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From the Director
I’m thrilled to share a few highlights from our first full semester at 2111 Bancroft Way in this “Spring Wrap”. Judging by the buzz so far, the Cal Lion Dance team who danced their way through IEAS at our December housewarming, left an auspicious trail. But it takes more than a lion’s roar to create community. IEAS continues to flourish because of our dedicated supporters – and that includes you.
Connection and Commitment
The best research and teaching thrive on the exchange of ideas. The ability to communicate and interpret concepts to diverse audiences across cultural, generational, and linguistic boundaries comes with practice.
In these turbulent times, such skills have never been more important. Building these cognitive and practical skills takes commitment – and connection.
Founded in 1965, IEAS serves as a metronome for the strength of UC Berkeley’s commitment to East Asian Studies. As the longstanding recipient of Title VI funding from the Department of Education, IEAS also mirrors the commitment of successive US administrations to area studies. From critical languages to research forums and Foreign Languages and Area Studies fellowships, Title VI at IEAS equips the students of today to become the leaders of tomorrow.
Title VI also funds K-12 outreach, and IEAS is proud to house the stellar Office of International Area Studies (ORIAS). Established in 1996, ORIAS plays a vital role as the interface between area studies centers at UC Berkeley and the wider California education system. Curricular initiatives on Angkor Wat, foreign relations in early modern East Asia, to name just two, bring the world into California classrooms. Professional workshops and seminars on AI, Smart Cities and Infrastructure and Society connect K-12 and Community College educators in a “series of interlocking communities of practice”, to quote ORIAS Program Coordinator, Shane Carter. ORIAS is a critical nexus in the formation of next generation area studies experts.
IEAS remains grateful for the support of Title VI, and its impact. But in light of recent cuts to federal funding for education, the future of Title VI appears uncertain. We can only hope that the program’s proven potential to strengthen America’s place in the world by equipping our students with vital skills and knowledge, will persuade the powers that be to protect this national gem.
Collaboration and Community
If a problem shared is a problem halved, then knowledge shared is knowledge amplified.
Our international scholars and students are a vital part of our community, who make our mission possible, and contribute so much to the global standing of UC Berkeley. IEAS thrives through our partnerships with sister institutes on campus who share our mission to raise awareness of Asia, to amplify voices from Asia and to multiply perspectives on Asia.
This Spring, IEAS co-sponsored the impressive UC Berkeley Global Forum on Contemporary Challenges in the Asia Pacific, convened by the Institute of International Studies, with the support of our Title VI grant. IEAS also partnered with the Asian American Research Center in response to sudden policy shifts that caused anxiety and concern to many valued members of our community. Attorneys, community leaders and faculty shared guidance on international student visa revocations, and perspectives on the China Initiative, to packed and attentive audiences at two separate panels in April and May. And IEAS continued its series of joint lectures with the C. V. Starr East Asian Library. We are grateful for EAL Director Peter Zhou’s enthusiastic support of this series, and for all he has done to build up the EAL and its extraordinary collections of East Asian materials – we wish him well for his retirement.
Gratitude
As the umbrella unit for the Center for Chinese Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies, the Center for Korean Studies, the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, the APEC Center, alongside IEAS Publications and ORIAS, IEAS covers a lot of ground.
I am ever grateful to my co-pilot, IEAS Associate Director Dylan Davis, for his expert navigation skills in all IEAS endeavors; to IEAS Business Manager Daniel Ureste for ensuring our programs land on time and under budget, and to IEAS Office Manager Jennie Chuang, for going the extra mile with various activities, including this newsletter.
Finally, a big thank you to all our Center Faculty Chairs, Program Staff, our students, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, and all who so generously contribute time, ideas and funding in support of IEAS.
Penny Edwards
Director, Institute of East Asian Studies
Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies
Professor of Southeast Asian Studies
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Pulitzer-Prize Winner Hua Hsu launches IEAS Spotlight Series | |
In February, IEAS hosted Cal alum and Pulitzer Prize- winning author Hua Hsu, for the launch of our new annual series, Spotlight on Asia. A forum for new voices on Asia, designed to highlight Berkeley's strengths in East Asian studies, and forge connections and spark conversations across campus and beyond, Spotlight on Asia aims to twin star power and faculty expertise in an annual keynote lecture and an in-house workshop.
