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Results For 2012
New Perspectives on Chinese Archaeology (Day 1)
An International Symposium Organized under the joint auspices of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Center for Chinese Studies (Jan 6th - 7th, 2012)
Friday, January 06, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
New Perspectives on Chinese Archaeology (Day 2)
An International Symposium
Organized under the joint auspices of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Center for Chinese Studies
(Jan 6-7, 2012)
Saturday, January 07, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall Room 314
CISA Lunchtime Talk: "Stories of Connection and Disconnection in the Bibiyana Gas Field in Bangladesh"
By Dr. Zahir Ahmed, Postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Monday, January 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Dru Gladney
Readings and discussion with Dru Gladney, Pomona College
Monday, January 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Religion and Politics on China's Silk Road: Muslims between Baghdad and Beijing
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Dru Gladney, Pomona College
Monday, January 09, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
한국어 교육의 현황과 남은 과제들: The Present Situation and Issues in Education for the Korean Language
By Sunwoo Lee, Korea University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
A State of All its Citizens? Majority–Minority Complexities in Deeply Divided Democracies: A Comparative View on India and Israel
A free, public lecture by Ayelet Harel-Shalev, PhD, a research fellow at the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Women Dalangs in Postcolonial Bali: Power, Tradition, and Puppets
Public lecture by Jennifer Goodlander, University of Kentucky
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Situating Feminisms in New Delhi?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Modern Cambodia’s Emergence from the Killing Fields: What Happened in the Critical Years?
Book talk by Michael Haas, Professor of Political Science and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Transnational Afghanistan
Readings and Discussion with Nile Green, UCLA
Monday, January 23, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
한국시에 나타난 미국의 심상지리(Imaginative Geography of America in Korean Modern Poetry)
Gi-Taek Nam, Kangwon National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Publication in Area Studies: An Informal Talk with Editor of The China Quarterly (2002-2011)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche 10383
"A SPATIAL SENSIBILITY: Geography and Colonial Cinema in Global Epistemologies."
Professor Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California
Friday, January 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
1422 Melnitz
Film Screening: Hiroshima
A screening of Hideo Sekigawa's 1953 film, "Hiroshima" organized by Mariko Tamanoi and Toshie Marra
Friday, January 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
Ungoverned and Uncivilized: Border Walls and the Discourse of Security
By Dr. Reece M Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Monday, January 30, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
1261 Bunche Hall
Info Session on Summer Travel Study in China
Please join us for the information session on Summer Travel Study in China.
Monday, January 30, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
CAW: Islam after Communism
Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, February 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India
By Nile Green, Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Personnel, Department of History, UCLA
Monday, February 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pious Citizens: Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran
Hossein Ziai Memorial Lecture by Monica Ringer, Amherst College
Monday, February 06, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Film Screening: Ashes to Honey
This screening will be followed by a discussion with director Hitomi Kamanaka and Daniel Hirsch, UC Santa Cruz.
Monday, February 06, 2012
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Taiwan on the Fault Lines of Postcolonialism/ Postmodernism
Waiting for a Native Theory?: Taiwan on the Fault Lines of Postcolonialism/Postmodernism
Monday, February 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
The Ambiance of North Indian Classical Music: Or Why I Shall Probably Never Write on It
By Prof. Ashis Nandy, Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
11th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980 - 2000
In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger (UC Irvine) examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 4357
Documentary Films from Taiwan
You are invited to screenings of two Taiwanese documentary films.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Pakistan and Endgame to the War in Afghanistan
By Zahid Hussain, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.
