RSS FeedUpcoming EventsFoundations of Buddhist Chaplaincy: A Japan-US Dialogue, March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/240728-foundations-of-buddhist-chaplaincy-a-japan-us

The Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Center for Japanese Studies at U.C Berkeley are excited to announce this bilingual workshop, which brings together chaplaincy educators and working chaplains in Japan and the United States to reflect on how we connect Buddhist teachings with effective service. We will discuss the current state of chaplaincy in our respective countries, the practice of Buddhist chaplaincy on the ground, the training and education of Buddhist chaplains, as well as the role of chaplains in our changing world. Through a dialogical session format we intend to exchange ideas, create and strengthen relationships, and share resources that will equip and enrich Buddhist chaplaincy practice and education.

The event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Buddhist Studies; the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; the Numata Foundation; and the Buddhist Ministry Working Group.

 

Translation will be provided into Japanese and English.

This in-person event is free and open to the public.

Register for the workshop here.

 

Speakers and Moderators:

  • Ram Appalaraju, Buddhist Eco Chaplain and faculty, Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley
  • Dr. Lilu Chen, Field Education Director, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Gil Fronsdal, senior guiding teacher, Insight Meditation Center
  • Dr. Jitsujo T. Gauthier, CoChair, Buddhist Chaplaincy Department, University of the West
  • Rev. HIRANO Shunkō, former abbot of Chūgenji Temple; death row chaplain at Tokyo Jail
  • Dr. KASAI Kenta, Psychologist, Professor at the Graduate School for Applied Religious Studies, Sophia University
  • Dr. KAWAMOTO Kanae, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
  • Prof. KIGOSHI Yasushi, Professor, Shin Buddhist Studies, Otani University
  • Jamie Kimmel, BCC, Staff Chaplain, UCSF Health
  • Rev. Dr. Daijaku Kinst, Professor Emerita, IBS; guiding co-teacher, Ocean Gate Zen Center; Kokusaifukyoshi (International Teacher), Soto Shu
  • Dr. Nancy G. Lin, Professor of Buddhist Chaplaincy, Tibetan and South Asian Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Adam Lyons, Assistant Professor, Institute of Religious Studies, Université de Montréal
  • Dr. Leigh Miller, Director of the MDiv Degree and Chaplaincy Program, Maitripa College
  • Dr. Scott Mitchell, Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Mary Remington, Director, Spiritual Care Department, Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, NY; Director, Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Upaya Institute and Zen Center
  • Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford, Assistant Dean for Multireligious Ministry, Harvard Divinity School
  • Rev. TAKAHASHI Eigo, Abbot, Koryūzan Kichijōji Temple
  • Dr. TANIYAMA Yōzō, Professor, Practical Religious Studies, Tohoku University
  • Trent Thornley, Executive Director & CPE Educator, San Francisco Night Ministry
  • Dr. UCHIMOTO Koyu, Associate Professor, Ryukoku University
  • Jonathan Watts, Coordinator, International Buddhist Psychotherapy and Chaplaincy working group; Senior Research Fellow, Rinbutsuken Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Tokyo, Japan
  • Evan Wong, BCC, Pediatric Palliative Care Chaplain, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland Medical Center
  • Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde, pastoral counselor and author, Marabella Storycraft; world traveler; spiritual care “crier”
  • Dr. Elaine Yuen, contemplative educator and chaplain; professor emerita, Naropa University

 

Workshop Schedule

Wednesday, March 27th

3:00 PM Welcoming remarks

  • Dr. Scott Mitchell, Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies
  • Dr. Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley

3:15–5:15 Key Topics for Chaplaincy in the US and Japan

What developments in the field of chaplaincy are worth naming and/or celebrating? How is the work of chaplains evolving alongside the changing nature of our world? What are the key issues and challenges faced by chaplains and chaplaincy educators today? In this workshop, what do we hope to learn from each other in our respective approaches to chaplaincy?