The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Hua Hsu won the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for Memoir in 2023 with Stay True, a heart-wrenching and soul-searching story of connection, community, loss, memory, music and zines set in 1990s Berkeley. A tribute to Hua’s friend Ken Ishida, who did not live to graduate, Stay True is also a celebration of the power of language, the fragility of youth, and the gift of friendship. Hua Hsu grew up in Cupertino. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a Political Science degree, and received his PhD from Harvard. He is a staff writer for the New Yorker and Professor of Literature at Bard College. This was his first appearance at Cal since the publication of his memoir.
Hundreds gathered to hear Hua Hsu in conversation with Andrew F. Jones, Louis B. Agassiz Professor in Chinese on 7 February at International House. In their wide-ranging discussion, Hua Hsu reflected with gravitas, humility and humor on the meaning of friendship, and the rise of Asian American consciousness at Cal. In a robust and at times touching Q&A, current and former students quizzed Hua about life at Cal. Off stage, Hua met with attendees in person at a book signing hosted by East Wind Books. Lok Siu, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, opened the proceedings. More on the event can be found in Riya Chopra's piece for the Daily Cal.
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Graduate Seminar with
Hua Hsu
On 8 February, Andrew Leong, Assistant Professor, English, facilitated a lively graduate seminar - Fantasy, Failure, and Friendship -where nine graduates met with Hua Hsu to discuss questions of craft, genre, self-fashioning and outsider status through Stay True, and Hua’s earlier book, Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific (Harvard University, 2016). Graduates and faculty left inspired by Hua’s warm and generous presence and gleaned new insights into literature, life, and the craft of writing.
| Spotlight on Asia was co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, and Asian American Research Center. The success of this inaugural forum owed hugely to the hard work and team spirit, behind the scenes and on site, of IEAS Office Manager Jennie Chuang, IEAS Business Manager Daniel Ureste, CJS Program Director Kumi Sawada Hadler, CCS Program Director Xiaojie Ma, CJS Program Coordinator Tessa Machida, CCS Program Coordinator Skye VanValkenburgh, and CSEAS Program Director Alexandra Dalferro and to our dedicated student assistants and volunteers. | | | | |
The US-Taiwan Next Generation Working Group News
IEAS has for nearly three decades facilitated dissemination of research on Taiwan through conferences, workshops, lectures, and publications. With the support of the TECO San Francisco Office and U.S. Department of Education, in 2019, we launched an in-depth training program for scholars and policymakers with an interest in U.S.-Taiwan relations who show promise as future experts on foreign affairs in relation to Taiwan. Learn more at ieas.berkeley.edu/taiwan.
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Presenting at AAS 2025 in Columbus, OH.
Left to right: Richard J. Haddock, George Washington University, Chiaoning Su, Oakland University, Christine Lin, University of California College of Law San Francisco, Adrienne Wu, Global Taiwan Institute, Hsin-I Cheng, Santa Clara University
| | Working Group members recently met in Berkeley with TECRO Representative to the United States, Ambassador Alexander Tah-Ray Yui, for a wide-ranging discussion on issues of importance to the U.S.-Taiwan relationship. And this June, Cohort II members will convene in Washington DC for meetings with stakeholders across the public and private sectors. | | |
Aftershocks: Myanmar's Earthquake in Perspectives
“When the earthquake hit central Myanmar, it hit not just buildings, but the entire society and the full foundation of the state.” – Kyaw Zaw Moe
In April, IEAS and CSEAS organized a panel on Myanmar’s devastating earthquake of March 28. Journalist and author Kyaw Zwa Moe, Executive Editor, The Irrawaddy; Sean Turnell, Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute and former Economic Advisor to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar’s democratic government; and Kenneth Wong, Lecturer in Burmese at UCB shared their expertise and insights on the country's future, the aftershocks of the 2025 earthquake and the reverberations of the military coup of 2021. Penny Edwards, IEAS Director and Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, led the discussions.
