Calendar of Events
Public lectures, symposium, colloquia and workshops about World Affairs at UCLA
Events for 2008
Society must be Led: the Vanguard and its Dilemmas in some Post-Independence Indian Novels in India
Talk by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University.
Monday, January 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Proverbs, the Great Heritage of Ancestors
By Jong Jin Jeong/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Antonia
Screening of Brazilian film 'Antonia' (2006), directed by Tata Amaral.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Katherine Donato, Sociology, Vanderbilt (joint with California Center for Population Research)
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Friday, January 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
Eentekhabat Majlis Hashtom va tagyir arayesh siyasi dar Iran (The 8th Parliamentary Elections and Political Changes in Iran)
A public lecture by Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Harvard University
Sunday, January 13, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
From Past to Present
The State of Research in Polish-Jewish Relations
Sunday, January 13, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Hillel
A Reading from My Family and Other Saints
Kirin Narayan will share sections of her recent book, My Family and Other Saints. Drawing on her background as an anthropologist and folklorist, Narayan retells family narratives formed at the crossroads of Indian and American approaches to spiritual questing in the late 60s and early 70s.
Monday, January 14, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Iranian Regime Structure and Women's Rights
A public lecture by Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Harvard University
Monday, January 14, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Reading and Writing Ryoanji: (De)Constructing a Japanese Icon
Colloquium with Kendall Brown, Department of Art, California State University, Long Beach
Monday, January 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Tatsuya Matsui
President, Flower Robotics Inc., Tokyo
Monday, January 14, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
The Historic Cairo Restoration Program: Recent Observations
A public lecture by Caroline Williams, William and Mary College
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Images of War: Picturing the Taiping Occupation of Jiangnan, 1860-84
A talk by Tobie Meyer-Fong (Johns Hopkins University)
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Gunter Grass' Peeling the Onion
A book talk with translator MICHAEL HEIM, UCLA Slavic Languages and Literatures, and discussant HANS WAGENER, UCLA Germanic Languages
Thursday, January 17, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
EAP Informational/Application Help Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Covel Commons 203
Mediating Social Critique: Gender and Race in Hmong Diasporic Video
Lecture by Louisa Schein, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
Friday, January 18, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Downstairs Lounge
Korean Cinema Now (And Then)
Presented by the Archive in association with KOFIC
Friday, January 18, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
A Flower in Hell (Ji-ok-hwa)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Friday, January 18, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Hood, Veil, Shoes: A Dance Work by Cheng-chieh Yu
Performed by the Sun-Shier Dance Theater (Taiwan)
Friday, January 18, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Dance Theater, Glorya Kaufman Hall, Room 200
China National Opera House Performance: Farewell My Concubine
This is a Western-style adaptation of a famous Chinese opera. In addition to performances in Pasadena, the opera will be performed in San Francisco, Washington, DC, New York, Houston, and Dallas.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Pasadena Civic Auditorium
Interpreting Machu PicchuLost City of the Incas
Dr. Johan Reinhard, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and Senior Research Fellow at the Mountain Institute, Washington, D.C.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
The City of Violence (Jjakpae)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Sunday, January 20, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Puhran Dahsuh Eui Gae)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Sunday, January 20, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Pilipino Scholars Night at UCLA
An informal opportunity for the UCLA community to get together to survey, facilitate, and promote Filipino Studies on campus.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Kerkhoff Grand Salon
The African Jihad: Bin Laden's Quest for the Horn of Africa
Greg Pirio will discuss his book, The African Jihad, which examines efforts to bring about the grand vision of Islamist hegemony in the greater Horn of Africa region.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Ufahamu/African Activist Association Meeting
There will be a meeting for those interested in the African Activist Association at UCLA and the Ufahamu graduate student journal.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Ice Maiden: Inca Mummies, Mountain Gods, and Sacred Sites in the Andes
Dr. Johan Reinhard, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and Senior Research Fellow at the Mountain Institute, Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium Fowler Building
The Marines Who Never Returned (Doraoji Anneun Haebyeong)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Wildflowers on the Battlefield (Deul-gughwa-neun Pi-eon-neunde)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Burkle Talk: Professor Deborah Avant on Blackwater
On January 24th Professor Deborah Avant from UC Irvine will discuss her recent paper, "What Does Private Security in Iraq Mean for US Democracy at Home?"
Thursday, January 24, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Black Rainbows: Gender, Class, and (Race?) in the Writings of White South African Women after Apartheid
The UCLA Department of Women's Studies is pleased to present a talk by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Ph.D.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
2125 Rolfe Hall
Taiwan's Civil Society and the Blue-Green Deadlock, 1986-2007
A talk by Wu Jieh-min in the Taiwan Studies Lecture Series
Thursday, January 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
EAP Informational/Application Help Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Covel Commons 203
Cascabel
Screening of Mexican film Cascabel (1977), directed by Raul Araiza.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Public Affairs 1222
The Power of Reinforced Utterances: Toward a Theology of Performance in Afro-Cuban Regla de Ocha.
Katherine Hagedorn
Friday, January 25, 2008
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
1207 Oak Street
All-day workshop on Central American migration with Sociology and Political Science graduate students; Susan Coutin (Criminology, Law, and Society), UCI; Abelardo Morales, FLACSO-Costa Rica
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Friday, January 25, 2008
8:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Haines 279
Woman on the Beach (Hae-byun-eui Yeo-in)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Saturday, January 26, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Driving With My Wife's Lover (Ane-eui Aein-eul Mannada)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Saturday, January 26, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
'Coloring the Vote: Race, Politics, and Disenfranchisement' with Keynote Speaker Greg Palast
The Bunche Center for African American Studies, American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, and the Chicano Studies Research Center present a major conference just before the California Presidential Primary.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Covel Commons
US Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities, and the American Way of War from the Pacific War to Iraq
Colloquium with Mark Selden, East Asia Program, Cornell University; Coordinator, the Asia Pacific Journal, Japan Focus
Monday, January 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Colonial Censorship and Japanese Publication Police System
By Keun-Sik Jung, Professor, Seoul National University/Korea Colloquium Series
Monday, January 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Misconceptions about AIDS in Africa: Ours and Theirs
The Bixby Program in Population and Reproductive Health presents a lecture by Susan Cotts Watkins, Visiting Research Scientist, California Center for Population Research (CCPR), UCLA and
Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
School of Public Health
Calligraphers from the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe
A public lecture and Islamic calligraphy demonstration by Hilal Kazan, master calligrapher.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
The 'Jewish Question' Among the German-Speaking Exiles in Los Angeles
A public lecture by EHRHARD BAHR, UCLA Germanic Languages
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
236 Royce Hall
China's Durable Inequality: Legacies of Revolution & Pitfalls of Reform
A talk by Mark Selden
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Made in LA
Screening and panel discussion with the director,
producer, and the cast.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Public Affairs 1246
O Heri (English: The Hero)
The African Activist Association will be screening Zeze Gamboa's O Heroi (English: The Hero), a film about the life of average Angolans after the Angolan Civil War.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
COCALERO
Screening of documentary "Cocalero" (2007), directed by Alejandro Landes.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Humanities A65
EAP Informational/Application Help Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Covel Commons 203
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, January 31, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Incorporating Technology into the Foreign Language Curriculum
This two-day workshop, led by Samantha Earp of Duke University, focuses on the latest tools, technologies, and best practices for technology-enhanced language instruction.
Friday, February 01, 2008
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
Burkle Talk: Stanford Law Professor David Victor on Climate Change
Professor of Law at Stanford University, David Victor, will discuss his recent work on Climate Change.
Friday, February 01, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm. 10383
The 12th Century Calls to the 20th: Two Poetic Excursions from a Hungarian Funeral Oration
A public lecture by Dr. John Ridland and Dr. Peter Czipott: Introduction of Sandor Marai's and Dezso Kosztolanyi's /Halotti beszed /through the translation process.
Friday, February 01, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
A40 Humanities Building
Incorporating Technology into the Foreign Language Curriculum
This two-day workshop, led by Samantha Earp of Duke University, focuses on the latest tools, technologies, and best practices for technology-enhanced language instruction.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
The Idea of the Arab Jew (Day 1)
A two-day symposium on the idea of the Arab Jew.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall 306
Vietnamese Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival
The student Vietnamese Language and Culture club continues its traditional Tet extravaganza.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
If You Were Me 2 (Daseot Gae Ui Shiseon)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Sunday, February 03, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Our School (U-ri Hak-kyo)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Sunday, February 03, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Blood Into Ink: the Poetry of the Shishi in Nineteenth Century Japan
Colloquium with Matthew Fraleigh, Asian Languages and Literature, Brandeis University
Monday, February 04, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
The Idea of the Arab Jew (Day 2)
A two-day symposium on the idea of the Arab Jew.
Monday, February 04, 2008
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
Proseminar 2/5
Presenter: Molly Ball
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Palaeolithic Settlement of the Korean Peninsula: A Research Before the History of Korean People
By Dr. Yongwook Yoo/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Cidade dos Homens (City of Men)
Screening of Brazilian Film 'Cidade dos Homens' (2007), Directed by Paulo Morelli.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
America before Anti-Americanism: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
A public lecture by Ussama Makdisi, Rice University
Thursday, February 07, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
EAP Informational/Application Help Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, February 07, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Covel Commons 203
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 07, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Immigration and the American Labor Movement
Daniel Tichenor, Political Science, Rutgers.
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Friday, February 08, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
Kingship, Courts and Capitals: Sultanate Delhi in the 13th and 14th Centuries
Talk by Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi
Friday, February 08, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Shwegyin Religious World: Continuity, Rupture, and Political Change in Myanmar
Jason Carbine, Whittier College
Friday, February 08, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Two Talks on Russian Rock and Roll
By ARTEMY TROITSKY, Russian Cultural Commentator
Friday, February 08, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Royce 314
The Forbidden Quest (Eum-ran-seo-saeng)
Part of the Korean Cinema Now (And Then) Series
Saturday, February 09, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
MUJER
Movie Premiere and Benefit For MUJER: Guatemala Literacy and Vocational Program
Sunday, February 10, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ahmanson Auditorium, U-Hall 1000
Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior
David H. Anthony will discuss the life of controversial black activist and intellectual Max Yeargan, from his days as one of the first black YMCA missionaries in South Africa to his later years as an apologist for apartheid.
Monday, February 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall, 6th floor
The Coolie: An Ethno-Historical Poem
Talk by Professor E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia University.
Monday, February 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
A Conversation with Wesley K. Clark
Join us for a lunchtime Q & A session with Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.), Senior Fellow, UCLA Burkle Center; Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; and 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate.
Monday, February 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
School of Public Affairs Bldg.
Passion, Discipline, and Collecting
Ludwig Lauerhass, UCLA
Monday, February 11, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Charles E. Young Library
Kenya: Beyond the Post-Election Crisis
The Globalization Research Center-Africa presents a public lecture by Stephen N. Ndegwa, Visiting Scholar.
Monday, February 11, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Proseminar 2/12
Presenter: Michael Easterly
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Sou Fujimoto and Yasutaka Yoshimura
Principal, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo and Principal, Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects, Tokyo
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
The Arts in HIV/AIDS Education: A Ghana Case Study
Alfred K. Neumann
Professor Emeritus
UCLA School of Public Health
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The 7th Annual Korean Music Symposium
February 11-16, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data Since 1937
Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley with Wojciech Kopczuch
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Communication Networks among the Chinese Knowledge Diaspora
A talk by Anthony Welch
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Moore Hall 3320
JMEWS Research Roundtable
Tracing Our Research Trajectories: The Study of Gender in Muslim Societies
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sequoia Room
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Makoto Yokomizo and Kumiko Inui
Principal, aat + makoto yokomizo, arctitects inc., Tokyo and Principal, Kumiko Unui, Tokyo
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
The United States and Iran: Missed Opportunities and Future Prospects for Reconciliation
A public lecture by Barbara Slavin, US Institute of Peace
Thursday, February 14, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
'The Congo I Presume': Tepid Revisionism at the Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, 1910/2005
A faculty lecture by DEBORA SILVERMAN, UCLA, History
Thursday, February 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
EAP Informational/Application Help Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Covel Commons 203
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 14, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
David & Goliath?: Starbucks, Ethiopian Farmers, and the International Coffee Trade
The presentation will touch on the history of the relations between Ethiopian coffee farmers and Starbucks as well as the origins of a trademark dispute between the coffee company and Ethiopia. The talk will also include a discussion of the negotiating process, the settlement and implications of the final agreement.