  • Rev. HIRANO Shunkō, former abbot of Chūgenji Temple; death row chaplain at Tokyo Jail
  • Dr. Daijaku Kinst, Professor Emerita, IBS; guiding co-teacher, Ocean Gate Zen Center; Kokusaifukyoshi (International Teacher), Soto Shu
  • Prof. KIGOSHI Yasushi, Professor, Shin Buddhist Studies, Otani University
  • Rev. Mary Remington, Director, Spiritual Care Department, Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern, NY; Director, Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Upaya Institute and Zen Center

Moderator: Dr. Nancy G. Lin, Professor of Buddhist Chaplaincy, Tibetan and South Asian Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies

5:15-6:15 Reception

 

Thursday, March 28th

10:00 AM–12:00 PM Education, Training, and Formation of Buddhist Chaplains

How are chaplains trained in Japan or the US? What goes into the formation process of future chaplains on the personal and institutional level? How is chaplaincy grounded in Buddhist teachings? How do we draw upon the Buddhist tradition to serve people of diverse backgrounds and situations? What challenges do chaplaincy educators face today? What kinds of training might better equip or enrich our work as chaplains?

  • Dr. TANIYAMA Yōzō, Professor, Practical Religious Studies, Tohoku University
  • Dr. Jitsujo T. Gauthier, CoChair, Buddhist Chaplaincy Department, University of the West
  • Dr. Leigh Miller, Director of the MDiv Degree and Chaplaincy Program, Maitripa College
  • Rev. Prof. Gil Fronsdal, senior guiding teacher, Insight Meditation Center

Moderator: Dr. Lilu Chen, Field Education Director, Institute of Buddhist Studies

1:30–3:30 Collective Crisis

Chaplains respond to natural disasters, pandemics, and tragedies that affect large groups of people. What challenges or issues arise for chaplains when responding to a collective crisis? How do chaplains draw upon the study and practice of the Dharma to shape their relationship to tragedy? How do chaplains interact with individuals and communities to facilitate healing and recovery? We will discuss some specific case studies.

  • Dr. Elaine Yuen, contemplative educator and chaplain; professor emerita, Naropa University
  • Rev. TAKAHASHI Eigo, Abbot, Koryūzan Kichijōji Temple
  • Ram Appalaraju, Buddhist Eco Chaplain and faculty, Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
  • Jamie Kimmel, BCC, Staff Chaplain, UCSF Health

Moderator: Dr. Scott Mitchell, Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs, Institute of Buddhist Studies

3:30-4:00 Tea and Snacks

4:00–6:00 Personal Crisis

Individuals often encounter personal crises when facing death, physical illness, addiction, and/or mental health challenges for themselves or their family members. What issues arise for chaplains when working closely with those experiencing a personal crisis? How do chaplains draw upon the study and practice of the Dharma to respond to the suffering of others? In what ways do chaplains interact with individuals and families to facilitate healing and recovery? We will discuss some specific case studies.

  • Dr. UCHIMOTO Koyu, Associate Professor, Ryukoku University
  • Trent Thornley, Executive Director & CPE Educator, San Francisco Night Ministry
  • Dr. KAWAMOTO Kanae, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
  • Evan Wong, BCC, Pediatric Palliative Care Chaplain, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland Medical Center

Moderator: Dr. Adam Lyons, Assistant Professor, Institute of Religious Studies, Université de Montréal

 

Friday, March 29th

10:00-12:00 The Future of Chaplaincy

What is the role of the chaplain in our changing world? With shifting religious demographics, how do we imagine chaplains adapting to the unique needs of their communities? What new forms of chaplaincy are becoming relevant in both Japan and the U.S.?

  • Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford, Assistant Dean for Multireligious Ministry, Harvard Divinity School
  • Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde, pastoral counselor and author, Marabella Storycraft; world traveler; spiritual care “crier”
  • Dr. KASAI Kenta, Psychologist, Professor at the Graduate School for Applied Religious Studies, Sophia University
  • Jonathan Watts, Coordinator, International Buddhist Psychotherapy and Chaplaincy working group; Senior Research Fellow, Rinbutsuken Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program, Tokyo, Japan

Moderator: Dr. Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley

12:00 PM–12:30 PM Closing discussion

Moderator: Dr. Nancy G. Lin, Professor of Buddhist Chaplaincy, Tibetan and South Asian Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies

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Getting to Know You: Korean Orphanhood and Christian Benevolence in One to One, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/229867-getting-to-know-you-korean-orphanhood-and

