All events
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Book Talk: Farewell, Circus by Woon-Yeong Cheon
Colloquium | September 5 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
Woon-Yeoung Cheon has been acclaimed as one of South Korea's most daring and provocative literary voices. In Farewell, Circus (2018), Cheon's nightmarish, grotesque style is movingly mixed with a dreamy tone to create a story as much about an individual woman's personal quest for freedom as it is about disability, marginalization, and transnational migration.
ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: Go Hasegawa
Lecture: Center for Japanese Studies | September 5 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
WED, SEPT 5, 6:30pm. Join us for a talk co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies. Go Hasegawa will speak about his practice & approach of exploring new possibilities & building new connections. Also live streaming in 106 Wurster. Open to all!
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
2018 AJLS Conference: Past, Present, and Future - Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media
Conference/Symposium: Center for Japanese Studies | September 6 | 5-8 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library (101 Doe)
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Townsend Center for the Humanities, National Institute of Japanese Literature
The 2018 AJLS Conference seeks to address the history and theory of Japanese literature and media with special attention given to the ways in which writers have grappled with the problems of evidence, transmission, and inheritance and how these problems continue to renew and complicate the relation between the past, present, and future.
Free

Friday, September 7, 2018
2018 AJLS Conference: Past, Present, and Future - Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media
Conference/Symposium: Center for Japanese Studies | September 7 | 9:45 a.m.-7 p.m. | Doe Library, 180 and 190
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Townsend Center for the Humanities, National Institute of Japanese Literature
The 2018 AJLS Conference seeks to address the history and theory of Japanese literature and media with special attention given to the ways in which writers have grappled with the problems of evidence, transmission, and inheritance and how these problems continue to renew and complicate the relation between the past, present, and future.
Free
Saturday, September 8, 2018
2018 AJLS Conference: Past, Present, and Future - Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media
Conference/Symposium: Center for Japanese Studies | September 8 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Doe Library, 180 and 190
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Townsend Center for the Humanities, National Institute of Japanese Literature
The 2018 AJLS Conference seeks to address the history and theory of Japanese literature and media with special attention given to the ways in which writers have grappled with the problems of evidence, transmission, and inheritance and how these problems continue to renew and complicate the relation between the past, present, and future.
Free
Monday, September 10, 2018
Navigating Bureaucracy and Generating Vulnerability at an Agri-environmental Research Institute
Colloquium: Center for Chinese Studies | September 10 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Tim McLellan, Center for Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2019
Rachel Stern, Professor, School of Law, UC Berkeley
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
Conducting research in China throws up numerous headaches, from acquiring official invitation letters and securing permissions for field research to navigating the anti-corruption measures that govern the use of research funding. One well-documented strategy for overcoming such challenges is to leverage informal social relationships (guanxi) with government officials to circumvent formal rules... More >

Tuesday, September 11, 2018
California-China Partnership on Energy and Climate Change
Conference/Symposium: Center for Chinese Studies | September 11 | 1-4 p.m. | Alumni House, TOLL ROOM
CENTER FOR ECONOMICS, RESOURCES, AND INNOVATION, Berkeley - Tsinghua Joint Research Center on Energy and Climate Change (BTJRC)
Two of the worlds leading economies, California and China, share a determination to address climate risk and other sustainability challenges with bold commitments to policy technology innovation. Finding themselves at the forefront of efforts to secure long-term prosperity for their own people and those who would follow their example, the two have established a multi-faceted alliance for... More >
California-China Partnership on Energy and Climate Change
Conference/Symposium: Center for Chinese Studies | September 11 | 1-4 p.m. | Alumni House, TOLL ROOM
CENTER FOR ECONOMICS, RESOURCES, AND INNOVATION, Berkeley - Tsinghua Joint Research Center on Energy and Climate Change (BTJRC)
Two of the worlds leading economies, California and China, share a determination to address climate risk and other sustainability challenges with bold commitments to policy technology innovation. Finding themselves at the forefront of efforts to secure long-term prosperity for their own people and those who would follow their example, the two have established a multi-faceted alliance for... More >
FREE
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Film Screening: Goodbye My Love, North Korea: Special Academic Preview Screening with Filmmaker Soyoung Kim
Film - Documentary: Center for Korean Studies | September 12 | 3-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Soyoung Kim, Korea National University of Arts
Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
(Kim Soyoung, 2017, 89 min, South Korea, Korean w/ English subtitles, Color, Digital)
"Goodbye My Love North Korea" looks back on the lives of 8 young North Koreans who went to study at the Moscow Film School in Russia right after the Korean War. In Moscow, they named themselves the '8 Squad' and formed a deep and lasting friendship. By 1958, they had become political exiles after denouncing... More >
Thursday, September 13, 2018
The Subaltern Cosmopolitanism: “Koryo” Cinema of diaspora archive and Exile Trilogy
Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | September 13 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Soyoung Kim, Professor of Cinema Studies, Korea National University of Arts
Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
The Subaltern Cosmopolitanism: Koryo Cinema of diaspora archive and Exile Trilogy
Thursday, September 13th at 4:00 pm
180 Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley
Free and Open to the Public | Wheelchair Accessible | Refreshments Provided
Friday, September 14, 2018
Film Screening: "My life in China"
Film - Documentary: Center for Chinese Studies | September 14 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Kenneth Eng, Independent Film Director
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
A story of migration is passed down from father to son, as we retrace the precarious steps he took in search of a better life. Ultimately asking the question, what does it mean to be both Chinese and American?

Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Together But Apart: Care Work in Filipino Transnational Families in the Digital Age
Lecture: Center for Southeast Asia Studies | September 18 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library | Note change in time
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, San Francisco State University
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Prof. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez (Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center) will discuss her new book, which explores the dynamics of gender and technology of care work in Filipino transnational families in the Philippines and the U.S.

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Constructing Post-Imperium Identity: Taiwan and Eastern Europe
Conference/Symposium: Center for Chinese Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | September 20 – 21, 2018 every day | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)
Efforts in Taiwan to create a new identity and nation-state as part of the process of democratization have much in common with the making of new identities and nation-states in democratizing Eastern and Central Europe, especially with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. This workshop ... More >
Berkeley Seminar on Global History: Borderlands and Border Crossings in the 19th-Century World
Seminar: Center for Chinese Studies | September 20 | 4-6 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall | Note change in date and location
Samuel Truett, Associate Professor of History, University of New Mexico
Department of History, Institute of International Studies
As a historian who approaches the U.S. West and Mexican North primarily from the perspective of their shared borderlands, Professor Truett is interested in the crossingssocial, cultural, and environmentalthat have connected these two regions to the rest of the Americas and the world at large. Known best for his work in borderlands history, he also works actively in western U.S. history,... More >

Rohingya Crisis, One Year On: Research and Reflections
Panel Discussion: Center for Southeast Asia Studies | September 20 | 4-6 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Eric Stover, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health, University of California at Berkeley.
Rohini J. Haar, Emergency medicine physician with expertise in health and human rights
Samira Siddique, MS PhD Student | Energy & Resources Group
Félim McMahon, echnology and Human Rights Program Director at the Human Rights Center and Director of its Human Rights Investigations Lab
The Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Human Rights Center
A panel discussion on the Rohingya Crisis

Friday, September 21, 2018
Constructing Post-Imperium Identity: Taiwan and Eastern Europe
Conference/Symposium: Center for Chinese Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | September 20 – 21, 2018 every day | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)
Efforts in Taiwan to create a new identity and nation-state as part of the process of democratization have much in common with the making of new identities and nation-states in democratizing Eastern and Central Europe, especially with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. This workshop ... More >
Thursday, September 27, 2018
The Place of Paris in Vietnamese Diasporic Fiction
Lecture: Center for Southeast Asia Studies | September 27 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
Karl Ashoka Britto, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley; Aimee Phan, Professor of MFA Writing Program and Writing and Literature Program, California College of the Arts
Aimee Phan is one of a group of Vietnamese American writers whose recent work has grappled with the complex legacy of Paris as a site crucial to the Vietnamese diaspora and its imaginary. In his presentation, Karl Ashoka Britto will discuss Phans The Reeducation of Cherry Truong, a novel that tells the story of a Vietnamese refugee family split between the United States and France. He will... More >

Hello, Shadowlands: Inside The Booming World Of Southeast Asian Organized Crime
Lecture: Center for Southeast Asia Studies | September 27 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Patrick Winn, Public Radio International
Joseph Scalice, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute of International Studies, Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Mass media and Hollywood fixate on stories of Mexican cartels, Sicilian mafioso and Russian gangsters. But they've largely overlooked the growing power of Southeast Asian organized crime. Within the next decade, the region's booming black markets will be worth $375 billion more than the legit output of many Asian countries.
These crime syndicates can corrupt governments, skew policy and... More >

Thangkas, Texts, and the Silk Route
Lecture: Center for Buddhist Studies: Tang Center for Silk Road Studies | September 27 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Ann Shaftel, Dalhousie University
In a richly illustrated presentation on the challenges of applying conservation science to Buddhist sacred thangkas and texts, Ann Shaftel will include a discussion of the relationship between thangkas and texts, and the evolving function of thangkas in Buddhist philosophy, textural history and culture. The images accompanying her talk will feature Silk Route thangkas, and others from her 48... More >

Friday, September 28, 2018
Socialist Chinas New Exhibitions: Rethinking Class, Material Culture, and Propaganda
Colloquium: Center for Chinese Studies | September 28 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Denise Y. Ho, Assistant Professor of twentieth-century Chinese History, Yale University
Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
This talk examines the origins and Mao-era elaborations on new exhibitions in socialist China, the practice of displaying personal possessions as a way to articulate meanings of class in both old China and new China. During the Socialist Education Movement, class education exhibitions linked material objects to class status, arguing for the persistence of class and the need for... More >

Illustrations of the Parinirvāṇa Cycle in Kucha
Lecture: Center for Buddhist Studies: Tang Center for Silk Road Studies | September 28 | 6-8 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Monika Zin, University of Leipzig
Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
At least 100 caves in Kucha contain (or once contained) murals depicting scenes connected with the Buddha's death. The paintings are typically located in the rear part of the caves, in corridors behind the Buddha in the main niche. The illustrations begin with the episodes from the Buddha's last journey and end with the first council in Rājagṛha. It is solely through comparative... More >


Exhibits and Ongoing Events
ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION: PLACE, CULTURE, TIME - DESIGN IN DRASTICALLY CHANGING CHINA
Exhibit - Multimedia: Center for Chinese Studies | August 29 – October 21, 2018 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
ON VIEW: AUG 29-OCT 21. Works of He Jingtang over the past three decades and their profound reflections on place, culture, time, and future urban development. Free and open to all!
