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Results For Spring Quarter: 3/20/2012 - 6/15/2012
Sneak Preview: THE RAID (2011)
Award-winning film featuring silat - an Indonesian martial art
Thursday, March 22, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Workshop on Japanese Newspaper Media—Yomidas Rekishikan
Make plans now to attend a workshop on Yomidas Rekishikan, an online archive of Japan’s largest newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun, on Friday, March 23.
Friday, March 23, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
CAW: "Democracy@Large"
Film screening of "Democracy at Large" (2006)
Monday, April 02, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A Discussion with Ambassador Ma on China's Development and Sino-U.S. Relations
Ambassador Ma Zhengang will briefly introduce China’s development goals and discuss current important issues in China’s foreign policies, particularly those related to Asia and Sino-US relations. Ambassador Ma’s speech will be followed by a Q & A session.
Monday, April 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce Hall, Room 243
Designated Drivers: State Capitalism in China’s Auto Industry
Are the Chinese breaking the rules of capitalism, or are they re-writing them?
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce Hall Room 243
Cham Manuscripts in Viet Nam
Lecture by Thanh Phan, Center for Vietnamese & Southeast Asian Studies, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
History and Repetition Today
A keynote lecture featuring Kojin Karatani as part of a three day Nikkei Bruin conference on "Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan." Organized by Torquil Duthie, Seiji Lippit, and William Marotti, UCLA.
Thursday, April 05, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Democratic Development in East and Southeast Asia
Colloquium with Prof. Benjamin Reilly, Senior Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Friday, April 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan: Literature, Art and Thought
A look at "Literature, Art and Thought" in day two of three in the Nikkei Bruin conference on "Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan." Organized by Torquil Duthie, Seiji Lippit, and William Marotti, UCLA.
Friday, April 06, 2012
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall Rm 306
Gallery Tour of "Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women"
Roy Hamilton, Sr. Curator for Asian and Pacific Collections, UCLA Fowler Museum
Saturday, April 07, 2012
10:45 AM
UCLA Fowler Museum
Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan: Japanese Arts and Globalizations
A look at Japanese Arts and Globalizations and day three of three in the Nikkei Bruin Conference on "Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan." Organized by Torquil Duthie, Seiji Lippit, and William Marotti, UCLA. Special thanks to the Japanese Arts and Globalizations MRG.
Saturday, April 07, 2012
9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall Rm. 306
University Buddhist Association
Day of Mindfulness at UCLA hosted by Deer Park Monastery monks in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Wake Up LA, and the University Buddhist Association
Sunday, April 08, 2012
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Indonesian Culture Night 2012 -- "I Wish"
Indonesian music, dance, food, and drama featuring the Indonesian Bruin Student Association
Sunday, April 08, 2012
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
University Buddhist Association
Meditation Flash Mob Style
Sunday, April 08, 2012
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Santa Monica Beach, Palisades Park, Wilshire Blvd & Ocean Ave
"Bureaucracy and Gender: Memoirs of ICS in Independent India”
By Prof. Inderpal Grewal, Yale
Monday, April 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Nineteenth-Century Persian Travelogues and the Construction of Political Space
Readings and discussion with Christine Noelle-Karimi, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Monday, April 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Ancient Buddhist Voyaging from India and Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia
Lecture by Prof. David Blundell, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Monday, April 09, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Concepts of Statehood and Territoriality in Early Modern Afghanistan
Afghan Studies Lecture by Christine Nölle-Karimi, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library
The Potential Institutional Change in China
Dr. Yeliang Xia, Professor of Economics at Peking University and visiting professor at UCLA, examines the crises and challenges facing China.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce 243
Numata Colloquium Series Talk by James Benn
“Problems in the Study of Later Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha," a talk by Prof. James Benn (McMaster University)
Friday, April 13, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
Kids in the Courtyard: Lanterns for Japan
A Fowler Event
Sunday, April 15, 2012
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum courtyard
China: From the 1950s to Today
A photo exhibit of 130 pictures that document the changing lives of ordinary Chinese people in the last six decades.
Monday, April 16, 2012
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
Music and Eroticism in Kunqu
An engaging discussion with Professor Joseph Lam, from the University of Michigan. A musicologist and sinologist, Lam specializes in the music and culture of Southern Song (1127-1275), Ming (1368-1644), and modern China (1900 to present).
