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Society must be Led: the Vanguard and its Dilemmas in some Post-Independence Indian Novels in India
Talk by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University.
Monday, January 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Proverbs, the Great Heritage of Ancestors
By Jong Jin Jeong/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA
A Reading from My Family and Other Saints
Kirin Narayan will share sections of her recent book, My Family and Other Saints. Drawing on her background as an anthropologist and folklorist, Narayan retells family narratives formed at the crossroads of Indian and American approaches to spiritual questing in the late 60s and early 70s.
Monday, January 14, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Reading and Writing Ryoanji: (De)Constructing a Japanese Icon
Colloquium with Kendall Brown, Department of Art, California State University, Long Beach
Monday, January 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Tatsuya Matsui
President, Flower Robotics Inc., Tokyo
Monday, January 14, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
Images of War: Picturing the Taiping Occupation of Jiangnan, 1860-84
A talk by Tobie Meyer-Fong (Johns Hopkins University)
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Mediating Social Critique: Gender and Race in Hmong Diasporic Video
Lecture by Louisa Schein, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
Friday, January 18, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Downstairs Lounge
Korean Cinema Now (And Then)
Presented by the Archive in association with KOFIC
Friday, January 18, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
A Flower in Hell (Ji-ok-hwa)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Friday, January 18, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Hood, Veil, Shoes: A Dance Work by Cheng-chieh Yu
Performed by the Sun-Shier Dance Theater (Taiwan)
Friday, January 18, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Dance Theater, Glorya Kaufman Hall, Room 200
China National Opera House Performance: Farewell My Concubine
This is a Western-style adaptation of a famous Chinese opera. In addition to performances in Pasadena, the opera will be performed in San Francisco, Washington, DC, New York, Houston, and Dallas.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Pasadena Civic Auditorium
The City of Violence (Jjakpae)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Sunday, January 20, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Puhran Dahsuh Eui Gae)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Sunday, January 20, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Pilipino Scholars Night at UCLA
An informal opportunity for the UCLA community to get together to survey, facilitate, and promote Filipino Studies on campus.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Kerkhoff Grand Salon
The Marines Who Never Returned (Doraoji Anneun Haebyeong)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Wildflowers on the Battlefield (Deul-gughwa-neun Pi-eon-neunde)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Taiwan's Civil Society and the Blue-Green Deadlock, 1986-2007
A talk by Wu Jieh-min in the Taiwan Studies Lecture Series
Thursday, January 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Woman on the Beach (Hae-byun-eui Yeo-in)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Saturday, January 26, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Driving With My Wife's Lover (Ane-eui Aein-eul Mannada)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Saturday, January 26, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
US Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities, and the American Way of War from the Pacific War to Iraq
Colloquium with Mark Selden, East Asia Program, Cornell University; Coordinator, the Asia Pacific Journal, Japan Focus
Monday, January 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Colonial Censorship and Japanese Publication Police System
By Keun-Sik Jung, Professor, Seoul National University/Korea Colloquium Series
Monday, January 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China's Durable Inequality: Legacies of Revolution & Pitfalls of Reform
A talk by Mark Selden
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, January 31, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Vietnamese Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival
The student Vietnamese Language and Culture club continues its traditional Tet extravaganza.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
If You Were Me 2 (Daseot Gae Ui Shiseon)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Sunday, February 03, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Our School (U-ri Hak-kyo)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Sunday, February 03, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Blood Into Ink: the Poetry of the Shishi in Nineteenth Century Japan
Colloquium with Matthew Fraleigh, Asian Languages and Literature, Brandeis University
Monday, February 04, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Palaeolithic Settlement of the Korean Peninsula: A Research Before the History of Korean People
By Dr. Yongwook Yoo/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 07, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Kingship, Courts and Capitals: Sultanate Delhi in the 13th and 14th Centuries
Talk by Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi
Friday, February 08, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Shwegyin Religious World: Continuity, Rupture, and Political Change in Myanmar
Jason Carbine, Whittier College
Friday, February 08, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
The Forbidden Quest (Eum-ran-seo-saeng)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Saturday, February 09, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
The Coolie: An Ethno-Historical Poem
Talk by Professor E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia University.
