Calendar of Events
Public lectures, symposium, colloquia and workshops about World Affairs at UCLA
Events for 2012
New Perspectives on Chinese Archaeology (Day 1)
An International Symposium Organized under the joint auspices of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Center for Chinese Studies (Jan 6th - 7th, 2012)
Friday, January 06, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Fazilat-e bakhshesh dar zendegi-ye fardi va siyasi (The Virtue of Forgiveness in Personal and Political Life)
A lecture by Arash Naraghi, Moravian College
Saturday, January 07, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
New Perspectives on Chinese Archaeology (Day 2)
An International Symposium
Organized under the joint auspices of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Center for Chinese Studies
(Jan 6-7, 2012)
Saturday, January 07, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall Room 314
CISA Lunchtime Talk: "Stories of Connection and Disconnection in the Bibiyana Gas Field in Bangladesh"
By Dr. Zahir Ahmed, Postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Monday, January 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Dru Gladney
Readings and discussion with Dru Gladney, Pomona College
Monday, January 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Religion and Politics on China's Silk Road: Muslims between Baghdad and Beijing
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Dru Gladney, Pomona College
Monday, January 09, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
한국어 교육의 현황과 남은 과제들: The Present Situation and Issues in Education for the Korean Language
By Sunwoo Lee, Korea University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
A State of All its Citizens? Majority–Minority Complexities in Deeply Divided Democracies: A Comparative View on India and Israel
A free, public lecture by Ayelet Harel-Shalev, PhD, a research fellow at the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Melnitz Movies: Miss Bala
Gerardo Naranjo's gripping thriller about a Baja California beauty queen caught in a maddening cycle of drug cartel violence. Q&A with Gerardo Naranjo, producer Diego Luna, and actress Stephanie Sigman.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination
Please join us for a talk by Prof. Barry Sanders from the UCLA Dept. of Communication Studies, about his new book, American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Lecture: "The Rising Middle Class in Russia"
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Humanities Building
Women Dalangs in Postcolonial Bali: Power, Tradition, and Puppets
Public lecture by Jennifer Goodlander, University of Kentucky
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Situating Feminisms in New Delhi?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
De Pernas Pro Ar (Head Over Heels) (2011)
A comedy about self-discovery and the pressures of the modern woman juggling love and work, directed by Roberto Santucci
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
The Baltic States 20 Years After Independence: Achievements and Disappointments
CEES public lecture by Mark Kramer, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
“Masculinities in Motion: Mobility, The Township and the Spectacular”
Megan Jones is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Stellenbosch and a research associate with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Humanities 193
Modern Cambodia’s Emergence from the Killing Fields: What Happened in the Critical Years?
Book talk by Michael Haas, Professor of Political Science and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (VI): The Fate of a Man
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: Michael Heim, UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
6:30 PM
11630F Young Research Library
The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West, a talk by Mitchell Silber, NYPD's Intelligence Division
Please join us for a talk by Mitchell Silber from the New York City Police Department Intelligence Division about his new book, The Al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West. This talk is co-sponsored by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, room 4357
Randa Fouad- Arab Forum: A Step Towards Change
A Role of the Media as a Partner in Protecting the Environment and Reaching Sustainable Development in Egypt
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Fowler Museum
The Role of the Media as a Partner in Protecting the Environment and Reaching Sustainable Development in Egypt
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
6:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum
The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics, a talk by Kathryn Sikkink, University of Minnesota
Please join us for a talk by Prof. Kathryn Sikkink from the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, about her new book, The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics. This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA International Human Rights Law Program.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1457
Tunisian Film Screening
Screening of two films about Tunisia
Thursday, January 19, 2012
4:00 PM
11348 Young Research Library
Marina Goldovskaya Documentary Retrospective Series (II)
Screening of "A Taste of Freedom" and "The Shattered Mirror," followed by discussion with filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, UCLA, Film and Television.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
7:00 PM
A51 Humanities Building
Marina Goldovskaya Documentary Retrospective Series (III)
Screening of "The Prince is Back" and "Three Songs about Motherland," followed by discussion with filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, UCLA, Film and Television.