Monday, February 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CANCELLED-The Global Economy, Governance, and the G20/Asia's Role
Dr. Il SaKong (MBA’66, PhD ’69)
Chairman, Korea International Trade Association;
Former Finance Minister, Republic of Korea;
Former Chairman, Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, Republic of Korea
Monday, February 13, 2012
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Korn Convocation Hall
Lecture/Performance of Sundanese (Indonesian) Music
Featuring Ade Suparman, instrumentalist and composer of Sundanese music
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Jan Popper Theater, Room 1200 Schoenberg Music Building
동아시아의 냉전을 다시 생각한다: Re-examining the Cold War in East Asia
Byeong Han Lee, Yonsei University/ Visiting Scholars and Post Doc Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Sacral Authority and Public Spirituality: Inculturation and the Crisis of Korean Protestant Christianity
Hak Joon Lee, Fuller Theological Seminary/Im Colloquium of Korean Christianity
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
164 Royce Hall
Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Vietnamese Catholicism
Colloquium with Professor George Dutton, UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Heroin Heroines: Women and the Men Who Work with Them in Afghanistan's Drug Trade
Book talk by Fariba Nawa
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
How to Turn Philosophical Ideas into Diagrams: Chinese Approaches and Insights
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Film Screening: The Secret World of Arrietty
In partnership with Melnitz Movies, the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies presents a sneak preview of "The Secret World of Arrietty."
Thursday, February 16, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
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Nixon in China: A Legacy Revisited - FULL CONFERENCE MULTIMEDIA COVERAGE NOW AVAILABLE!!
A conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing and Shanghai and his meetings with Chairman Mao
Thursday, February 23, 2012
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
UCLA James West Alumni Center
Kazakh Music Concert
A performance by the Kazakh Folk Ensemble "Kulansaz."
Friday, February 24, 2012
2:00 PM
Jan Popper Theater
English Rakugo with Master Utazo Katsura
English rakugo performance by Master Utazo Katsura.
Friday, February 24, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Broad Art Center 2160E
UCLA Music of Korea Benefit Concert
Sponsored by UCLA United Korean Voice (UKV)
Friday, February 24, 2012
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Wilshire Ebell Theatre
Teaching the Pacific
Teaching the Pacific: A New Initiative by the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Saturday, February 25, 2012
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum
Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women
Exhibit at the UCLA Fowler Museum
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Fowler Museum
CAW: Development and Civil Society
Central Asia Workshop: readings and discussion
Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Diamond Road of India's Golconda Kingdom
By Dr. Robert Simpkins, Lecturer in Anthropology, San Jose State University
Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China: Capitalist Development and Popular Resistance
The colloquium will examine the roots of popular resistance in contemporary China, and consider the way in which it is affecting capitalist development and the political system.
Monday, February 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche 6275
출판 한류의 가능성: 한미 문학의 출판 교류를 중심으로 - The Potential of the Korean Wave in Publishing: Focusing on the Exchanges of Literature Publishing between Korea and the United States
Young Wan Hong, Will Books Publishing Co./ Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
A Case Study of Mask Dance Drama Students: Capitalizing on Korean Heritage?
By CedarBough T. Saeji, Ph.D. Candidate
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
160 Kaufman Hall
Human Rights in Burma Today
A Talk by Jack Healy, Founder of the Human Rights Action Center
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA School of Law Room 1447
Center for Study of Religion talk by Natasha Heller (UCLA Dept of ALC)
Talk title: Buddhist Recitation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
NELC Seminar Room, 365 Humanities Bldg
The New People in the People’s Republic: Protesters in Housing Disputes in Urban China, 1980-2010
In this project, Professor Qin Shao examines urban protestors and their evolving identities by exploring what was demolished in old neighborhoods and what, besides highrises, has risen in their ruins.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche 10383
The Vietnamese Sons of Victor Hugo: The Colonial Cult of the Occult and the Struggle for National Liberation
Colloquium with Professor Janet Hoskins, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
The Last Mughal: The Great Uprising and the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
Book talk by William Dalrymple
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library
Before and After Superflat: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society
A book talk with Adrian Favell, Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, and formerly Associate Professor and Professor of Sociology at UCLA.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
History Conference Room
Japan in the World
A roundtable discussion of Japanese foreign policy and U.S.-Japan relations. Participants will include Professor Mike Thies, UCLA; Christopher Hughes, University of Warwick; Jun Saito, Yale; Mireya Solis, American University; and Toshiaki Miura, Asahi Shinbun. Moderated by Tom Plate, Loyola Marymount University.
