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September 30, 2022 | 5-6:30 p.m. |  David Brower Center

Featured Speaker: YU Miri

Speaker: Karen Tei Yamashita

September 29, 2022 |  ASUC Student Union: Martin Luther King Jr. Building, Stephens Room

Speakers: YU Miri, YANAGI Takeharu

Call for Proposals 

September 12 | 2-4 p.m. | Anthropology and Art Practice building, Rm 221, UC Berkeley

Speaker: Enrico Crema, University of Cambridge

chinese_studies_capstone_workshop_call for proposals.pdf

The Center for Japanese Studies welcomes internationally acclaimed novelist, playwright, and essayist YU Miri to the campus as the recipient of the 5th Berkeley Japan Prize for her genre-defying work as an author. YU Miri, a citizen of South Korea, was born in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan, in 1968 and grew up in Yo

CSEAS awarded Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for Summer 2022 to UC Berkeley graduate students Alex Mabanta (Jurisprudence & Social Policy) to study Filipino and to Jenny Pham (History), and Sydney To (English) to study Vietnamese. These FLAS recipients will all study at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI), the intensive summer language program hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. SEASSI will offer instruction this summer in-person for the first time since 2019.

May 10, 2022 | 5-6:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom Webinar

Speaker: Angelo Ishi, Professor, Musashi University

Discussant: Keiko Yamanaka, Lecturer, UC Berkeley

CSEAS continues to post videos of recent webinars to its YouTube channel, including the May 2 webinar book talk on 'Amnesia: A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand' by Dr. Arjun Subrahmanyan, the April 27 Burmese poetry reading, the April 20 webinar book talk on 'The Road to Dien Bien Phu' by Prof.

Investigating the U.S. Military Crimes in Japan
January 26, 2022
Colloquium
Speaker:
Hanayo Oya, Journalist/Documentary Filmmaker

April 30 | 2-5 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall, Room 7

A Stage Reading of Nagahara Hideaki's --The Ones Who Leave-- translated by Andrew Way Leong with Q & A moderated by Philip Kan Gotanda.

Congratulations to Alex Mabanta - a CSEAS affiliated graduate student - who has received a 2021-22 Chancellor’s Award for Civic Engagement for his public service!

UCSD's new Taiwan Studies Center, with the support of the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and the 21st Century China Center, is hosting a virtual conference on April 21-22 from 5-8 PM PDT each day on "Peace and Security in the Taiwan Strait." This conference will convene experts from around the world to present their current research on U.S.-China-Taiwan relations, addressing issues such as the political status of Taiwan, cross-strait relations, PRC-Taiwan competition in Latin America and the Caribbean, strategic ambiguity, public opinion in Taiwan and the PRC, and the

The Council on East Asian Libraries recently announced it has bestowed Peter Zhou, director of UC Berkeley’s C. V. Starr East Asian Library, with its highest honor.

March 16, 2022 | 5 p.m. |  Online - Zoom Webinar

Speaker: Naoko Hashimoto, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University