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Greetings from IEAS!
The Institute of East Asian Studies is literally on the move, and we are brimming with ideas this Fall! I’m excited to share some of our latest news with you. Our popular IdEAS series (where IEAS meets dessert) is back with two mixers planned for September and November. Ideas are sure to flow at the new IEAS-East Asian Library Lecture Series with talks on movies and aerial photography scheduled for October and November. Our five new grant schemes, just launched, include an Ideas grant seeking input and inspiration from faculty around the theme of oceans.
Scroll down to get a full taste of our Events menu, learn about opportunities for funding and for updates on IEAS Publications, a new Taiwanese language program at Berkeley, and more.
With best wishes to all for a fruitful Fall,
Penny Edwards
Director, Institute of East Asian Studies
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IEAS will move into our new premises at Bancroft Way (aka Banway), this Fall. We hope to be fully installed by the first week of November, and look forward to welcoming you to our traditional IEAS Holiday Reception on December 4.
Photo: New IEAS Office Space, 2111 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
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IdEAS Mixers:
Building Community through
IEAS + dessert
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Launched in Spring 2024, IdEAS is where IEAS meets dessert: where the conversation flows alongside boba, tea, and coffee. More than a meeting of minds and a crumbling of cake, this is a gathering of our East and Southeast Asian studies community on campus, open to all Cal students, faculty, postdoctoral fellows, staff and visiting scholars affiliated with IEAS. If you have a research question, art update, publications or other announcements, or just want to wind down on a Friday afternoon, forge new friendships and connect with fellow scholars of East and Southeast Asia, be sure to join us for our Fall 2024 IdEAS series. Pass the mic or pass the dessert... but don't pass up this chance to catch up with IEAS faculty, curators and program directors, and share what’s new with you!
RSVP for IdEAS here.
Friday, September 27, 3-5pm
~ 1995 University Ave, 5th Floor IEAS Conference Room
Friday, November 8, 3-5pm
~ 233 Philosophy Hall, UCB campus
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IEAS Launches Five New Grant Schemes
Institute of East Asian Studies Ideas Grants for faculty aim to generate new ideas and collaborations on East and/or Southeast Asia, on the theme of Oceans. Application teams must include at least one core faculty whose chief research specialization is East or Southeast Asia. Up to three grants of up to $7,500 will be awarded in 2024-25.
Haas Finishing Lines Grants will support UC Berkeley graduate students in East or Southeast Asian studies in the final stages of writing their dissertations. Successful applicants will be invited to share their research at a public presentation at IEAS. Two grants of $10,000 will be made in 2024-25
IEAS Translation Grants Three new Translation Grants of $2,000 will support UC Berkeley graduate students in East or Southeast Asian studies who wish to complete or begin work on a translation of a work of literature, philosophy, or film from an East or Southeast Asian language, for publication or research purposes. Three awards will be made in 2024-25.
UC Berkeley Research Collections Enhancement Grants Funded by the Haas Chair endowment at IEAS, these grants support UC Berkeley librarians or curators specializing in East or Southeast Asian studies who wish to collaborate with a faculty member to build collections or develop exhibitions. Two awards of $1,500 will be made for 2024-25.
Emeritus Faculty and Staff Research Support Grants
This new scheme will provide Emeritus faculty, current staff members, and retired academic staff members with $1,000 grants to attend academic conferences in East and Southeast Asian studies-- to present their work, participate in academic panels or engage in other related activities. The intention is to support continuous engagement in the field.
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US Taiwan Next Generation
Working Group
| The IEAS-led U.S.-Taiwan Next Generation Working Group met in Berkeley for a packed and productive week focused on "mastering the media", June 10-15, 2024. The goal of the program is to cultivate a cohort of scholars who show promise as future experts on U.S.-Taiwan affairs, through skills training and network building. Thirteen participants from cohorts one and two gathered at IEAS for an op-ed workshop; a mock TV interview and camera training, lively discussions and team-building activities. Four scholars from Taiwan and the US shared their latest research and perspectives in the public panel “Defining Taiwan and Being Taiwanese: The Evolving Nature of Taiwanese Identity and its Implications for Future Policy”. The program first met in Taiwan in 2023, and will convene in Washington DC next year for a session with stakeholders from the private and public sectors. The program is made possible thanks to generous grant funding from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco and the U.S. Department of Education (Title VI). | | |
Language Matters: Cantonese and Taiwanese | |
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This Fall, with the support of Title VI grant funding via IEAS, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures launched the University of California's first Taiwanese language track, building on the model and the success of the Cantonese program, also launched with Title VI funding in 2019. Cantonese is one of the most widely spoken languages in the state of California, with a history here dating back to the 19th century.
California is home for well over one half of Taiwanese-Americans in the US. Thanks to the input and initiative of Cal students and core faculty, generous donor support and a new campaign by the Division of Arts and Humanities https://www.savecantonese.org/uc-berkeley Cantonese and Taiwanese at Cal are set to grow further. As student interest in the diversity of Sinitic languages grows, Berkeley is excited to become the only UC campus to offer these important languages alongside the vanishingly few such programs nationwide.
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Publications
Hot off the Press from IEAS: Digitization and Translation
IEAS Publications is making waves in the PRC, where a multi-media, multi-volume collaboration with Peking University and the China Academy of Arts saw the debut of the first book-length Chinese translation of James Cahill's video lectures. Published by Peking University Press in a handsome edition in 2023, A Pure and Remote View 溪山清远 had sold 12,000 copies by January 2024, garnering IEAS more than $30,000 in royalties. The translation of the second lecture series, Gazing into the Past, will be out soon.
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2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the United States Army Observer Mission to Yenan. Colonel D. S. Barrett’s memoir Dixie Mission takes readers behind the frontlines of US-China relations, including conversations with Mao Tse-tung and Zhou Enlai.
First published by IEAS in 1970, this eye-witness account joins 32 softcover books published by IEAS that were digitized by JSTOR in the last few months under our digitization initiative. Currently, 69 IEAS titles are available on the JSTOR platform (https://www.jstor.org/publisher/ieas); 36 of those are also on Project MUSE.
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Top: Chu Teh, Service (in background) Barrett, Mao Tse-tung
Bottom: Service, Champion, Barrett, Huang Hua, Chou En-lai, unknown
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IEAS is an Organized Research Unit that serves as the focal point for UC Berkeley programs related to East Asia and the Asia-Pacific region. The Institute and its seven centers foster interdisciplinary research on contemporary and historical East Asia and Southeast Asia, drawing from a broad spectrum of eminent Berkeley faculty in a variety of fields and professional schools. Find out more about each center below. | | | | |
