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Results For Winter Quarter: 1/1/2013 - 3/19/2013
대한민국 법원의 외국 중재 판정 승인 및 집행 소고 - 미국 중재 판정 승인 및 집행을 중심으로 The Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Korea - With Focus on the US Matters
By Jahng Yongbeum, Judge, Seoul District Court
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Nazarian Center Documentary Film Series - Gut Shabbes Vietnam
A young Israeli couple set out to the Far East – emissaries of the Chabad Movement who are sent to Vietnam
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Humanities Building, Rm 135
SAMBHI INDIAN MUSIC LECTURE SERIES
THE MOHINDAR BRAR SAMBHI LECTURE SERIES
ON INDIAN MUSIC
in association with the
NAZIR ALI JAIRAZBHOY COLLOQUIUM
ETHNOMU 291
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room 1344 Schoenberg Music Building
Decentralized Disaster Management, Safety Nets and Local Governance in Bangladesh
Prof. Stephen Commins, UCLA Department of Urban Planning
Monday, January 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Health in Post-Socialist Georgia
Led by Hannah Reiss
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall

New Leaders Make a Difference, but When? Reflections from Hong Kong on China’s Current Succession
Dr. David Zweig talks about China's political changes under the new leader, Xi Jinping
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
숫자로 본 야구 Numbers, statistics, and Baseball
By Professor Nahm Jae Hyun, Korea University
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: From Ethnic Groups to Nationalities and Nations
led by Andrew Grant, UCLA Dept. of Geography
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Funding Opportunities for International Grad Students
Information Workshop for International Graduate Students at UCLA
Thursday, January 24, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room (YRL 11348)
Innovation: East Asian Perspectives
A multidisciplinary conference
Friday, January 25, 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
243/314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Innovation: East Asian Perspectives
A multidisciplinary conference
Saturday, January 26, 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
243/314 Royce Hall, UCLA
"Can a Modern Science & Engineering Institution in Pakistan Be Sustained?"
Asad Abidi, Chancellor's Professor, UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering
Monday, January 28, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Rogers Brubaker Readings
Led by Ali Hamdan
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Lecture: Professor Akira Nishimura, Kagoshima University- Pacification of the Dead Spirits, Inspiration for the Living: The Relation of the Violent Structure of Japanese Society to the Commemoration for the War Dead
In Japan, two kinds of the dead have been discussed separately in the past research trends on the commemoration for war dead: the fallen soldiers and the civilian casualties like the atomic bomb dead. In this talk, Professor Akira Nishimura will try to recapitulate such genealogies of the commemorations based on the violent structure of Japanese society and abstract two types of vectors as “pacification and inspiration” which represent the relation of the living and the dead.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Rolfe Hall, Room 1301

Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan
Program on Central Asia Book Talk by Ali Igmen, CSU Long Beach
Thursday, January 31, 2013
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche
CAW: Mathematics of Beauty: the Science of Architectural Restoration in Soviet Central Asia
Led by Igor Demchenko
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall

Said Sarmad the Jewish Saint
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Nahid Pirnazar, UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Politics of Humor: A Historical Perspective of the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Colloquium with Katherine Bowie, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Debt, Credit and the “End” of Finance in Post-Fukushima Japan
Prof. Miyazaki examines two contrasting market responses to the TEPCO crisis, orchestrated by Tokyo’s financial market professionals, as manifestations of their conscious efforts to re-deploy theories and techniques of finance in a newly found sphere of profound uncertainty.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines Hall, Room 352

Movie Screening: Rent-a-Cat (2012, Naoko Ogigami)
"Cats for rent! Are you lonely? Why not rent a cat?"
Thursday, February 07, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Chinese New Year's Celebration
Ring in the Year of the Snake at the Chinese New Year’s Day Festival at the Hammer Museum.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
2:00 PM
Hammer Museum
Punjabis in California: Then and Now
Prof. Karen Leonard, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Monday, February 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Efforts to Improve Quality of Public Service and Policy Implication: Focusing the Korean Cases
By Professor Huimun Ra, SungKyul University
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Beyond Identity Fetishism"
Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall

Ecstasy of the Angels - Free Screening
Political film directed by Koji Wakamatsu, filmed 1972
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
12th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Beyond Queering the Chain of Care: Affective Feminizations, Biological Investments
Colloquium with Aren Z. Aizura, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall

Asia and the Global South
JEASC Annual Conference & Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop
Thursday, February 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Social Sciences Building (SOS) B40, USC
12th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Thursday, February 14, 2013
7:30 PM
Grounding Globalization: Capitalist Connections between Africa, Asia and Latin America in the early 21st Century
A panel discussion presented by the UCLA Asia Institute
Friday, February 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Subnational Islamization through Secular Parties: Comparing Shari'a Politics in Two Indonesian Provinces
Colloquium with Prof. Michael Buehler, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Rediscovering Chinese Scholastic Chan in Edo Japan," talk by George Keyworth
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

The Rights Movement and Civic Engagement in China Today: A Conversation with Teng Biao
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Film Screening: "Enforcing the Silence" (Vietnam)
Screening and Q&A with the filmmaker, Tony Nguyen
Thursday, February 21, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
2100A Broad Hall
A Critical Reflection on ‘Liberal Humanism’ in Japan’s Modernization
By Professor Katsuya Hirano, Cornell University
Thursday, February 21, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History
A one-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History
Friday, February 22, 2013
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
Book talk by Prof. Lan P. Duong, Media and Cultural Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
Friday, February 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Inhumanities: UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
And plenary speakers include: Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley), David T. Goldberg (UC Irvine), Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar), Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Friday, February 22, 2013
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
306 Royce Hall
Inhumanities: UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
Plenary speakers include: Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley), David T. Goldberg (UC Irvine), Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar), Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Saturday, February 23, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
The Indian Journey in Global Health: Recent Historic Developments and Opportunities
Prof. Snehendu Kar, UCLA Department of Public Health and Asian/American Studies
Monday, February 25, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
지방행정체제 개편의 과정분석과 통합효과 : 청주청원통합을 중심으로 The Process Analysis on the Reform of Local Administration System and Effects of Integration : Focused on the Cheongju City-Cheongwon Gum
By Yong Hwan Choi, Chungbuk Research Institute
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Shu-mei Shih Lecture, Is Feminism Translatable?-Taiwan, Spivak, A-Wu
Presented by UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
4:00 PM
Royce 314

The Newly-elected Abe Administration and its Policies
Consul General Niimi comes to UCLA to give a presentation detailing the results and implications of the recent national poll, which delivered the LDP a supermajority in the lower house, and outline the economic and foreign policies of the new administration.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:15 PM - 5:15 AM
Royce Hall Room 306
Come On! The Politics of Contemporary Visual Art in Cambodia, Viet Nam and Beyond
A talk by artist, curator and writer Việt Lê, Assistant Professor, Visual Studies | Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Thursday, February 28, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
2100A Broad Hall
"The Turbulent Life of the Platform Sutra" talk by Prof. Morten Schlutter
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk
Friday, March 01, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Royce 243
The Seventh Annual Distinguished Lecture on South and Southeast Asian Art
Present by UCLA Professor Robert L. Brown
Saturday, March 02, 2013
2:00 PM
Brown Auditorium, LACMA Museum

"Emperor" Starring Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones
Please join us for a special screening of the film "Emperor." A panel discussion will follow the screening with Producers Yoko Narahashi and Eugene Nomura, Professor Kal Raustiala, and Professor William Marotti.
Monday, March 04, 2013
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
오늘 날의 일본 사회와 한국 근현대사 연구 Contemporary Japanese Society and the Writing of Korean Modern History
By Professor Ota Osamu, Doshisha University
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Re-Membering the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Memory Work
A talk by Cathy Schlund-Vials, Associate Professor, English and Asian American Studies and director of Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Double Feature Lecture: Prof. Feng Shi and Prof. Miao Zhe
Prof. Feng Shi from the Institute of Archaeology, CASS, and Prof. Miao Zhe from Zhejiang University
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
An Extra on the Stage of History: Kurosawa Tokiko’s Political Activism in late-Tokugawa Japan
By Professor Laura Nenzi, University of Tennessee
Thursday, March 07, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall

The Buddhas of Mes Aynak
Documentary film screening with director Brent Huffman, Northwestern University
Friday, March 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Young Research Library
Systemic Illegibility and the Contradictions of Development in India: an Ethnographic Exploration of Anti-Poverty Schemes in Bihar
By Prof. Jeffrey Witsoe, Department of Anthropology, Union College, New York
Monday, March 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
글로벌 시대에 한국적 텔레비전 콘텐츠 포맷의 가치 조명 (Illuminating) The Value of Korean Television Content Format in the Era of Globalization
By Intae Jun, KBS
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Nomadic and domestic: dwelling on the edge of Ulaanbaatar"
Rick Miller, Geography
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
“Japan, Photography, Nature: Exceptional and Unexceptional States”
Professor Julia Thomas, University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall

UCLA Chinese Studies Grad Students Pro-Seminar
Week 10: Prehistoric Cultures of the Liangshan Area? Cultural Contacts and Local Preconditions in a Multiregional Interaction Sphere
Friday, March 15, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
Practice, Ideology, Symbolics: Symposium in Honor of Herman Ooms
Symposium in honor of Prof. Herman Ooms
Saturday, March 16, 2013
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
UCLA, Rocye Hall Room 306
Teahouse Arts of China
Enjoy an evening of tea, snacks, music, and narrative ballad singing by master artists from Tianjin.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
7:30 PM
10899 Wilshire Blvd
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Past Events
Spotlight Event(s)
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