Friday, January 20, 2012
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
CAW: Transnational Afghanistan
Readings and Discussion with Nile Green, UCLA
Monday, January 23, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, a talk by Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations
Please join us for a talk by Steven Cook from the Council on Foreign Relations about his new book, The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square. This talk is co-sponsored by the Burkle Center for International Relations, the Center for Near Eastern Studies & the Center for Middle East Development.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
한국시에 나타난 미국의 심상지리(Imaginative Geography of America in Korean Modern Poetry)
Gi-Taek Nam, Kangwon National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Israeli Documentary Film Series: "Back and Forth"
An ongoing documentary film series exploring the many faces of the Israeli social and cultural mosaic. A film by Uri Rosenwaks and four Bedouin directors (2010; 55 min)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
On Democracy in Russia - and Elsewhere
CEES faculty lecture by Richard Anderson, UCLA, Political Science.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Publication in Area Studies: An Informal Talk with Editor of The China Quarterly (2002-2011)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche 10383
Imagining “Back Home” in an era of Homeland (In)security: Palestinian American youth, education and the “War on Terror
A lecture by Thea Abu El-Haj, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University
Friday, January 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
3340 Moore Hall
"A SPATIAL SENSIBILITY: Geography and Colonial Cinema in Global Epistemologies."
Professor Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California
Friday, January 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
1422 Melnitz
Film Screening: Hiroshima
A screening of Hideo Sekigawa's 1953 film, "Hiroshima" organized by Mariko Tamanoi and Toshie Marra
Friday, January 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
The Immortal Song of Freedom
A book talk by Parvaneh Bahar, Author
Sunday, January 29, 2012
6:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
"Israel in 3-D" - One Day University
A day with UCLA faculty exploring multiple dimensions of Israel.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
Greece: Eurocrisis and Popular Resistance
Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Colloquium with Stathis Kouvelakis, Department of French, Kings College and Stergios Skaperdas, Department of Economics, UC Irvine.
Monday, January 30, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room)
Ungoverned and Uncivilized: Border Walls and the Discourse of Security
By Dr. Reece M Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Monday, January 30, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
1261 Bunche Hall
Info Session on Summer Travel Study in China
Please join us for the information session on Summer Travel Study in China.
Monday, January 30, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture with David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA proudly present the 2012 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker.
Monday, January 30, 2012
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
20th Anniversary of El Salvador’s Peace Accords
Conference with the First Lady of El Salvador, Vanda Pignato, on the 20th anniversary of the signing of the peace accords, the implications for transnational development and voting abroad.
Monday, January 30, 2012
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Locking Hoes and Horns: Ethnic Contestation in Ankole
Christopher Muhoozi
African Presidential Scholar, University of Michigan
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Hispanic Capitalism and the Mexican Imprint on U.S. History
A talk by John Tutino, Professor of History, Georgetown University
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library & Archive
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (VII): Spring on Riverside Street
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: David MacFadyen, UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
6:30 PM
11348 Young Research Library
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora É Outro (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within) (2011)
The highest-grossing film in Brazil's history, directed by José Padilha
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Legal Violence: Contextualizing Daily Life of Central Americans in the Isthmus and the U.S
Thursday, February 02, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
YRL Presentation Room
Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe
CEES book talk with author David Art, Tufts University, Political Science. Discussant: Mabel Berezin, Cornell University, Sociology.
Thursday, February 02, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Understanding the Brazilian Labor Success Story
IRLE Colloquia presented by Paulo Baltar, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Centro de Estudos Sindicais e de Economia do Trabalho
Thursday, February 02, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
Cross-Cultural Dialogues in Early Modern Europe: A Textual Seminar
Viterbi Lecture in Mediterranean Jewish Studies with Anthony Grafton, Princeton University and David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania. Moderator: David N. Myers, UCLA, History. Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of History and the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Thursday, February 02, 2012
4:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
The Ethics of Migration Policies
Presentation by Sarah Song (UC Berkeley) from 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Didactic seminar from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in Haines 279 (by RSVP only)
Friday, February 03, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279, UCLA
Biannual UCLA-Yonsei Graduate Workshop
Friday, February 03, 2012
12:30 PM - 5:45 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Abd al-Hamid al-Katib on the Identity of the Bureaucracy
A lecture by Wadad Kadi, University of Chicago
Friday, February 03, 2012
2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Islam after Communism
Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, February 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India
By Nile Green, Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Personnel, Department of History, UCLA
Monday, February 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pious Citizens: Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran
Hossein Ziai Memorial Lecture by Monica Ringer, Amherst College
Monday, February 06, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Film Screening: Ashes to Honey
This screening will be followed by a discussion with director Hitomi Kamanaka and Daniel Hirsch, UC Santa Cruz.
Monday, February 06, 2012
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
The Idea of Jewish Sovereignty: The Case of Lewis B. Namier and Isaiah Berlin
A public talk by Arie M. Dubnov, Acting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University
Monday, February 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
"Sites of Memory in Sub-Saharan African Cinema"
Sheila Petty, dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and professor of media studies at University of Regina (Canada).