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Talk Summary:

One to Onewas a televised musical special that first aired on network television on December 15, 1975. It starred Julie Andrews, the World Vision Korean Children’s Choir, and Jim Henson’s The Muppets. The special functioned as a telethon for World Vision, and promoted its international child sponsorship and the practice of adoption. In this talk, I offer a critical reading of key scenes in One to One. I consider these scenes in relation to representations of orphanhood, Christian benevolence, and faith-based humanitarianism in the musical performances by the Korean Children’s Choir (formerly known as the World Vision Korean Orphan Choir) and by Julie Andrews. I focus on the ways in which the telethon highlighted the World Vision’s charitable aims while also creating a sense of intimacy through the children’s racialized performances. I argue that this strategy—consistently used in World Vision child sponsorship campaigns of the past—gained new traction in the medium of a televised broadcast during the mid-1970s. Whereas images of impoverished and suffering Korean children from the Korean War were frequently used by World Vision in earlier campaigns, the performances of music by smiling Korean children helped to complete an idealized model of an eminently adoptable child. By amplifying the coded musical messaging in One to One, I contribute a different perspective to an area of critical adoption studies that has previously paid more attention to the visual image of the orphan figure.

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Katherine In-Young Lee is Founder of Rise with Clarity, a coaching and consulting business for women of color faculty in higher education. She hosts the Rise with Clarity Podcast.

Her book, Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form (Wesleyan University Press 2018), explores how a percussion genre from South Korea (samul nori) became a global music genre. Dynamic Korea and Rhythmic Form was recognized with the 2019 BélaBartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicology from the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards. Past research topics have included the politicized drumming of dissent and the audible dimensions of a nation branding campaign. Her research on the role of music as scenes of protest during South Korea’s democratization movement was awarded the Charles Seeger Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Martin Hatch Award by the Society for Asian Music. Lee’s latest research project explores the World Vision Korean Orphan Choir through the lenses of critical adoption studies, Cold War history, evangelical Christianity, and sound studies. She received a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Harvard University in 2012 and served as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at UC Davis and (2012-17) and at UCLA (2017-23), respectively.

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Colloquium: Western Categories, Knowledge Building, and the Scientific Value of Sinological Discourse, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/230007-colloquium-western-categories-knowledge-building

How do European-language scholars with a Western cultural background perceive, understand and describe the human phenomena they observe in East Asia? How does their mind process written or spoken information conveyed in foreign script and languages? This lecture will discuss the cognitive and epistemological relationship existing between Sinology and source-language data from several complementary perspectives, including the role of metalanguage and culturally predetermined categories in the generation of learned discourse, the formation of terminologies, the coinage of neologisms, the epistemic value of the information produced, and the conditions of its reception by neighbouring disciplines in the humanities and by the educated public.


Grégoire Espesset is associate member of the Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités (GSRL) in Paris, France, and a research partner of the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) in Erlangen, Germany. A historian and a philologist, he has conducted research at the Academia Sinica and the Centre for Chinese Studies in Taiwan; the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan; German federally-sponsored international centres hosted by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Ruhr University Bochum; the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université de Paris in France. He has taught the history of Taoism and Chinese religions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris (2008-2010). His current research focuses on intellectual and literary production in imperial China from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, with a special focus on remnants of the “Weft” or “Confucian Apocrypha”; the comparative epistemology of premodern China and the modern West; and contemporary scholarly discourse in European languages on history, knowledge and religion in East Asia.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/230007-colloquium-western-categories-knowledge-building
Spatial Dunhuang: Experiencing the Mogao Caves, April 5https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/229342-spatial-dunhuang-experiencing-the-mogao-caves

This lecture retells the story of Dunhuang art through the perspective of space. This is necessary because although there are countless overviews of the art of Dunhuang, the framework is generally temporal. Guided by the ­­dynasties of China’s past, these overviews present a linear history of the Mogao Caves, supplanting the actual place with an abstract temporal sequence. This lecture presents an alternative narrative based on visitors’ experience and discusses some representative caves to demonstrate a new methodology in studying Dunhuang art Mogao.

Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, Adjunct Curator at the Smart Museum of Art, and Special Advisor to the Provost for the Arts in Asia at the University of Chicago. He is the author of fifteen books and anthologies, including A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture and Contemporary Chinese Art: A History, 1970s–2000s. As a scholar, he has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art and has experimented with different ways to integrate these conventionally separate phases into new kinds of art historical narratives. He is also a renowned international curator and has curated more than 50 exhibitions in the United States, China, and other countries.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/229342-spatial-dunhuang-experiencing-the-mogao-caves
GETSEA/Bophana Center Screening: Indigenous Film Filmmakers, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/243731-getseabophana-center-screening-indigenous-film

In conjunction with the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, GETSEA, CSEAS, and the Bophana Center present four short films by Indigenous Cambodian filmmakers on the themes of “Healing, Memory & Care.” This is a simulcast event at over 20 universities across North America with Berkeley CSEAS as the primary host. 

Dull Trail (2020) - Directed by KHON Raksa, PEOU Mono & CHOEY Rickydavid, Bunong Language

My Wish (2021) - Directed by KASOL Sinoun, Jarai Language

Trung (2022) - Directed by Khamnhei HEA, Karvet Language

Alive Skin (2022) - Directed by Veasna OEM & Vantha RAT, Khmer Language

Each university will connect via Zoom with the filmmakers located at the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for introductions and a post-screening discussion of the films. Read more about the event here.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Alexandra Dalferro at adalferro@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

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Okaiko: Performance Silkworm, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/241964-okaiko-performance-silkworm
Through poetic exploration of voice, body, and costume, performer Aine Nakamura (Ph.D. student, Music) will present a new performance, Okaiko. Okaiko are silkworms, a starting point for contemplating both the delicate image of silk textiles and the dense complexities of the silk industry and global trade. Until her exploration, silk for Nakamura was simply a part of her maternal family history in the city of mulberries, Hachiouji. Raw silk exported from Asia to Europe and the U.S. were used to make influential products. So many hands, many of them women’s hands, have been involved in the global manufacture of silk products: laboring hands in factories that seemed separated from politics have produced luxuries, weapons, and status symbols. Silk was one of the main products through which Japan gained economic profits and strengthened its military prior to World War II. For Nakamura, silk-related industrial labor and domestic reproductive labor overlap through the figures of hard-working silkworms and social norms imposed upon women. Former silk workers later commented that they were just thankful to have been able to work for their parents.

What is a cocoon, nest, safe space? How can a silkworm molt out of a cocoon and become a moth without being boiled? How can a new language be reimagined without being confined? If silkworms, diligent industrial and domestic labor, or export and import are linked in the chains of complicity with violence, what kinds of small acts can become catalysts for coexistence? Through these questions of gender, trade, labor, and Okaiko, Nakamura will study her familial and personal ethnography.

A talk and Q&A will follow the performance, moderated by Professors Marié Abe (Music) and Andrew Leong (English).



Singer, performer and composer Aine Nakamura creates an art of voice and body, weaving stories.

Her recent works include her solo performance Under an Unnamed Flower at the 2022 Venice Biennale, performance project Circle hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains presented at the 2022 Theatertreffen at Berliner Festspiele, an outdoor audiovisual performance CICADA premiered at CNMAT at UC Berkeley (2023) in collaboration with visual artist Olivia Ting and sound technologist Luke Dzwonczyk. She has presented her other performances and mixed music and artworks at The LAB is SF, Berlin University of the Arts, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, Errant Sound in collaboration with Brandon LaBelle, A Concert of Electronic Music in honor of Mario Davidovsky, Dias de Música Electroacústica, the SEAMUS Conference, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival performed with cellist Madeleine Shapiro, October New Music Festival performed with Mikro Ensemblen, and Abrons Arts Center with International Contemporary Ensemble. Awardee of the Fulbright Fellowship (2021-22, Berlin), The Leo Bronstein Homage Award, and The Honorable Mention Award for the 2020 Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize.
www.evaaine.com
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At a Crossroads: Marcos Jr., the Philippines, and A New Era of Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific, April 11https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/243979-at-a-crossroads-marcos-jr-the-philippines-and-a