The panel’s overriding perspective was that the people in Myanmar are suffering as much from the military’s manmade disasters as they are from the earthquake. With an economy on the verge of collapse and so many insolvent banks, rebuilding would be near impossible without international support. Journalism remains a risky business, and the military’s embargo of accurate information and access to the worst impacted areas, makes the role of independent news outlets like The Irrawaddy ever more urgent. Burmese diaspora in the Bay Area have mobilized to fundraise and strategize to ensure earthquake aid bypasses the military regime: links to some of these initiatives can be found in this Message of sympathy. A lively Q&A touched on ASEAN’s role in the region; China’s influence on, and strategic interests in Myanmar, and the vacuum left by the closure of US AID and Radio Free Asia and Voice of America whose Burmese language broadcasts provided vital information to the people of Myanmar.
Further reading: Sean Turnell is the author of An Unlikely Prisoner (2023). Kyaw Zwa Moe is the author of The Cell, Exile and the New Burma (2016). Kenneth Wong’s translations of Burmese fiction appear in the recent anthology he co-edited with ko ko thett and others, In the Silence (2023). CSEAS gratefully acknowledges the support provided for Burmese language at Berkeley through the 2022-2026 Title VI Award to the UCB and UCLA Southeast Asian Studies Consortium US Edu cation Title VI National Resource Center.
(Our thanks to Gary Rocchio for sharing these photos below)
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IEAS at AAS
IEAS put in another great showing at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) in Columbus, Ohio, 13-16 March 2025.
UC Berkeley faculty, graduates, and postdoctoral scholars shared new research on Japan, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and beyond. Papers on Japan ranged from environmental order and imperial architecture, to figures of friendship in Japanese literature, snakes and monsters in Japanese myth, and magical realism in Tokyo. Research on China included landscapes, Chinese cinema, the Dream of the Red Chamber; propaganda in modern China; Kuomintang expertise in Maoist ministries; new thoughts on ethnography, and the musical flows between China and Africa. Panels on Taiwan spanned the island and its waters, in paper ranging from veteran labor in the 1950s, to eighteenth century songs, and oceanic waste.
Research on Southeast Asia offered new histories of capitalism; new approaches to property; new ways of thinking with intellectual history in the Philippines, and new takes on the quality of affinity in fieldwork.
With 2025 marking the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, UC Berkeley’s strengths in Vietnam studies were clear to see with wartime fiction from the Republic of Vietnam; Securitization and Authoritarianism under Vietnamese Communist Rule, the Vietnamese Scholar Gentry and French-Educated Younger Generation, 1900-1945; approaches in Vietnam and the US to teaching the Second Indochina War; and doctoral research on Prostitutes and Rehabilitation in Socialist Sài Gòn (Hồ Chí Minh City) (1975-1985).
And just days before the US announced soaring tariffs on Vietnam and China (to name just two impacted countries in the region), a paper on the role of Scholar Envoys in Ming dynasty diplomacy with Đại Việt, 1368-1404, lifted the curtain on the complex histories connecting China and Southeast Asia. In addition to these papers by scholars at Berkeley, IEAS was thrilled to see the first AAS panel of the US Taiwan Next Generation Working Group, where five members of our flagship program presented fresh perspectives on Taiwanese American identities.
True to IEAS tradition, presenters, alumni and scholars of the region from across the globe gathered on Saturday evening at the UC reception hosted annually by IEAS, if in somewhat sombre circumstances. Recognizing the International Foreign Language and Education Office staff who were put on administrative leave earlier that week as part of the Department of Education's reduction in force measures, IEAS Director Penny Edwards raised a toast in tribute to their diligent and brilliant work managing the Title VI grant and Fulbright-Hays program from which countless American institutions, individuals and by extension, America's national interests, have benefited across the decades.
See here for full details of UC Berkeley's presentations at the AAS.