Friday, March 02, 2012
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Nibei Center
Film Screening: "40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy"
Film screening and discussion with the filmmaker, Dr. Robert Lemelson
Friday, March 02, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Los Angeles Indonesian Consulate
Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake
A photojournalism exhibit co-organized by the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and The Kahoku Shimpo newspaper.
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Time to be announced.
Fowler Museum
Family Jam: Listen, Learn, Jam: A Bow to Japanese Music
A Fowler Event
Sunday, March 04, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum courtyard
CAW: Tengriism
Readings and Discussion with Kagan Arik, University of Chicago
Monday, March 05, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Shamanism and Healing in the Culture of the Kazakhs
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Kagan Arik, University of Chicago.
Monday, March 05, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China and the U.S. West Coast: Golden Business Opportunities
Chairman Wei Jiafu lays out a "roadmap" for capitalizing on the golden opportunities of doing business in China and attracting investment from China to the West Coast, offering valuable insights into what makes business work in China and how the West can take advantage of the expanding markets and investment opportunities both there and in the U.S.
Monday, March 05, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Race for Empire
A book talk by Takashi Fujitani, director, Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Humanities Bldg. Room 193
Shamanism, Tourism, and Secrecy: Revelation and Concealment in Siberut, Western Indonesia
Colloquium with Christian S. Hammons, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
LA Premiere: LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, 2011)
Thursday, March 08, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
New Visions: The Sketch of Mujo
A documentary by filmmaker Omiya Koichi presented by Melnitz Movies and the Paul. I and Hisako Terasaki Center as part of the film series "New Visions of Japanese Cinema"
Friday, March 09, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Symposium: Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake
A half-day symposium with experts on the recovery and reconstruction of Japan. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Moving Forward: Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Fowler Museum
Tragic Fate of a Floodplain: What Happened to Certain Schemes in the Brahmaputra River Valley?
By Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Yale Agrarian Studies Program, Associate Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India
Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tragic Fate of a Floodplain: What Happened to Certain Schemes in the Brahmaputra River Valley?
By Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Yale Agrarian Studies Program, Associate Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India
Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Mario Poceski
“Literary Remaking and Historical Transformation of the Religious Persona(s) of Chan Teacher Mazu Daoyi," a talk by Prof. Mario Poceski (University of Florida)
Monday, March 12, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
북한체제의 변화를 위한 정보기술의 활용 Use of Information Technology (IT) for Change in North Korea
Sang Hyuk Yoon, Ministry of Unification/Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
‘Progressive Possibilities in Occupant Urbanism’s Contesting Properties
By Prof. Solomon Benjamin, Manipal University, School of Architecture and Planning
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 BUNCHE HALL
Policing Protest: "Restrictions on Street Demonstrations in Japan"
A lecture by Lawrence Repeta—Professor, Meiji University Faculty of Law, Tokyo
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
The 1988 Seoul Olympics and Its Significance in International Politics and the Korean Economy
Man Lip Choy, Pierre de Coubertin laureate / The Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Lecture for Contemporary Korean Studies
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Main Conference Room, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
The Use of Japanese Traditional Theater Aesthetics and Techniques in Contemporary Acting and Directing
A lecture-demonstration by Professor Zvika Serper, PhD, including live performance and video.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
7:00 PM
Nibei Foundation
An Alternate Modernity: Twentieth-Century Balinese Painting
Illustrated lecture by Professor Adrian Vickers, Director, Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology, The University of Sydney.
Monday, March 19, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Brown Auditorium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
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
Family Jam: Raga and Tala: Music of India
A Fowler Event
Sunday, June 17, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum, UCLA
Making Sense of It All: Understandings of War in Japanese Film, 1945-1974
Presented by By Erik Ropers University of Melbourne on Monday, July 2, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. at UCLA Bunche Hall 11377.
Monday, July 02, 2012
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
A Journey to Harmony
A concert by Suanplu Chorus from Bangkok, Thailand
Sunday, July 15, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Fowler OutSpoken Lecture: Pearl of the Snowlands: Printing and Tibet's Living Heritage
UCLA Fowler Museum presents a lecture with guest curator Patrick Dowdey from the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies.
