The 8th issue of IEAS's interactive e-journal "Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review" is now online.
Special issue: "Bordering China: Modernity and Sustainability"
Read the co-editors’ Note to Our Readers for a description of the contents, or visit https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-8(link is external).
BERKELEY — On a campus already well known for its scholarship in Korean culture, language, and literature, a new $3 million gift from Samsung Electronics announced today (October 2, 2013) promises to solidify the University of California, Berkeley, as a global center in this field for years to come.
The gift will allow UC Berkeley to strengthen its teaching and research at the Center for Korean Studies (CKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies, at a time of rising worldwide interest in everything from the history and politics of Korea to its current cinema and pop music.
Joyce Kislitzin Kallgren, who previously held positions as Editor of Asian Survey, Chair of the Center for Chinese Studies, and Associate Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, passed away on August 3, 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).
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
The 6th issue of IEAS's interactive e-journal Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is now online.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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