Monday, February 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Taiwan on the Fault Lines of Postcolonialism/ Postmodernism
Waiting for a Native Theory?: Taiwan on the Fault Lines of Postcolonialism/Postmodernism
Monday, February 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
Second Generation Knowledge and the Politics of Reconciliation in South Africa
A talk by Jonathan Jansen, vice-chancellor and rector, University of the Free State, South Africa
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Ambiance of North Indian Classical Music: Or Why I Shall Probably Never Write on It
By Prof. Ashis Nandy, Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Faulkner as Cannibal / Cannibalizing Faulkner
A lecture by Jacques Pothier, Professor of English at the University of Versailles.
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
4:00 PM
Humanities 348
11th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980 - 2000
In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger (UC Irvine) examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 4357
Documentary Films from Taiwan
You are invited to screenings of two Taiwanese documentary films.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Lenin's Two Bodies: The Hidden Science of Communist Sovereignty
CEES public lecture by Alexei Yurchak, UC Berkeley, Anthropology.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
/s/-aspiration in River Plate Spanish: Tango vs. Rock
A look into the rate of /s/-aspiration in the songs, both tango and rock, performed by Andrés Calamaro with Germán Coloma, CEMA University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Thursday, February 09, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Rolfe Hall 1301
Hugh Masekela
Friday, February 10, 2012
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Royce Hall
Pakistan and Endgame to the War in Afghanistan
By Zahid Hussain, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.
Monday, February 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Egypt: Whither the Revolution?
Joel Beinin, Stanford University and Hazem Kandil, UCLA
Monday, February 13, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
History Conference Room
Muslim Women Reclaiming Identity [Bazyabi Howiyat-e Zan-e Musalman]
A lecture by Tooran Valimorad, Journalist and writer based in Iran
Monday, February 13, 2012
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CANCELLED-The Global Economy, Governance, and the G20/Asia's Role
Dr. Il SaKong (MBA’66, PhD ’69)
Chairman, Korea International Trade Association;
Former Finance Minister, Republic of Korea;
Former Chairman, Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, Republic of Korea
Monday, February 13, 2012
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Korn Convocation Hall
Lecture/Performance of Sundanese (Indonesian) Music
Featuring Ade Suparman, instrumentalist and composer of Sundanese music
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Jan Popper Theater, Room 1200 Schoenberg Music Building
동아시아의 냉전을 다시 생각한다: Re-examining the Cold War in East Asia
Byeong Han Lee, Yonsei University/ Visiting Scholars and Post Doc Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
What Is the History of Disability in the Middle East, and Why Does It Matter?
A lecture by Sara Scalenghe, Loyola University Maryland
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Sacral Authority and Public Spirituality: Inculturation and the Crisis of Korean Protestant Christianity
Hak Joon Lee, Fuller Theological Seminary/Im Colloquium of Korean Christianity
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
164 Royce Hall
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (VIII): Dersu Uzala
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: Margarita Nafpaktitis, UCLA, Young Research Library.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
6:30 PM
11348 Young Research Library
Non Communicable Diseases in Low and Middle Income Countries
Dr. Marina Kosacoff, Under Secretary for Prevention and Risk Control of the Ministry of Health of Argentina
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) Auditorium
Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Vietnamese Catholicism
Colloquium with Professor George Dutton, UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The IDIEZ Project for Nahuatl Language Revitalization
John Sullivan, Professor of Nahua Language and Culture, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library & Archive
Heroin Heroines: Women and the Men Who Work with Them in Afghanistan's Drug Trade
Book talk by Fariba Nawa
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
How to Turn Philosophical Ideas into Diagrams: Chinese Approaches and Insights
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, a talk by Amb. David Scheffer
Please join us for a talk by Amb. David Scheffer, the first US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, about his new book, All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity). This talk is co-sponsored by the UCLA International Human Rights Law Program.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1420
The Euro and the Future of Europe
CEES public lecture by David Andrews, Scripps College, Politics and International Relations.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Cultural Diversity, Education and Civic Participation in Los Angeles
Discussion with Councilmember Eric Garcetti facilitated by UCLA Professors Kevin Terraciano and Abel Valenzuela
Thursday, February 16, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Gregg G. Juarez Community Hall
Law, Human Rights, and Revolution: Transitions in the Wake of the Arab Spring
A two-day symposium
Thursday, February 16, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room 1430
Film Screening: The Secret World of Arrietty
In partnership with Melnitz Movies, the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies presents a sneak preview of "The Secret World of Arrietty."