Friday, February 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Tanchaz - Hungarian Dance Event
Basic steps of Hungarian Dances from Szekelyfold, Transylvania
Friday, February 15, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Kaufman 1000
Sixth Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
The Armenian Graduate Students Association at UCLA invites the public to the sixth annual, Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies at UCLA on Friday, February 15, 2008. This day-long academic event will begin at 9:30 AM and be held in the famous Royce Hall, room 314.
Friday, February 15, 2008
9:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Fundraising Concert for Music of Korea
Part of The 7th Annual Korean Music Symposium
Saturday, February 16, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wilshire Ebell Theatre
Theater, Politics, and Culture: constructing citizenship and participation through performance and representation in Brazil
Ariane Dalla Dea
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Proseminar 2/19
Presenter: Peter Zeitz and Karen Wilson
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Religious Disputation and Democratic Constitutionalism: The Enduring Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution on the Struggle for Democracy in Iran
A public lecture by Nader Hashemi, Global Fellow, UCLA
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
The Rise of Asia in the 21st Century: Can America Handle the Challenge?
A lecture by the Hon. Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore's Former UN Ambassador & Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Modern Diplomacy: What Do Diplomats Actually Do?
Careers in Asia Talk with Professor Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Political Science and Burkle Center Senior Fellow
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA
Land Rights and Chinese Development in the Long Run
Kenneth Pomerantz, University of California, Irvine
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Land Rights and Chinese Development in Long-Run Perspective
Von Gremp Seminar with Kenneth Pomeranz, Chancellor's Professor of History at University of California, Irvine
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
UCLA Department of Economics
Land Rights and Chinese Development in the Long Run
A talk by Kenneth Pomeranz (UC Irvine), in the Von Gremp Workshop in Economic & Entrepreneurial History
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
9383 Bunche Hall
In Russia All Towns Are the Same: Chekhov and Symbolic Geography
A lecture by Anne Lounsbery (NYU)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Humanities 311
Los Albaniles (The Bricklayers)
Screening of Mexican film "Los Albaniles" (1976), Directed by Jorge Fons.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Humanities A65
Rites of passage and HIV/AIDS prevention: Traditional male circumcision in Western Kenya
The Globalization Research Center-Africa presents a talk by Paula Tavrow as part of the HIV/AIDS Winter Lecture Series.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
4276 Bunche Hall
Off the Radar Screen: The Unacknowledged Struggle to Protect Kosova's Islamic Traditions
A public lecture by ISA BLUMI, Georgia State University, History. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Chechnya after Putin
A lecture by TONY WOOD, Deputy Editor, New Left Review, Author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence (Verso 2007). The lecture is part of the Annual Colloquium Series of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
History Conference Room
The Roots of the Martyrdom Phenomenon in Early Islam
Yigal Carmon, President and Founder of The Middle East Media Research Institute
Thursday, February 21, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Chinese Cultural Night
Presented by Chinese Cultural Dance Club
Thursday, February 21, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Fowler Museum
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 21, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
A Mirror for Thai National Politics: The Curious Case of Pom Mahakan
Colloquium with Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University
Friday, February 22, 2008
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
10383 Bunche Hall
Max Neiman, Public Policy Institute of California
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speaker Series
Friday, February 22, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
Diplomats in Asia: A Career Discussion
Information Session for UCLA students with Andrew Ou, foreign service officer in Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Peter Kovach, UCLA Diplomat in Residence
Friday, February 22, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
History Conference Room
The Stealth Activism of the Japanese Judiciary - How Japanese Judges Surpass American Courts as Social Engineers
Colloqium with Frank Upham, the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, New York University School of Law
Friday, February 22, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
The 1998 Land Act and the present land wrangles in Uganda
Daniel Muliika, Former Prime Minister of Buganda
Monday, February 25, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Emergency, Difference, and Popular Politics in Karachi
Talk by Tahir Naqvi, Reed College
Monday, February 25, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Babak and the End of Late Antiquity in Iran
A public lecture by Patricia Crone, Institute for Advanced Study
Monday, February 25, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Symposium on the U.S.-Mexico Border and Issues of National Security
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Faculty Center
Darfur Week of Awareness - Not on Our Watch: Speaking Out Against Genocide
In an effort to increase awareness and activism about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the Darfur Action Committee (DAC) at UCLA is hosting an entire week dedicated to Darfur: it's people, culture, trials, and future. There will be movie screenings, food, and information about what YOU can do to help!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Kerckhoff Steps
Proseminar 2/26
Presenter: Shogo Hamasaki
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Tales of a Tyrant Queen: Charter Myth or Role Model for Modern Somali Women of the Diaspora?
The Center for the Study of Women (CSW) presents a talk by Hilarie Kelly. The topic of this presentation is based on an analysis of a widely known Somali folk tale that has gained new meaning in Somali gender relations.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture with NYT's Columnist David Brooks
In cooperation with the Pearl Family, we will be hosting David Brooks to discuss issues of global importance.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Korn Convocation Hall
Darfur Week of Awareness - Camp Darfur
In an effort to increase awareness and activism about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the Darfur Action Committee (DAC) at UCLA is hosting an entire week dedicated to Darfur: it's people, culture, trials, and future. There will be movie screenings, food, and information about what YOU can do to help!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Schoenberg Quad
A Conversation with Kara Walker
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents Kara Walker in Conversation with Steven Nelson. The talk is held in conjunction with the Hammer Museum exhibition by Kara Walker - My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love which opens March 2 and runs through June 8, 2008.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
135 Haines Hall
Women's Liberation: What's in it for Men?
Matthias Doepke, UCLA with Michele Tirtilt
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Paradigms of Marginality in Chekhovs Prose
A lecture by Mila Shevchenko (U of Michigan)
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Humanities 311
Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drive
The Black Graduate Student Association at UCLA (BGSA) is hosting a Bone Marrow Donor Registration drive with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).
Thursday, February 28, 2008
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Viewpoint Conference Rooms
Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
A book discussion with author ADRIENNE EDGAR, UC Santa Barbara, History, and discussant ALI IGMEN, California State University Long Beach, History.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Scaling up HIV treatment in Africa: Barriers, challenges, and opportunities
The Globalization Research Center-Africa presents a talk by Jennifer Sayles as part of the HIV/AIDS Winter Lecture Series.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and the Asian American Studies Center, et. al, present a discussion by Dr. Scott Kurashige.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
First Floor Presentation Room
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, February 28, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Darfur Week of Awareness - Film Screening of 'The Devil Came on Horseback'
In an effort to increase awareness and activism about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the Darfur Action Committee (DAC) at UCLA is hosting an entire week dedicated to Darfur: it's people, culture, trials, and future. There will be movie screenings, food, and information about what YOU can do to help!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
1178 Franz Hall
Owning the Past: Archaeology and Cultural Patrimony in the Late Ottoman Empire (Day 1)
An International Conference, February 29 - March 1, organized by Diane Favro, UCLA, and Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Friday, February 29, 2008
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Perloff Hall 1302
Darfur Week of Awareness - African Cultural Day
In an effort to increase awareness and activism about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the Darfur Action Committee (DAC) at UCLA is hosting an entire week dedicated to Darfur: it's people, culture, trials, and future. There will be movie screenings, food, and information about what YOU can do to help!
Friday, February 29, 2008
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Bruin Plaza
Changing North Korea: Beyond the Point of No Return?
By Professor Rudiger Frank/Korea Colloquium Series
Friday, February 29, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
A conversation about Cuban music.., or 'Hablando de musica cubana...'
Raul Fernandez
Friday, February 29, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
'A conversation about Cuban music..,' or 'Hablando de musica cubana...'
The Cuba and the Caribbean Working Group presents a discussion of Cuban music with Raul Fernandez, Chair of the UC-CUBA Multi-Campus Research Program of the University of California.
Friday, February 29, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche 3211 (3rd floor)
Darfur Week of Awareness - African Cultural Day: A Cappella Benefit Concert for Darfur Refugees
In an effort to increase awareness and activism about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, the Darfur Action Committee (DAC) at UCLA is hosting an entire week dedicated to Darfur: it's people, culture, trials, and future. There will be movie screenings, food, and information about what YOU can do to help!
Friday, February 29, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Bruin Plaza
Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference
Engine for Growth: The China / California Connection
Friday, February 29, 2008
8:45 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
'Crossing Borders: Transnational Public Interest Law: Perspectives from Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Eastern Europe, Ghana, and the United States'
The UCLA School of Law's Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (JILFA) invites you to its twelfth annual symposium on "Crossing Borders: Transnational Public Interest Law."
Friday, February 29, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Room 1347
Owning the Past: Archaeology and Cultural Patrimony in the Late Ottoman Empire (Day 2)
An International Conference, February 29 - March 1, organized by Diane Favro, UCLA, and Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Saturday, March 01, 2008
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Perloff Hall 1302
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
The Hammer Museum at UCLA presents an exhibition of the works of dynamic artist Kara Walker. The exhibition runs March 2 - June 8, 2008.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Hammer Museum at UCLA
Christopher B. Donnan
Christopher B. Donnan addresses the topic of his most recent book detailing the excavation of five extraordinary Moche tombs at Dos Cabezas, a site located about 300 miles northwest of Lima.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Democracy and Political Participation in the Islamic Republic
A public lecture by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sunday, March 02, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
How the Iranian Constitution Secularized Islam
A public lecture by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Monday, March 03, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
The Place of Balkan Muslims in the Shaping of European Islam
A public lecture by XAVIER BOUGAREL, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.
Monday, March 03, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Matsurou Sasaki
President, SAPS/Sasaki and Partners, Tokyo; Professor, Hosei University, Tokyo
Monday, March 03, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
Inspired Change: Sustainable Development Projects in Africa
Barry Leneman and Anne Goeke of Coalition for Sustainable Africa will discuss CSAfrica projects and what it means for a project to be sustainable. They will also provide information on how those interested can get involved.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA Campus
Proseminar 3/4
Presenter: Se Yan
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Rioting Against Disorder: The Moral Polity of the Algerian Crowd
A public lecture by Hugh Roberts, Independent Scholar
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Acquiring and Possessing Korean Things: Material Culture and National Identity in Japan
By Morgan Pitelka, Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Occidental College/Korea Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
Sara Curran, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
The Issue of Korean Contemporary Art in the Global Art Market
By Kyungja Hwang/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Chronicle of a Deflation Unforetold
Francois Velde, Chicago Fed
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Nao Por Acaso (Not by Chance)
Screening of Brazilian film Nao Por Acaso (2007), directed by Philippe Barcinski.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Misconceptions That Matter: Ours and Theirs
HIV/AIDS Lecture Series
Thursday, March 06, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Cultural Faultlines and Political Cleavages: The Legacy of History in Contemporary Ukraine
A public lecture by MYKOLA RIABCHUK, University of Kyiv, Center for European Studies
Thursday, March 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Danish American Business Summit 2008
March 6-7, 2008
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Tom Bradley International Hall
Social Mobility in Latin America
Thursday, March 06, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Culture
A talk by Wang Haicheng
Thursday, March 06, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Argentina Latente
A film by Fernando Pino Solanas
Thursday, March 06, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Melnitz Hall 1422
Chinese Independent Documentary Series
Presented by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial
Thursday, March 06, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Danish Ambassador on Danish-US Relations
A talk by Danish Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen
Friday, March 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Understanding Slavery in the Atlantic World Through the Use of Digital Technology: An Archaeological Perspective
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA presents Dr. Jillian Galle, Project Manager of the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, Monticello.
Friday, March 07, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Cotsen Seminar Room
The Theatre of Death in the Impossibilities of Utopia: Stories from the Indian People's Theater Association
Talk by Geeta Patel, Wellesley College
Monday, March 10, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Sendai Kuji Hongi: Imitator or Facilitator
Colloquium with John Bentley, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Northern Illinois University
Monday, March 10, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Jazz Showcase
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology, presents a Jazz Showcase Concert.
