo essay about historical Changchun.
January 1, 2013
Korea in the Cross-Fire: The War Photographs of John Rich
Exhibit — Photography
Dates: September 19, 2012 – February 4, 2013 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies — 2223 Fulton, 6th Floor
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies
Wen-hsin Yeh, ed. Korea Research Monograph 36. IEAS Publications. | By drawing attention to mobility in subjectivity—to the contested nature of subjectivity in the processes of mobility—this volume seeks to connect the experiences of the Korean diaspora with those of the homeland, thereby enriching an understanding of Korean nationalism from its flip side.
The Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair endowment was established in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Koo was a distinguished business leader and statesman who led the Taiwan-based Pan-Asian Group, and who served as senior advisor to successive presidents of Taiwan. As Chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation, he also helped to arrange the first direct talks between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.
The May 2013 issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is available. Volume 2, No. 1 features articles on the theme of "Transcolonial Film Coproductions in the Japanese Empire: Antinomies in the Colonial Archive" and four review essays about recent publications in Asian Studies. Click here to see the Table of Contents. To purchase single volumes of Cross-Currents, or to subscribe, please visit the University of Hawai'i Press website.
The Center for Japanese Studies, in partnership with the Institute of East Asian Studies, announces its Japan-America Student Conference scholarships for Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students. Awards are open to any full-time UC Berkeley student with an interest in Japan.
The 65th JASC Conference will take place in Kyoto, Iwate, Tokyo, and Nagasaki from July 29 to August 24, 2013.
December 1, 2012
Architecture.Energy.Japan.2012
Workshop
Locations: Wurster Hall, Various
Dates: August 5–10, 2012
Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Architecture
New conversations between practicing architects, engineers, construction firms, educators and researchers will explore design and simulation, regulation and policy, sustainable certification and utility and government programs as strategies for achieving a wiser use of energy resources without compromise of comfort or aesthetics.
November 30, 2012
View the Fall 2012 Event List. Topics include Mental Illness under Japanese Colonial Rule, Prison Letters of Lutgarde Yi Suni, Hollywood Movies and Gender Discourse in Colonial Korea, Monk Villages near Korea's Northernmost Border, Korean Migrants in the Russian Far East, US-South Korean Relations, Han Architecture, Archeology of Ancient Korea, Chosonjok Migrant Mothers, North-South Korean Relations, Ghosts in Premodern Korean Literature, North Korea's Nuclear Weapons.
November 1, 2012
Barry Eichengreen. Dwight H. Perkins. Kwanho Shin. Harvard East Asian Monographs 350. Harvard University Press. | From Miracle to Maturity offers a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analysis of the growth of the Korean economy, starting with the aggregate sources of growth (growth of the labor force, the stock of capital, and productivity) and then delving deeper into the roles played by structural change, exports, foreign investment, and financial development.
June 1, 2012
Of Power and Profit: American Seamen in Asian Waters
Photography Exhibit
Dates: October 5, 2011 – January 25, 2012, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, IEAS Publications, Center for Korean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Chinese Studies
January 1, 2012
Wayne Patterson. Korea Research Monographs 35. IEAS Publications. | This book on William Nelson Lovatt, Korea's first commissioner of customs in Pusan, looks at the informal imperialism exercised by China over Korea in the 1880s.
Of Power and Profit: American Seamen in Asian Waters
Photography Exhibit
Dates: October 5, 2011 – January 25, 2012, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, IEAS Publications, Center for Korean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Chinese Studies
December 1, 2011
The Sumidagawa Project — Noh Screening: JETAANC Kabuki Club Special Event
September 11, 2011 — 200–4:30 p.m.
Moderator: JETAANC Kabuki Club, Japan Exchange & Teaching Program Alumni Association of Northern California
Center for Japanese Studies, JETAANC Kabuki Club
Three versions. One haunting tale.
A mother searches for her lost son. Driven half-mad with worry, she meets a ferryman on the Sumida River who may know something. But is she prepared to learn the truth?
June 1, 2011
The Politics of Privacy in Japan: Global Policy Convergence and the Personal Information Protection Act
Eiji Kawabata, Visiting Scholar, Center for Japanese Studies
January 25, 2011
Center for Japanese Studies
January 1, 2011
Echoes of the Past: Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting
January 5 – June 26, 2011
Berkeley Art Museum
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