About the Talk: Perhaps no country better represents the dramatic shifts in the Indo-Pacific geopolitical landscape than the Philippines. Over the past decade alone, the longtime American ally (and former colony) transmogrified from a cheerleader for America’s Pivot to Asia to a most ardent critic of American primacy in Asia. While the Benigno Aquino III administration (2010-2016) enthusiastically welcomed growing American (and Japanese) military footprint in Southeast Asia, his populist successor, Rodrigo Duterte, instead openly courted both China and Russia and enthusiastically welcomed a post-American order in Asia. Once Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of former Philippine dictator, came to power, however, he surprised both his allies and critics by adopting a new foreign policy synthesis, which combines increasingly robust security cooperation with the West (to defend the Philippines’ sovereign rights in the South China Sea) as well as active commercial diplomacy towards China (to boost infrastructure development and growth at home). In effect, Marcos Jr. has tried to optimize the Philippines’ newfound strategic sweetspot by trying to have the best of both worlds – albeit, with mixed results, so far.

The extremely erratic trajectory of Philippine foreign policy is also a reflection of radical changes within the Southeast Asian nation. Dubbed as “Asia’s oldest democracy”, the Philippines has struggled to consolidate its democratic gains following at least two major social upheavals in the past century alone, namely the EDSA I (1986) and EDSA II (2001) popular revolts, which toppled an aging dictator (Marcos Sr) and a budding strongman (Joseph Estrada), respectively. The emphatic return of the Marcos dynasty to the Malacañang Palace in 2022, following Duterte’s populist revolt six years earlier, underscores the depth of democratic deficit as well as the growing appeal of ‘disciplinary politics’ in one of the fastest-growing yet deeply polarized economies in Asia. And yet, the brewing conflict between the Marcos and Duterte dynasties provides a unique opportunity for the heavily marginalized progressive-liberal opposition to reinvent itself and claw its way back to the political mainstream. By adopting a two-level analysis, the talk seeks to shed light on both the Philippines’ fraught democratic trajectory as well as its high-stakes diplomacy vis-à-vis the superpowers. Crucially, it also analyzes how deepening US-China competition is dramatically affecting the fate of pivotal states across the Indo-Pacific region.

The talk will be moderated by Vinod Aggarwal, Distinguished Professor and Alann P. Bedford Endowed Chair in Asian Studies, Department of Political Science and Director of the Berkeley APEC Study Center.

About the Speaker: Richard Javad Heydarian is a senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines, Asian Center, and a columnist at the Philippine Daily Inquirer, a TV Host at OneNews/TV5 network, and has written for the world’s leading publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs, and is a regular contributor to Aljazeera English, Nikkei Asian Review, South China Morning Post , and the Straits Times. His books include “Asia’s New Battlefield” (Zed, 2015), The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt against Elite Democracy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and “The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China, and the New Global Struggle for Mastery” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is also a regular contributor to leading global think tanks such as Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Brooking Institution, and Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His forthcoming book is “Confronting China” (Melbourne University Press).

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Alexandra Dalferro at adalferro@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

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Conceptualising the Silk Roads: Some Suggestions, April 18https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/222900-conceptualising-the-silk-roads-some-suggestions

2024 ANNUAL TANG LECTURE

 

In this talk, Peter Frankopan will talk about the past, present and future of the Silk Roads, and set out some ideas of the benefits and challenges of focusing of joining up geographies, cultures, disciplines and periods that link Asia, Africa and Europe.

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History, Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. He specializes in the history of the Byzantine Empire in the 11th Century, and in the history of Asia Minor, Russia and the Balkans. He works on medieval Greek literature and rhetoric, and on diplomatic and cultural exchange between Constantinople and the Islamic world, western Europe and the principalities of southern Russia.

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Conference: Vietnam Centric Approaches to Vietnam’s Twentieth Century History, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/243993-conference-vietnam-centric-approaches-to-vietnams

To mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, April 30, 1975, this conference, sponsored by the Department of History and CSEAS, features scholarship that centers Vietnamese individuals, communities, movements, institutions, and discourses in the history of twentieth century Vietnam. Topics in political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual history will be explored. The focus on local actors and historical dynamics is intentional. With the 50th anniversary in mind, we are interested in new research emphasizing Vietnamese historical agency during the country’s mid-twentieth century military and political conflicts. We will feature, as well, presentations with similar Vietnam centric emphases set in the late colonial era and the post-war era. 