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In the Poet's hand: a literary tour of the Mitsui collection
On March 18, Professor Yoshitaka Yamamoto returned to Berkeley, where he had spent the Fall semester as a visiting professor, to share his research on Sinitic poetry, a transnationally shared written medium of imaginative reflection, ardent expression, and scholarly exchange for intellectuals in pre-1900 East Asia. Attended by students, faculty and the broader community, his talk “In the Poet's Hand: Autograph Manuscripts of Japanese Sinitic Poetry from Berkeley's Mitsui Acquisition” revealed how a trained eye and expertise, together with curatorial support, can open up valuable information from writings that may otherwise go overlooked - including comments by a mentor and biographical details about little-known figures.
| From left to right: Edward Kamens, Deborah Rudolph (background), Toshie Marra, Penny Edwards, Peter Zhou, Yoshitaka Yamamoto | Following an introduction by librarian Toshie Marra to the library’s Japanese collections, Dr. Yamamoto revealed fresh insights on rare manuscripts previously owned by the Mitsui family and now held by the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at UC Berkeley. He shared new research and reflections on Sinitic poems composed and handwritten by nineteenth-century Japanese intellectuals, while bringing them to life through his lively renditions of select verses in Japanese and English. | | Virginia Shih (L), Curator for Southeast Asia and Buddhist Studies Collection and Peter Zhou, Director of EAL | |
Breathing New Life into the Sinophone Southeast Asia Collection
On April 24, Virginia Shih, Curator for Southeast Asia and Buddhist Studies Collections, held a workshop, "Breathing New Life into the Sinophone Southeast Asia Studies Collection at C.V. Starr East Asian Library: Challenges and Prospects", for faculty, graduate students and library staff with related research and teaching interests.
Her lecture first described the history and provenance of this special collection, with an overview of the Chinese language materials acquired through decades of painstaking research and her site visits to Chinese community archives and organizations in ten countries of Southeast Asia from the Philippines to Myanmar. With hands-on access to select materials, the workshop then showed how locally published books, news media, and ephemera can shed light on the history and society of Chinese communities, individuals and organizations across this vast region.
Thanks to funding support from the Walter and Elise Haas Endowed Chair at IEAS, EAL will soon start cataloging this important special collection so that researchers and other library users can better use this collection. The Library has obtained exceptional permission during the current hiring freeze to hire a cataloger to complete this project.
| | Beyond Chinese Cinema: Paul Fonoroff Lecture on YouTube now | | The IEAS-EAL series launched in October 2024 with “Beyond Chinese Cinema: Behind the Scenes of the Paul Kendel Fonoroff Collection for Chinese Film Studies." Supported by a dazzling cast of archival ephemera, dating to the 1920s and spanning Hong Kong, Indonesia, Shanghai, and Bangkok, Paul Kendel Fonoroff's riveting lecture offered rare glimpses of Chinese cinematic history, and shone a light on movie magic and fandom among Chinese diaspora. His inaugural lecture, Beyond Chinese Cinema is now available on our YouTube channel. | | |
See our full catalogue here. | |
IEAS Publications Update
In March, we returned from a successful trip to Columbus for the annual AAS meeting, where we exhibited our books at the IEAS booth, spoke with authors about their manuscripts, and hosted the largest reception at the conference! Much interest in the titles we've published and also new projects to pursue.
Our most recent publication is Sociolinguistics and Korean Language Education. Edited by Hye-Sook Wang of Brown University, this volume brings together the research and perspectives of fifteen educators. The topics discussed include Hallyu, study abroad, heritage language instruction, gender stereotypes, family language policies, "politeness inflation," neologisms, and diversity and inclusion.
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New Grant Award Programs at IEAS
We also launched a new Translation Grants scheme in Fall 2024. We will run the program again in Fall 2025. Congratulations to this year's inaugural awardees! Learn more about their research here.
Ann Chen, East Asian Languages and Cultures
(The Zither Book of Deadwood Zen (枯木禪琴譜) by a monk in the 1890s) Illustration below.
Lianbi Ji, Comparative Literature
(Yu-guan [玉官] by Taiwan-born writer and scholar Xu Dishan, 1894-1941)
Pumho Karimi, Comparative Literature
(Four Japanese short stories: Hayashi Fumiko’s 運命/ Destiny, (1939), Nakajima Atsushi’s マリアン/ Maria (1942), Shimao Toshio’s はまべのうた/ Song of the Beach (1946), and Dazai Osamu’s 家庭の幸 福/ Household Welfare (1949))
Daniel Owen, South and Southeast Asian Studies
(Indonesian poet Afrizal Malna’s Dalam Rahim Ibuku Tak Ada Anjing (No Dog in My Mother’s Womb)). Excerpt on Right.