Monday, April 16, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Schoenberg Hall, Room 1420
현대시의 여성과 생태 문제 (The Issue of Women and Ecology in Modern Poetry)
Hyeong Kwon Lee, Chungnam National University/ Visiting Scholars and Post-Doc Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
"Restoring Historicity to Shinto: The Case of Ise"
Talk by Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
The Challenge of Covering a Fast-Changing China
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Presentation Room 11348 YRL
The Emerging Cultural and Creative Industries in the Greater China Economy: The Cross-strait Co-opetitive Strategy
Thursday, April 19, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10367
UCLA Library Writer Series: The Indian Dr. Seuss
by Anushka Ravishankar
Friday, April 20, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
Pearls of the Snowlands: Tibetan Buddhist Painting from the Derge Parkhang at Fowler Museum
Pearls of the Snowlands: Tibetan Buddhist Painting from the Derge Parkhang at the Fowler Museum, 4/22-10/14
Sunday, April 22, 2012
12:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
Vietnamese Cinema Symposium 6 – “Shifting Scenes”
Mini film festival showcasing several short films, plus panel discussion with filmmakers.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
121 Dodd Hall
CAW: Lanuage and Identity Practice Presentations
Talks for Language and Identity in Central Asia by UCLA Grad Students
Monday, April 23, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CISA Annual Lecture: "Is There an Indian Style of Corruption?"
By Dr. Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Conference Room 11360
Human Rights for Afghan Women
Fowler OutSpoken Conversation: Human Rights for Afghan Women
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
7:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum auditorium
“Good to Eat, Good to Think: Changing Food Practices in India”
By Professor Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India
Thursday, April 26, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
352 Haines Hall
Film Screening: I Wish
Presented by Melnitz Movies and the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies as part of the New Visions of Japanese Cinema film series.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Indonesia in Global and Transnational Perspective
UCLA Indonesian Studies Conference 2012, Day 1
Friday, April 27, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Indonesia in Global and Transnational Perspective
UCLA Indonesian Studies Conference 2012, Day 2
Saturday, April 28, 2012
9:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
JSPS Fellowship Program Information Session
Interested in a career in global academia? Want to do research in Japan but have no funding? Looking for scholarly activities in the summer?
Monday, April 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Young Research Library Presentation Room
Third Annual UCLA JRI Mini-Symposium
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA, May 2-3 2012
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
Professor Joseph Hankins "Wounded Futures: Pain and the Possibilities of Solidarity"
Talk by Professor Joseph Hankins (Anthropology, U.C. San Diego).
Thursday, May 03, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
UCLA Haines Hall
Language and Identity in Central Asia
A two-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia
Friday, May 04, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Japanese Technology Innovation: A Vision for the Future
Keynote Lecture: 1pm - 3pm
Panel Discussion: 3:30pm - 5pm
Reception: 5pm - 7pm
Saturday, May 05, 2012
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Language and Identity in Central Asia (Day 2)
A two-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia
Saturday, May 05, 2012
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Central Asia: The Geopolitical Perspective
Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, May 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche
"Queer Selfhoods in the Shadow of Neoliberal Urbanism"
Lunchtime Talk by Jisha Menon, Department of Drama, Stanford University
Monday, May 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Theater artists speak on their work on the U.S. Silent War on Laos
Presentation by Leilani Chan and Ova Saopeng of TeAda Productions
Monday, May 07, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall 208
Taro Igarashi
A lecture by Taro Igarashi, a professor at Tohoku University and architectural critic in Sendai, Japan
Monday, May 07, 2012
6:30 PM
Perloff Hall, Decafé
1972
A free exhibit featuring photographs by Noritaka Minami from April 30–June 1
Monday, May 07, 2012
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Perloff Gallery
Modernity’s Rage: Youth Culture, Religion and Rural Reconstruction in Colonial Korea
By Professor Albert L. Park, Claremont McKenna College
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
미국과 한국 지방정부의 재정위기 사례 및 시사점: The Cases of Financial Crisis of the Local Governments in the US and Korea and its Implications
By Jay Hyun Park, Deputy Governor of Gyeongnam Province
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Politics of the Un-Political: Religious Protest in Contemporary Vietnam
Colloquium with Lan Chu, Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
Tibetan Buddhism beyond Tibet
Leading scholars on Tibetan history and Buddhism join in a panel discussion on the meanings and impacts of Tibetan Buddhism in the histories of Asia and the contemporary world.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
As Southern California’s largest and most prestigious film festival of its kind, the LAAPFF launches the celebration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month through this year’s slate of 189 films arranged in over 60 program screening events.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Time to be announced.