Friday, Apr 19, 2024

8:45 am: Welcome & opening remarks, Peter Zinoman, Professor, Department of History

9:00 - 10:45: Panel 1, DRV: Homefront and Battlefront

Tuong Vu, Professor, Political Science, University of Oregon

  • War and Society in North Vietnam, 1967-1974: Glimpses of Ordinary Life

Lương Thị Hồng, Institute of History, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

  • The Whispers in the Moonlight: Voices of North Vietnamese Women at War

Jason A. Picard, Founding Assistant Professor of Vietnamese History​ and Culture, College of Art and Sciences, VinUniversity

  • Tours of Duty: Inscribing Vietnamese Nationalism and Nation on the Hồ Chí Minh Trail, 1959-1975

10:45 - 12:30: Panel 2, The Vietnam Worker’s Party, Propaganda and Southern Communism

Phạm Hải Chung, Lecturer, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University

  • The Propaganda Pioneers: North Vietnam’s Political Cadres in the Vietnam War

Lê Antoine, PhD candidate, INALCO, affiliated with the Center for Southeast Asia (CASE), Temporary research and teaching attaché (ATER) at SciencesPo Paris – Le Havre Campus

  • The Southern Communists in the 1975 Offensive: New Insights on the Political and Military Balances Within the Revolutionary Side at the End of the Vietnam War

Cody Billock, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Ohio University

  • The COSVN Series: New Insights into the Communist Revolution in South Vietnam

12:30 - 1:30: Lunch

1:30 - 3:15: Panel 3, Emergent Fields in Vietnam Studies

Maria Baranova, PhD Candidate, Department of History, George Washington University

  • “Making it” in Colonial Indochina: A Case for Vietnam’s Lost Business History

Chu Duy Ly, PhD Candidate, National University of Singapore, & Lecturer, University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City

  • Constructing a Dam to Build a Nation: The Case of the Da Nhim Hydroelectric Power Dam in the Republic of Vietnam (1955-1975)

Alex-Thái Đ. Võ, Assistant Professor, Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University

  • Re-presenting the Republic: Unveiling the Republic of Vietnam’s Self-Image through Film Footage

Đỗ Thị Thanh Thủy, PhD Candidate, Department of Gender, Sexuality, Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University

  • Vietnamese State Feminism: The Making, Remaking, and Unmaking of Vietnamese Women

3:15 - 3:45: Coffee break

3:45 - 5:15: Keynote, Van Nguyen-Marshall, Associate Professor of History, Trent University, Ontario, Canada

  • The Strange Case of the History of the Vietnam War

6:00 pm: Dinner reception for participants



Saturday, Apr 20, 2024

8:30 - 10:15: Panel 4, Vietnamese Communism(s): From Republican to Scientific Socialism

Charles Keith, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University

  • Vietnamese Communism’s French Connection

Alec Holcombe, Associate Professor & Director of the Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University

  • The Role of Vu Dinh Hoe in the Making of Vietnam’s 1959 Constitution

Thanh Nguyen, Graduate student, Yale University, Department of History

  • Science, Development, and the Rearticulation of Vietnamese Socialism in the 1980s

10:15 - 12:00: Panel 5, Language and Power in the DRV

Yen Vu, Faculty member in Literature, Fulbright University Vietnam

  • Tran Duc Thao and The Dislocation of Language in Marxist Self-criticism

Vũ Thị Kim Hoa, Lecturer, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University; Phạm Hải Chung, Lecturer, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University; Đỗ Thị Nụ, Lecturer, Dai Nam University

  • Red Music as Propaganda Apparatus in the Vietnam War

Uyen Nguyen, Lecturer, Department of History/College of Humanities and Sciences, National University of Singapore

  • Memory, Madness, and Sorrows: Rethinking North Vietnamese Novels of the Postwar

12:00 - 1:00: Lunch

1:00 - 2:45: Panel 6, New Directions in RVN History

Alexander M. Cannon, Associate Professor of Music, Department of Music, University of Birmingham