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Giving Back with Big Give
IEAS Undergrad Research Awards
This new program supports juniors and sophomores who are interested in pursuing research opportunities related to East Asia and Southeast Asia with a particular focus on Humanities and Social Science, such as in preparation for a senior thesis or other major capstone project. Applications are due March 1st. Help us spread the word about this new program.
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Afrizal Malna
Riding a Motorbike to Tanjung Burung
I ride a motorbike out to the village. This morning I saw my face in the mirror, in the bathroom below. I wasn’t the least bit surprised when time began building a train in that mirror. In the village, a long river. Boats for travel. Dusk customarily built from palm fronds and banana leaves. Pak Simin serves me coconut water. Kids play, chase each other around on land that runs toward the city. The river no longer births fish. The river bottom has become the factories’ bed. The people must leave their fields, like leaving their hands and feet at the bottom of the river. Some still weave their own nets. But the fish are gone. It’s been so long now since fish came to visit our home. It’s been so long now since our feet felt the soil’s breath, the green padi’s stalk. Hens lay eggs on our beds. Tomorrow our kids will die. No chance at school. No chance in the city, watching our land turn into escalators, iron cars, glass buildings, and tall fences. Pak Umar locks dusk in his eyes. He says goodbye, who knows to whom. That poor river. The shrimp gone.
I ride a motorbike to a village called Tanjung Burung, in Tangerang. There are still old houses of old wood. And the motor’s roar. People with tattoos and iron boots. There is still a sky stored in an image. And shrimp swim in the radio. Morning buries the river’s corpse in a dried-up well. And a boat sets sail from Pak Umar’s front door. Says goodbye, who knows to whom. In five minutes the motorbike will come to pick me. Take me to the bathroom below. There’s a miror there. There’s time that keeps building a train. There’s a sad human. Doesn’t get how or why they’re already in that train anyway.
Original poem, Afrizal Malna, 1999.
Translation from Indonesian copyright Daniel Owen, UC Berkeley, 2025.
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IdEAS Socials, sharing research inhouse
The IdEAS Socials continue on. These mixers allow our graduate students, faculty, postdoc fellows, and visiting scholars to share their latest research in a relaxed setting. It is also a place where our international scholars can forge connections across disciplines and outside of their specific country expertise.
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Center for Korean Studies Leadership Transition
Professor Jinsoo An’s 5-year term as Chair of the Center for Korean Studies comes to an end on June 30, 2025. We are grateful to Professor An for his stellar stewardship of the Center over the past five years. Under his leadership, the CKS has expanded its intellectual programs and deepened understanding of the complexity, diversity, change and continuity of Korean history, society and culture across diaspora, disciplines, and borders. Professor An has raised the Center’s profile through such initiatives as the Hong Yung Lee book award and the 80th Birthday Celebration of Korean at Cal, has worked hard to expand Korean Studies faculty, made significant progress towards a new Korean Major and has overseen a vibrant series of events. Behind the scenes, he has built and maintained relations with donors and visiting scholars, steered the CKS through the crux of the pandemic, works attentively with the Center’s Program Director and Visiting Scholar Coordinator, and has managed staff transitions from retirement to recruitment. We look forward to welcoming Professor Steven Lee (English Dept.) as the next CKS Chair.
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Strengthening Research Skills at CCS
This spring, Center for Chinese Studies hosted the second cohort of the CCS Honors Thesis Workshop for Undergraduate Research, an initiative made possible by the generosity of Laura Young and Frank Wang. Majoring in History, Film and Media, Chinese Language and Literature, Political Science, and Comparative Literature, this year's cohort met monthly with CCS Faculty Chair Sophie Volpp and held individual meetings with graduate student advisor Yvonne Lin.
