Osmund Bopearachchi is Adjunct Professor of Central and South Asian Art, Archaeology, and Numismatics, University of California, Berkeley, and Emeritus Director of Research of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (C.N.R.S.-E.N.S. Paris). A numismatist, historian, and archaeologist, he has published ten books, edited six books, and written over 150 articles.
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September 21, 2017
July 7, 2017
Congratulations to Professor Jinsoo An for joining the tenured ranks of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures!
June 1, 2017
Happy Americans, Unhappy Japanese: How Software Engineers work; how they feel about it; and how they are rewarded
Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Yoshifumi Nakata, Doshisha University
Date: January 24, 2017 | 4:00–5:30 p.m.
Location: 2521 Channing Way — Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, IRLE Director's Room
Sponsors: Institute of Research on Labor & Employment
May 28, 2017
Professor Clare You of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (retired) and former Chair of CKS was awarded the Manhae Grand Prize for 2017 from the Manhae Foundation in South Korea. Congratulations, Professor You!
May 12, 2017
Professor Laura C. Nelson has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Korea Journal for a two-year term beginning in 2017. Congratulations, Professor Nelson!
April 27, 2017
View the Spring 2017 Event List. Topics include Early Korea, Korean Cinema, US-Korea Relations, Democratic Constitutional Founding in Postwar Japan and Korea, the Trump Administration's Northeast Asia Policy, Conversation with Kyung-uk Kim (Writer), and People are the Sky (Film).
April 21, 2017
By Joel Bahr, | April 21, 2017 | Originally published in Berkeley News
Paul Fonoroff has two rules when it comes to collecting. “You have to be passionate about it,” he deadpans. “And it has to be something that no one else is interested in.”
Professor Youngmin Kwon of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures was awarded the Sejong Cultural Award for 2017 by the South Korean government. Congratulations, Professor Kwon!
Paul Fonoroff has two rules when it comes to collecting. "You have to be passionate about it," he deadpans. "And it has to be something that no one else is interested in."
April 7, 2017
C. K. Cho, the former CEO of Korean Airlines and a long-time supporter of CKS, has committed to give CKS 200k, which will be rolled into a $1 million endowment he established some years ago.
February 24, 2017
Our colleague, Professor Emeritus in History David Keightley, passed away February 23, 2017. He died peacefully in his sleep.
David Keightley was born in London in 1932. He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1969 with a dissertation entitled "Public Work in Ancient China: A Study of Forced Labor in the Shang and Early Chou.”
January 1, 2017
Happy Americans, Unhappy Japanese: How Software Engineers work; how they feel about it; and how they are rewarded
Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Yoshifumi Nakata, Doshisha University
Date: January 24, 2017 | 4:00–5:30 p.m.
Location: 2521 Channing Way — Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, IRLE Director's Room
Sponsors: Institute of Research on Labor & Employment, Center for Japanese Studies
Our colleague, Professor Emeritus in History David Keightley, passed away February 23, 2017. He died peacefully in his sleep.
David Keightley was born in London in 1932. He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1969 with a dissertation entitled "Public Work in Ancient China: A Study of Forced Labor in the Shang and Early Chou.”
December 1, 2016
View the Fall 2016 Event List. Topics include Elections and Democracy in Taiwan, Korea and Japan, Chongnae Cho (Author), Translation of Modern Korean Literature, Modernism and Fascism on the Korean Peninsula, TPP, RECEP, and AIIB in the Asia-Pacific, Migrant Rights in South Korea, East Asia as Method, Hague Ruling on the South China Sea, North Korea's Abduction Project, English Language Learning in South Korea and Nepali-South Korean Migration.
Security Policy and Military Power in Japan
Colloquium
Speaker: Nori Katagiri, Saint Louis University
Date: September 9, 2016 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
November 18, 2016
Date: November 18, 2016 | Location: David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
October 20, 2016
Hong Yung Lee, ed. Sunil Kim, ed. Logos Verlag Berlin. | The contributors of this edited volume delineate the shifting role of the Korean state from the developmental state, which led economic development by guiding investment in strategic industries through various means, to a slightly subtler role as a regulator, supervising the operation of the market in the changing economic environment.
June 1, 2016
Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra Workshop
Workshop
Date: January 7-8, 2016 | 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.
Location: Stephens Hall, Townsend Center, Geballe Room
We are pleased to announce that Aihwa Ong — Professor and the Robert H. Lowie Distinguished Chair in Anthropology — has been named chair of the Group in Asian Studies. Professor Ong's research interests have always dealt with the particular entanglements of politics, technology, and culture that co-constitute changing societies on the Asia Pacific rim. Currently, her work focuses on modes of governing, biomedical science, and contemporary art in diverse Asian contexts.
April 11, 2016
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new online catalogue, available here:
http://ieas.berkeley.edu/publications/catalogue
Through the site, you can order our softcover books, as well as pdf e-books of newer titles. Choose the bundle of book and e-book for a discount! Chapters of some multiple-contributor volumes are available for sale individually--perfect for course reading.
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