  • “The Four Seas as Siblings”: Nguyễn Đăng Thục and Asian Cultural Unity in the Republic of Vietnam

Ryan Nelson, The Ohio State University DPAA Research Partner Fellow

  • Criminally Iconic: The Rise and Fall of Đại Cathay, Late 1950s to Mid-1960s

Diu-Huong Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Irvine

  • Voices From the Center: Lập Trườngand “the Vietnam Problem”

Chi-Thien Bui, MA student, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City

  • Vietnamization of Liturgy: Catholics and the Reception of Vatican II Liturgical Reform in South Vietnam, 1962-1975

2:45 - 3:15: Coffee break

3:15 - 5:00: Panel 7, Representing the Postwar

Vinh Phu Pham, Assistant Professor in World Literature, Bard HSEC Queens

  • Paris by Nightand the Making of Vietnamese-American Music

Conor Michael James Lauesen, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  • Post-1975 Visual Socialist Politics: The Pictures of Bùi Xuân Phái and Vũ Dân Tân

Ann Ngoc Tran, PhD Candidate, American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California

  • Imagined Diaspora: Anticipating Departure in Postwar Vietnam

5:00: Closing remarks

 

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Alexandra Dalferro at adalferro@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

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Conference Keynote: The Strange Case of the History of the Vietnam War, April 19https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/243999-conference-keynote-the-strange-case-of-the-history

About the Talk: Half a century after North Vietnamese tanks rolled through the iron gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon signaling an end to the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese still struggle to claim a place in the historical narrative. This talk examines the strange case of the historiography of this war, where a major belligerent has been consistently left out, depicted only as the background cast. The persistent effort of a small group of historians over the last two decades has redirected attention to South Vietnamese, casting them as relevant actors. Why has it taken decades to recognize South Vietnam as a party of the war? And what does it mean to include them? My work on South Vietnamese civil society demonstrates that when non-communist South Vietnamese are taken into account, the history of the war becomes not only more comprehensive and representative, but also more complicated. Complex and contested, the history of the war defies the heroic narrative, making it difficult to evoke Vietnam as an analogy, a stand-in, or symbol.

About the Speaker: Van Nguyen-Marshall is an Associate Professor at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. Her research area is modern Vietnam with a focus on both the French colonial and postcolonial periods. Her publications include In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam (Peter Lang, 2008) and Between War and the State: Vietnamese Voluntary Association in South Vietnam (1954-1975) (Cornell Southeast Asian Program Publication, 2023). Since 2022, she along with Martha Lincoln and Peter Zinoman have been co-editors-in-chief of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Alexandra Dalferro at adalferro@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

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Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Of Color & Ink: Chang Dai-chien After 1949, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/239128-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-of-color-amp

Widely acclaimed as China’s foremost 20 th century painter, Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983) spent his last three decades living in self-imposed exile from his beloved homeland. This film unravels the mystery and controversy of his creative and spiritual quest abroad and his journey East to West to become an artist of global significance.

“Of Color and Ink” is a feature-length documentary that follows the journey of the Chinese artist Chang Dai-chien as he embarks on a quest from the East to the West in search of the Peach Blossom Spring, a utopian place of life and the ultimate truth of art. The film delves into Chang’s extraordinary exile journey and sheds light on his mission in the global art world.

From CINEQUEST:

Winner Best International Feature Documentary Film Award at The 47th Sao Paulo International Film Festival

Winner Best Feature Documentary Film Award at The China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Film Festival

The wonderful Of Color and Ink uncovers the creative, political, and spiritual journeys of China’s foremost 20th-century painter Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983). The film follows his unusual life journey from pre-Communist China to Argentina, the jungles of Brazil; his much acclaimed exhibits in Paris and Germany in the 1960s; as well as his final years in California and Taiwan, in a thirty-year exile in the West that has been shrouded in mystery.

Director Zhang Weimin’s captivating film explores Chang Dai-chien’s pursuit of a vision of Peach Blossom Spring, a utopian ideal of harmony and tolerance, in a world far removed from the traditional China he left behind, as he moved from East to West to become the first Chinese artist to achieve international renown, whose works today command the highest auction prices of any of any post World War II painter.