Monday, March 10, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Energy Security: Security for Whom? Hydrocarbons and Human Rights in Military-ruled Burma
Colloquium with Matthew F. Smith and Naing Htoo, EarthRights International, Southeast Asia
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Proseminar 3/11
Presenter: Martine Mariotti
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea
By Hyaeweol Choi, Arizona State University/Luce Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
The Missing Ear in Taiwan Literature
A talk Jing Tsu (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale)
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
Gerald Wilson Tribute Concert
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology, presents a big band tribute concert featuring the compositions of Gerald Wilson, on the occasion of his retirement from UCLA.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Burkle Conference: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Rogue States
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA James West Alumni Center
Popish Habits, Nutritional Need and Market Integration: Fasting and Fish Consumption in Iberia in the Early Modern Period
Regina Grafe, Northwestern University
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Angelique Kidjo in Concert
UCLA Live presents Angelique Kidjo with special guest Dengue Fever in a night to remember.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Royce Hall
The Roma in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: Marginalization and Resistance
A public lecture by GABRIEL TROC, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, Cultural Anthropology
Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Holocaust and the Birth of the State - a Causal Linkage?
HAGIT LAVSKY, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
The Nazarian Visiting Scholar, UCLA Israel Studies Program
Thursday, March 13, 2008
4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Thursday, March 13, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Department of Sociology
Central Asia Initiative Film Screening: "Little Angel, Make Me Happy"
Directed by Usman Saparov, Turkmenistan, 1992.
Opening remarks by David MacFadyen, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Thursday, March 13, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
1102 Perloff
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Friday, March 14, 2008
1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Hammer Museum, Lecture Hall
Sweet and Bitter
Contemporary Japanese Girl Photography
Friday, March 14, 2008
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hammer Museum
The Word of the Buddha or the Disputations of his Disciples? The Buddhist Path as Presented in the Pali Nikayas
Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol
Friday, March 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Saturday, March 15, 2008
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Public Policy Lounge 5391
Kimono: Sea of Silk
Lecture and demonstration by Nobuaki Tomita, Kimono Designer, Stylist, and Producer
Monday, March 17, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Faculty Center
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Taira Nishizawa
Principal, Taira Nishizawa Architects, Tokyo
Friday, March 21, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
SF JAZZ Collective -- Original Compositions and Works by Wayne Shorter
UCLA Live presents a concert featuring the SF JAZZ Collective, an ensemble of today's finest jazz performers and composers.
Friday, March 21, 2008
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Royce Hall
Leila Haddad and the Gypsy Musicians of Upper Egypt
UCLA Live presents the US premiere of Leila Haddad and the Gypsy Musicians of Upper Egypt, "In the Trail of the Ghawazee."
Saturday, March 22, 2008
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Royce Hall
Manoel de Oliveira's Voyage to the Beginning of the World
This film screening opens a retrospective of Oliveira's work, March 27 - April 27
Thursday, March 27, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
The Local Officials Administrative Operation in Late Choson, Focused in Hwang, Yunsok's 'Ijaenango'
By Dr. Hyekyung Roh/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Early Intervention
Michael Rothschild, Princeton and UCLA
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Fabricando Tom Ze (Fabricating Tom Ze)
Screening of Brazilian documentary 'Fabricando Tom Ze' (2007), directed by Decio Matos Junior.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Burkle Forum with Dr. Hans Blix: "Time for a Revival of Disarmament?"
Burkle Forums serve the UCLA community by presenting lectures, moderated discussions, panels, and other events featuring internationally renowned scholars, practitioners, and leaders who share their views on the most important international relations issues confronting the U.S. and the world today.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
12:00 PM
Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon
The Marshes of Mesopotamia: Dried, Restored, Will it Last?
A public lecture by Azzam Alwash, CEO, Nature Iraq
Thursday, April 03, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Democracy and Populism in Latin America
Ignacio Walker
Visiting Professor, Princeton University;
President, Corporacin de Estudios para Latinoamrica (CIEPLAN);
Former Chilean Foreign Minister and Congressman
Friday, April 04, 2008
10:15 PM - 12:00 PM
D310 Cornell Hall
Robert Crosnoe, Sociology, Texas-Austin
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Friday, April 04, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Haines 279
Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents several events as part of the opening weekend of the Mami Wata exhibit, which runs from April 6 - August 10, 2008.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents the opening of the Mami Wata exhibit, which runs from April 6 - August 10, 2008. Beautiful and seductive, protective yet dangerous, the water spirit Mami Wata (Mother Water) is celebrated throughout much of Africa and the African Atlantic.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
West Africa Meets Westwood -- Nigerian Musicians performing with UCLA Musicians & Dancers
The Cultural Affairs Commission at UCLA is holding a free concert showcasing the collaboration of visiting master Nigerian musicians with UCLA musicians and dancers, featuring Baba Ken Okulolo, Soji Odukogbe, and Will Magid, et. al.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Covel Commons Grand Horizon Room
The Blurring of Distinctions: The Art Work and the Religious Icon in Contemporary India
Talk by Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Monday, April 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Islam, History, and Tradition in Contemporary Mali
A presentation by Benjamin Soares, anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Monday, April 07, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Mobilizing Geographic vs. Nationally-Organized Interests in Trade Politics: Evidence from Trade Testimony before the Japanese Diet
Colloquium with Megumi Naoi, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Monday, April 07, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
No Sex in the City: Personal Accounts of a Generation of Women in the PLO
A public lecture by Suad Amiry, Director of Riwaq: the Centre for Architectural Conservation, Palestine
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Lecture and book signing by Aaron David Miller.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Public Affairs Building 1246
Fighting for the Seats: Gender Quotas and State Feminism in South Korea and Taiwan
By Professor Chang-Ling Huang, National Taiwan University/Korea Colloquium Series
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
From Radio Sharia to Radio Shakira: The Story of the Media in Afghanistan
Distinguished International Speaker Series featuring Ms. Nushin Arbabzadah, Former Chief Sub. Editor of BBC World Service, hosted by the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Bradley International Hall, Room 217
The Eye Having to Have Looked at Enough Examples to Really See . . .
A talk by Ni Yibin
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Hypermedia Berlin and the Geo-Temporal Web
A CEES faculty lecture by TODD PRESNER, UCLA Germanic Languages
Thursday, April 10, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Networks and the Mobility of European Visual Culture: Reinterpretations in Early Modern Iran and Beyond
A public lecture by Amy Landau, Visiting Scholar, UCLA
Thursday, April 10, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Brazilian Cotton as a Strategic Factor in the Industrial Revolution: England, France, and Portugal
Jose Jobson de Andrade Arruda,
Department of History and Institute for the Economy - UNICAMP,
University of Sao Paulo
Thursday, April 10, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
ISSR Conference Room
"Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era"
The Bunche Center for African American Studies presents a talk and book signing by Houston A. Baker, Jr.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room 193, Humanities Bldg. (formerly Kinsey Hall)
Iran and Israel in Global Perspective: Weighing the Risks and Prospects
Lecture Series on Israels 60th Featuring:
Eldad Pardo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Thursday, April 10, 2008
4:00 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1447
The Rise of Guanxi in China's Transitional Economy
A talk by Yanjie Bian
Thursday, April 10, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
The Byuti and Danger of Performing Transgender and Transnational Belonging
A colloquium with Allan Punzalan Isaac, Associate Professor of English, Wesleyan University, analyzing the film "Paper Dolls" (Bubot Niyar, Israel 2006) by Tomer Heymann.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
EAP & UCLA Travel Study Informational Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Covel Commons 2nd Floor
Is it the End of India's AIDS Epidemic?
Discussion with Siddharth Dube
Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:00 PM
208 Kaufman Hall
Access to Chinese Electronic Resources
By: Amy Tsiang, East Asian Library Head and Hong Cheng, Chinese Studies Librarian
Friday, April 11, 2008
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
East Electronic Classroom, 21536 Young Research Library
The Ruins of Memory: The Writing of Brahmin Self in South India
Talk by Dilip Menon, University of Delhi
Friday, April 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
(De)Constructing Urbanities: Opportunities and Challenges in African Cities
To encourage discourse on the challenges and opportunities facing Africans in the post-colonial context of urbanization, the African Activist Association at UCLA is hosting a symposium to examine new configurations of African cities.
Friday, April 11, 2008
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
(De)Constructing Urbanities: Opportunities and Challenges in African Cities
To encourage discourse on the challenges and opportunities facing Africans in the post-colonial context of urbanization, the African Activist Association at UCLA is hosting a symposium to examine new configurations of African cities.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Vietnamese Cinema 4 Symposium on Filmmaking: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Discussion with nine Asian Americans in the film industry and the screening of three short films.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
2:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Northwest Auditorium
Emroozeh Chegooneh Mitavan Irani Bood (How to be an Iranian Today)
A public lecture by Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto
Sunday, April 13, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
The Changing Concept of the 'Intellectual' in Iran Today
A public lecture by Ramin Jahanbegloo, University of Toronto
Monday, April 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Idealist.Org Non-Profit Career Fair for UCLA Students
Come to this career fair if you are interested in a career with a non-profit organization -- you'll get info about Full-Time Career Positions, Internships, Part-time Jobs, and Volunteer Opportunities.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Grand Ballroom
Evangelization of the World in this Generation: Korean Students and the American Foreign Mission Movement, 1919-1945
Anne Soon Choi, Luce Post Doctoral Fellow, UCLA/Luce Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Proseminar 4/15
Presenter: Martine Mariotti
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Killing Memory: Ethnicity, Religion and the Destruction of Culture in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s
A public lecture by Andras Riedlmayer, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
A Chinese Ghost Story
Chinese Student Association presents The 3rd Annual Heritage Night
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Northwest Auditorium
Darfur Action Committee at UCLA Meeting
The Darfur Action Committee (DAC) at UCLA will be meeting to discuss upcoming events and activities geared to ending the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Action that can be taken will be discussed as well as China and the Olympics, upcoming film screening of Darfur Now!, letter writing campaign, film screening of Screamers, and The Concert to End Genocide.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
7:15 PM - 8:30 PM
Room 5147
Super, Girls!
Screening of a documentary on the dreams & disappointments of the young women who participated in the megahit "Super Girl Singing Contest" -- and a audience discussion with Jian Yi, the filmmaker
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
2250 Public Policy Building
My Life in Cuban Music and Culture
Pablo Menendez
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Schoenberg Music Building
Was France 2s al-Dura Broadcast a Fraud? The Controversy, the Lawsuit, the Lessons to be Learned
UCLA Israel Studies Program Lecture Series on Israels 60th,
UCLA School of Law Entertainment and Media Law and Policy Program
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA School of Law
Burkle Talk: Former Ambassador Kurtzer and Scott Lasensky
Join us for a Burkle Talk by the co-authors of "Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East."
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Haines 39
War and Marriage
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Novels and Iranian History: Beyond Diaspora
A public lecture and reading by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg, France
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Culture and State in Argentina
A two day conference. DAY 1 at UCLA Royce 314. DAY 2 at USC's Doheny Intellectual Commons. CONFERENCE WILL BE IN SPANISH.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce 314
Inventing Human Rights: A History
A book discussion with author LYNN HUNT, UCLA History, and discussant DAVID KAYE, UCLA Law
Thursday, April 17, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Race and Racisms in Two Americas: A Dialogue on Inequality and Affirmative Action in the US and Brazil
Presentation by UCLA Law Students from GAAPP Brazil Student-component with commentary from Carlos Medeiros and Matilde Ribeiro.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Law School
"Africa Open for Business" Film Screening
Film screening presented by UCLA CIBER (Center for International Business Education & Research) and the African Studies Center. Join us for a free screening of a thought-provoking film, followed by discussion.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Anderson, Gold Hall
POSTPONED -- Vilifying Virtue: The Good Samaritan's New Trouble in China and Its Moral Implications
POSTPONED
Thursday, April 17, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
EAP & UCLA Travel Study Informational Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Covel Commons 2nd Floor
Maurice Crul, IMES, University of Amsterdam
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Friday, April 18, 2008
11:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
Access to Japanese Electronic Resources
By: Toshie Marra, Japanese Studies Librarian
Friday, April 18, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
East Electronic Classroom, 21536 Young Research Library
Job Hunting for International Students
This session will help International students learn job hunting strategies in America and abroad. Counselors, recruiters, and an immigration specialist will provide helpful tips to make the job hunting experience easier.