Saturday, August 04, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
Qara U'y: The Qaraqalpaq Yurt and Its Decoration
David and Sue Richardson, Independent Researchers, Nottingham, UK
Saturday, September 15, 2012
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
An Unforgettable History of World War II: the Tokyo Trials
A talk on the 1946 Tokyo Trials by Professor Xiang Longwan, Director of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Tokyo Trial Research Center, and son of one of the eleven original trial prosecutors.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room (11348 YRL)
International Institute IDP Open House & Fall Reception-Part of 'Welcome Week'!
As part of the campus-wide 'True Bruin Welcome Week' activities, the International Institute Interdepartmental Programs (IDPs) will be hosting an Open House & Fall Reception, to which you are cordially invited.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Azerbaijan as a Regional Hub in Central Eurasia: A Strategic Assessment of Euro-Asian Trade and Transportation
A book talk with author Taleh Ziyadov, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. Discussant: James Coyle, Pepperdine University.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Hammer Screening: Jai Bhim Comrade
By Director Anand Patwardhan
Thursday, September 27, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Hammer Museum
Silk Fabrics of the Golden Horde: Historical, Cultural and Ideological Aspects
Zvezdana Dode, Stavropol State University, Russia
Thursday, October 04, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Cotsen Institute Seminar Room
Young Research Library Asian Studies New Student Reception
The Asia Institute invites new graduate students and visiting scholars to a welcome reception at YRL
Friday, October 05, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room
Dastangoi: The Lost Art of Story-telling
By Mahmood Farooqui
Friday, October 05, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Auditorium A103B
Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan: 1500-2014
A lecture by Thomas Barfield, Boston University
Monday, October 08, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room
On Ideology and Ideologues: The Issue of "Japanism" in the Study of Wartime Japan
A colloquium with the 2012-2013 UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. John Person, University of Chicago.
Monday, October 08, 2012
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
We invite you to join in the 26th 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 09, 2012
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
A 2nd Century BC Shipwreck in the Indian Ocean and the Role of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara as the Protector of Mariners
Professor Osmund Bopearachchi is a Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (C.N.R.S. Paris), where he oversees the 'Hellenism and Oriental Civilisations' program of the C.N.R.S. UMR 8546/5, and also a visiting professor of Central Asian and South-Asian archaeology and art history at the Paris IV-Sorbonne University.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Night Letters: Art and Ambiguity in the Early Years of Soeharto’s New Order (1968-1976)
Colloquium with Jeffrey Hadler, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, October 11, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
New Visions of Japanese Cinema Film Series: The Face of Another screening
The Graduate Student Association Melnitz Movies and the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies co-sponsor a film screening of Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1966 film, The Face of Another.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA Melnitz 1409
Do Fair Elections Enhance Perceptions of Government? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Michael Callen, UCSD
Friday, October 12, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
The Buddha Sakyamuni and the Courtesan Utpalavarna in Gandhâran Buddhist Art
By Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi, Scholar of Gandharan Art and Sri Lankan Archaeology
Friday, October 12, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
275 Dodd Hall
China Onscreen Biennial: Shanghai Strangers (非典情人) West Coast Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 13, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
China Onscreen Biennial: LACUNA (醉后一夜) North American Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 13, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
China Onscreen Biennial: All Apologies (爱的替身) North American Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Sunday, October 14, 2012
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
미국 TV드라마 경향과 한국 TV드라마 비교 A Comparative Study on American and Korean TV Drama Trends
By Jae Sang Lee, KBS
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: Borders, Ethnicity & Conflict: The Ferghana Valley Border Closing
Led by Ali Hamdan
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
China Onscreen Biennial: The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven 3D (大闹天宫 3D) West Coast Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Linwood Dunn Theater
Commerce with the Universe: Travel, Trade and the Afrasian Imagination
Professor Gaurav Desai, Tulane University, discusses the Asian (Indian) presence in and connections with Africa.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China Onscreen Biennial: The Red Detachment of Women (1970)( 红色娘子军)
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Friday, October 19, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
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COB: THE RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN (1970) (银幕中国双年展: 红色娘子军)
A Film Screening and Post-screening panel discussion moderated by UCLA professor Robert Chi; with Beijing opera master and former yangbanxi performer Qi Shufang; theater director Peter Sellars; and Director of UCLA’s Center for Chinese Studies Yan Yunxiang.