Through innovative techniques and visual styles, “Of Color and Ink” spectacularly offers an illuminating, refreshing, artistic, and entertaining exploration of an emblematic influential figure in 20th century art.

Panelists:

Weimin Zhang is an award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer, and professor at San Francisco State University. As one of China’s Sixth Generation filmmakers, she worked on numerous award-winning films, documentaries, and TV drama series in both China and the U.S. as a director, cinematographer, and editor. Her film, The House of Spirit (2000) won the Women in Film Award; She also produced, wrote, and directed the feature documentary Missing Home: The Last Days of Beijing Hutongs (2013) which was presented at more than a dozen international film festivals. In 2007, the Library of Congress acquired her interactive multimedia DVD-ROM, Nushu: The Women’s Secret Writing for its permanent collection.

Mark Dean Johnson is a professor of art. He was educated at Yale University, where he was a personal assistant to Josef Albers, and received his M.F.A. from UC Berkeley. He previously was a professor at Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA, and associate dean of Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute. His publications include Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (2008: Stanford University Press), and AT WORK: The Art of California Labor (2003: California Historical Society Press).

Carl Nagin has worked as an editor, teacher, and independent journalist in print and documentaries for four decades. His features have appeared in The New Yorker, Art and Antiques, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, BBC World, and New York magazine. He wrote and reported documentaries for the PBS series FRONTLINE, the BBC, and ABC News. At Harvard University, he taught writing, rhetoric, and journalism, and served as a speechwriter, editor, and researcher for Joseph Nye, dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. A three-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his work on Chang Dai-ch’ien, he is completing the artist’s first English-language biography and produced the 1993 documentary Abode of Illusion: The Art and Life of Chang Dai-ch’ien. For the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he served as chief editor for the award-winning catalogue, Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1000 Years of Chinese Painting and for Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: Tang, Sung, and Yuan Dynasties published by Otsuka Kogeisha. He currently serves as a Professor of Humanities and Sciences at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Jun Hu is an assistant professor; Mr. & Mrs. Pai Ruchu Presidential Professor in Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley. He specializes in Chinese art and architecture, with an emphasis on how the material process of art-making intersects with other modes of knowledge production. His research and teaching engage with the history of Chinese architecture and its connections to other scholarly traditions, print culture and painting theory in the early modern period, and interregional interactions between China, Japan, and Korea.

Winnie Wong is an associate professor in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. Her research is concerned with the history and present of artistic authorship, with a focus on interactions between China and the West. Her theoretical interests revolve around the critical distinctions of high and low, true and fake, art and commodity, originality and imitation, and, conceptual and manual labor, and thus her work focuses on objects and practices at the boundary of these categories. 

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Cancelled - Colloquium: Lang Shining as Daemon: Giuseppe Castiglione and the Language of European Sinology, May 2https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/235610-cancelled-colloquium-lang-shining-as-daemon-giuseppe-

Please kindly note that this event has been cancelled due to an emergency. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

In the eighteenth century, what we generally define as chinoiserie comprehended different forms, from painting to furniture, created in Europe in dialogue with real Chinese productions. These items displayed elements recognized as Chinese but created along the lines of European poetics. The world of chinoiserie thus became one of the loci of a language of appropriation which structured descriptions of pretended exchanges between Europe and China. Here, I discuss such a context from the perspective of European artists and missionaries living in China, especially through the lenses of a Jesuit lay-brother and painter, Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766), who worked in the imperial painting workshops in Beijing. By discussing the evidence related to his experiences, we have the chance to shed light on significant European views on China, and in turn, to explore some of the colonial concepts concealed into sinological and art-historical narratives.

Marco Musillo is an independent scholar working on early modern China-Europe artistic dialogues. He has published on the eighteenth-century pictorial encounters at the Qing court, and on the historiography of transcultural art forms, from the Renaissance to the modern period. In 2016 he published The Shining Inheritance: Italian Artists at the Qing Court, 1699-1812(Getty Research Institute Publications); he is author of Tangible Whispers, Neglected Encounters: Histories of East-West Artistic Dialogues, 1350-1904(Mimesis International, 2018); and co-editor of Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia (Routledge, 2020).

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, UC Berkeley.

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