On May 5, the students presented their research in the IEAS Conference Room on topics ranging from the historical writing of Sima Qian and Ban Zhao, Chinese educational films of the 1980s, Chinese women laborer's poetry, the Chinese reception of the political philosophy of Leo Strauss, and Hong Kong music and cultural memory. Congratulations to thesis writers Yingying Rao, Angel Chui, Melun Xu, Annie Cheng, Qiyue Zhao, Angel Chui, and Clara So! (Pictured here, together with Laura Young, Frank Wang, and CCS Chair Sophie Volpp, in the IEAS Conference Room).
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Tang Center for Silk Road Studies Dig
A multinational team of researchers has embarked on a collaborative project in the mountainous regions of Uzbekistan to explore the economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions of Turkic communities that flourished across Central Asia between the 6th and 11th centuries.
This initiative builds on a pioneering LiDAR survey, recently featured in Nature, led by Michael Frachetti (Washington University in St. Louis) and Farhod Maksudov (Director, Center for Archaeology, Uzbek Academy of Sciences), which uncovered the vast scale of high-altitude urbanism at Tugunbulak. The findings challenge conventional distinctions between settled agricultural civilizations and mobile pastoralist societies. In 2023, the project expanded with the addition of a research team from UC Berkeley, led by Sanjyot Mehendale (Chair, Tang Center for Silk Road Studies), to deepen investigations into these mountain settlements.
The Silk Road – High-elevation Urbanism (SR-HUBS) project seeks to illuminate daily life at Tugunbulak and its connections with contemporaneous sites across Central Eurasia, including the Sogdian-dominated lowlands to the south. While traditionally regarded as remote and peripheral, these highland regions reveal extensive evidence of dynamic exchanges, underscoring their integral role in regional and transcontinental networks.
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The results of the 2024 field campaign at Tugunbulak illustrate a long-standing integration of nomadic and urban institutions starting at the time of the first Turkic Khaganate (ca. 560 CE) and the development of a complex political and economic center in the highlands throughout the 6th and 7th c. CE. The coinage, chronology, and burial traditions thus far recovered from Tugunbulak point to a population most likely aligned with medieval Turks, who were engaged in metallurgical production and the management of this large, highland urban constellation until the mid-8th/early 9th c. CE.
Over the next several years, the research team will conduct extensive fieldwork to analyze patterns of urbanization and reconstruct aspects of local economic life, religious practices, and political structures. By shifting the analytical focus from lowland centers to highland perspectives, the SR-HUBS project aims to offer a more nuanced understanding of Turkic societies—moving beyond the conventional emphasis on military and political dominance to highlight their rich economic, cultural, and social landscapes.
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Congratulations to the Center for Japanese Studies on the award of a Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative (JEC) Fund Grant to support international research on the Japanese collections at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA) at UC Berkeley. Fifty five years after Japan first hosted the World Exhibition at Osaka, this grant award marks Japan's 2025 hosting of the World Exhibition in Osaka, and we are delighted that CJS and IEAS can further cultural conversations and collaborations between the US, Japan and the world.
The project aims to expand awareness and knowledge of the museum's many objects of artistic, anthropological, and historical value through further research and cataloguing of PAHMA's porcelain, lacquerware, baskets, and netsuke button fasteners, many of which lack full and accurate descriptions. In collaboration with several other Organized Research Units on campus, the IEAS, CJS, and PAHMA will host a workshop in Fall 2025 and an international conference in Spring 2026 to explore key issues related to these objects and to discuss the academic significance of studying Japanese material culture brought to North America.
These events will build on an initiative launched in 2025 and led by CJS Chair Junko Habu in partnership with PAHMA as part of a series of educational exhibits curated by U C Berkeley faculty.
(Phtoto courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents of the University of California — photographed by Junko Habu).
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Visiting Scholar Outings this Spring
Each semester, IEAS plans outings that allow our visiting scholars to experience the local scenic beauty paired with places that have historical significance. This month, we visited the orchards of Brentwood to pick some cherries. Last month, our visiting scholars rode the Tiburon Ferry to Angel Island to hike around this national park, and take a guided tour of the Angel Island Immigration Station.
| | 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. | | | | |
