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Results For Fall Quarter: 9/15/2011 - 12/31/2011
Thai Cultural Day
A celebration of Thai arts and culture
Sunday, September 18, 2011
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Barnsdall Art Park
Developments in China's Underwater Archaeology
"Premodern China and the Maritime World: Current Developments in China's Underwater Archaeology"
Monday, September 19, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
The Red Buddha Hall Road Revisited: Tibet, China and their Struggle for the Silk Road through the Pamir
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by John Mock, UCSC
Monday, September 26, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Why Taiwan Matters
From its successful economic and political development to its role as a "canary in the coalmine" of a rising PRC, Professor Shelley Rigger presents why Taiwan is an important global actor
Monday, September 26, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
A Case for Food Aid to North Korea - From One Who's Been There
By David Austin, Program Director for Mercy Corps operations in North Korea
Friday, September 30, 2011
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
We invite you to join in the 25th Annual UCLA Study Abroad Fair. Each year, more than 2000 students visit the fair to learn about the wide variety of study abroad programs available.
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
한국현대건축의 표현특성에 관하여 On Expressive Characteristics of Korean Contemporary Architecture
By Yil Hyung Lee, Soonchunhyang University / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Global Flashpoints: The Wife's Letter
UCLA's Center for Performance Studies presents a live performance of The Wife's Letter, based on Tagore's story about child brides in India.
Thursday, October 06, 2011
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall
Writing Sex, Food, and Politics
Li Ang (李昂), a prominent Taiwanese writer, investigates gender and politics in social life and literary creation, opening up new spaces of critical reflection on the question of women in literary writing.
Friday, October 07, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Charles Young Research Library (YRL) 2nd Floor
CISA Lunchtime Talk: "Is Literacy Necessary for Democracy? Some Provocations."
In this talk, Professor Akhil Gupta argues that literacy is neither a sufficient nor necessary condition for democracy. Though the demands for literacy from government bureaucracies do put poor people at a disadvantage, democratic mobilization allows forms of redress that compensate for some of those disadvantages. Moreover, through strategies of writing back and counterfeit writing, poor people undermine the uses of literacy for domination.
Monday, October 10, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
Global Flashpoints: Seminar with Bishnupriya Dutt
UCLA's Center for Performance Studies presents a seminar led by Bishnupriya Dutt on Transnational Studies of Performance and Gender
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL)
Progress and Prospects in the Study of Tibetan Art History
Panel Presentation by Scholars from the China Tibetology Research Center, Beijing
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
"Art as Witness" photo exhibition and "Chew on This" Lecture Series
A photo exhibition curated by Parthiv Shah
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Kaufman Hall 208
Rebuilding in a Post-Disaster Japan: Lessons from New Orleans
A one day symposium organized by the UCLA Center for the study of Urban Poverty.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA
Global Flashpoints: Seminar with Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
UCLA's Center for Performance Studies presents a seminar led by Urmimala Sarkar Munsi on Transnational Studies of Performance and Gender
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL)
Japanese And Asian Americans: Racializations and Their Resistances
Day one of a two day symposium organized by Lane Hirabayashi, UCLA George and Sakaye Aratani Professor and Endowed Chair, and Yasuko Takezawa, Chair of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall Rm 314
The Urgent vs. The Important: US Policy in the Middle East and in East Asia, a talk by Christopher R. Hill, former Ambassador to Iraq
Please join us for a talk by Amb. Christopher R. Hill, Dean of the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies, and former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
1420 Law School
Science and Art in a Climate of Change: A Dialogue of Nations
In a unique exchange of ideas and artistic expression, islanders, climate change experts, and political leaders will explore the very real threats to islands across the South Pacific, the "canaries in the coal mine" of climate change.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Theatre, 2nd Floor
"Tagore's Transformative Torch:" Ethnomusicology Archive's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Join us in commemorating the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive’s 50th Anniversary!
Thursday, October 13, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building 1230 (“Green Room”)
Film Screening
Melnitz Movies presents the LA Premiere of Takaomi Ogata's "Body Temperature."
Thursday, October 13, 2011
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
A Conversation with China Ambassador Wu Jianmin
UCLA faculty, students and the concerned public are welcome to a special discussion with Ambassador Wu Jianmin on a number of pressing issues, such as: changing US-China relations, challenges and opportunities in the Asia Pacific, and the impact of American politics on the world.