Monday, February 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Sou Fujimoto and Yasutaka Yoshimura
Principal, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo and Principal, Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects, Tokyo
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
The 7th Annual Korean Music Symposium
February 11-16, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Communication Networks among the Chinese Knowledge Diaspora
A talk by Anthony Welch
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Moore Hall 3320
JMEWS Research Roundtable
Tracing Our Research Trajectories: The Study of Gender in Muslim Societies
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sequoia Room
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Makoto Yokomizo and Kumiko Inui
Principal, aat + makoto yokomizo, arctitects inc., Tokyo and Principal, Kumiko Unui, Tokyo
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)

Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 14, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Fundraising Concert for Music of Korea
Part of The 7th Annual Korean Music Symposium
Saturday, February 16, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wilshire Ebell Theatre
The Rise of Asia in the 21st Century: Can America Handle the Challenge?
A lecture by the Hon. Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore's Former UN Ambassador & Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Modern Diplomacy: What Do Diplomats Actually Do?
Careers in Asia Talk with Professor Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Political Science and Burkle Center Senior Fellow
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA
Land Rights and Chinese Development in Long-Run Perspective
Von Gremp Seminar with Kenneth Pomeranz, Chancellor's Professor of History at University of California, Irvine
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
UCLA Department of Economics
Land Rights and Chinese Development in the Long Run
A talk by Kenneth Pomeranz (UC Irvine), in the Von Gremp Workshop in Economic & Entrepreneurial History
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
9383 Bunche Hall
Chinese Cultural Night
Presented by Chinese Cultural Dance Club
Thursday, February 21, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Fowler Museum

Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 21, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
A Mirror for Thai National Politics: The Curious Case of Pom Mahakan
Colloquium with Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University
Friday, February 22, 2008
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
10383 Bunche Hall
Diplomats in Asia: A Career Discussion
Information Session for UCLA students with Andrew Ou, foreign service officer in Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Peter Kovach, UCLA Diplomat in Residence
Friday, February 22, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
History Conference Room
The Stealth Activism of the Japanese Judiciary - How Japanese Judges Surpass American Courts as Social Engineers
Colloqium with Frank Upham, the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, New York University School of Law
Friday, February 22, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Emergency, Difference, and Popular Politics in Karachi
Talk by Tahir Naqvi, Reed College
Monday, February 25, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 28, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Changing North Korea: Beyond the Point of No Return?
By Professor Rudiger Frank/Korea Colloquium Series
Friday, February 29, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference
Engine for Growth: The China / California Connection
Friday, February 29, 2008
8:45 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Matsurou Sasaki
President, SAPS/Sasaki and Partners, Tokyo; Professor, Hosei University, Tokyo
Monday, March 03, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
Acquiring and Possessing Korean Things: Material Culture and National Identity in Japan
By Morgan Pitelka, Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Occidental College/Korea Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
The Issue of Korean Contemporary Art in the Global Art Market
By Kyungja Hwang/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA
China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Culture
A talk by Wang Haicheng
Thursday, March 06, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, March 06, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
The Theatre of Death in the Impossibilities of Utopia: Stories from the Indian People's Theater Association
Talk by Geeta Patel, Wellesley College
Monday, March 10, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Sendai Kuji Hongi: Imitator or Facilitator
Colloquium with John Bentley, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Northern Illinois University
Monday, March 10, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Energy Security: Security for Whom? Hydrocarbons and Human Rights in Military-ruled Burma
Colloquium with Matthew F. Smith and Naing Htoo, EarthRights International, Southeast Asia
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea
By Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University/Luce Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
The Missing Ear in Taiwan Literature
A talk Jing Tsu (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 11377

Burkle Conference: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Rogue States
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA James West Alumni Center
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Thursday, March 13, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Department of Sociology
Central Asia Initiative Film Screening: "Little Angel, Make Me Happy"
Directed by Usman Saparov, Turkmenistan, 1992.