Thursday, February 16, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Blackness and Nationality: The Case of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban Racial Narrative
Mark A. Sanders, Professor of English, Emory University
Friday, February 17, 2012
12:00 PM
History Conference Room
Law, Human Rights, and Revolution: Transitions in the Wake of the Arab Spring
A two-day symposium
Friday, February 17, 2012
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Room 1430
Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Friday, February 17, 2012
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Israeli Responses to the Arab Spring
Professor Gerald Steinberg speaks on Israel's reaction to the recent events in the Middle East.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
"Expanding Horizons: Pumzi, Science Fiction and African Cinema"
Jude G. Akudinobi, UC Santa Barbara
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Backstage Histories: Orality, Text, and Archive in Latin America's Age of Dirty War and Democratic Transition
A talk by Steve J. Stern, History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
4:00 PM
History Conference Room
Book Talk: NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism
Presented by Tamara Kay, Harvard University. Discussant: Rubén Hernández-León, UCLA Sociology
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Chicano Studies Research Library
A Jewish Voice From Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel A-Levi
Book Launch
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Faculty Center
Nixon in China: A Legacy Revisited - FULL CONFERENCE MULTIMEDIA COVERAGE NOW AVAILABLE!!
A conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing and Shanghai and his meetings with Chairman Mao
Thursday, February 23, 2012
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
UCLA James West Alumni Center
Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
CEES book talk with author Gail Kligman, UCLA, Sociology. Discussant: Arch Getty, UCLA, History.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Israel After 1948: Post-War Reconstruction and State Building
A public talk by Moshe Naor, Visiting Professor of Israel Studies at York University
Thursday, February 23, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
The Arte Wave
Manthia Diawara will provide an analysis of the films of Abderrhamane Sissako and Haroun Mahat Saleh in the context of the production strategies of Arte TV.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Kazakh Music Concert
A performance by the Kazakh Folk Ensemble "Kulansaz."
Friday, February 24, 2012
2:00 PM
Jan Popper Theater
The False Paradigm of Parity and Partition: Revisiting 1967
A lecture by Ilan Pappé, University of Exeter
Friday, February 24, 2012
3:00 PM
Rolfe Hall, Room 1200
English Rakugo with Master Utazo Katsura
English rakugo performance by Master Utazo Katsura.
Friday, February 24, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Broad Art Center 2160E
UCLA Music of Korea Benefit Concert
Sponsored by UCLA United Korean Voice (UKV)
Friday, February 24, 2012
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Wilshire Ebell Theatre
Teaching the Pacific
Teaching the Pacific: A New Initiative by the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Saturday, February 25, 2012
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum
Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women
Exhibit at the UCLA Fowler Museum
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Fowler Museum
CAW: Development and Civil Society
Central Asia Workshop: readings and discussion
Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Diamond Road of India's Golconda Kingdom
By Dr. Robert Simpkins, Lecturer in Anthropology, San Jose State University
Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China: Capitalist Development and Popular Resistance
The colloquium will examine the roots of popular resistance in contemporary China, and consider the way in which it is affecting capitalist development and the political system.
Monday, February 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche 6275
“Framing Biopolitics: Jo Ramaka's Cinema of Power”
Akinwumi Adesokan, Indiana University
Monday, February 27, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Top Israeli Hip Hop Band Hadag Nahash in Residency
An interactive workshop with the band for UCLA students and the public
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Schoenberg Music Building, Room 1343
출판 한류의 가능성: 한미 문학의 출판 교류를 중심으로 - The Potential of the Korean Wave in Publishing: Focusing on the Exchanges of Literature Publishing between Korea and the United States
Young Wan Hong, Will Books Publishing Co./ Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
A Case Study of Mask Dance Drama Students: Capitalizing on Korean Heritage?
By CedarBough T. Saeji, Ph.D. Candidate
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
160 Kaufman Hall
Human Rights in Burma Today
A Talk by Jack Healy, Founder of the Human Rights Action Center
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA School of Law Room 1447
Center for Study of Religion talk by Natasha Heller (UCLA Dept of ALC)
Talk title: Buddhist Recitation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
NELC Seminar Room, 365 Humanities Bldg
The New People in the People’s Republic: Protesters in Housing Disputes in Urban China, 1980-2010
In this project, Professor Qin Shao examines urban protestors and their evolving identities by exploring what was demolished in old neighborhoods and what, besides highrises, has risen in their ruins.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche 10383
Prof. Azat Yeghiazaryan
Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Archaeological Investigations at Magnesia on the Maeander (Turkey)
A public lecture by Orhan Bingol, Ankara University, Archaeology. Cosponsored with the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
5:00 PM
De Cafe, Perloff Hall
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (IX): Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: Gail Kligman, UCLA, Sociology.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
6:30 PM
11348 Young Research Library
Hadag Nahash in Concert at The Colony
Israel's best selling hip-hop act is bringing its show to Hollywood.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
8:00 PM
The Vietnamese Sons of Victor Hugo: The Colonial Cult of the Occult and the Struggle for National Liberation
Colloquium with Professor Janet Hoskins, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Hadag Nahash: Hip-Hop, Cultural Critique, and Social Change
A public talk by Azzan Yadin-Israel, Rutgers University
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA Campus, Bunche Hall 4357
The Last Mughal: The Great Uprising and the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
Book talk by William Dalrymple
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library
Before and After Superflat: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society
A book talk with Adrian Favell, Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, and formerly Associate Professor and Professor of Sociology at UCLA.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
History Conference Room
Maya Lenca Storytelling: Into the Next Millennium
A performance of a Maya-Lenca creation myth by the young chief Leonel Chevez
Thursday, March 01, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Presentation Room
Revolutionary Culture: Vasconcelos, Indians, Photographers, and Calendar Girls
William H. Beezley, History, University of Arizona
Thursday, March 01, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room)
Prof. Azat Yeghiazaryan
Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan
Thursday, March 01, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Senator George Mitchell in Conversation with NPR's Renee Montagne - Turmoil in the Middle East: Its Effect on U.S. Foreign Policy
Join us for the Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace with Senator George Mitchell, in conversation with National Public Radio's Renee Montagne.
Thursday, March 01, 2012
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
UCLA Schoenberg Hall
Japan in the World
A roundtable discussion of Japanese foreign policy and U.S.-Japan relations. Participants will include Professor Mike Thies, UCLA; Christopher Hughes, University of Warwick; Jun Saito, Yale; Mireya Solis, American University; and Toshiaki Miura, Asahi Shinbun. Moderated by Tom Plate, Loyola Marymount University.
Friday, March 02, 2012
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Nibei Center
Film Screening: "40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy"
Film screening and discussion with the filmmaker, Dr. Robert Lemelson
Friday, March 02, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Los Angeles Indonesian Consulate
Migration, Ethnicity, and Urban Inequality in Europe
A two-day international graduate student conference, March 2 - 3. Organized by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Program on International Migration, the Department of Sociology - Sciences Po, and the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences.
Friday, March 02, 2012
9:00 AM
Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake
A photojournalism exhibit co-organized by the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and The Kahoku Shimpo newspaper.
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Time to be announced.
Fowler Museum
Family Jam: Listen, Learn, Jam: A Bow to Japanese Music
A Fowler Event
Sunday, March 04, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum courtyard
Secularism and Gender in Iran of Today
A panel discussion
Sunday, March 04, 2012
3:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
CAW: Tengriism
Readings and Discussion with Kagan Arik, University of Chicago
Monday, March 05, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
New Sites of Government: Voices, Silences, Exits and Re-entries in Oaxacalifornia
Lars Ove Trans, PhD fellow at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
Monday, March 05, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines Hall 144
Shamanism and Healing in the Culture of the Kazakhs
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Kagan Arik, University of Chicago.
Monday, March 05, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Bloodlands: The Holocaust as European History
The "1939" Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies by Timothy Snyder, Yale University. Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies and The "1939" Club. Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of History, UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, and the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Monday, March 05, 2012
4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
China and the U.S. West Coast: Golden Business Opportunities
Chairman Wei Jiafu lays out a "roadmap" for capitalizing on the golden opportunities of doing business in China and attracting investment from China to the West Coast, offering valuable insights into what makes business work in China and how the West can take advantage of the expanding markets and investment opportunities both there and in the U.S.
Monday, March 05, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy
An exhibition and reading to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the bombing of the historic heart of Baghdad’s intellectual and literary community.
Monday, March 05, 2012
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Powell Library Building Rotunda
African Women in War Zones: A Feminist Perspective
Dr. Amina Mama, University of California, Davis
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Race for Empire
A book talk by Takashi Fujitani, director, Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Humanities Bldg. Room 193
Transformation of the Religious Academia in Iran under the “Islamic” State
A lecture by Kenji Kuroda, UCLA
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Prof. Azat Yeghiazaryan
Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Shamanism, Tourism, and Secrecy: Revelation and Concealment in Siberut, Western Indonesia
Colloquium with Christian S. Hammons, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Revolution, Reform and Repression: Challenges to Women’s Inclusion and Equality in the Middle East & North Africa
The 1st Annual International Women’s Day Lecture by Sussan Tahmasebi,
Million Signature Campaign founding member &
Recipient of HRW’s Alison Des Forges Human Rights Award
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
4:00 PM
Young Research Library
Bruna Surfistinha ("Little Surfer Girl") (2011)
A film inspired by true events, with a special appearance by director Marcus Baldini
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
The Taste of Ashes: Hauntedness after Communism in Eastern Europe
A CEES Public Lecture by Marci Shore, Yale University, History. Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies.
