Calendar of Events
Public lectures, symposium, colloquia and workshops about World Affairs at UCLA
Events for March 2013
Western Ottoman Workshop
Friday, March 01, 2013
Time to be announced.
306 Royce 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
Western Ottoman Workshop
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Time to be announced.
306 Royce Hall
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
How to Deal with Loanwords in Translation: Some Considerations on Translations Strategy
A lecture by Professor Akira Kono from Osaka University
Monday, March 04, 2013
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
A6 Haines Hall
Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century with Authors Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels
Please join us for a panel discussion with Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels, authors of the book "Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East." This event is co-sponsored by UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and will be moderated by Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala.
Monday, March 04, 2013
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355
"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
Survival in the Diaspora
2nd annual Judeo-Spanish Conference
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Time to be announced.
Young Research Library Presentation Room
CAW: African-Americans in the USSR
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Nationalist Internationalism, or a pre-history of non-Alignment
A lecture by Noor-Aiman I. Khan, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Program in Middle East and Islamic Civilizations, Colgate University
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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
Documentary Film Series -- Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions
A film screening and discussion with Israeli documentary film maker Duki Dror
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
UCLA Campus
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
Survival in the Diaspora
2nd annual Judeo-Spanish Conference
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Time to be announced.
Young Research Library Presentation Room
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
The Persistence of the Past: How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our World Today
A lecture by Ronald Grigor Suny. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A18 Haines Hall
Histórias que só existem quando lembradas (Found Memories)
A 2012 film by Julia Murat
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz 1409
Dispensing Justice on Screen: Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremberg"
CEES public lecture by Elisabeth Bronfen (University of Zurich, English and American Studies).
Thursday, March 07, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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
Transitional Imperial Networks: From Dutch Slave Trading to British Anti-Slave Trading at the Cape in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Presentation by Kerry Ward, Rice University.
Thursday, March 07, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Book Release: Regarding Educación: Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Binational Improvement
A talk by Adam Sawyer (Bard College), Bryant Jensen (BYU), and Patricia Gándara (UCLA)
Book Release: Regarding Educación: Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Binational Improvement
Friday, March 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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
At the Crossroads: Medicine and Culture in Latin America
A symposium exploring the intersection between culture and medicine among indigenous communities in Latin America.
Friday, March 08, 2013
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
YRL Conference Room 11360
Global Ecologies: Nature/Narrative/Neoliberalism - A two-day conference
Global Ecologies: Nature/Narrative/Neoliberalism stages an interdisciplinary conversation about globally relevant environmental issues such as neo-liberalism, militarism, waste dumping, deforestation, and food, land, and water sovereignty.
Friday, March 08, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 314
Global Ecologies: Nature/Narrative/Neoliberalism - A two-day conference
Global Ecologies: Nature/Narrative/Neoliberalism stages an interdisciplinary conversation about globally relevant environmental issues such as neo-liberalism, militarism, waste dumping, deforestation, and food, land, and water sovereignty.
Saturday, March 09, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 314
Iran and the Rise of the 21st Century Intellectuals
A lecture by Ata Hoodashtian, Institut Canadien de Management
Sunday, March 10, 2013
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
"ISRAEL IN 3-D" - ONE DAY UNIVERSITY
As part of its ongoing outreach activities, the UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies will sponsor a one-day university for the general public on Sunday, March 10. “Israel in 3-D” will offer two panel discussions and four short courses on contemporary political, economic, and foreign affairs issues in Israel. There is a fee of $36 to attend the luncheon and keynote speech by Israeli journalist Natasha Mozgovaya, who has written extensively for Ha’aretz. RSVP required.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
9:30 AM - 4:15 PM
UCLA Campus
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
"Tzadik Yesod Olam" - The Temple Mount and Israeli Religious-Nationalist Society
A talk by Sarina Chen, Nazarian Center Schusterman Postdoctoral Fellow
Thursday, March 14, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall
A Talk by Hector Tobar
A talk by Hector Tobar, author.
Location: Moore Hall Room 3340 (The Reading Room)
Friday, March 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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
The Limits of Human Rights Advocacy: Syria and the Blowback of the Arab Spring
A talk by Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch. Sponsored by the UCLA School of Law Epstein Public Interest Law Program.
Monday, March 18, 2013
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room 1447
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
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
USC
Diyarbekir 1915: Deportations, Massacres and New Alliances Among the Local Elites
A lecture by Ayhan Aktar, Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey). Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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 Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy (Lecture in Persian) - EVENT CANCELLED
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang
Sunday, March 31, 2013
5:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