Opening remarks by David MacFadyen, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Thursday, March 13, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
1102 Perloff
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Friday, March 14, 2008
1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Hammer Museum, Lecture Hall
Sweet and Bitter
Contemporary Japanese Girl Photography
Friday, March 14, 2008
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hammer Museum
The Word of the Buddha or the Disputations of his Disciples? The Buddhist Path as Presented in the Pali Nikayas
Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol
Friday, March 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Saturday, March 15, 2008
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Public Policy Lounge 5391
Kimono: Sea of Silk
Lecture and demonstration by Nobuaki Tomita, Kimono Designer, Stylist, and Producer
Monday, March 17, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Faculty Center
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Taira Nishizawa
Principal, Taira Nishizawa Architects, Tokyo
Friday, March 21, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
The Local Officials Administrative Operation in Late Choson, Focused in Hwang, Yunsok's 'Ijaenango'
By Dr. Hyekyung Roh/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Blurring of Distinctions: The Art Work and the Religious Icon in Contemporary India
Talk by Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Monday, April 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Mobilizing Geographic vs. Nationally-Organized Interests in Trade Politics: Evidence from Trade Testimony before the Japanese Diet
Colloquium with Megumi Naoi, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Monday, April 07, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Fighting for the Seats: Gender Quotas and State Feminism in South Korea and Taiwan
By Professor Chang-Ling Huang, National Taiwan University/Korea Colloquium Series
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
From Radio Sharia to Radio Shakira: The Story of the Media in Afghanistan
Distinguished International Speaker Series featuring Ms. Nushin Arbabzadah, Former Chief Sub. Editor of BBC World Service, hosted by the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Bradley International Hall, Room 217
The Eye Having to Have Looked at Enough Examples to Really See . . .
A talk by Ni Yibin
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Rise of Guanxi in China's Transitional Economy
A talk by Yanjie Bian
Thursday, April 10, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
The Byuti and Danger of Performing Transgender and Transnational Belonging
A colloquium with Allan Punzalan Isaac, Associate Professor of English, Wesleyan University, analyzing the film "Paper Dolls" (Bubot Niyar, Israel 2006) by Tomer Heymann.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
Is it the End of India's AIDS Epidemic?
Discussion with Siddharth Dube
Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:00 PM
208 Kaufman Hall
Access to Chinese Electronic Resources
By: Amy Tsiang, East Asian Library Head and Hong Cheng, Chinese Studies Librarian
Friday, April 11, 2008
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
East Electronic Classroom, 21536 Young Research Library
The Ruins of Memory: The Writing of Brahmin Self in South India
Talk by Dilip Menon, University of Delhi
Friday, April 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Vietnamese Cinema 4 Symposium on Filmmaking: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Discussion with nine Asian Americans in the film industry and the screening of three short films.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
2:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Northwest Auditorium
Evangelization of the World in this Generation: Korean Students and the American Foreign Mission Movement, 1919-1945
Anne Soon Choi, Luce Post Doctoral Fellow, UCLA/Luce Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
A Chinese Ghost Story
Chinese Student Association presents The 3rd Annual Heritage Night
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Northwest Auditorium
Super, Girls!
Screening of a documentary on the dreams & disappointments of the young women who participated in the megahit "Super Girl Singing Contest" -- and a audience discussion with Jian Yi, the filmmaker
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
2250 Public Policy Building
POSTPONED -- Vilifying Virtue: The Good Samaritan's New Trouble in China and Its Moral Implications
POSTPONED
Thursday, April 17, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Access to Japanese Electronic Resources
By: Toshie Marra, Japanese Studies Librarian
Friday, April 18, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
East Electronic Classroom, 21536 Young Research Library
New Movements from China: Contemporary Art Turns Official
A talk by Meiqin Wang (Cal State Northridge)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
'Prepare for War': Civil Defense, Population Dispersal, and Tianjin's Cultural Revolution
A talk by Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University)
Thursday, April 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Access to Korean Electronic Resources
By Esther Han, Korean Studies Librarian
Friday, April 25, 2008
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
East Electronic Classroom
Music For a Goddess
Screening of Professors Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoys (Ethnomusicology) latest work.