Thursday, March 08, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Transnational Solidarities: Central American Mobilization in the Isthmus and Beyond
Thursday, March 08, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
YRL Presentation Room
Prof. Azat Yeghiazaryan
Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan
Thursday, March 08, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
LA Premiere: LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, 2011)
Thursday, March 08, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Report Cards, Papeles, and La Carta de Responsibilidad: The Circulation of Papers in the Everyday Lives of Mixed-status Families
Migration Studies Group presents a talk by Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Ph.D., Rutgers Graduate School of Education-
Friday, March 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Moore Hall 3340
New Visions: The Sketch of Mujo
A documentary by filmmaker Omiya Koichi presented by Melnitz Movies and the Paul. I and Hisako Terasaki Center as part of the film series "New Visions of Japanese Cinema"
Friday, March 09, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Symposium: Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake
A half-day symposium with experts on the recovery and reconstruction of Japan. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Moving Forward: Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Fowler Museum
Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, The Shahnameh
A lecture by Mahmoud Omidsalar, California State University, Los Angeles
Sunday, March 11, 2012
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Tragic Fate of a Floodplain: What Happened to Certain Schemes in the Brahmaputra River Valley?
By Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Yale Agrarian Studies Program, Associate Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India
Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tragic Fate of a Floodplain: What Happened to Certain Schemes in the Brahmaputra River Valley?
By Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Yale Agrarian Studies Program, Associate Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India
Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, The Shahnameh
A lecture by Mahmoud Omidsalar, California State University, Los Angeles
Monday, March 12, 2012
3:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Mario Poceski
“Literary Remaking and Historical Transformation of the Religious Persona(s) of Chan Teacher Mazu Daoyi," a talk by Prof. Mario Poceski (University of Florida)
Monday, March 12, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
Azmari in Hollywood
Filmmaker Leelai Demoz will speak about his experiences as an actor, producer and director. Azmari is an Amharic word for troubadour or storyteller. It is also the name of his production company.
Monday, March 12, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche
"Dissolving Localities" - A multimedia portrait of Jerusalem by Emmanuel Witzthum
An audio/visual project in which the sights and sounds of daily life in Jerusalem are transformed into a work of art.
Monday, March 12, 2012
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
Broad Art Center
북한체제의 변화를 위한 정보기술의 활용 Use of Information Technology (IT) for Change in North Korea
Sang Hyuk Yoon, Ministry of Unification/Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
‘Progressive Possibilities in Occupant Urbanism’s Contesting Properties
By Prof. Solomon Benjamin, Manipal University, School of Architecture and Planning
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 BUNCHE HALL
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (X): Freedom is Paradise
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: Michael Heim, UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
6:30 PM
11348 Young Research Library
Policing Protest: "Restrictions on Street Demonstrations in Japan"
A lecture by Lawrence Repeta—Professor, Meiji University Faculty of Law, Tokyo
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
The 1988 Seoul Olympics and Its Significance in International Politics and the Korean Economy
Man Lip Choy, Pierre de Coubertin laureate / The Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Lecture for Contemporary Korean Studies
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Main Conference Room, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
The Use of Japanese Traditional Theater Aesthetics and Techniques in Contemporary Acting and Directing
A lecture-demonstration by Professor Zvika Serper, PhD, including live performance and video.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
7:00 PM
Nibei Foundation
Feature Film "Gei Oni" (Valley of Fortitude) (2010)
Film screening and conversation with Director Dan Wolman
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Hillel at UCLA, Spiegel Auditorium (3rd floor)
Une et Indivisible? Transcolonial Black Politics in the Wake of the Haitian Revolution
A talk by Sara E. Johnson, Associate Professor of Literature at UC San Diego
Friday, March 16, 2012
3:00 PM
History Conference Room
An Alternate Modernity: Twentieth-Century Balinese Painting
Illustrated lecture by Professor Adrian Vickers, Director, Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology, The University of Sydney.
Monday, March 19, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Brown Auditorium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
An Event Honoring Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
5:00 PM
School of Law Room 1314
Sneak Preview: THE RAID (2011)
Award-winning film featuring silat - an Indonesian martial art
Thursday, March 22, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Workshop on Japanese Newspaper Media—Yomidas Rekishikan
Make plans now to attend a workshop on Yomidas Rekishikan, an online archive of Japan’s largest newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun, on Friday, March 23.
