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Results For February 2013
CAW: Mathematics of Beauty: the Science of Architectural Restoration in Soviet Central Asia
Led by Igor Demchenko
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Said Sarmad the Jewish Saint
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Nahid Pirnazar, UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Politics of Humor: A Historical Perspective of the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Colloquium with Katherine Bowie, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Debt, Credit and the “End” of Finance in Post-Fukushima Japan
Prof. Miyazaki examines two contrasting market responses to the TEPCO crisis, orchestrated by Tokyo’s financial market professionals, as manifestations of their conscious efforts to re-deploy theories and techniques of finance in a newly found sphere of profound uncertainty.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines Hall, Room 352
Movie Screening: Rent-a-Cat (2012, Naoko Ogigami)
"Cats for rent! Are you lonely? Why not rent a cat?"
Thursday, February 07, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Chinese New Year's Celebration
Ring in the Year of the Snake at the Chinese New Year’s Day Festival at the Hammer Museum.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
2:00 PM
Hammer Museum
Punjabis in California: Then and Now
Prof. Karen Leonard, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Monday, February 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Efforts to Improve Quality of Public Service and Policy Implication: Focusing the Korean Cases
By Professor Huimun Ra, SungKyul University
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Beyond Identity Fetishism"
Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Ecstasy of the Angels - Free Screening
Political film directed by Koji Wakamatsu, filmed 1972
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
12th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Beyond Queering the Chain of Care: Affective Feminizations, Biological Investments
Colloquium with Aren Z. Aizura, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Asia and the Global South
JEASC Annual Conference & Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop
Thursday, February 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Social Sciences Building (SOS) B40, USC
12th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Thursday, February 14, 2013
7:30 PM
Grounding Globalization: Capitalist Connections between Africa, Asia and Latin America in the early 21st Century
A panel discussion presented by the UCLA Asia Institute
Friday, February 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Subnational Islamization through Secular Parties: Comparing Shari'a Politics in Two Indonesian Provinces
Colloquium with Prof. Michael Buehler, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Rediscovering Chinese Scholastic Chan in Edo Japan," talk by George Keyworth
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
The Rights Movement and Civic Engagement in China Today: A Conversation with Teng Biao
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Film Screening: "Enforcing the Silence" (Vietnam)
Screening and Q&A with the filmmaker, Tony Nguyen
Thursday, February 21, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
2100A Broad Hall
A Critical Reflection on ‘Liberal Humanism’ in Japan’s Modernization
By Professor Katsuya Hirano, Cornell University
Thursday, February 21, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History
A one-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History
Friday, February 22, 2013
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
Book talk by Prof. Lan P. Duong, Media and Cultural Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
Friday, February 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Inhumanities: UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
And plenary speakers include: Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley), David T. Goldberg (UC Irvine), Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar), Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Friday, February 22, 2013
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
306 Royce Hall
Inhumanities: UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
Plenary speakers include: Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley), David T. Goldberg (UC Irvine), Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar), Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Saturday, February 23, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
The Indian Journey in Global Health: Recent Historic Developments and Opportunities
Prof. Snehendu Kar, UCLA Department of Public Health and Asian/American Studies
Monday, February 25, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
지방행정체제 개편의 과정분석과 통합효과 : 청주청원통합을 중심으로 The Process Analysis on the Reform of Local Administration System and Effects of Integration : Focused on the Cheongju City-Cheongwon Gum
By Yong Hwan Choi, Chungbuk Research Institute
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Shu-mei Shih Lecture, Is Feminism Translatable?-Taiwan, Spivak, A-Wu
Presented by UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
4:00 PM
Royce 314
The Newly-elected Abe Administration and its Policies
Consul General Niimi comes to UCLA to give a presentation detailing the results and implications of the recent national poll, which delivered the LDP a supermajority in the lower house, and outline the economic and foreign policies of the new administration.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:15 PM - 5:15 AM
Royce Hall Room 306
Come On! The Politics of Contemporary Visual Art in Cambodia, Viet Nam and Beyond
A talk by artist, curator and writer Việt Lê, Assistant Professor, Visual Studies | Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Thursday, February 28, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
2100A Broad Hall
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Identity and Place in Contemporary Central Asia
Thursday, May 16, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge
Performances of Extraordinary Gender in Mahari Dance
Monday, May 20, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" UCLA Human Rights Film Series
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
7:00 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
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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