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January 23, 2025

January 6, 2025

Mount Fuji

The application period for the 2025 fellowship is open (Deadline: March 17, 2025)

January 1, 2025

Browse the full Spring 2025 CKS Calendar of Events.

December 20, 2024

Illustration of Japanese vasesBooks as Research Resources | 研究資源としての書籍
August 26-27, 2024
Colloquium

This colloquium will present new approaches on the history of Japanese literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a focus on how archival research and novel methodologies can reshape our understanding of Japan’s long nineteenth century.

November 8, 2024

The Center for Korean Studies at UC Berkeley is honored to announce the 2024 winner of the UC Berkeley Hong Yung Lee Book Award in Korean Studies.

November 5, 2024

Youth worldwide is facing complex global challenges, making it essential for future leaders to adopt a global perspective to effectively address local, international, and cross-cultural issues. As two of the world's most influential nations, the United States and China share a responsibility to promote world peace and shared prosperity. Therefore, it is vital for emerging American leaders to deepen their understanding of China.

Apply Now! - Academic Explorers in China Program for Undergraduates in Summer 2025

October 29, 2024

An international team of scholars has launched a three-way collaborative project in Uzbekistan's high mountain regions to shed new light on the economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions of Turkic communities that thrived across Central Asia from the 6th to the 11th centuries.

October 22, 2024

JASC 77The 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.

October 15, 2024

The application for the 2025 Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities is now OPEN. Interested students from all institutions within the U.S. and abroad must complete the online application form below, which contains a description of the paper topic and its significance (up to 250 words) and a short bio (up to 100 words including current institutional affiliation). Please note that proposals should address primary sources and current scholarship related to their paper topic.

October 3, 2024

The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for Silk Road Studies (TCSRS) is deeply honored to announce a generous bequest by UC Berkeley Art History Professor Joanna Gottfried Williams.

October 1, 2024

Dixie Mission Cover
On the 80th anniversary of the US Army Observer Mission to Yenan, IEAS Publications is  re-releasing Colonel Barrett’s memoir, Dixie Mission

September 5, 2024

Consul General Neil Ferrer and UC Berkeley Vice Provost for Academic Planning & Senior International Officer Dr. Lisa Alvarez-Cohen (San Francisco PCG photo)

August 29, 2024

Sunday, January 7

Online - Zoom Webinar
5 p.m.
A table full of food

August 22, 2024

Browse the full Fall 2024 CKS Calendar of Events.

August 5, 2024

June 19, 2024

CKS has a new open position for a part time Program Coordinator.

May 17, 2024

Agro WebinarBetween Foraging and Agriculture: Intersections of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Agroecology from the Perspective of Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Part 1
January 7, 2024
Symposium

April 26, 2024

The island’s resistance to a dependable—and desperately needed—source of energy has been shaped by a covert history.

At a time of growing concern about the threat to Taiwan’s security from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), NATO has been increasingly concerned with developments in the Indo-Pacific...

April 17, 2024

Lowell Dittmer, professor of Chinese Politics and former Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies (1979-1983), died April 15th, 2024.  He was a member of the Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley from 1978 until his retirement in 2022. He remained an active scholar and most recently published an edited volume, "China's Political Economy in the Xi Jinping Epoch."  A memorial service is scheduled for Friday, April 26 at 1:00pm at Temple Sinai, 2808 Summit Street, Oakland 94609.