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December 1, 2014

Power: Architectural Evidence of Things Unseen
Lecture
Speaker: Dana Buntrock, Architecture, UC Berkeley
Moderator: John Lie, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Date: August 28, 2014 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library

John Lie, ed. Transnational Korea 1. IEAS Publications. | The Center for Korean Studies is pleased to announce the publication of the first title in the "Transnational Korea" series, the first English-language book of its kind to address multiculturalism in South Korea.

October 24, 2014

Date: October 24, 2014 | Location: Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley

October 1, 2014

John Lie. UC Press. | This book seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations.

September 2, 2014

The 12th issue of IEAS's open-access, interactive e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now available online.

We're delighted to report that IEAS has been awarded both the National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grants for the 2014-18 cycle. These Title VI grants will provide $220K in NRC program funds and $253.5K in FLAS fellowships for students (both academic year and summer). This amounts to $473,500 per year for East Asian studies at Berkeley, or $1,894,000 over the next four years.

July 1, 2014

After 29 years at Fulton and Kittredge in Berkeley, IEAS has moved to sparkling new quarters. Our new address is 1995 University Avenue at the corner of University and Milvia (just 3 blocks from the west entrance of the campus, current home of Berkeley Extension). Our offices are located on the penthouse level, in suites 510 and 520.

June 2, 2014

The 11th issue of IEAS's open-access, interactive e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now available online.

June 1, 2014

Film Exhibition Culture in Osaka, 1896–1926: The Cultural Geography of Movie Theaters
Colloquium
Speaker: Keiko Sasagawa, Associate Professor, Kansai University
Date: January 10, 2014 | 3:00 p.m.
Location: East Asian Library, Art History Seminar Room

May 1, 2014

Update: A memorial service honoring Professor Emeritus James Cahill has been scheduled for Saturday May 10, 2014, 3:30 p.m., at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Gund Theater, at 2625 Durant Avenue. A reception will follow.

Dylan Davis, program director of the Center for Korean Studies, was awarded a fellowship to the U.S.-Korea Scholar-Policymaker Nexus, a Mansfield Foundation/Korea Foundation fellowship program for Korea specialists making long-term contributions to the U.S.-Korea relationship. The two-year program provides opportunities for mid-career Korea specialists to discuss issues of importance to US-Korea relations with policymakers, government officials, and opinion leaders in Korea and the United States.

March 3, 2014

The 10th issue of IEAS's open-access, interactive e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now available online.

Read the co-editors' Note to Our Readers for a description of the contents, or visit https://cross‑currents.berkeley.edu/e‑journal/ issue‑10(link is external).

February 17, 2014

James Cahill, Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Art History and one of the world's foremost scholars of Chinese painting, died at his home in Berkeley on February 14, 2014.

January 1, 2014


Framing the Sacred: Cambodian Buddhist Painting
Exhibit – Painting
Dates: November 20, 2013 – March 20, 2014
Monday–Friday | 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 Buddhist Studies, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies

Hong Yung Lee, ed. Research Papers and Policy Studies 46. IEAS Publications. | This volume examines similar institutions in similar functional areas in China, Japan, and South Korea. To understand the findings, the authors suggest "institutional templates," a framework that considers the ways in which each country is oriented toward authority, exchange, and networks.

The May 2014 print issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is available. Volume 3, No. 1 features articles on the themes of "The Globalization of K-pop: Local and Transnational Articulations of South Korean Popular Music" and "New Research on Colonial Korea," along with six review essays about recent publications in Asian Studies and two reviews of new Asian language publications.

The 9th issue of IEAS's open-access, interactive e-journal "Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review" is now available online.

Special issue: "The Globalization of K-pop: Local and Transnational Articulations of South Korean Popular Music," guest edited by John Lie (UC Berkeley)

Photo essay: "Dance of Anguish: Poetic Texts from 1920 Korea"

The November 2013 print issue of Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is available. Volume 2, No. 2 features articles on the themes of "Urban Chinese Living," "Law, Politics, and Society in Republican China," and "Bordering China: Modernity and Sustainability," along with 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..

December 13, 2013

View the Fall 2013 Event List. Topics include Korean Music, Post-Socialist Visions of North Korea, South Korea's International Relationships in East Asia, Korean Language at UC Berkeley, the North Korean Comedy 'My Family's Problem', Korea Peace Day, Religious Cosmopolitanism during the Japanese Colonial Period, Colonial Korean Culture and Literature, 1970s South Korean Literature and Film, the War Film Genre in Korea, Movable-Type Printing, Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, Tansaekhwa and Korean Abstract Art.

December 1, 2013

Why do Marxian Social Sciences Survive in Japan?
Conference/Symposium
Speakers:
 •  Hiroshi Onishi, Keio University
 • Kazuyasu Miyata, Hokkaido University of Education
 • Akio Kamitani, Visiting Scholar of CJS, Sapporo Gakuin University
Moderator: Andrew Barshay, UC Berkeley
Date: September 4, 2013 | 4:30 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies