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Results For Spring Quarter: 3/20/2013 - 6/15/2013
Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake Colloquia Series
In 2011, the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies presented an exhibition documenting the lives and stories of those affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. This year marks the second anniversary of this catastrophic disaster and UCLA is proud to host a two-part colloquium presented by Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, chair of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission by the National Diet of Japan, and Professor Hitoshi Abe, Terasaki Center director.
Friday, March 22, 2013
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Royce Hall,Room 306
한국사회의 북한이탈주민: 정착지원 과정에서 민간단체의 역할 North Korean Migrants in South Korea: NGOs’ Roles in the Resettlement Process
By Jung Eun Lee, El Camino College
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Resource Competition in East Asia: Political and Environmental Implications
Presented by the School of International Relations and Program on Environmental Studies, USC
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
12:15 PM - 5:15 PM
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The End of History and the Last Anecdote
This talk analyzes the process of the end of the anecdotes tradition, and what replaced it.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
WEAL 2013 Workshop on East Asian Linguistics
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Friday, March 29, 2013
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
WEAL 2013 Workshop on East Asian Linguistics
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Saturday, March 30, 2013
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
The Luxury of Love: The Retreat/Retirement of Single Gay Men and the Rise of “Bats” in Post-IMF South Korea
By John Cho, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Childhoods at School: Negotiating Modernity, Social Change, and Identity in Ladakh, India."
Presented by Bonnie Richard, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Zhou Zuoren and the Uses of Greek Mythology in Modern China
Zhang Wei, Fudan University
Thursday, April 04, 2013
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
167 Dodd Hall
The Time of Literary History: Reconsidering Modernity in an Indian Vernacular
By Farina Mir, Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan
Monday, April 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
A Colloquium with Christina Laffin, Univ. of British Columbia, on her new book, "Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literacy Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu"
Book talk with Christina Laffin is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia and the Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture.
Monday, April 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA, Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
Puro Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire
Book talk with Lucy Burns, UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
2013 India Conference
Innovating, Investing, and Adapting in the Wake of New Economic Reforms
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cornell Hall
Isomorphic Pressures, Epistemic Communities and State-NGO Collaboration in China
A talk by Dr. Reza Hasmath
Thursday, April 11, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Spatial Study with China Geo-Explorers: New Information, New Technology and New Directions
Dr. Shuming Bao is the director of the China Data Center at the University of Michigan
Friday, April 12, 2013
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
23167 Young Research Library
Critical Histories of Activism: Indonesia’s New Order and its Legacies
This one-day conference, led by historian Jeffrey Hadler and political ecologist/sociologist Nancy Peluso of UC Berkeley, will examine forms of activism and protest that emerged in Indonesia during the “New Order” of President Soeharto (1967–1998).
Sunday, April 14, 2013
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
[East Asian Library Event ] A Year in the Clouds: A Taiwan Documentary Film
Documentary of a group of Taiwan's indigenous people living in the mountains
Monday, April 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
Monday, April 15, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Trade, Migration, and Acculturation: China and the Prehistoric Silk Routes
A talk on the history of the Silk Routes
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
What Are We Doing with the Chinese Economy?
Talk by Mr. Song Chengmin, Deputy Director of Editorial Department of Macroeconomic Management in China
Thursday, April 18, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 1)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Friday, April 19, 2013
11:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 2)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Saturday, April 20, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:45 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 3)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Sunday, April 21, 2013
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
[East Asian Library Event] American Landscapes in Chinese Brush Painting
Artist Bo Hong introduces Chinese brush paintings
Monday, April 22, 2013
11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
The Sanganakallu-Kapgallu Hill Complex of Southern India: Recent Archeological and Multidisciplinary Research
By Dr. Ravi Korisettar, Professor of History and Archaeology at Karnatak University in Dharwad, India
Monday, April 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
한국의 소설네트워크 이용행동에 미치는 심리적 변수들의 효과 The Effects of Psychological Variables on SNS Usage Behavior in Korea
By Professor Ja Young Choi, Soongsil University
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Rape, Incest, and Abortion in the High Plains of Heaven: The Misdeeds of Susanoo Reconsidered
Presented by Bernhard Scheid, research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializes on the history of Shinto. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Shinto, including: The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion (2006, ed. with Mark Teeuwen), as well as on the history of Japanese studies.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Civil Society without Democracy? NGO Development in China
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Great Reversal: Defeated Japan as Ally and Liberated Korea as Enemy
By Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Workers Speak Out Against Labor Rights Violations (UCLA/Indonesia)
Program with Indonesian garment workers who sewed Adidas college apparel and United Students Against Sweatshops
Thursday, April 25, 2013
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Student Activities Center, Ballroom 5 (3rd floor)
China and Taiwan Cross-Strait Relationship after Power Transitions
An International Symposium on issues in the cross-strait relationship
Thursday, April 25, 2013
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
California Room
China in the Global Economic Crisis: Social Dislocation, Government Response, and Prospects for Transformation
A talk featuring Wen Tiejun, Dean of the School of Agronomics & Rural Development, Renmin University of China.