Friday, April 18, 2008
2:00 PM
Morgan Center
Sexual Diversity in Early Twentieth Century Latin American Literature
A lecture by eminent academic Daniel Balderston.
Friday, April 18, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Royce 306
Race and Racisms in Another America: Is Affirmative Action a Dangerous Import or An Antidote to the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil?
Kim Crenshaw, Ed Telles and Darnell Hunt.
Monday, April 21, 2008
4:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Bunche Library and Media Center
Representing Race in the US and Brazil: Assessing Strategies for Equity and Inclusion.
Darnell Hunt and Russell Robinson
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
11:00 AM - 1:15 PM
Law School
Proseminar 4/22
Presenter: Se Yan
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Carmen Miranda: Mobile Ethnicities in Springtime in the Rockies
Jose Gatti, Fulbright Scholar at Boston University.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lydeen Library
Competition and Diversity: Historical Evidence from U.S. Newspapers
Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago GSB
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
New Movements from China: Contemporary Art Turns Official
A talk by Meiqin Wang (Cal State Northridge)
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Berlusconi's Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics
A book talk with author JOHN AGNEW, UCLA Geography, and discussant MARC LAZAR, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Thursday, April 24, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
'Prepare for War': Civil Defense, Population Dispersal, and Tianjin's Cultural Revolution
A talk by Jeremy Brown (Simon Fraser University)
Thursday, April 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
EAP & UCLA Travel Study Informational Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Covel Commons 2nd Floor
Photography in the Photographs of Manuel lvarez Bravo
Dr. Leonard Folgarait, Professor of modern Latin American art history, Vanderbilt University.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd 121
Access to Korean Electronic Resources
By Esther Han, Korean Studies Librarian
Friday, April 25, 2008
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
East Electronic Classroom
Music For a Goddess
Screening of Professors Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoys (Ethnomusicology) latest work.
Friday, April 25, 2008
12:30 PM
Room 1343, Schoenberg Hall
Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008
U.C. Berkeley / UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
Friday, April 25, 2008
9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
U.C. Berkeley campus
Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008
U.C. Berkeley / UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
Saturday, April 26, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
U.C. Berkeley campus
The World the Refugees Made: Representing the Evacuation of the Ninos de la Guerra to the Soviet Union
A public lecture by GLENNYS YOUNG, History and International Studies, University of Washington
Monday, April 28, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Conversion-led Movements: Convergences and Divergences between Brazilian Pentecostalism and Israeli Judaism
DAVID LEHMANN, Reader in Social Science, Cambridge University
Monday, April 28, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Berlin and Beyond: Yamada Kosaku and the Beginnings of Western Classical Music in Japan
Colloquium with Thomas Rimer, Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations, UCLA
Monday, April 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a
A public lecture and discussion with Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Emory University Law School
Monday, April 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Iraq - Beyond Benchmarks, A Regional Perspective
Ambassador Lawrence E. Butler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, will comment on our current state of relations with Iraq, and the political, security and economic challenges ahead.
Monday, April 28, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Campus
Iraq - Beyond Benchmarks, A Regional Perspective
Ambassador Lawrence E. Butler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, will comment on our current state of relations with Iraq, and the political, security and economic challenges ahead.
Monday, April 28, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Campus
Tunde Odunlade Presentation on King Sunny Ade
UCLA Arts and The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music present a multimedia exhibition honoring King Sunny Ade, presented by Nigerian Artist and Musician Tunde Odunlade.
Monday, April 28, 2008
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Qawwali Music of Pakistan
Mehr & Sher Ali
Monday, April 28, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
UCLA Royce Hall
God's New Whiz Kids? Korean American Evangelicals on Campus
Rebecca Y. Kim, Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University/Luce Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Politics of UN Peacekeeping: Reflections on Three Decades of UNIFIL in Lebanon
A public lecture by Karim Makdisi, American University of Beirut
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
South-East European Film Festival, Los Angeles
April 30 - May 5
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Are There Increasing Returns in Marriage Markets?
Maristella Botticini, Boston University
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Asian Pop Entrepreneurs: Giant Robot Returns to UCLA
Careers in Asia talk with Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong, Co-editors of Giant Robot
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
The Rising Tide
A documentary on some of China's most talented emerging artists, including photographers and video artists: Cao Fei, Xu Zhen, Chen Qiulin, Yang Yong, Wang Qingsong, and Zhang O
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Public Policy Building 1234
The Lyrical in Epic Time: Jiang Wenye's Music and Poetry
A talk by David Der-wei Wang, in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Ancient Chinese Skies: Astronomical Expertise in Premodern China
Morning session: A workshop for graduate students; Afternoon session: A public colloquium
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Neoliberalism After Dark: A Workshop on Sex Tourism, Gender and Violence in the Caribbean
This workshop brings together scholars from anthropology, public health and comparative literature to explore sex tourism, its pleasures and perils, its dangers and desires, as it transforms households, gender roles and subjectivities in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and beyond.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Lydeen Library
South-East European Film Festival, Los Angeles
April 30 - May 5
Thursday, May 01, 2008
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Demographic Crisis in Russia
A public lecture by MURRAY FESHBACH, Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, May 01, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Where Bernard Lewis Went Wrong: Rethinking the Relationship Between Islam and Secularism
A public lecture by Nader Hashemi, Global Fellow, UCLA
Thursday, May 01, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Ways of the Umma: From Public Sphere to Body Without Organs?
A lecture by Armando Salvatore, Humboldt University, Berlin/Oriental Studies University, Naples
Thursday, May 01, 2008
3:00 PM
TBD
In the House of Libya: A Meditation on Africa and the Practice of the Social Sciences
Renowned philosopher V.Y. Mudimbe delivers the bi-annual Coleman Memorial Lecture.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Decafe Room
EAP & UCLA Travel Study Informational Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Covel Commons 2nd Floor
Access to Western Electronic Resources
By: Joseph Yue, Librarian for East Asian Studies, YRL
Friday, May 02, 2008
11:00 PM - 12:00 PM
East Electronic Classroom, 21536 Young Research Library
Jeff Cohen, Anthropology, Ohio State
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Friday, May 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
The Modernization of Hindustani Music and the Adaptive Strategies of Hereditary Musicians: The Case of the Tabla Notebooks of Abid Hussain Khan
James Kippen, Visiting Professor from The University of Toronto
*NOTE DATE CHANGE*
Friday, May 02, 2008
3:00 PM
Gamelan Room
Caught Between Two Worlds & Voices
Documentary screenings and panel discussion with Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri and Simin Farkhondeh, filmmakers
Friday, May 02, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Dodd Hall 147
The Rising Individual and Changing Moral Practice in China
A two-day international conference on social change in China
Friday, May 02, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Gender of "Terror" Conference
This conference will foreground the centrality of gender and sexuality to the construction of terror and examine how terror is configured across cultural, historical, and transnational contexts.
Friday, May 02, 2008
9:15 AM - 5:30 PM
California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
MUKASHI MUKASHI: Asian Stories from Long Ago
at the Geffen Playhouse
Saturday, May 03, 2008
12:15 PM - 12:15 PM
Geffen Playhouse
Spring Festival of World Music with the Hammer Museum
UCLA Student Ensemble Performances
Saturday, May 03, 2008
2:00 PM
Hammer Museum
The Rising Individual and Changing Moral Practice in China
A two-day international conference on social change in China
Saturday, May 03, 2008
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
BRIDGE: Choreographic Dialogues
UCLA brings three of Tel Avivs leading and most creative contemporary choreographers to work directly with students in the Department of World Arts and Cultures during a two-week residency that will culminate in a Symposium and Public Performance.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Theater
To Touch the Soul: Make Art/Stop AIDS in Cambodia
Film screening and Q&A with filmmakers.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Landscapes of Loss: Post-Tsunami Reflections on Death, Destruction & Displacement
Talk by Malathi de Alwis, University of Colombo
Monday, May 05, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Solitary Warriors of Class Warfare: Kajiwara Ikki's Manga Heroes and Their Violent Quest for Historical Agency
Colloquium with Yoshikuni Igarashi, History, Vanderbilt University
Monday, May 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Bosom Friend or Joint Manager: A Relationship between a Husband and a Wife in the 17th Century Korean Fictions
By Jong Cheol Kim, Professor, Seoul National University/Korea Colloquium Series
Monday, May 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
One Way Street: Cuba at the Edge
Jose Quiroga, Professor of Spanish at Emory University
Monday, May 05, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Lydeen Library
Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad
Established in 1980, the Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace celebrates the memory of Bernard Brodie as an eminent scholar and teacher. This annual lecture series provides a special forum for dignitaries and scholars of politics, strategy, warfare, and peace to present their views to the UCLA community and the public.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
James West Alumni Center Conf. Room
Proseminar 5/6
Presenter: Allison Schertzer
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Unequal opportunities and ethnic origin: the labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in France and Europe
Special Graduate Workshop seminar in MIGRATION/STRATIFICATION/EUROPEAN STUDIES
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Haines 215
The Third Bunche Chair Lecture Presented by Anna Deavere Smith
The Bunche Center for African American Studies presents a lecture by actress, playwright, author and MacArthur Award recipient Anna Deavere Smith, University Professor, New York University.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Grand Horizon Room
AIDS | SIDA: Global Updates, Art, and Performance
Academic updates on HIV/AIDS from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia plus related performance art from each region.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
200 Glorya Kaufman Hall
Choson Period Seen Through Rice and Its Agriculture
By Jung Chul Lee, Ph.D, Korea University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
An Early Modern Economy in Another End of Eurasia--A study of the economic structure of Songjiang in the 1820s
Bozhong Li, Caltech and Tsinghua University
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
O Homem que Desafiou o Diabo (The Man who Dared the Devil)
Screening of Brazilian film 'O Homen que Desafiou o Diabo' (2007), directed by Moacyr Goes.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Darfur Refugees to Speak at UCLA
The Darfur Action Committee at UCLA presents Voices from Darfur! Two refugees from Darfur will tell their stories.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Grand Salon
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan: State Ownership and Rentierism in the Former Soviet Union
A public lecture by PAULINE JONES LUONG, Brown University, Political Science
Thursday, May 08, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Dr. Solomon Orero Discusses "Abortion and Post-Abortion Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities"
The Bixby Program in Population and Reproductive Health presents a talk by Eleanor Roosevelt award winner Solomon Orero.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA School of Public Health Bldg.
Slim and the History of Algerian Cartoons
A presentation by Algerian cartoonist Slim (Menouar Merabtene)
Thursday, May 08, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
Cultural Development during the Han Dynasty & Early Chinese Drama
A talk by Yao Xiao'ou (Communication University of China)
Thursday, May 08, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
EAP & UCLA Travel Study Informational Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Covel Commons 2nd Floor
A Sud di Lampedusa
Documentary film screening.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Italian Culture Institute
Jessye Norman Performs at UCLA
UCLA Live presents Jessye Norman performing songs celebrating The Five Seasons: Summer, Winter, Spring, Fall and The Eternal Season of Love.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
8:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Royce Hall
Europe's Borderlands Conference
International graduate student conference on migration, trafficking, and regional integration. May 8-10, 2008.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location TBA
Ever closer Union, ever further borders?The costs of European border policies and the consequences for EU legitimacy
A public lecture by Virginie Guiraudon, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Lille.
Friday, May 09, 2008
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Message
Film screening as part of the Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film series.
Friday, May 09, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:15 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
California Clean Innovation 2008
The conference is intended for a wide audience, including industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investment professionals, policy makers, lawyers, journalists, and university staff, faculty and students.
Friday, May 09, 2008
8:00 AM - 7:30 PM
Tom Bradley International Hall
Teaching World Languages in the Digital Age
This symposium is sponsored by UCLA Center for World Languages and the Office of Instructional Development.