Friday, October 19, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard
China Onscreen Biennial: Beijing Flickers Pop-up Exhibition 《有种》流动展览
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 20, 2012
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Mandarin Plaza, Chinatown
China Onscreen Biennial: Sauna On Moon (嫦娥) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 20, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
Raga Spirit 2012
The first symposium / festival of Indian Music at UCLA. Prominent scholars, musicologists and musicians of the highest caliber will showcase the splendour of this classical art form.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
9:30 AM
Schoenberg Hall
China Onscreen Biennial: Are We Really So Far From The Madhouse? (我们离疯人院有多远) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Sunday, October 21, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
Pakistan in a Volatile Region
By Consul General Riffat Masood from Consulate General of Pakistan, Los Angeles
Monday, October 22, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
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Low Carbon Development in China: Fitting Global Climate Norms to National Policymaking Institutions
A talk by Eric Zusman, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), on climate change reform policy efforts in China.
Monday, October 22, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall, UCLA
China Onscreen Biennial: Animated, Golden and Restored (International Restoration Premiere)
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Monday, October 22, 2012
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex, 631 West 2nd Street
CAW: Space and Bor(un)d(ari)ers between China, Russia, Mongolia and Tibet: Political and Cultural Barriers in Eastern Eurasia
Led by Andrew Grant
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
China Onscreen Biennial: Beijing Flickers (有种) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex, 631 West 2nd Street
2013-14 UC Pacific Rim Research Fellowship (PRRP) Campus Information Session
This session will give faculty and students an opportunity to learn more about the PRRP program and answer any questions.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Impact of the I Ching on Merce Cunningham and Deborah Hay
The I Ching, or the Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese text––perhaps the first written document in human history––and was originally used exclusively as an oracle. Three thousand years old, the I Ching is one of the most revered books in Chinese literature, and it has inspired the most eminent Chinese scholars throughout history.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Presentation Room, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il: Notes from His Former Mentor
By John Cha, Writer/Translator
Thursday, October 25, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
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詠劇詩歌：明清戲曲接受史的生動記錄 (Poetry in Praise of Drama: A Vivid Record of the History of Reception of Ming and Qing Drama)
A talk in Mandarin by Professor Zhao Shanlin, East China Normal University, on the reception of Ming and Qing drama.
Friday, October 26, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA
China Onscreen Biennial: Double Exposure (二次曝光) North American Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Friday, October 26, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
Critical Frameworks of Transmission
The UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies hosts the 17th Annual Graduate Symposium on Japanese Studies.
Friday, October 26, 2012
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 306
China Onscreen Biennial: Three Sisters ( 三姊妹) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 27, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
China Onscreen Biennial: The Ditch (夹边沟) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 27, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
China Onscreen Biennial: The Cremator (焚尸人 ) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Sunday, October 28, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
China Onscreen Biennial: Feng Shui (万剑穿心): North American Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Sunday, October 28, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
킬러 컨텐츠의 발생과 진화 과정: ‘한반도의 공룡 점박이’ 사례연구 The origin and evolution of 'killer content': A case study of 'Speckles the Tarbosaurus'
By Sangho Han, EBS
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
China Onscreen Biennial: Painted Skin:The Resurrection (画皮 II)
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
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Painted Skin: The Resurrection (画皮II) Halloween Screening
Los Angeles Premiere / Halloween Screening!