Friday, March 23, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
Noa (Achinoam Nini) in Concert - The Israeli Songbook
Israel’s prolific recording artist, Noa (known in her home country by her given name Achinoam Nini), brings her soulful voice and lyrical sensibility to UCLA's Royce Hall.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
CAW: "Democracy@Large"
Film screening of "Democracy at Large" (2006)
Monday, April 02, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
A Discussion with Ambassador Ma on China's Development and Sino-U.S. Relations
Ambassador Ma Zhengang will briefly introduce China’s development goals and discuss current important issues in China’s foreign policies, particularly those related to Asia and Sino-US relations. Ambassador Ma’s speech will be followed by a Q & A session.
Monday, April 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce Hall, Room 243
Designated Drivers: State Capitalism in China’s Auto Industry
Are the Chinese breaking the rules of capitalism, or are they re-writing them?
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce Hall Room 243
Cham Manuscripts in Viet Nam
Lecture by Thanh Phan, Center for Vietnamese & Southeast Asian Studies, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
O Bem Amado ("The Well Beloved One") (2010)
A 2010 Brazilian dramatic-comedy directed by Guel Arraes
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
The Eurozone Crisis
A directed discussion with Barry Eichengreen, UC Berkeley, Economics and Political Science. Discussants: Ivan Berend, UCLA, History and Edward Leamer, UCLA, Economics.
Thursday, April 05, 2012
3:00 PM
11360 Young Research Library
International Career Panel
Please join us for the 2012 international career panel with panelists Justin Connolly, Dalia Dassa Kaye & John Maris. The Burkle Center and the Undergraduate International Relations Society (UIRS) are co-sponsoring this panel to provide insight about various fields and professions in the international arena, and to guide students on how to best prepare for international careers. Alexandra Lieben, Deputy Director of the UCLA Burkle Center, will moderate the discussion.
Thursday, April 05, 2012
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall
History and Repetition Today
A keynote lecture featuring Kojin Karatani as part of a three day Nikkei Bruin conference on "Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan." Organized by Torquil Duthie, Seiji Lippit, and William Marotti, UCLA.
Thursday, April 05, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
A Symposium on Blackness, Germany, and the Concept of Race
Friday, April 6, 2012
1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
UCLA Faculty Center
Friday, April 06, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Democratic Development in East and Southeast Asia
Colloquium with Prof. Benjamin Reilly, Senior Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Friday, April 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
"Racial Profiling, the War on Drugs, and Mass Deportation to the Caribbean"
Talk by Tanya Golash-Boza (University of Kansas)
Friday, April 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279, UCLA
The UCLA Program on International Migration Presents: Racial Profiling, the War on Drugs, and Mass Deportation to the Caribbean
Tanya Golash-Boza, University of Kansas
Friday, April 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
279 Haines Hall (UCLA)
Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan: Literature, Art and Thought
A look at "Literature, Art and Thought" in day two of three in the Nikkei Bruin conference on "Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan." Organized by Torquil Duthie, Seiji Lippit, and William Marotti, UCLA.
Friday, April 06, 2012
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall Rm 306
Gallery Tour of "Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women"
Roy Hamilton, Sr. Curator for Asian and Pacific Collections, UCLA Fowler Museum
Saturday, April 07, 2012
10:45 AM
UCLA Fowler Museum
Using Films in Chinese Language Teaching
Saturday, April 07, 2012
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan: Japanese Arts and Globalizations
A look at Japanese Arts and Globalizations and day three of three in the Nikkei Bruin Conference on "Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan." Organized by Torquil Duthie, Seiji Lippit, and William Marotti, UCLA. Special thanks to the Japanese Arts and Globalizations MRG.