Friday, May 09, 2008
9:45 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Times and Winds (Bes Vakit)
Film screening as part of the Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film series.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Southern California Brazilianists' Meeting
One day conference on diverse Brazilian topics.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Covel Commons
The Sounds of Bengali Scrolls
Exhibition event at the Fowler Museum.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Tarikhe (Ejtemayi ve Farhangi) Akasi dar Iran
A public lecture by Ali Behdad, UCLA
Sunday, May 11, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
Cultists, Militants and Oil-based Accumulation in Niger-Delta, Nigeria: Clearing the Underbrush
The Globalization Research Center-Africa presents a talk by Abubakar Momoh, visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar at the African Studies Center.
Monday, May 12, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room 10367, Bunche Hall
Film Screening of Territories of the Breast
The Center for Culture and Health, the Semel Institute, and the Institute of American Cultures presents a free documentary film screening of Territories of the Breast, a film that explores the multiple crossroads of breast cancer, inequality in health care, gender crisis, medical knowledge, and artistic responses.
Monday, May 12, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Viewpoint Conference Room, A-Level
Colloquium, US Foreign Policy: Continuity or Rupture?
This event is co-sponsored by the Burkle Center and is part of an Annual Colloquium Series by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History.
Monday, May 12, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
History Conference Room
Proseminar 5/13
Presenter: Karen Wilson
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Antoin Sevruguin and the Art of Photography in Nineteenth Century Iran
A public lecture by Ali Behdad, UCLA
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Title TBA
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago GSB
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Enforced Migration and Sedentarization in Modern Central Asia
Panel discussion preceding film screening of "Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People"
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Looking for Claveria's Children: State, Church and the Individual in the History of Philippine Naming Systems
Colloquium with Professor Francis Alvarez Gealogo, Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Attitudes toward Mandarin and Heritage Dialects among those of Chinese-origin in the U.S.
Dr. Terrence Wiley discusses his study of language attitudes among Chinese immigrants and international students.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Faculty Center, Redwood Room
Central Asia Initiative Film Screening: "Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People" (2006)
With panel discussion and introduction by Co-director Y. David Chung.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Harry & Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
40 Years of Acupuncture Research
Acupuncture Mechanisms and Their Application in Medical Practice
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
6:45 PM - 8:30 PM
RPB Auditorium
A Door to the Sky (Bab Al-Sama Maftuh)
Film screening as part of the Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film series.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Adorno in America
A public lecture by DETLEV CLAUSSEN, University of Hannover, Sociology.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Middle Eastern Communities in Latin America
The objective of this symposium is to initiate a discussion at UCLA on multiple facets of Middle Eastern communities in Latin America with the objective of elaborating a broader research project.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Reforming Welfare States: Comparative Perspectives
A public lecture by IVAN SZELENYI, UCLA/Yale University Department of Sociology
Thursday, May 15, 2008
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Faculty Center
EAP & UCLA Travel Study Informational Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Covel Commons 2nd Floor
Social Theory and the Urban Poor: Notes from Delhi, India
CISA Annual Lecture: Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, May 15, 2008
5:00 PM
Room A2, Haines Hall
Africanist Networking Evening
Special community night hosted by presented UCLA African Studies Center, the UCLA Art | Global Health Center, and the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Fowler Out Loud: The Jazz Capoeira Sunset Roda
The Mpevula Coalition and local artists from the East Babylon Symphony present an evening of music and movement.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Reuel Rogers, Political Science, Northwestern
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Friday, May 16, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
Mapuche Poetry in the 21st Century
Friday, May 16, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Lydeen Library
What Is Sinophone Studies?
A colloquium
Friday, May 16, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Symposium: Kuki Shuzo and the Question of Hermeneutics
Organized by UCLA Professor Michael Marra, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Friday, May 16, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Age of Revolutions or World Crisis? Global Causation, Connection, and Comparison, c. 1760-1840
A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Armitage, Harvard University, and Peter Reill, UCLA
Co-sponsored by SCAS-Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
Friday, May 16, 2008
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Williams Andrew Clark Memorial Library
Times that try men's souls: Revolutionary Europe and the Destruction of Java's Old Order, 1808-1830
Lecture by Peter Carey, Trinity College, Oxford University
Saturday, May 17, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Clark Library
Music of Bali Ensemble
Balinese music under the direction of I Nyoman Wenten. Part of the UCLA Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Le Grand Voyage
Film screening as part of the Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film series.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Age of Revolutions or World Crisis? Global Causation, Connection, and Comparison, c. 1760-1840
A conference at the Clark Library organized by David Armitage, Harvard University, and Peter Reill, UCLA
Co-sponsored by SCAS-Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
Saturday, May 17, 2008
9:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Williams Andrew Clark Memorial Library
Bahār
Lecture and North Indian Classical Concert By Santoor Exponent Tarun Bhattacharya
Sunday, May 18, 2008
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
100 Moore Hall
Harberger Lecture with Regents Professor and Burkle Senior Fellow Dr. Suphamongkhon
The Annual Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development celebrates Al Harberger as an eminent scholar and teacher. The lectures provide a special forum for outstanding students of international economics and policy to present their thoughts and research on issues like those that Harberger himself has addressed. This year's topic is "Globalization: A Blessing or a Curse? A Thai Experience."
Monday, May 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon
Ruined Histories: Archaeology, Islam and the Making of Gandhara Art in Divided South Asia
Talk by Vazira Zamindar, Brown University
Monday, May 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Beijing Opera Comes to UCLA
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Monday, May 19, 2008
Time to be announced.
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
Married To Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
A public lecture by Ghada Karmi, University of Exeter
Monday, May 19, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Proseminar 5/20
Presenter: Martine Mariotti
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Teaching and Learning Nahuatl ("la lengua mexicana") at the University
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Old Routes, New Exchanges
Symposium on Alternative Practices in Arts Organizing and Arts International Exchange in Southeast Asia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
3232 Campbell Hall
Graduate Student Research Panel
The Latin American Institute is hosting a Graduate Student Research Panel to present research findings and promote exchange of ideas among students and participants working in various disciplines.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Cultures and Politics of Memory and Human Rights in Post-dictatorship Southern Cone
Al calor de sus luchas. A two day symposium.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Oscar Niemeyer: A Vida e um Sopro
Screening of Brazilian documentary "Oscar Niemeyer: A Vida e um Sopro" (2007), directed by Fabiano Maciel.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Decafe room 1302
EAP & UCLA Travel Study Informational Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Covel Commons 2nd Floor
All-UC Conference
"Crises and Prosperity in Comparative Economic History" held at the Huntington Library and Caltech, May 23-25, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Politics, Law, and Women's Health
4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days - film screening and panel discussion
Friday, May 23, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Muhammad: The Last Prophet
Film screening as part of the Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film series.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Fowler in Focus: Ceramics of Papua New Guinea
Exhibit from May 25 - September 28, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Fowler Museum
The 22nd Annual JazzReggae Festival '08 at UCLA
Tickets are now on sale for Jam Day and Reggae Day at UCLA over Memorial Day Weekend! A Weekend of Peace, Love, and Music with Jam Day on Sunday, May 25 and Reggae Day on Monday, May 26.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Intramural Field
The 22nd Annual JazzReggae Festival '08 at UCLA
Tickets are now on sale for Jam Day and Reggae Day at UCLA over Memorial Day Weekend! A Weekend of Peace, Love, and Music with Jam Day on Sunday, May 25 and Reggae Day on Monday, May 26.
Monday, May 26, 2008
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Intramural Field
Proseminar 5/27
Presenter: Sasha Nichols-Geerdes
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Autobiography and the Great War: Rethinking Arabo-Turkish Identity after Gallipoli
A public lecture by Salim Tamari, Institute of Jerusalem Studies
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Cambodian American documentary film "New Year Baby"
A Cambodian American family traces its roots in the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Rieber Fireside Lounge
Recent Excavations at Sisupalgarh, India: Exploring Monumental Architecture at a City of the Early Centuries AD
Cotsen Institute Of Archaeology Spring Quarter Pizza Talk
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A222, Cotsen Institute
Institutions and Demographic Responses to Shocks: Wurttemberg, 1546-1914
Timothy Guinnane, Yale University
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Collecting Contemporary Chinese Art
A talk by Rebecca Morse (Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Connected Revolutions: Armenians and the Russian, Ottoman, and Iranian Revolutions in the Early Twentieth Century
A public lecture by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Tea Time at the Heritage Language Center
You are cordially invited to a Tea Time Discussion at the Heritage Language Center on Wednesday, May 28, 2008.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA
Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Dialogue: A First Hand Report on the Sixth Doha Interfaith Conference
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA School of Law
Screening of Kon Ichikawa's 'Odd Obsession'
The screening of 'Odd Obsession' (1959, 96 min) is a tribute to the passing of director Kon Ichikawa, with Director Shunji Iwai.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Film Screening of Darfur Now!
The Darfur Action Committee at UCLA, as part of Mighty Mic, presents a film screening of Darfur Now! featuring UCLA alum Adam Sterling and five other people working on the ongoing crisis in Darfur, Sudan. Adam Sterling will be at the event, participating in a post-screening discussion.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room 100
Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
A book talk with author EHRHARD BAHR, UCLA Germanic Languages, and discussant PETER LOEWENBERG, UCLA History.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
May 29th - International Careers: Advice on Building Your Career
The Burkle Center presents an opportunity for students to hear leaders in the field of international affairs speak candidly about what they did after graduation and how todays recent graduates can prepare for a career in international affairs.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Kerckhof Hall State Rooms
Teaching and Learning Nahuatl "La Lengua Mexicana" at the University
A presentation by Delfina de la Cruz and John Sullivan.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Scaling the Wall: "Circulation" and Communication across the Cold War
A public lecture by SUSAN GAL, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Thursday, May 29, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Haines 352
A Retrospective Screening of the Latino Indie Classic Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican by Frances Negron-Muntaner
Thursday, May 29, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Dodd 121
EAP & UCLA Travel Study Informational Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Covel Commons 2nd Floor
Mighty Mic Human Rights Awareness Concert: The Concert to End Genocide
The Darfur Action Committee at UCLA, as part of Mighty Mic, presents music and speakers focusing attention on genocide and to raise funds to purchase the US Doctors for Africa Mobile Clinic. Adam Sterling, John Prendergast, and Rabbi Harold Schulweis are scheduled to speak at the event.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
5:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
Batuclada Brazilian Large Drum Ensemble Concert
Fowler Out Loud presents Batuclada, UCLA's award-winning Brazilian large drum ensemble, back with samba, samba reggae, maracatu, and more.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2008 - West Africa and Bluegrass
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology presents a series of concerts featuring world music from West Africa to Korea to Brazil to jazz combos and more. Concerts dates are from May 29 through June 3, 2008.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
TransNations - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships Second Annual Conference
The Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at UCLA, the Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, and the Department of French and Francophone Studies present the TransNations Conference, May 29-31, 2008. Prolific Somali writer Nuruddin Farah is the keynote speaker on Friday, May 30, and he will read on Thursday, May 29. The conference features several presentations focusing on Africa and the diaspora.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
China Undisciplined, Day One
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference celebrating the creative spaces that arise in the (de)construction of "China", May 30-31, 2008.
Friday, May 30, 2008
1:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce 314
Claire Jean Kim, Political Science and Asian American Studies, UCI
Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Friday, May 30, 2008
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
Gerald Wilson, Kenny Burrell, and Friends Talk Jazz
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and the Kenny Burrell Archive of African American Music present The Gerald Wilson Living Legends Music and Lecture Series featuring Gerald Wilson and hosted by Kenny Burrell and Bubba Jackson, KJZZ-FM.
Friday, May 30, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 135 Haines Hall
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2008 - Korea and Brazil
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology presents a series of concerts featuring world music from West Africa to Korea to Brazil to jazz combos and more. Concerts dates are from May 29 through June 3, 2008.
Friday, May 30, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Of Love and Eggs (Rindu Kami Padamu)
Film screening as part of the Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film series.
Friday, May 30, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
China Undisciplined, Day Two
An interdisciplinary graduate student conference celebrating the creative spaces that arise in the (de)construction of "China", May 30-31, 2008.
Friday, May 30, 2008
8:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Royce 314
US-Mexico Transborder Issues
A Public Policy Symposium
Friday, May 30, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Covel Commons
TransNations - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships Second Annual Conference
The Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at UCLA, the Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, and the Department of French and Francophone Studies present the TransNations Conference, May 29-31, 2008. Prolific Somali writer Nuruddin Farah is the keynote speaker on Friday, May 30, and he will read on Thursday, May 29. The conference features several presentations focusing on Africa and the diaspora.