PAINTED SKIN: THE RESURRECTION 2012
(画皮II)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
UCLA Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Exotic Things and Strange Writings - Cultural Exchange in the Light of Artifacts Discovered along the Silk Road
Armin Selbitschka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich), Germany
Friday, November 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Fowler Museum Building, Room A222
2012 Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums, and a Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art in Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture, will give the 25th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum
Cambodia-Thailand Relations: The Questions of the Preah Vihear Temple and a Clash of Two Nationalisms
Colloquium with Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri, Department of History, Thammasat University
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Youth, Community, and Change in Ladakh
Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
A Talk by the Venerable Subul Sunim
Zen Meditation for Today: A New Approach by a Modern Korean Master
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Charles E Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Intro,Q&A
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
Careers in International Development, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy with Alfred Nakatsuma
Alfred Nakatsuma has just completed his assignment as the Director of the Office of Environment for USAID in Indonesia where he supervised programs in clean energy, climate change, forestry, marine management, clean water and sanitation, disaster response and risk reduction.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 1 of a two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Thursday, November 08, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
UCLA History Conference Room
UCI: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 2 two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Friday, November 09, 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
The Young Artist Association in the Republic of Vietnam and After
Colloquium with Trinh Cung, Artist/Essayist
Friday, November 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
SYMPOSIUM: Strangers in a Strange Land: Art, Aesthetics and Displacement
Organized by UCLA faculty, Saloni Mathur and Aamir Mufti
Friday, November 09, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Hammer Museum
CAW: Dangerous Fortunes and Vitalities in Inner Asia
Led by Hannah Reiss
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Urbanization in Between: Theorizing Urbanization in Rapidly Industrializing China
Presented by Dr. Andrew Kipnis, Australian National University
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
New Findings on the Monochord and Non-mathematical Methods of Constructing the 12-Lülü Chromatic Scale in Ancient China
Lecture by Guangming Li
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (B544)
2013-2014 FLAS Fellowship Information Session
Learn about opportunities for language and area studies fellowships for the summer and academic year. Graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines are invited.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Young Research Library
Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism, A talk by Mark Rowe
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 1)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Japanese Kabuki Music
The Yamato Gaku ensemble presents a lecture and demonstration of kabuki music, featuring guest artist Osho Yamato on the shamisen (plucked lute).
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (1325)
Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 2)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Thursday, November 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
From the Arabs to the Mongols: Narratives of Foreign Conquest in Modern Iranian History Writing
Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford
Thursday, November 15, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Language and Culture of Ikema from Miyako Island of Okinawa
Workshop hosted by Professor Shoichi Iwasaki from UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
Friday, November 16, 2012
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library, Room 11360
"Tokyo Boogie Woogie" in California: The 1950 Sacramento Recordings in Japanese and Japanese-American Cultural History
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies invites Professor Michael K. Bourdaghs from the University of Chicago.
Friday, November 16, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Young Research Library, Room 11360
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 1 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Friday, November 16, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 2 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Saturday, November 17, 2012
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora
Book talk by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Monday, November 19, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Young 4216
CAW: (Re)imagining Kazakh Nationhood Through Cinema
Led by Naomi Caffee
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Creating a New Museum for Thailand: The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Colloquium with Dale Carolyn Gluckman, Former curator and department head, Costume and Textiles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Burden of History: Foreign Policy Challenges in the New Global Era
By SHIN Yeon-sung, Consul General, Korean Consulate General, Los Angeles, CA
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Regional Logic vs. Global Humanities: Where To from Here?
Ping-chen Hsiung, Director of the Research Institute for the Humanities and Professor of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Friday, November 30, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Old Society, New Faith: Religious Encounter and Cultural Identity in Early Medieval China and Europe
Workshop in Comparative History
Saturday, December 01, 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Decolonizing Literacies: Paulo Freire, "Theory" and Rural Women's Antiviolence Organizing in Eastern India
By Piya Chatterjee, Dorothy Cruickshand Backstrand Chair in Gender and Women's Studies, Scripps College, California
Monday, December 03, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Taiwan Since Martial Law
Book talk by David Blundell, National Chengchi University
Monday, December 03, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Rebirth: Recent Work by Mariko Mori
To take place on Monday, December 3, 2012 from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at UCLA, Dodd Hall 275.
Monday, December 03, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
2012 한국 대통령 선거 따라잡기 Understanding of the 2012 South Korea Presidential Election
By Kim Sung Tak, Joong-Ang Ilbo
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan
Afghan Studies Book Talk by U.S. Army Capt. Matt Zeller
Thursday, December 06, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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Events by Quarter
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
Time to be announced.
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