Monday, April 29, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Book Talk: Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Afghan Studies Book Talk with Author William Dalrymple
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Young Research Library Main Conference Room
How Did Jesuit Science Become Superior in the Kangxi Court?
A talk by Dr. Minghui Hu as part of the History of Science Spring 2013 Colloquium.
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM
5288 Bunche
CAW: Relationship between the State and Multinational Entities with regards to the Art Market
Led by Naomi Caffee
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Continuity and Change in the Cultural Legacy of Qajar Era
A lecture by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University
Sunday, May 05, 2013
5:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
Gandhi and the Politics of Visual Representation
Prof. Vinay Lal, Department of History, UCLA
Monday, May 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
[East Asian Library Event] The Art of Face-Painting in Chinese Opera
Introducing the history of face painting in Chinese opera
Monday, May 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran and resistance to the British Raj
A lecture by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University
Monday, May 06, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
How to Build a Chinese Typewriter: Reimagining Technology and Script in the 19th and 20th Centuries
A talk by Thomas S. Mullaney as part of the History of Science Spring 2013 Colloquium.
Monday, May 06, 2013
4:00 PM
5288 Bunche
Investigating Culture History and Culture Process: The Archaeology of Ifugao Rice Terraces, Northern Philippines
Colloquium with Prof. Stephen B. Acabado, Department of Anthropology, University of Guam
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Haines 352
ODISSI LECTURE--DEMONSTRATION
BY GURU ARUNA MOHANTY AND ORISSA DANCE ACADEMY
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall
CAW: "The Art of Not Being Governed"
Led by Andrew Grant
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Ending the Korean War: Films
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice, which temporarily halted the fighting, yet failed to officially end the Korean War. We will show two documentary films on the impact of the unending Korean War and discuss it with the filmmakers. "Memory of Forgotten War" and "The Woman, The Orphan and The Tiger".
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hollywood
A book talk by Yiman Wang, Assistant Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Thursday, May 09, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
Ending the Korean War: A Conference
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice, which temporarily halted the fighting, yet failed to officially end the Korean War. This conference will examine key issues surrounding the war and the ongoing division of Korea, such as separated families, Korea's militarization, and the humanitarian crisis in North Korea.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Main Conference Room, Charles E. Young Research Library
Ending the Korean War: A Day of Action
Organized by United Methodist Women (UMW), this day will include a public forum on the Korean crisis that examines the ongoing cost of militarization of the Korean peninsula and the steps needed to replace the temporary armistice treaty with a permanent peace treaty. The forum will look at how the road to peace in Korea runs through Washington, DC, and how women and the Korean diaspora must steward it along the way.
