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June 18, 2021

Beyond Boundaries: Buddhist Art from Gandhara

New exhibition on ancient Gandhara at the Berkeley Art Museum, curated by Julia White and Osmund Bopearachchi. The exhibition will run until March 2022. For a virtual introduction to the exhibition, please click here. For practical information please visit the Berkeley Art Museum website.

June 15, 2021

Discourses of Discipline is now available in Japanese translation!

Published by IEAS in 2013, this anthropological study of corporal punishment in Japan has gained international attention.  The author, Aaron L. Miller, teaches about sports and education at Cal State East Bay and St. Mary's College.

More info can be found at- https://www.hanmoto.com/bd/isbn/9784907986117

May 31, 2021

CKS Spring 2021 Events
View the Spring 2021 Event List. Topics include Burial Sites and Lineage Property during Colonial Transition, Epidemic of Anti-Asian Violence, North Korean Refugee Entrepreneurs, Legacies of Militarization, Peruvian Migrants in South Korea, Writing and Activism in Translation, Korean Women in Classical Music.

May 14, 2021

CSEAS awards FLAS fellowships for Summer 2021

CSEAS awarded Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for Summer 2021 to UC Berkeley graduate students Sean Cronan (History), Christian Gilberti (South & Southeast Asian Studies), Kirt Mausert (Anthropology), and Oren Samet-Marram (Political Science) to study Burmese. CSEAS also awarded FLAS fellowships to UC Santa Cruz graduate students Wayne Huang (Anthropology) to study Indonesian and Philip Conklin (History of Consciousness) to study Filipino.

May 11, 2021

Carved Alive: Buddhist Tree-icons (tachikibutsu) in Japan and "Eco Art History"

May 11, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom WebinarBuddhist Tree-icon

Speaker: Gregory Levine, Professor, Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley

May 5, 2021

Working Group Scholar, Cathy Wu, interviewed by VOX to provide some insight into "Why there’s talk about China starting a war with Taiwan"

If a war breaks out over Taiwan, Biden may be forced into a decision no American president since 1979 has wanted to make...[read more]

April 26, 2021

Harnessing the Afterlife: The Cross-Cultural Iconography and Funerary Significance of the Fujinoki Tomb’s Gilt-Bronze Saddle (6th Century CE)

April 26 | 4-4:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom WebinarCarl Gellert

Speaker: Carl Gellert, Lecturer, Seattle Central College

April 14, 2021

The Evolution of Kabuki to the Traditional Performing Arts

April 14, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. |  Online - Zoom WebinarKabukiza

Speaker: Jihye Kim, Visiting Graduate Student Researcher, Osaka University

April 8, 2021

Get to know GETSEA

CSEAS is a founding member of the recently-established Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium. The consortium was awarded a grant by the Henry Luce Foundation through its Luce Initiative on Southeast Asia (LuceSEA) with the mission of enhancing graduate education in Southeast Asian Studies across North America.

March 31, 2021

Sacred Space and Time: Perspectives on Tantric Buddhist Materials from the Tangut Empire (11th to 13th C.) - Webcast

2021 Khyentse Lecture

Webcast, February 26, 2021

March 30, 2021

Re-imagining the Lost Written Culture of the Ōmi Capital: Insights from Mokkan

March 30, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom WebinarMarjorie Burge

Speaker: Marjorie Burge, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder

March 23, 2021

Library withdraws proposal to close the South & Southeast Asia Library

Founded in 1970, the South/Southeast Library (S/SEAL) is a dedicated reading room in Doe Library, UC Berkeley’s main research library. The library combines research and writing space, reference materials, and specialist consultation on site. It is a campus hub for multidisciplinary research and teaching in South and Southeast Asian studies, covering nineteen countries and over twenty indigenous languages.

March 21, 2021

The Narrative of the Buddha’s Life in Gandharan Art Between Storytelling and Performance

February 19, 2021

March 9, 2021

Prof. Penny Edwards wins campus mentoring award

CSEAS core faculty Prof. Penny Edwards (South & Southeast Asian Studies) has received the Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Late Career Faculty. The campus-wide award recognizes faculty for outstanding mentorship of graduate students at UC Berkeley. Prof. Edwards will be recognized at a virtual award ceremony this spring.

March 3, 2021

Spring 2021 CCS Chair's Greetings

Dear Friends,

March 2, 2021

Catherine Park | CCS Fellow

Catherine ParkIn a radically interconnected world, my research focuses on how educational desires have turned towards the global. More specifically, I situate my research in rapidly urbanizing spaces in China, where urban development and the growth of international schools have gone hand in hand.

Toward Democracy, a new IEAS book on South Korean culture and society out now!

Using approaches from sociology, political science, history, and literary and cultural studies, the contributors offer innovative and nuanced analyses of a wide range of topics from refugee displacement to street politics, from anti-communism and democracy to militarization. The collection begins with the national division in 1945 and devastating civil war and concludes with the May 18 Democratic Uprising in 1980.

For more information, and to order, go to:

CSEAS hosts symposium on activism and resistance to the Myanmar coup

CSEAS hosted the online symposium Scholar-Activism and the Myanmar Resistance on March 9. During this event, scholar-activists analyzed and strategized for resistance to Myanmar’s military coup. The event included two panels [online] and a virtual exhibit [posted to the CSEAS YouTube channel].

Panel 1: Insights from Comparative Contexts

Joseph Passman | CCS Fellow

Joseph PassmanI was living in Taiwan with my wife and daughter on a one-year Fulbright grant when the pandemic hit. We soon realized that we were incredibly, undeservedly fortunate to be living in one of the precious few places on the planet that was successfully controlling the virus’s spread.

Xiaoyu Xia | CCS Fellow

Xiaoyu XiaThanks to the generous support from the Center of Chinese Studies, I spent almost every summer in the past few years working in the Shanghai library and making friends with local scholars and librarians. This tradition was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. I was stuck in Berkeley and exiled from library stacks.