Friday, April 25, 2008
12:30 PM
Room 1343, Schoenberg Hall
Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008
U.C. Berkeley / UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
Friday, April 25, 2008
9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
U.C. Berkeley campus
Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008
U.C. Berkeley / UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
Saturday, April 26, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
U.C. Berkeley campus
Berlin and Beyond: Yamada Kosaku and the Beginnings of Western Classical Music in Japan
Colloquium with Thomas Rimer, Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations, UCLA
Monday, April 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
God's New Whiz Kids? Korean American Evangelicals on Campus
Rebecca Y. Kim, Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University/Luce Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Asian Pop Entrepreneurs: Giant Robot Returns to UCLA
Careers in Asia talk with Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong, Co-editors of Giant Robot
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
The Rising Tide
A documentary on some of China's most talented emerging artists, including photographers and video artists: Cao Fei, Xu Zhen, Chen Qiulin, Yang Yong, Wang Qingsong, and Zhang O
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Public Policy Building 1234
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Jiang Wenye's Music and Poetry
A talk by David Der-wei Wang, in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Ancient Chinese Skies: Astronomical Expertise in Premodern China
Morning session: A workshop for graduate students; Afternoon session: A public colloquium
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Access to Western Electronic Resources
By: Joseph Yue, Librarian for East Asian Studies, YRL
Friday, May 02, 2008
11:00 PM - 12:00 PM
East Electronic Classroom, 21536 Young Research Library
The Modernization of Hindustani Music and the Adaptive Strategies of Hereditary Musicians: The Case of the Tabla Notebooks of Abid Hussain Khan
James Kippen, Visiting Professor from The University of Toronto
*NOTE DATE CHANGE*
Friday, May 02, 2008
3:00 PM
Gamelan Room
The Rising Individual and Changing Moral Practice in China
A two-day international conference on social change in China
Friday, May 02, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Gender of "Terror" Conference
This conference will foreground the centrality of gender and sexuality to the construction of terror and examine how terror is configured across cultural, historical, and transnational contexts.
Friday, May 02, 2008
9:15 AM - 5:30 PM
California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
MUKASHI MUKASHI: Asian Stories from Long Ago
at the Geffen Playhouse
Saturday, May 03, 2008
12:15 PM - 12:15 PM
Geffen Playhouse
Spring Festival of World Music with the Hammer Museum
UCLA Student Ensemble Performances
Saturday, May 03, 2008
2:00 PM
Hammer Museum
The Rising Individual and Changing Moral Practice in China
A two-day international conference on social change in China
Saturday, May 03, 2008
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
To Touch the Soul: Make Art/Stop AIDS in Cambodia
Film screening and Q&A with filmmakers.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Landscapes of Loss: Post-Tsunami Reflections on Death, Destruction & Displacement
Talk by Malathi de Alwis, University of Colombo
Monday, May 05, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Solitary Warriors of Class Warfare: Kajiwara Ikki's Manga Heroes and Their Violent Quest for Historical Agency
Colloquium with Yoshikuni Igarashi, History, Vanderbilt University
Monday, May 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Bosom Friend or Joint Manager: A Relationship between a Husband and a Wife in the 17th Century Korean Fictions
By Jong Cheol Kim, Professor, Seoul National University/Korea Colloquium Series
Monday, May 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
AIDS | SIDA: Global Updates, Art, and Performance
Academic updates on HIV/AIDS from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia plus related performance art from each region.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
200 Glorya Kaufman Hall
Choson Period Seen Through Rice and Its Agriculture
By Jung Chul Lee, Ph.D, Korea University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Cultural Development during the Han Dynasty & Early Chinese Drama
A talk by Yao Xiao'ou (Communication University of China)
Thursday, May 08, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
The Sounds of Bengali Scrolls
Exhibition event at the Fowler Museum.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Enforced Migration and Sedentarization in Modern Central Asia
Panel discussion preceding film screening of "Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People"
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Looking for Claveria's Children: State, Church and the Individual in the History of Philippine Naming Systems
Colloquium with Professor Francis Alvarez Gealogo, Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Central Asia Initiative Film Screening: "Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People" (2006)
With panel discussion and introduction by Co-director Y. David Chung.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Harry & Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
Social Theory and the Urban Poor: Notes from Delhi, India
CISA Annual Lecture: Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, May 15, 2008
5:00 PM
Room A2, Haines Hall
Symposium: Kuki Shuzo and the Question of Hermeneutics
Organized by UCLA Professor Michael Marra, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Friday, May 16, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Age of Revolutions or World Crisis? Global Causation, Connection, and Comparison, c. 1760-1840
A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Armitage, Harvard University, and Peter Reill, UCLA
Co-sponsored by SCAS-Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
Friday, May 16, 2008
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Williams Andrew Clark Memorial Library
Times that try men's souls: Revolutionary Europe and the Destruction of Java's Old Order, 1808-1830
Lecture by Peter Carey, Trinity College, Oxford University
Saturday, May 17, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Clark Library
Music of Bali Ensemble
Balinese music under the direction of I Nyoman Wenten. Part of the UCLA Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Age of Revolutions or World Crisis? Global Causation, Connection, and Comparison, c. 1760-1840
A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Armitage, Harvard University, and Peter Reill, UCLA
Co-sponsored by SCAS-Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
Saturday, May 17, 2008
9:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Williams Andrew Clark Memorial Library
Bahār
Lecture and North Indian Classical Concert By Santoor Exponent Tarun Bhattacharya
Sunday, May 18, 2008
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
100 Moore Hall
Harberger Lecture with Regents Professor and Burkle Senior Fellow Dr. Suphamongkhon
The Annual Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development celebrates Al Harberger as an eminent scholar and teacher. The lectures provide a special forum for outstanding students of international economics and policy to present their thoughts and research on issues like those that Harberger himself has addressed. This year's topic is "Globalization: A Blessing or a Curse? A Thai Experience."
