http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia The Asia Institute is a consortium of Asia-focused research centers and programs at UCLA en-us ℗ & © 2008 UCLA Asia Institute. UCLA International Institute. University of California Regents. Higher Education http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/images/asia-institute-logo-sm.gif http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/ 52 200 Shigeru Nakayama, a historian of science, joins UCLA as the fifth Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=98312Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:36:20 PDTAdrian Favell, UCLA professor of sociology, speaks in Yokohama, Japan at the opening of The ECHO: JAPAN NEXT, a contemporary art exhibit held at ZAIM as part of the third Yokohama Triennale. http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=98535Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:18:57 PDTNow a professor of anthropology and co-director of Chinese studies at UCLA, Yan Yunxiang has returned many times to northeastern China to conduct fieldwork in Xiajia, where he lived for seven years as an ordinary farmer.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=98316Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:08:04 PDTThirteen Korean historical, religious, and philosophical classics will be introduced to English readers under a translation project coordinated by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=97919Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:56:06 PDTOn leave from Arizona State University, Aaron Moore will conduct research and teach about the relationships between technology, modernity, and empire.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=98008Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:29:52 PDTBeginning in the fall of 2008 there will be a student initiated and run Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=96042Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:18:48 PDTThe Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies announces two new appointments for the '08-'09 academic year.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=93896Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:35:37 PDTJianbo Dong is UCLA's first visiting scholar through its exchange agreement with ECNU.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=94028Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:31:54 PDTA Tibetan monk and two Americans dedicated to the Bon tradition of Tibet, an ancient religion that influenced Tibetan Buddhism, deliver a digitized copy of canonical Bon texts to the UCLA Library and Center for Buddhist Studies.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=93733Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:29:55 PDTCISA faculty projects for the upcoming year.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=93815Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:51:24 PDTHistorian Yoshikuni Igarashi explains how two celebrated Japanese comic book characters embodied the hopes and fears of Japan's postwar middle class.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=92609Wed, 21 May 2008 14:06:27 PDTBrief obituary for esteemed UCLA alumnahttp://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=92674Tue, 20 May 2008 12:48:44 PDTWith a film screening and a panel discussion, the UCLA Asia Institute and partners launch a Central Asia Initiative. The goal is to understand societies and cultures long on the fringes of study. Anticipating a UCLA conference in October 2008, historians on the panel ask what changed on the steppes of Central Asia as states acquired the means to move and deport whole peoples, and as nomads increasingly stayed put.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=92480Mon, 19 May 2008 14:45:38 PDTA talk by Rebecca Morse (Assistant Curator, MOCA) ** May 28, 2008 ** 2 - 3:30 pmhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=92523Sun, 18 May 2008 15:37:38 PDTRebecca Kim discusses why ethnic-oriented, collegiate Christian groups grow faster than multi-racial ones.http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=92241Tue, 13 May 2008 16:26:41 PDT