Friday, October 14, 2011
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Royce Hall Room 243
Japanese And Asian Americans: Racializations and Their Resistances
Day two of a two day symposium organized by Lane Hirabayashi, UCLA George and Sakaye Aratani Professor and Endowed Chair, and Yasuko Takezawa, Chair of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.
Friday, October 14, 2011
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Faculty Center California Room
Resurrecting Nagasaki: Memories of Destruction, Visions of Reconstruction, 1945-1959
A lecture by Chad Diehl, 2011-12 Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Monday, October 17, 2011
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
CISA Presents: "Between the Temple and the Playground: Recent works by Naiza Khan"
A Lecture by Naiza Khan
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
East Asian Visual Media at Home and Abroad
UCLA-USC Joint East Asian Studies Center Annual Faculty-Graduate Student Workshop
Thursday, October 20, 2011
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Google China Standoff
Documentary Screening and discussion with Producer Zhu Ying, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Thursday, October 20, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Zhang Jizhong's "Journey to the West"
Screening of new 2011 episodes of acclaimed Chinese television serial.
Friday, October 21, 2011
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Media and Culture in Contemporary China
A two-day conference featuring Chinese Producer Zhang Jizhong, sponsored by the UCLA-USC Joint East Asian Studies Center and held on the UCLA and USC campuses
Friday, October 21, 2011
8:30 AM - 9:00 PM
James West Alumni Center
Korean Christianity in the Global Context
2011 Im Conference of Korean Christianity
Friday, October 21, 2011
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Utopias and the Japanese Imaginary
The 16th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on Japanese Studies.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Media and Culture in Contemporary China
A two-day conference featuring Chinese Producer Zhang Jizhong, sponsored by the UCLA-USC Joint East Asian Studies Center and held on the UCLA and USC campuses
Saturday, October 22, 2011
9:30 AM - 5:45 PM
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Auditorium
CISA Lunchtime Talk: "Images for Change"
The UCLA Center for India and South Asia presents Parthiv Shah in a"Monday mela" noon lecture.
Monday, October 24, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
다큐멘터리 연출자의 딜레마: 그 불편한 진실- A Documentary Director’s Dilemma: The Inconvenient Truth
By Sung Joo Jang, Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)/ CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
An integrated approach to understanding the origin and conservation of marine biodiversity in the Coral Triangle
Colloquium with Prof. Paul Barber, UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
LSB 2320
"A Saint on the Move: Images of Efficacy in Devotional Diasporas of Shirdi Sai Baba"
UCLA Center for the Study of Religion Faculty Seminar Series: Works in Progress
Thursday, October 27, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"The Future of Environmental History: What the Past Teaches Us About the Environment of the Future"
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room)
National Insecurity: The Politics of Japanese Cold War Film Culture in Asia, 1946-1973
A talk by Michael Baskett, professor of film/media studies at the University of Kansas
Friday, October 28, 2011
2:00 PM
Royce 243
Gender, Art, and Social Movements in the Middle East and Global South
A conference followed by a reception in honor of Professor Sondra Hale, UCLA
Friday, October 28, 2011
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
California Room, Faculty Center
Gendered Spectre: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the Indian Partition
A lecture by Prof. Radhika Mohanram
Monday, October 31, 2011
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Humanities 193
The Mythologization of the North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il
By Kinga Dygulska-Jamro, Ph.D
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Unruly Native Women (Indonesia)
Colloquium by Fatimah Tobing Rony, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, and Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine. Part of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women's "Works in Progress" series.
Thursday, November 03, 2011
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
2410 Melnitz Hall
TaLK Information Session
Teach and Learn in Korea (TaLK) is a Korean government-sponsored teaching and service-learning scholarship program that enhances public English education in rural elementary schools.
Thursday, November 03, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Qualifications of the Next Political Leader in South Korea 한국 정치 현실의 변화와 차기 지도자의 자질
By Sung Choi, Mayor of Goyang City/Korea Colloquium Series
Friday, November 04, 2011
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Jonathan Hay "Maritime Beijing: Oceans and Empire in the Monuments of the Capital"
Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology and Art
Saturday, November 05, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
CISA Lunchtime Talk: "Universal Financial Access"
The UCLA Center for India and South Asia proudly presents a talk by Prof. Bhagwan Chowdhry of UCLA Anderson.