Monday, May 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon
Ruined Histories: Archaeology, Islam and the Making of Gandhara Art in Divided South Asia
Talk by Vazira Zamindar, Brown University
Monday, May 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Beijing Opera Comes to UCLA
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Monday, May 19, 2008
Time to be announced.
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
Old Routes, New Exchanges
Symposium on Alternative Practices in Arts Organizing and Arts International Exchange in Southeast Asia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
3232 Campbell Hall
Fowler in Focus: Ceramics of Papua New Guinea
Exhibit from May 25 - September 28, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Fowler Museum
Cambodian American documentary film "New Year Baby"
A Cambodian American family traces its roots in the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Rieber Fireside Lounge
Recent Excavations at Sisupalgarh, India: Exploring Monumental Architecture at a City of the Early Centuries AD
Cotsen Institute Of Archaeology Spring Quarter Pizza Talk
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A222, Cotsen Institute
Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art
A talk by Rebecca Morse (Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Screening of Kon Ichikawa's 'Odd Obsession'
The screening of 'Odd Obsession' (1959, 96 min) is a tribute to the passing of director Kon Ichikawa, with Director Shunji Iwai.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
China Undisciplined, Day One
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference celebrating the creative spaces that arise in the (de)construction of "China", May 30-31, 2008.
Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce 314
China Undisciplined, Day Two
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference celebrating the creative spaces that arise in the (de)construction of "China", May 30-31, 2008.
Friday, May 30, 2008
8:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Royce 314
Tokyo Then, Tokyo Now
A colloquium funded in part by the Arts Initiative, a program of UCLA Arts & UCLA Theater Film and Television. Special thanks to the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Perloff Hall
No Colonialism, No Culture: Macaulay, Kipling And The Interpellation Of Indians
Talk by Qadri Ismail, University of Minnesota
Monday, June 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Power, Play, and Dialogic Imagination in Late Tokugawa Japan
Colloquium with Katsuya Hirano, History, Cornell University
Monday, June 02, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
A Change in News and the Evolution of Media
By Hong Woan Joo, Yonhap News Agency/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Yellow Dust Blows East: Contemporary South Korean Images of China
By Stephen Epstein, Director of the Asian Studies Institute and the Asian Studies Programme at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand/Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, June 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Tokyo Tremors: Four New Waves of Japanese Contemporary Art
A Talk and Discussion with Adrian Favell, UCLA at Royal/T in Culver City
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
7:00 PM
Royal/T
Hindi as a Heritage Language
Teaching Hindi in the Community
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce Hall
Monks, Merchants and Millworkers: Connecting Europe and Asia in World History
2008 UCLA Summer Institute for World History Teachers,
July 28th - August 8th
Monday, July 28, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Confucianism in Modern Chinese Culture with Yu Dan
A Talk by Yu Dan
Thursday, July 31, 2008
4:00 PM
The Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
2008 World Festival of Sacred Music
The World Festival of Sacred Music is presented by Foundation for World Arts and UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor
Exhibit on the Terra Cotta Warriors at the Bowers Museum from May 18, 2008 - October 16, 2008.
