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Long Distance Love
Reception at 6:00pm. Film screening at 6:30pm, followed by discussion. Discussants: Roger Waldinger (UCLA, Sociology) and Ali Igmen (California State University, Long Beach, History). Hosted by the UCLA Asia Institute Program on Central Asia. Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies. Part of the International Institute Human Rights Film Series.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
6:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
The Monks of Kublai Khan: The Mongols and the Church of the East
A Religions of the Silk Road lecture by Joel Walker, University of Washington
Friday, January 21, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall

China-Central Asia Relations and the Role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
A lecture by Prof. PAN Guang, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Friday, February 11, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Desert of Forbidden Art
Reception at 6:00pm. Film screening at 6:30pm, followed by discussion. Discussants: art critic Edward Goldman and filmmakers Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev. Hosted by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies. Cosponsored by the UCLA Asia Institute Program on Central Asia. Part of the International Institute Human Rights Film Series.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
6:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
CANCELLED: Reconstituting the Original Contexts of Some Kizil Mural Fragments in Overseas Collections: On the Iconography of Kucha Caves
ZHAO LI, Kucha Academy of Xinjiang
Thursday, February 17, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
World History Through Afghan Muslim Eyes
Tamim Ansary, Author of “Destiny Disrupted, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes”
Monday, February 28, 2011
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center

Textiles as Treasures: Cultures of Consumption in Central Asia and Beyond
A Program on Central Asia Conference
Saturday, March 05, 2011
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM
314 Royce Hall

Music of Central Asia: Performing Nationalism, Colonialism, and Identity
Symposium and performance workshop
Friday, April 01, 2011
12:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Choral Room

The Indian Ulema in Afghanistan
The Center for India and South Asia, the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the Asia Institute Program on Central Asia presents a seminar with Professor Sana Haroon, Institute of Business Administration Karachi.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall

Archaeological Excavations in Mongolia: Current Research
A Program on Central Asia Event featuring lectures by Ursula Brosseder (Assistant Professor, University of Bonn, Pre- and Early Historical Archaeology) and Jan Bemmann, Bonn University
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Seminar Room, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Entwinements of Islam and Modernity in Central Asia
A lecture by John Schoeberlein, Harvard University
Thursday, April 07, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

South Asian Entrepreneurs in Uzbekistan: The Silk Road Reborn?
A Program on Central Asia Lecture with Karen Leonard, UC Irvine
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
Johan Elverskog, Southern Methodist University
Monday, May 09, 2011
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Seleucid Empire between Orientalism and Hellenocentrism: Writing the History of the Near East and Iran in the Third and Second Centuries BCE
Rolf Strootman, Lecturer in Ancient History, Utrecht University and
Visiting Professor, UCLA
Monday, May 23, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Red Buddha Hall Road Revisited: Tibet, China and their Struggle for the Silk Road through the Pamir
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by John Mock, UCSC
Monday, September 26, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Progress and Prospects in the Study of Tibetan Art History
Panel Presentation by Scholars from the China Tibetology Research Center, Beijing
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall

Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes
An International Conference of the UCLA Program on Central Asia
Thursday, November 17, 2011
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library
The Emergence and Tides of a Contemporary Saint: Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan, Afghanistan
A Lecture by Ingeborg Baldauf, Humboldt University, Berlin
Friday, November 18, 2011
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Pictorial Canon of a Silk Road Religion: Mani’s Picture-Book and the Study of Manichaean Didactic Art
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Zsuzsanna Gulasci, Northern Arizona University
Monday, November 21, 2011
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Buddhism and Liao Dynasty Tombs at Xuanhua
Qingquan Li, Dean of the School of Art and the Humanities at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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