Friday, May 30, 2008
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2008 - China and Near East
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology presents a series of concerts featuring world music from West Africa to Korea to Brazil to jazz combos and more. Concerts dates are from May 29 through June 3, 2008.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Tokyo Then, Tokyo Now
A colloquium funded in part by the Arts Initiative, a program of UCLA Arts & UCLA Theater Film and Television. Special thanks to the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Perloff Hall
TransNations - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships Second Annual Conference
The Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at UCLA, the Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, and the Department of French and Francophone Studies present the TransNations Conference, May 29-31, 2008. Prolific Somali writer Nuruddin Farah is the keynote speaker on Friday, May 30, and he will read on Thursday, May 29. The conference features several presentations focusing on Africa and the diaspora.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
No Colonialism, No Culture: Macaulay, Kipling And The Interpellation Of Indians
Talk by Qadri Ismail, University of Minnesota
Monday, June 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Family, Poverty and Social Policies in Latin America: How have Oportunidades (Mexico) and Bolsa Familia (Brazil) Met the Challenges?
Monday, June 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Young Research Library
Power, Play, and Dialogic Imagination in Late Tokugawa Japan
Colloquium with Katsuya Hirano, History, Cornell University
Monday, June 02, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2008 - Jazz Combos
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology presents a series of concerts featuring world music from West Africa to Korea to Brazil to jazz combos and more. Concerts dates are from May 29 through June 3, 2008.
Monday, June 02, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
A Change in News and the Evolution of Media
By Hong Woan Joo, Yonhap News Agency/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Proseminar 6/3
Presenter: Se Yan
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 9383
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2008 - Big Band Jazz Concert
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology presents a series of concerts featuring world music from West Africa to Korea to Brazil to jazz combos and more. Concerts dates are from May 29 through June 3, 2008.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Contemporary Musical Trends in Mexico and Latin America - From Rock en Espanol to Classical
A presentation by Jose Antonio Robles Cahero, musicologist, Centro Nacional de Investigacion, Documentacion, e Informacion Musical (CENIDIM) and Eugenio Delgado, composer and Director, CENIDIM
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Schoenberg Hall 1100
Bylaws and Finance: Corporate Statutes, Shareholder Rights, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950
Aldo Musacchio, Harvard Business School
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 9383
Film Screening of Battleground for a New Generation
The UCLA Institute of American Cultures and the Bunche Center for African American Studies present a documentary film about the 2004 Presidential election cycle and key voter mobilization groups -- Rock the Vote, PunkVoter, The National Hip-Hop Political Convention, Headcount, Stonewall Democrats, College Republicans, The New Voters Project, and Pissed Off Voters.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room 135 Haines Hall
Alucinados (Riding High)
Screening of Brazilian film 'Alucinados' (2007), directed by Roberto Santucci.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Film Screening of "Alucinados" (Riding High)
The UCLA Latin American Institute and the Consulate General of Brazil in Los Angeles present "Alucinados," followed by a Q & A with Director Roberto Santucci.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Yellow Dust Blows East: Contemporary South Korean Images of China
By Stephen Epstein, Director of the Asian Studies Institute and the Asian Studies Programme at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand/Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, June 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
EAP & UCLA Travel Study Informational Session
Want to go abroad? Learn more about programs and the application process.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Covel Commons 2nd Floor
Musical History and Innovation in Mexico
Round Table Discussion - Discussion of Disney Hall musical project featuring the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday, June 05, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg 1230
Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra
Proceeds for this concert will be used for a scholarship fund in the arts and for the maintenance of the UCLA Mexican Arts Series.
Friday, June 06, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
Destiny (Al-Massir)
Film screening as part of the Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film series.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Tokyo Tremors: Four New Waves of Japanese Contemporary Art
A Talk and Discussion with Adrian Favell, UCLA at Royal/T in Culver City
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
7:00 PM
Royal/T
Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite)
Latin American Institute's pick at the 2008 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, June 20, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
AMC Avco 4
U.S. Latin@s and Latin American Integration: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century
Please join us and be part of ground breaking discussion with academics in the field of Latino and Latin American Politics, intellectuals, state representatives and NGOs from Latin America
and the United States to discuss the role of Latinos in the processes of Latin American Integration.
Friday, June 27, 2008
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
LA County Federation of Labor
TEACH AFRICA
A special Africa-education orientation program
Friday, June 27, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
James West Alumni Center
Four Wives - One Man
Feature film screening as part of the Los Angeles Film Festival
Friday, June 27, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Landmark Theater
Four Wives - One Man
Feature film screening as part of the Los Angeles Film Festival
Sunday, June 29, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Landmark Theater
Noel - Poeta da Vila (Noel the Samba Poet)
Screening of Brazilian film, 'Noel - Poeta da Vila' (2006), directed by Ricardo Van Steen.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Film Screening of "Noel -- Poeta da Vila" (The Samba Poet)
The UCLA Latin American Institute and the Consulate General of Brazil in Los Angeles present "Poeta da Vila," directed by Ricardo Van Steen.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Con Mis Manos: A History of Labor in Latin America
K-12 Summer Teacher Training Workshop: July 8th through July 18, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Africa And Its Neighbors: A Dynamic Global Crossroad
Summer Workshop for Precollegiate Educators. This interdisciplinary seminar, held July 19 - July 31, 2008, will underscore the connections between the ongoing, dramatic historical transformations of North Africa from antiquity to the present and the region's interactions with its European, Sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern neighbors.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Hindi as a Heritage Language
Teaching Hindi in the Community
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce Hall
Monks, Merchants and Millworkers: Connecting Europe and Asia in World History
2008 UCLA Summer Institute for World History Teachers,
July 28th - August 8th
Monday, July 28, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Confucianism in Modern Chinese Culture with Yu Dan
A Talk by Yu Dan
Thursday, July 31, 2008
4:00 PM
The Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
SOLD OUT - North African Vibes: Music from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
A free concert featuring musical styles from across North Africa.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Bing Theater
SOLD OUT - North African Vibes: Music from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies present a free concert featuring musical styles from across North Africa.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Bing Theater
Death of the Zambian President - Memorial Service at UCLA
Memorial Service for His Excellency Dr. Levy Mwanawasa, late president of Zambia, organized by The Organization of Zambians and Affiliates in California (OZAINCA) with support and assistance from The Fowler Museum at UCLA and the UCLA African Studies Center.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Transboundary Environmental Management in the Arava and Beyond
Please join us for an insightful seminar on environmental issues facing the Middle East.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA School of Law
2008 World Festival of Sacred Music
The World Festival of Sacred Music is presented by Foundation for World Arts and UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
World Festival of Sacred Music - September 13 - 28, 2008 -- 1,000 Artists in 16 Days at 41 Events
The World Festival of Sacred Music kicks off with a Gala Concert featuring music from Angola, India, Indonesia, Tuva (Russia), and the US.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Royce Hall
Symposium on "Genes, Disparity in Healthcare Delivery, Behavior: What Role Does Each Play in Susceptibility in HIV?"
The UCLA AIDS Institute and Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) present a symposium featuring Stephen O'Brien, Kevin Fenton, and Irvin Chen.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM
La Kretz Hall, Room 110
Anderson Forecast: Globalization and its Effect on the Economy - 9/24
Co-sponsored with the UCLA Anderson School of Business.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
7:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom UCLA
Immigration and Conflict
A lecture by RAFAELA DANCYGIER, Princeton University, Department of Politics
Friday, September 26, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
279 Haines Hall
Immigration and Conflict
The Migration Study Group and the International Institute are pleased to present:
Rafaela Dancygier
Department of Politics, Princeton University
Immigration and Conflict
Friday, September 26, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
279 Haines Hall
Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor
Exhibit on the Terra Cotta Warriors at the Bowers Museum from May 18, 2008 - October 16, 2008.
Monday, September 29, 2008
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
2002 N. Main Street
Documentary Film Screenings
Screeings at USC
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Change of the Status of the UN Security Council after the Cold War
By Yeoul Soo Kim, Korea National Defense University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
An Exhibition of the Work of Sun Xun
at the Hammer Museum, through October 12
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Hammer Museum
Project Minerva and the Militarization of Anthropology
A public lecture by Hugh Gusterson, George Mason University
Thursday, October 02, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Haines Hall 352
2008 Black Convocation - "Building Relationships, Taking Ownership"
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA is hosting the 2008 Black Convocation, followed by a reception.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room 39, Haines Hall for Program at 6 PM
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth & the Man Who Dreamed It
Paul Kagame is profiled in the latest book by author Stephen Kinzer. Kinzer will discuss A Thousand Hills as part of the African Studies Center Book Series.
Friday, October 03, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
International Justice: A Lecture By Judge Meron & Gen. Clark
Join us for a public lecture and moderated discussion with Judge Theodor Meron of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and General Wesley K. Clark (ret.)
Friday, October 03, 2008
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Law School
"Transforming the Culture of Conflict Through the Body: Capoeira Brain Food Symposium"
The MPEVULA! Coalition and the Ngolo Arts Preservation Society, UCLA Office of the Dean of the School of Art & Architecture, and UCLA Vice Chancellor of Graduate Studies present an all-day symposium.
Friday, October 03, 2008
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall
Immigration and National Identity in France
A public lecture by MICHEL WIEVIORKA, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Monday, October 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
236 Royce Hall
On Trans-Saharan Trails: A New Approach to Writing African History
Ghislaine Lydon, UCLA Department of History
Monday, October 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Immigration and National Identity in France
The Migration Study Group and the International Institute are pleased to present:
Monday, October 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Royce Hall 236
Joint Seminar with Shigemi Nakagawa and Barbara Sato
Joint Seminar by Shigemi Nakagawa, Japanese Modern Literature and Comparative Literature at Ritsumeikan University, and Barbara Sato, History, Seikei University
Monday, October 06, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Royce 243
Ufahamu Fall Meeting
The editors of the graduate student journal Ufahamu will be holding their fall editorial meeting and invite those interested in participating to attend.
Monday, October 06, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
European Business Networking Event
European Attractiveness Roadshow 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Pursuing Peace: the Role of Mediators and Citizens in International Conflict
A public lecture by Burkle Center Deputy Director, Anna Spain,
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
UCLA Extension Building
Pursuing Peace: The Role of Mediators & Citizens in Resolving International Conflict
Lecture by Burkle Center Deputy Director Anna Spain for the UCLA Extension Beyond the Headlines Speaking Series.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
UCLA Extension
UCLA International Institute Open House
in association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars & the Office of International Education
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10th and 11th Floors, Bunche Hall
Documentary Film Screenings
Screeings at USC
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Lebanon Today
Nizar Abdel-Kader is currently a political analyst and columnist at Ad-Diyar Newspaper, Beirut.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4276 Bunche Hall
Address by His Excellency Hector Marcos Timerman
Hector Marcos Timerman is the Ambassador of Argentina to the United States
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
Space, Aesthetics, Performance: Reflections on the Western Zhou Ancestral Sacrifice
A talk by Martin Kern (Princeton University)
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Preferred Colors in Various Cultures based on Lexical Frequency: Comparison among Korean, English, French, Russian, Romanian, Chinese, Japanese, and Mongolian
By Sang-Oak Lee, Seoul National University/Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Mei Lanfang Beijing Opera Company
Lecture and Demonstration
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Schoenberg Auditorium
Meu Nome Nao e Johnny (My Name is Not Johnny)
Screening of Brazilian film 'Meu Nome Nao e Johnny' (2008), directed by Mauro Lima.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Documentary Film Screenings
Screeings at USC
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Women's Talk and Mothers' Work
By Minju Kim, Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College/Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, October 09, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Lecture: Katharine Donato of Vanderbilt
The Migration Study Group and the International Institute are pleased to present:
Friday, October 10, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
279 Haines
La Calle Grita
Art and Political Agency in the works of ASARO (Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca)
Saturday, October 11, 2008
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum at UCLA
NATO in the Gulf: Who is doing a favor to whom?