Monday, September 29, 2008
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
2002 N. Main Street
The Change of the Status of the UN Security Council after the Cold War
By Yeoul Soo Kim, Korea National Defense University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
An Exhibition of the Work of Sun Xun
at the Hammer Museum, through October 12
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Hammer Museum
Joint Seminar with Shigemi Nakagawa and Barbara Sato
Joint Seminar by Shigemi Nakagawa, Japanese Modern Literature and Comparative Literature at Ritsumeikan University, and Barbara Sato, History, Seikei University
Monday, October 06, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Royce 243

UCLA International Institute Open House
in association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars & the Office of International Education
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10th and 11th Floors, Bunche Hall
Space, Aesthetics, Performance: Reflections on the Western Zhou Ancestral Sacrifice
A talk by Martin Kern (Princeton University)
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Preferred Colors in Various Cultures based on Lexical Frequency: Comparison among Korean, English, French, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Japanese, and Mongolian
By Sang-Oak Lee, Seoul National University/Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Mei Lanfang Beijing Opera Company
Lecture and Demonstration
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Schoenberg Auditorium
Women's Talk and Mothers' Work
By Minju Kim, Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College/Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, October 09, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
A reading by Filipino poet/novelist/playwright R. Zamora Linmark
Filipino poet/novelist/playwright R. Zamora Linmark will read from his collected works.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
A2 Haines Hall
How Citizens' Property Rights Constrain National Forest Policy in Vietnam
Colloquium with Dr. Cari An Coe, Department of Political Science, UCLA; Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Change of Korean Fashion in the Twentieth Century
By Yoonhee Kim, Professor, Hannam University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Central Asia Initiative: Mobility and Governability in Central Asia
An international conference presented by the Asia Institute
Saturday, October 18, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tom Bradley International Hall
Archaeology and History in Korea
Archaeology and History in Korea
Sunday, October 19, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
On the Study of Literature in China Today
A Colloquium with Scholars from Shanghai-area Universities
Monday, October 20, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Geometry vs. Algebra:Model-less Planetary Theory of the East
Prof. Nakayama discusses a hitherto unresolved problem in understanding early Chinese mathematics: the meaning of limit, mean, and true degrees in the Shoushi Ii planetary tables and subsequent commentaries. He explains prior problems in resolving this problem and his new solution. He argues for the incomensurability between the Western geometrical model and the Chinese algebraic approach. He concludes with comments upon contemporary historiography of mathematics and science.
Monday, October 20, 2008
4:00 PM
Starved for Attention: The Neglected Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition
Doctors without Borders Lecture
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Center for Health Sciences
Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Pathways towards a New World Order: China's Challenge to the European Union
A talk by John Friedmann (Visiting Professor of Urban Planning), in the Harvey S. Perloff Lecture Series, presented by the Department of Urban Planning
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2355 Public Policy Building
Workshop on Print in a Global Context: Japan and the World
A day-long conference presented by the The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute -- with several presentations about China
Friday, October 24, 2008
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Social Science Building 250 [SOS 250]
Japan Translates: Words between Languages from Classics to Hyperculture
Graduate student symposium organized by Jordan Smith.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
306 Royce
Japan's Jazz Coffeeshops: Cultural Underground or Otaku Refuge?
Colloquium with Michael Molasky, History, University of Minnesota.
Monday, October 27, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Burning the Books and Killing the Scholars: Representing the Atrocities of the First Emperor of China
Anthony Barbieri-Low delivers the 21st Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Saturday, November 01, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Thai Cultural Night in the U.S.