CGV Cinemas
West Coast Premiere Film Screening - Old Dog
Friday, May 11, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Planet of Snail
Co-presented by the Center for Korean Studies. This documentary video is part of the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
CGV Cinemas 2
Commemoration of the May 1998 Tragedy in Indonesia
Commemoration includes a lecture by Prof. Baskara T. Wardaya, Universitas Sanata Dharma
Saturday, May 12, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
509 E. Arrow Highway, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Human Rights in North Korea
A Symposium Co-hosted by the National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea
Monday, May 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Main Conference Room
Addressing Conflicts in a Changed World
A presentation and discussion forum with Michael van Walt, Executive President, Kreddha Foundation.
Monday, May 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
“One and Many”: Diversity of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
Colloquium with Muhamad Ali, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
China Undisciplined Graduate Student Conference Day 1
The Fifth Annual UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Chinese Studies
Friday, May 18, 2012
12:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Bunche Hall 6275, 6th Floor History Dept Conference Room
Department of Ethnomusicology: Music of China Spring Concert
Start of the 2012 Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz
Friday, May 18, 2012
8:15 PM - 9:30 PM
Schoenberg Music Hall
China Undisciplined Graduate Student Conference Day 2
The Fifth Annual UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Chinese Studies
Saturday, May 19, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, 6th Floor History Dept Conference Room
"Urban India and Planning for Sustainable Cities"
Lunchtime Talk by Bhargav Adhvaryu, Fulbright Visiting Professor, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA
Monday, May 21, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Marriage and Mourning at the Edge of the Jewish World: Ritual Practice among Central Asia's Bukharan Jews
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Alanna E. Cooper, PhD
Monday, May 21, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
기업범죄 규제수단으로서의 ‘준법감시 프로그램’ 비교 A Comparative Study on Compliance Program as a Regulation of Corporate Crimes
By Dong Kun Kang, Ministry of Justice
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo, 1990)
Movie Screening of Hong Kong classic "BULLET IN THE HEAD"
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
Reciprocity and/as Vengeance: Art and Cultural Patronage in the Philippines during the Marcos Years
Book talk by Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut, Author of Institutions and Icons of Patronage: Arts and Culture in the Philippines during the Marcos Years, 1965-1986
Thursday, May 24, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
HARD BOILED (John Woo, 1992)
Movie Screening of Hong Kong classic "HARD BOILED"
Thursday, May 24, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
The Ethos of Rice : The Ethics behind the Traditional Culture of Rice and its Production in the Philippines
Colloquium with Prof. Jeannette L. Yasol-Naval, Department of Philosophy, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
3400 Boelter Hall
Chinese independent film screening - No.89 Shimen Road
TFT student group ELEVATE will screen Chinese independent film No. 89 Shimen Road with a post-screening Q&A with director Shu Haolun.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall Design Room
Recent Discourse on Indonesia’s 1965 Tragedy
Colloquium with Prof. Baskara T. Wardaya, S.J., Sanata Dharma University and Gadjah Mada University
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Queering International Marriages
Rhacel Parreñas- Sociology, University of Southern California
Thursday, May 31, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Haines 352
New Visions of Japan Annual Forum (please RSVP)
The 2011 - 2012 academic year marks the 20th Anniversary of the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies. To commemorate this milestone, the Terasaki Center will be holding its first ever annual forum, New Visions of Japan. Please join us for this special event on Friday, June 1, 2012 at 4 PM.
Friday, June 01, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2012: India and Bali
Music and dance from India and from Bali, Indonesia performed by UCLA students.
Friday, June 01, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Schoenberg Auditorium
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2012: Music of Korea Ensemble
DongSuk Kim, Director
Saturday, June 02, 2012
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
"Emergence and the Bengali Muslim Subject"
By Naveeda Khan, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Monday, June 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Contemporary Urbanization in Mongolia and Eastern Tibet
Led by Rick Miller and Nancy Levine
Monday, June 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
미디어 빅뱅 시대, 네트워크 TV의 채널 전략 A Study on the Channel Strategy of Network TV in Media Big Bang
By Kyung Taik Han, KBS
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
New Visions of Japan: Disaster and Recovery
An exhibit that has been installed at the Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery. The exhibition will remain on view through August 31.
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Charles E. Young Research Library
New Visions: ABOUT THE PINK SKY (Keiichi Kobayashi, 2011)
A film; part of the New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Thursday, June 07, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
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Past Events
Spotlight Event(s)
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" UCLA Human Rights Film Series
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
7:00 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
The Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace with Ambassador Ryan Crocker: "The Arab Spring and US Interests"
Thursday, May 30, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1357
Film Screening: "Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution"
Monday, June 03, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
STARTALK/NHLRC Heritage Language Teacher Workshop for K-16 Teachers of Less Commonly Taught Languages
Monday, July 22, 2013
Time to be announced.
Royce 314
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