A public lecture by Matteo Legrenzi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Monday, October 13, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
"Free for All!" A Documentary about Voter Suppression
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the UCLA School of Law present a free film screening about election fraud and voter disenfranchisement. Q & A with director John Wellington Ennis and Brad Friedman (BradBlog.com) to follow.
Monday, October 13, 2008
6:45 PM - 9:00 PM
School of Law Bldg., Room 1357
Balochi Identity Through the Centuries
A public lecture by Vahe Boyajian, Yerevan State University
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
African Activist Association Fall Quarter Meeting
The African Activist Association (AAA) at UCLA will hold its Fall Quarter meeting to discuss events for the academic year.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
A reading by Filipino poet/novelist/playwright R. Zamora Linmark
Filipino poet/novelist/playwright R. Zamora Linmark will read from his collected works.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
A2 Haines Hall
How Citizens' Property Rights Constrain National Forest Policy in Vietnam
Colloquium with Dr. Cari An Coe, Department of Political Science, UCLA; Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Change of Korean Fashion in the Twentieth Century
By Yoonhee Kim, Professor, Hannam University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Shifting Global Balances: Outlook for the Middle East
A public lecture by Helena Cobban
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Stalin
film screening and discussion with director Ivan Passer
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
IGCC Grant Information Session
Thursday, October 16, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall
Coping with the spread of HIV infection in Central Asia: the case of Kazakhstan
A public lecture by DARDANE ARIFAJ
Thursday, October 16, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Overcoming Explosive Jerusalem: Prosperity and Co-Existence under a Proposed Two-State Solution
Professor Eli Sagi, Professor Emeritus at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University
Thursday, October 16, 2008
4:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
From Algeria to Indio
Filmmaker Leslie Thornton presents a series of shorts and excerpts of her projects, all dealing thematically with relations between Orientalism and Americana. "The Great Invisible," an experimental docu-drama about the 19th-century adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt, will be the centerpiece of the event.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Haines Hall 39
Challenges for the Next President: Is the Middle East Still Important?
Lecture by Dr. Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and non-resident senior fellow at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institute.
Friday, October 17, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Central Asia Initiative: Mobility and Governability in Central Asia
An international conference presented by the Asia Institute
Saturday, October 18, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tom Bradley International Hall
Archaeology and History in Korea
Archaeology and History in Korea
Sunday, October 19, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Dar Jostojooye Demokracy baraye Iran
A public lecture by Akbar Ganji
Sunday, October 19, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dodd Hall 147
Transitional Nomads: The Connected Lives of Somali Refugees
Cindy Horst, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
Monday, October 20, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Laura Alonso, 'Fighting the invisible hand of corruption'
The global-local efforts: the cases of Transparency International and Poder Ciudadano in Argentina.
Monday, October 20, 2008
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room 1337, UCLA School of Law
On the Study of Literature in China Today
A Colloquium with Scholars from Shanghai-area Universities
Monday, October 20, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Geometry vs. Algebra:Model-less Planetary Theory of the East
Prof. Nakayama discusses a hitherto unresolved problem in understanding early Chinese mathematics: the meaning of limit, mean, and true degrees in the Shoushi Ii planetary tables and subsequent commentaries. He explains prior problems in resolving this problem and his new solution. He argues for the incomensurability between the Western geometrical model and the Chinese algebraic approach. He concludes with comments upon contemporary historiography of mathematics and science.
Monday, October 20, 2008
4:00 PM
Starved for Attention: The Neglected Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition
Doctors without Borders Lecture
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Center for Health Sciences
Burned Hearts
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UC Santa Cruz
Starved for Attention: The Neglected Crisis of Childhood Malnutrition
Dr. Buddhima Lokuge will speak about Doctors Without Borders work in areas devastated by malnutrition.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA, Center for Health Sciences Room 73-105A
African Studies Open House & Reception
East African food, African music, and African dance. The UCLA African Studies Center, The Fowler Museum at UCLA, and Afrodicia KPFK 90.7 FM invite you to join us for a wonderful evening and learn about ASC resources, teaching, and research programs.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Fowler Museum Terrace
Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Life after the Fall
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Leavey Auditorium
Samira's Garden
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Burkle Talk on Peacebuilding in Iraq with A. Heather Coyne, U.S. Institute of Peace
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, 11th floor
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
A book talk with author RONALD FINDLAY, Columbia University, Economics, and discussant ROBERT BRENNER, UCLA, History.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Politics and Realities of Global & Local AIDS: A Town Hall Meeting
The UCLA Program in Global Health, AIDS Project Los Angeles, National Physicians Alliance, and Health Action AIDS Campaign of Physicians for Human Rights invite the public to attend a town hall meeting with Congressman Howard Berman, Dr. Elioda Tumwesigye from Uganda, and Dr. Gail Wyatt of the AIDS Institute.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Pathways towards a New World Order: China's Challenge to the European Union
A talk by John Friedmann (Visiting Professor of Urban Planning), in the Harvey S. Perloff Lecture Series, presented by the Department of Urban Planning
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2355 Public Policy Building
Race and Mental Health: Patterns, Paradoxes, Prospects
The Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities (CCTMHD) and the UCLA AIDS Institute takes honor in inviting Dr. David R. Williams to the UCLA campus on October 23-24, 2008.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
Lecture: Muzaffar Chishti of Migration Policy Institute and NYU Law School
The Migration Study Group and the International Institute are pleased to present:
Friday, October 24, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
279 Haines
HIV/AIDS and Mental Health: The Case of South Africa
The Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities (CCTMHD) and the UCLA AIDS Institute takes honor in inviting Dr. David R. Williams to the UCLA campus on October 23-24, 2008.
Friday, October 24, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
53-105 CHS
Captain Abu Raed
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
8:00 PM - 9:45 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
2008 US-China Business Law Conference at UCLA
Friday, October 24, 2008
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Workshop on Print in a Global Context: Japan and the World
A day-long conference presented by the The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute -- with several presentations about China
Friday, October 24, 2008
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Social Science Building 250 [SOS 250]
Out of Coverage/ Flou
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
Slingshot Hip Hop
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
Amour D'Enfants/ Arafat & I
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
Japan Translates: Words between Languages from Classics to Hyperculture
Graduate student symposium organized by Jordan Smith.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
306 Royce
Paloma Delight/ Dead Fish
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
9:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
At Day's End/ A Winter Day's Visit/ Clean Hands, Dirty Soap/ The Maid
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
Burned Hearts
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
Burned Hearts/ Messaoud
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
The Young Lady and the School/ The Yellow House
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
Tenbak/Falling from Earth
Film screening as part of the Arab Film Festival 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
8:00 PM - 9:45 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
Burkle Talk with Stanford Professor, Stephen Krasner
Monday, October 27, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, 10th Floor
Japan's Jazz Coffeeshops: Cultural Underground or Otaku Refuge?
Colloquium with Michael Molasky, History, University of Minnesota.
Monday, October 27, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Journalist Lecture Series: Dan Koeppel
Journalist and author Dan Koeppel shares his research and insight on Bananas and The Fate of The Fruit That Changed The World.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
YRL Presentation Room
21st Century Cuisine, Nutrition and Genetics
As part of their Distinguished International Speaker Series, the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars welcomes Dr. Richard Delerins as he discusses cuisine and how it relates to our environment and culture in the 21st century.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bradley International Hall
Iran's Nuclear Challenge and the Iranian-Syrian-Palestinian Complex
Professor Shlomo Aronson, Director of Hebrew University's Center of European Studies
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
I Love Hip Hop in Morocco
Film screening and discussion with filmmakers Joshua Asen and Jennifer Needleman
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Perloff Hall 1102
10/30: Burkle Talk with Matthew Yglesias, Senior Editor at the Center for American Progress, on "National Security and the 2008 Elections"
Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall
"Gypsy Sluts" and "Russian Heroes": Performing Authenticity on the Early Soviet Stage
A public lecture by BRIGID O'KEEFFE, Brooklyn College, History
Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Stagnant Process of Development in the Middle East: Inappropriate Mechanisms and Confused Priorities
Dr. Wael Merza is a media consultant and freelance journalist in Dubai, as well as an independent researcher in the Middle East.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall
The Returns of Zionism
A book discussion with author Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA and commentators Joel Beinin, Stanford University, and David Myers, UCLA
Thursday, October 30, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall 306
Film Screening of The Blue Eyes of Yonta
The African Activist Association at UCLA presents a screening of a film from Guinea Bissau, The Blue Eyes of Yonta By Flora Gomes.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room 39, Haines Hall
Film Screening: CASA LIBRE/FREEDOM HOUSE
Free screening at the historic LA Athletic Club
Thursday, October 30, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Burning the Books and Killing the Scholars: Representing the Atrocities of the First Emperor of China
Anthony Barbieri-Low delivers the 21st Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Saturday, November 01, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
On-Site Registration is available on Saturday, November 1 for Teach Africa Workshop
Day-long teacher-training workshop; space still available. The event is open and onsite registration begins at 8:15 AM. So, do not worry if you did not register yet; please come and join us. All participants will be entered into a drawing for two trips to South Africa courtesy of South African Airways. You must be present to win.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
2160E Broad Art Center
Thai Cultural Night in the U.S.
Extraordinary evening of Thai traditional and classical music, dance, and puppet theater.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Schoenberg Auditorium
Kids in the Courtyard: Muertos y Mariposas
Celebrate El Dia de los Muertos at the Fowler!
Sunday, November 02, 2008
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum UCLA
Crafting neoliberal logics: the political economy of AIDS policies in Nigeria
Kristin Peterson, University of California-Irvine Department of Anthropology
Monday, November 03, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Still Orangutans
AFI FEST 2008 and UCLA Latin American Institute are proud to invite you to Still Orangutans as part of the 2008 Film Festival.
Monday, November 03, 2008
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
ArcLight Hollywood
Ladyboys and Good Sons: Contemporary Mediums and Gender Identity in Northern Thai Trance Dance
Colloquium with Michael Sakamoto, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Still Orangutans
AFI FEST 2008 and UCLA Latin American Institute are proud to invite you to Still Orangutans as part of the 2008 Film Festival.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
ArcLight Hollywood
Two-Legged Horse
Feature film screening as part of the AFI Film Festival
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
ArcLight Hollywood
Two-Legged Horse
Feature film screening as part of the AFI Film Festival
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
ArcLight Hollywood
Red Art . . . a Documentary
A screening and talk with the co-director, Hu Jie
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
2250 Public Policy Building
Paulinho da Viola: Meu Tempo Hoje
Screening of Brazilian film 'Paulinho da Viola: Meu tempo hoje', directed by Izabel Jaguaribe.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Red Love in Korea in the Global 1920s
By Ruth Barraclough, Lecturer, Australian National University/Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, November 06, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche hall
La Rabia
AFI FEST 2008 and UCLA Latin American Institute are proud to invite you to the screening of La Rabia as part of the 2008 Film Festival.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
ArcLight Hollywood
Author meets critics session on Ruben Hernandez-Leon
The Migration Study Group and the International Institute are pleased to present:
Friday, November 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
279 Haines
A conversation with Argentine filmmakers Lucrecia Martel and Liliana Paolinelli
A Conversation with Argentine filmmakers LUCRECIA MARTEL and LILIANA PAOLINELLI
Friday, November 07, 2008
2:00 PM
4302 Rolfe Hall
La Rabia
AFI FEST 2008 and UCLA Latin American Institute are proud to invite you to the screening of La Rabia as part of the 2008 Film Festival.