Extraordinary evening of Thai traditional and classical music, dance, and puppet theater.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Schoenberg Auditorium
Ladyboys and Good Sons: Contemporary Mediums and Gender Identity in Northern Thai Trance Dance
Colloquium with Michael Sakamoto, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Red Art . . . a Documentary
A screening and talk with the co-director, Hu Jie
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
2250 Public Policy Building
Red Love in Korea in the Global 1920s
By Ruth Barraclough, Lecturer, Australian National University/Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, November 06, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche hall
Asia in LA: Global Cities in Asia, Asia in the Global City
The first Asia in LA program brings together leading architects, designers, and UCLA faculty working in and on Asia.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tom Bradley International Hall
Female Meditation Techniques in Late Imperial and Modern China
A two-day conference
Saturday, November 08, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
" SAMARPAN ", A Hindustani (Indian Classical) Vocal Concert by Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Presented by SPICMACAY
Sunday, November 09, 2008
3:00 PM
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
Female Meditation Techniques in Late Imperial and Modern China
A two-day conference
Sunday, November 09, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Spiritual Refreshment, Medicine for the Heart: Islamic Preaching on Record and on the Air in Indonesia
Colloquium with Bernard Arps, Leiden University
Monday, November 10, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Crossing the Line: a feature documentary
Film Screening followed by Q&A with producer Nicholas Bonner
Monday, November 10, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
How to Search the UCLA Library Catalog for C-J-K Materials
A hands-on seminar
Thursday, November 13, 2008
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Erlitou: A Key to the Origin of Chinese Civilization
A talk by XU HONG (head of the Erlitou Excavation Team of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), cosponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Discussant: Min Li (UCLA Dept of Asian Languages & Cultures, and Cotsen Institute)
Thursday, November 13, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Recent Discoveries in Japanese Archaeology
Presented by Prof. Donald McCallum, Japanese Art History
Friday, November 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Afghan Society after the Taliban: The View from the Hills
Central Asia Initiative Panel Presentation: Leading anthropologists discuss contemporary Afghanistan
Monday, November 17, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
International Opportunities Fair
Learn about opportunities for international studies, careers, and fellowships in celebration of International Education Week
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Kerckhoff State Rooms
What is Laozi's Ziran? Ancient Texts and Modern Implications
A talk by Liu Xiaogan
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Transporting the Elixir: A Look at Tibetan Medicine Inside Tibet
A talk by Lhusham Gya (Associate Professor of Tibetan Medicine, Qinghai University)
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Dean's Conference Room
The Choice of Korean Capitalism
By Jong Gook Back, Professor, Gyeongsang National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Archaeology and History in Korea
Presented by Prof. John Duncan, Asian Languages & Cultures, Director of the Center for Korean Studies
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
YRL Presentation Room
How to Search the UCLA Library Catalog for C-J-K Materials
A hands-on seminar
Friday, November 21, 2008
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Careers in Asia: Culture, Form, and Sustainability - A Transpacific Architect's View
Guy Horton, Perkins+Will Architects
Friday, November 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Pro Dia Nascer Feliz
Celebrate International Education Week with a Screening of Pro Dia Nascer Feliz (Joo Jardim, 2007)
Friday, November 21, 2008
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Recent Developments in the Study of Buddhist Art
This symposium is intended to survey some of the most important recent developments in the study of Buddhist art throughout Asia.
Friday, November 21, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
for Friday's conference:
China's New Past: Archaeology, Early History, New Visions
A seminar by David Schaberg, in conjunction with the exhibition East Asian Archaeology & Classic Architecture
Saturday, November 22, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
China's New Past: Archaeology, Early History, New Visions
Presented by Prof. David Schaberg, Asian Languages & Cultures
Co-Director of Center for Chinese Studies
Saturday, November 22, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Innovation in Southeast Asian Ceramics Studies: The Work of Roxanna Brown
A symposium with Robert L. Brown, Caverlee Cary, and Nhung Tuyet Tran
Monday, November 24, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Out of the Glass Case: The Social Life of Urban Heritage in Kyoto
Colloquium with Christoph Brumann, anthropology, University of Cologne
Monday, November 24, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Private Enforcement of the Public Interest in China: Potential and Pitfalls
A talk by Donald C. Clarke
Monday, November 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
10 Years of Korean Bankruptcy History
By Byung-Joo Lee, Attorney at Law, Shin & Kim, Seoul/CSK Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
"Fourth Wave" in North and South Korea Relations: The U.S. Role toward a New Vision for Peace in Northeast Asia
By Dong-Young Chung, Former Minister of Unification of South Korea,
2007 Democratic Presidential Candidate of South Korea/Korea Colloquium Series
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Hacienda Room
Bronze Age Qufu: The Hometown of Confucius in the Archaeological Perspective
A talk by Professor Xu Hong, distinguished archaeologist from the Institute of Archaelogy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Thursday, December 04, 2008
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Rolfe 3134
Asian Images Inside-Out: What Can We Learn From the Contents of East Asian Statues?
Discussion of East Asian Buddhist images and icons by Professor James Robson of Harvard University
Friday, December 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
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Events by Quarter
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