Friday, May 10, 2013
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
Gatha Odissi
An Indian dance demonstrated by the Orissa Dance Academy
Sunday, May 12, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
William Bristol Civic Auditorium
한국의 주민참여예산제도, 쟁점과 대안 모색 Participatory Budgeting in Korea, its Controversial Issues and Alternatives
By Jong Ahn Ko, Ministry of Strategy and Finance in Korea
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Activism, Disciplinary Formations and Transnational Southeast Asian Cultural Studies
Colloquium with Mariam B. Lam, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Media & Cultural Studies, and Director of the Southeast Asian Studies Research Program (SEATRiP) at the University of California, Riverside
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Contemporary Chinese Art, 1976-Present
A talk by Christina Yu Yu, Assistant Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Dodd 161
Competing Cosmologies, Sacred Spaces and Powerful Objects: Enacting Empire among and between Rome, Sasanian Iran, and Sui-Tang China
Matthew Canepa, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Identity and Place in Contemporary Central Asia
A panel presentation of new research by UCLA graduate students
Thursday, May 16, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge
Performances of Extraordinary Gender in Mahari Dance
Prof. Anurima Banerji, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Monday, May 20, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia
Book talk with Prof. Rachmi Diyah Larasati, University of Minnesota
Monday, May 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
208 Glorya Kaufman Hall
Unfolding the Principle of Color Decoration in Yingzao Fashi, a 12th Century’s Chinese Imperial Building Standard
A talk by Luke Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Monday, May 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
A Public Lecture by Leading Scholar of Ancient Chinese Culture, Professor Li Ling (李零)
International Animals: Images of Lion and Tiger in Chinese Archaeological Findings
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
CAW: Migration, Trade, Travel
Led by Marjan Wardaki
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders
A conference to honor the career of Professor Ismail Poonawala.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Affective investments in the Manila region: Filipina migrants in rural Japan and transnational urban development in the Philippines
A talk by Lieba Faier, Department of Geography, UCLA.
Haines Hall 279
Friday, May 24, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines Hall 279
브랜드 위기시 소비자의 행동투자 매몰비용이 브랜드전환행동에 미치는 영향 The Effect of Consumers' Behavioral Investment Sunk Cost on Brand Switching Behavior in Brand Crisis
By Jieun Lee, Chung-Ang University
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Flowers, Fragrance, and Porcelain Wares in the Cultural History of Song China 宋人與花與香與瓷器
A Talk by Yang Zhishui 揚之水
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
West Electronic Classroom (2nd floor of YRL)
Expanding the Urban Horizon: Research in the Hinterlands of the Kalinga Polity, India
By Professor Monica Smith, UCLA Department of Anthropology
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
12:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Fowler Museum Building
CAW: Transnational governance and transnational threats in Uzbekistan
Led by Catherine Formusa
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
A Discussion of Local Customs in Hanafi Sources from the 10th to 16th Centuries
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Dr. Zafar Najmiddinov, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton
Thursday, May 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace with Ambassador Ryan Crocker: "The Arab Spring and US Interests"
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations proudly presents the 2012-13 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace featuring Ambassador Ryan Crocker. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia, the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, The UCLA Center for Middle East Development, and the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1357
‘An Ounce of Prevention…’: U.S. Anti-Communist Operations in Indonesia, 1963-1965
Colloquium with Dahlia Setiyawan, Ph.D. candidate, UCLA Department of History
Thursday, May 30, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
A Symposium on Call Centers in India and the Philippines
The panel will raise questions and share critical insights on the "voice business."
Thursday, May 30, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Faculty-Graduate Workshop
Workshop on modern Korean history with faculty, visiting faculty, postdoc, graduate students.
Friday, May 31, 2013
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Sustainable Grassroots Development in India
By AID Lifetime Fellows Dr. Ravi Kuchimanchi and Aravinda Pillalamarri
Sunday, June 02, 2013
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA
Film Screening: "Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution"
Documentary screening followed by discussion with Geoffrey Robinson (UCLA History) and Director Alex Meillier. Part of the UCLA International Human Rights Film Series.
Monday, June 03, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
CAW: "History of the Regions"
Led by Feruza Djumaniyazova
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Protest Dialectics: The Emergence and Evolution of South Korea’s Democracy Movement (1970-1979)
By Paul Y. Chang, Yonsei University
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Outside-In: Mambai Expectations of Returning Outsiders (East Timor)
Colloquium with Prof. Elizabeth G. Traube, Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Thursday, June 06, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines Hall 352
Kids Kingdom: Film Showing and Discussion with Director
Kids Kingdom is a documentary film about a group of Chinese kids who spend most of their time in Ba Kindergarten, a preschool in Beijing.
Thursday, June 06, 2013
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
The US Occupation’s Politics of Censorship towards the Postwar Japanese Leftist Popular Culture, 1946-49: The Case of Hataraku Fujin (Working Women)
Presented by Professor Yumi Soeshima, State University of New York-New Paltz
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 AM
UCLA, Young Research Library, WEC
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STARTALK/NHLRC Heritage Language Teacher Workshop for K-16 Teachers of Less Commonly Taught Languages
Monday, July 22, 2013
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