Friday, November 07, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
ArcLight Hollywood
Understanding Long Run Economic Growth
A Conference Honoring the Contributions of Kenneth Sokoloff
Friday, November 07, 2008
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Asia in LA: Global Cities in Asia, Asia in the Global City
The first Asia in LA program brings together leading architects, designers, and UCLA faculty working in and on Asia.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tom Bradley International Hall
Fowler OutSpoken Panel
Crossing Points: Art and La Frontera
Saturday, November 08, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
Female Meditation Techniques in Late Imperial and Modern China
A two-day conference
Saturday, November 08, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
" SAMARPAN ", A Hindustani (Indian Classical) Vocal Concert by Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Presented by SPICMACAY
Sunday, November 09, 2008
3:00 PM
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
An evening with Dariush Mehrjui
Screening of "Derakhte Golabi (The Pear Tree)" followed by Q&A with director, Dariush Mehrjui
Sunday, November 09, 2008
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dodd Hall 147
Female Meditation Techniques in Late Imperial and Modern China
A two-day conference
Sunday, November 09, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Travelers, Kings & Ancestral Asen in Pre-colonial Dahomey: Evidence Puzzles about the Invention of an African art form
Edna Bay, Emory University
Monday, November 10, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Spiritual Refreshment, Medicine for the Heart: Islamic Preaching on Record and on the Air in Indonesia
Colloquium with Bernard Arps, Leiden University
Monday, November 10, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Crossing the Line: a feature documentary
Film Screening followed by Q&A with producer Nicholas Bonner
Monday, November 10, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Marking the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht and the 65th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Public lectures by MICHAEL BRENNER, University of Munich, History, and SAMUEL KASSOW, Trinity College, History
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Faculty Center
La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul
Screeening of La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul (2007), followed by a Q&A session with film director Ela Troyano.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Lecture: XVIIII Century Jesuit thought and the Enlightenment in Latin America
Lecture by Professor of History Beatriz Helena Domingues, from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
4:30 PM
Rolfe 4302
How to Search the UCLA Library Catalog for C-J-K Materials
A hands-on seminar
Thursday, November 13, 2008
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Advances in Development Reverse Fertility Declines
A public lecture by HANS-PETER KOHLER, University of Pennsylvnia, Sociology
Thursday, November 13, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
4240 Public Affairs Building
International Human Rights and Sudan
Join us for a special lunchtime talk about the situation in Sudan and the role of contemporary international justice with two UN officials.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 2467
Reflexions on the Visual Images of Jose Marti
Distinguished Professor Emilio Bejel from UC Davis discusses the iconography of Jose Marti in Cuban culture and society.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Erlitou: A Key to the Origin of Chinese Civilization
A talk by XU HONG (head of the Erlitou Excavation Team of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), cosponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Discussant: Min Li (UCLA Dept of Asian Languages & Cultures, and Cotsen Institute)
Thursday, November 13, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Burkle Talk with George Washington University Professor James Goldgeier
Friday, November 14, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, 10th Floor
Israel and the World: A View from the United Nations
Gabriela Shalev, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations
Friday, November 14, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1357
Recent Discoveries in Japanese Archaeology
Presented by Prof. Donald McCallum, Japanese Art History
Friday, November 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Napoli! The System, the Camorra and the Pizza: Breaking the Stereotypes
A three-day program of Neapolitan cinema, literature & food
Friday, November 14, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Fez, Morocco, Crossroads of Knowledge and Power: Celebrating 1,200 Years of Urban Life (Day 1)
An international conference organized by the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Riverside.
Friday, November 14, 2008
9:45 AM - 4:00 PM
University of California, Riverside
Fez: Queen of Cities
An evening of live music and dance at UCLA's Royce Hall
Saturday, November 15, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Royce Hall
Fez, Morocco, Crossroads of Knowledge and Power: Celebrating 1,200 Years of Urban Life (Day 2)
An international conference organized by the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Riverside.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
9:15 AM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
Fowler Outspoken Lecture with Tomas Ybarra-Frausto
Shifting Perspectives: Visual Culture and the U.S./Mexico Borderlands
Sunday, November 16, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
Afghan Society after the Taliban: The View from the Hills
Central Asia Initiative Panel Presentation: Leading anthropologists discuss contemporary Afghanistan
Monday, November 17, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
One Family's Response to Terrorism: A Daughter's Memoir
A public lecture by Susan Kerr Van De Ven
Monday, November 17, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Study Abroad Scholarship -- NSEP Boren Info Session
Program representative will provide information about this study abroad scholarship.
Monday, November 17, 2008
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Bunche 10367
International Opportunities Fair
Learn about opportunities for international studies, careers, and fellowships in celebration of International Education Week
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Kerckhoff State Rooms
The Harki Case: History's Forgotten/"History's Forgotten"
A public lecture by Vincent Crapanzano, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
What is Laozi's Ziran? Ancient Texts and Modern Implications
A talk by Liu Xiaogan
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Staging Migration and Post-National Identities
Farnaz Arbabi - award-winning Iranian-Swedish playright and theater director
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Transporting the Elixir: A Look at Tibetan Medicine Inside Tibet
A talk by Lhusham Gya (Associate Professor of Tibetan Medicine, Qinghai University)
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Dean's Conference Room
International Career Panel
The Burkle Center sponsors international career panels to provide insight about various professions and guidance on how recent graduates can prepare for an international career.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Ackerman Union 2nd Floor Lounge
The Choice of Korean Capitalism
By Jong Gook Back, Professor, Gyeongsang National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Special Film Screening of "One Little Difference"
The Bunche Center for African American Studies and the Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of California present a documentary film that tells the story of Camp Crescent Moon, a specialized summer camp for children with sickle cell disease.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
135 Haines Hall
Changing Youth and Changing Sexual Identities in the Wake of Irans Sexual Revolution
A public lecture by Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona College
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Archaeology and History in Korea
Presented by Prof. John Duncan, Asian Languages & Cultures, Director of the Center for Korean Studies
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
YRL Presentation Room
Race and Post-Election America 2008
The Bunche Center for African American Studies, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at UCLA, the UCLA Office of Faculty Diversity and the UCLA Department of English present panel discussions on race and politics examining the results of the 2008 presidential election.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Three Songs about Motherland
A documentary film screening and discussion with the film maker, Marina Goldovskaya, UCLA Film School. Hosted by David MacFadyen, Chair of the UCLA Slavic Department.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
1409 Melnitz Hall
Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance in the Americas: Day 1
The event will explore issues of indigeneity, gender and sexuality, transnational/global encounters, labor, domestic violence and access to material resources.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
10:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Royce Hall
Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe
A book talk with author NEIL FLIGSTEIN, UC Berkeley, Sociology, and discussant MICHAEL MANN, UCLA, Sociology.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Kazakh Jazz
A concert by the women's jazz vocal ensemble INZHU (Pearl) from the Kazakh National Academy of Music in Astana, Kazakhstan
Thursday, November 20, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
1345 Schoenberg Hall
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe
A book talk with author NINA BANDELJ, UC Irvine, Sociology
Thursday, November 20, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cornell Hall, UCLA Anderson, D-313
Beaujolais Passions
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
6:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Royce Hall
How to Search the UCLA Library Catalog for C-J-K Materials
A hands-on seminar
Friday, November 21, 2008
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance in the Americas: Day 2
The event will explore issues of indigeneity, gender and sexuality, transnational/global encounters, labor, domestic violence and access to material resources.
Friday, November 21, 2008
11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Various UCLA Locations
Careers in Asia: Culture, Form, and Sustainability - A Transpacific Architect's View
Guy Horton, Perkins+Will Architects
Friday, November 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Workshop: Immigrants Connections' With Their Homelands
The Migration Study Group and the International Institute are pleased to present:
Friday, November 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Marta Sebestyen and the Muzsikas Hungarian Folk Ensemble
A demonstration and discussion
Friday, November 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1325 Schoenberg Hall
Pro Dia Nascer Feliz
Celebrate International Education Week with a Screening of Pro Dia Nascer Feliz (Joo Jardim, 2007)
Friday, November 21, 2008
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
James Bridges Theatre
Recent Developments in the Study of Buddhist Art
This symposium is intended to survey some of the most important recent developments in the study of Buddhist art throughout Asia.
Friday, November 21, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
for Friday's conference:
American Red Cross Humanitarian Prize 2008 Winners
A discussion with Dr. Noam Yifrach, Chairman of Maghen David Adom of Israel and Mr. Younis Al-Khatib, President of the Palestine Red Crescent, recipients of the 2008 American Red Cross Humanitarian Prize
Friday, November 21, 2008
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Rolfe Hall 1200
Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance in the Americas: Day 3
The event will explore issues of indigeneity, gender and sexuality, transnational/global encounters, labor, domestic violence and access to material resources.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Various UCLA Locations
China's New Past: Archaeology, Early History, New Visions
A seminar by David Schaberg, in conjunction with the exhibition East Asian Archaeology & Classic Architecture
Saturday, November 22, 2008
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
China's New Past: Archaeology, Early History, New Visions
Presented by Prof. David Schaberg, Asian Languages & Cultures
Co-Director of Center for Chinese Studies
Saturday, November 22, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Actions of Transfer: Women's Performance in the Americas: Day 4
The event will explore issues of indigeneity, gender and sexuality, transnational/global encounters, labor, domestic violence and access to material resources.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The New LATC (Los Angeles Theater Center)
Fowler OutSpoken Lecture with James Oles
Colonial Architecture and Modern Art: American Tourists and the Invention of Taxco
Sunday, November 23, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
Innovation in Southeast Asian Ceramics Studies: The Work of Roxanna Brown
A symposium with Robert L. Brown, Caverlee Cary, and Nhung Tuyet Tran
Monday, November 24, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Out of the Glass Case: The Social Life of Urban Heritage in Kyoto
Colloquium with Christoph Brumann, anthropology, University of Cologne
Monday, November 24, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Private Enforcement of the Public Interest in China: Potential and Pitfalls
A talk by Donald C. Clarke
Monday, November 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Burkle Forum with Former Pres. of Peru Alejandro Toledo: "Global Financial Crisis & the Fight Against Poverty"
Co-sponsored by the Latin American Institute and the Burkle Center, this lecture is part of the Burkle Forum series to serve the UCLA community by presenting lectures, moderated discussions, panels, and other events featuring internationally renowned scholars, practitioners, and leaders who share their views on the most important international relations issues confronting the U.S. and the world today.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Royce Hall Room 314
Criminals in the Soviet Union 1917-1938
A public lecture by MARC JUNGE, University of Bochum, History
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
10 Years of Korean Bankruptcy History
By Byung-Joo Lee, Attorney at Law, Shin & Kim, Seoul/CSK Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Film Screening of Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon
The African Activist Association at UCLA invites you to the final film screening of the Fall 2008 quarter.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Fourth Wave" in North and South Korea Relations: The U.S. Role toward a New Vision for Peace in Northeast Asia
By Dong-Young Chung, Former Minister of Unification of South Korea,
2007 Democratic Presidential Candidate of South Korea/Korea Colloquium Series
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Hacienda Room
The Financial Meltdown Does Not Slow Global Warming: Israel's Environmental Challenges and Innovative Emerging Solutions
You are cordially invited to a special guest lecture by Dr. Miriam (Miki) Haran, former Director General of the Israel Ministry of the Environment, Head of the MBA Environmental Management Program at Ono Academic College and Chief Scientist of Tamarix Ventures which focuses on Israel-related Clean-tech investments.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
6:45 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
O Signo da Cidade ( The sign of the City)
Screening of Brazilian Film 'O Signo da Cidade' (2007), Directed by Carlos Alberto Riccelli.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Bronze Age Qufu: The Hometown of Confucius in the Archaeological Perspective
A talk by Professor Xu Hong, distinguished archaeologist from the Institute of Archaelogy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Thursday, December 04, 2008
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
Rolfe 3134
The European Union Today: Internal and External Challenges
A panel discussion with the British, Czech, French, German, and EU Ambassadors to the US
Friday, December 05, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Asian Images Inside-Out: What Can We Learn From the Contents of East Asian Statues?
Discussion of East Asian Buddhist images and icons by Professor James Robson of Harvard University
Friday, December 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
Kids in the Courtyard: Lucha Libre
Lucha libre is a Mexican wrestling tradition characterized by acrobatic maneuvers and colorful masks.
Sunday, December 07, 2008
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
The Jewish Question in French Philosophy after the Holocaust
A symposium.
Sunday, December 07, 2008
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Living in Limbo: The African Refugees Documentation Project
Professor Andrew Apter discusses a new UCLA initiative promoting collaborative research projects and documentary films on refugee conditions and communities in Africa.
Monday, December 08, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room 10383, Bunche Hall
Social Mobility and Demographic Behavior: A Long Term Perspective
11-13 December 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
9:00 AM - 4:15 PM
Carleton University Canada-US Project
You are invited to participate in a one-day conference to discuss recommendations to advance Canadian interests with the next US Administration and Congress.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