Monday, November 07, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
유교생태윤리-인간과 자연의 조화와 공생: Confucian Ecological Ethics -Harmony and Symbiosis of Man and Nature
By Sea Jeong Kim, Chungnam National University/ CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CISA Presents: "The New Biopic in Hindi Cinema"
A Lecture by Rachel Dwyer
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Haines 352
Twice Bombed: The Legacy of Tsutomu Yamaguchi
A film screening with director Hidetaka Inazuka. Organized by Chad Diehl, 2011-12 Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Monday, November 14, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Encountering New Faces: Korean Portraits with Western Painting Techniques in the Chosŏn Dynasty
By Insoo Cho, Associate Professor, Korea National University of Arts / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
146 Dodd Hall
2012- 2013 FLAS Fellowship Information Session
Come and learn about how to get ready and apply to the Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for graduate, undergraduate and professional students.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes
An International Conference of the UCLA Program on Central Asia
Thursday, November 17, 2011
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library
Patay Na Ba Tuod Si Maria Clara?: The Role and Representation of Women in Oral and Written Cebuano Literature
Colloquium with Jade Alburo, Librarian for Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Religion at UCLA
Friday, November 18, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
West Electronic Classroom (2nd floor, Rm. 23167)
The Kugyŏl Glosses in the Asami Collection Edition of the Ch’ŏllo Kŭmgang kyŏng 川老金剛經
By Ross King, Professor of Korean and Head of Department Department of Asian Studies at University of British Columbia/Korea Colloquium Series
Friday, November 18, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
The Emergence and Tides of a Contemporary Saint: Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan, Afghanistan
A Lecture by Ingeborg Baldauf, Humboldt University, Berlin
Friday, November 18, 2011
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
A Path Through the Fields
A symposium in honor of the late Michael Marra.
Friday, November 18, 2011
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
The Seventh Annual Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade: English Books Around the World: India and the Globalization of the English Book Trade
by Graham Shaw (former Head of the British Library’s Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections)
Saturday, November 19, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
CISA Lunchtime Talk: “My Brother, My Enemy — The Indo-Pak Border through a Documentary Lens”
The UCLA Center for India and South Asia proudly presents a talk by Prof. Aparna Sharma of UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Monday, November 21, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
The Pictorial Canon of a Silk Road Religion: Mani’s Picture-Book and the Study of Manichaean Didactic Art
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Zsuzsanna Gulasci, Northern Arizona University
Monday, November 21, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Leaving Children Behind: Migrating parents and their non-migrating children in urban China
Why are most children of migrant worker families left behind in the countryside while their parents seek urban employment?
Monday, November 21, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall (History Department Seminar Room)
CANCELLED - 2011 Chinese American Film Festival
Film screening of Dali: Love at First Sight
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
11:30 PM - 11:45 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library
A Comparison Between Korean and American Reality TV Shows: 미국 과 한국 방송의 엔터테인먼트 프로그램 현황과 비교- 리얼리티 프로그램을 중심으로 시청자들의 미디어 수용방향
By Hyuk Jae Chang, SBS Producer/Director/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Buddhism and Liao Dynasty Tombs at Xuanhua
Qingquan Li, Dean of the School of Art and the Humanities at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Sneak Preview: Outrage
Meltnitz Movies presents a sneak preview of Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage.' (2010)
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Wartime Animation and Multi-Ethnic Empire
A keynote lecture by Thomas Lamarre, McGill University
Thursday, December 01, 2011
4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race under Japanese Empire
Part two of a two day workshop presented by Critical Studies on Asia.
Friday, December 02, 2011
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Visits to Los Angeles
Present by Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
Friday, December 09, 2011
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Pioneers of New Political Media in Korea: How Nakkomsu Became the #1 Podcast in the World
By Kim Ou-joon, Choo Chin-woo, Kim Yong-min, Gong Jiyung/Korea Colloquium Series
Saturday, December 10, 2011
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
Yŏngsanjae, Buddhist Ceremony: 영산재
Sponsored by Korean Buddhism Promotion Foundation
Sunday, December 11, 2011
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
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Past Events
Spotlight Event(s)
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
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