Saturday, April 07, 2012
9:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall Rm. 306
University Buddhist Association
Day of Mindfulness at UCLA hosted by Deer Park Monastery monks in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Wake Up LA, and the University Buddhist Association
Sunday, April 08, 2012
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Indonesian Culture Night 2012 -- "I Wish"
Indonesian music, dance, food, and drama featuring the Indonesian Bruin Student Association
Sunday, April 08, 2012
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
University Buddhist Association
Meditation Flash Mob Style
Sunday, April 08, 2012
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Santa Monica Beach, Palisades Park, Wilshire Blvd & Ocean Ave
"Bureaucracy and Gender: Memoirs of ICS in Independent India”
By Prof. Inderpal Grewal, Yale
Monday, April 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Nineteenth-Century Persian Travelogues and the Construction of Political Space
Readings and discussion with Christine Noelle-Karimi, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Monday, April 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Ancient Buddhist Voyaging from India and Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia
Lecture by Prof. David Blundell, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Monday, April 09, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Concepts of Statehood and Territoriality in Early Modern Afghanistan
Afghan Studies Lecture by Christine Nölle-Karimi, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library
The Potential Institutional Change in China
Dr. Yeliang Xia, Professor of Economics at Peking University and visiting professor at UCLA, examines the crises and challenges facing China.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce 243
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (XI): Prisoner of the Mountains
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: Michael Heim, UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
6:30 PM
11348 Young Research Library
Media Hope and African Capacity
A lecture by Farah Chaudhry and Chip Duncan
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Migracion, Cultura y Lenguaje: Una Perspectiva Zoogochense
Filemón Beltrán Morales
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
University of California, Los Angeles
Establishing Roots and Navigating New Terrains: Central Americans in the U.S.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
YRL Presentation Room
Text in Context: A Teach-in on President Yudof's Letter
Commentary by Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Thursday, April 12, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
6725 Bunche Hall
Rethinking Armenian History through Paradigms of Interaction: The Armenian Experience with Islam as Case Study
A lecture by Seta Dadoyan, Yerevan State University
Thursday, April 12, 2012
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Numata Colloquium Series Talk by James Benn
“Problems in the Study of Later Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha," a talk by Prof. James Benn (McMaster University)
Friday, April 13, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
Kids in the Courtyard: Lanterns for Japan
A Fowler Event
Sunday, April 15, 2012
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum courtyard
African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks
A lecture by Jonathan Noble, University of the Witwatersrand.
Monday, April 16, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China: From the 1950s to Today
A photo exhibit of 130 pictures that document the changing lives of ordinary Chinese people in the last six decades.
Monday, April 16, 2012
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
Music and Eroticism in Kunqu
An engaging discussion with Professor Joseph Lam, from the University of Michigan. A musicologist and sinologist, Lam specializes in the music and culture of Southern Song (1127-1275), Ming (1368-1644), and modern China (1900 to present).
Monday, April 16, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Schoenberg Hall, Room 1420
Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security - FULL MULTIMEDIA COVERAGE NOW AVAILABLE!!
Please join us for a lecture by Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security and the former governor of Arizona.
Monday, April 16, 2012
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
현대시의 여성과 생태 문제 (The Issue of Women and Ecology in Modern Poetry)
Hyeong Kwon Lee, Chungnam National University/ Visiting Scholars and Post-Doc Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
How do you convince Palestinian, Jewish-Israeli and Arab/Palestinian-Israeli Children That the "Army", "Terrorists" and the "Police" Can Live Together Peacefully? A Critical Analysis of the Reception of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street
Dr. Yael Warshel, a visiting scholar at UCLA, speaks about her book: How Do You Convince Palestinian, Jewish‐Israeli and Arab/Palestinian‐Israeli Children that the “Army”, “Terrorists” and the “Police” Can Live Together Peacefully?
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Bunche Hall
"Restoring Historicity to Shinto: The Case of Ise"
Talk by Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo)
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Pawkar Raymi
UCLA 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
Globant: Innovating from Latin America to the World
A great success story of entrepreneurship in an emerging economy
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Business
The Challenge of Covering a Fast-Changing China
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Presentation Room 11348 YRL
Guest Speaker Series: Statistical Applications of Spherically-Invariant Random Processes to Modeling of Wireless Fading Channels
Guest Speaker: Distinguished Professor Kung Yao, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA
Thursday, April 19, 2012
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Supporting Collaborative Research: Texts, Tablets and Tunes
CEES public lecture by Marina Jirotka, Reader in Requirements Engineering, Computing Department and Associate Director of the eResearch Centre, University of Oxford, UK.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
What to do with an International Institute education?
A workshop exploring some of the career options available to those with a degree from the International Institute
Thursday, April 19, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10367
The Modern Recovery of the Ismaili Legacy and Its Importance for the Study of the Fatimids
A lecture by Paul Walker, University of Chicago
Thursday, April 19, 2012
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Emerging Cultural and Creative Industries in the Greater China Economy: The Cross-strait Co-opetitive Strategy
Thursday, April 19, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10367
"Making Democracy Work from Abroad? The Political Consequences of Migrant Cross-Border Participation and Democratic Governance in Mexico"
Talk by Lauren Duquette (UC Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA)
Friday, April 20, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279, UCLA
UCLA Library Writer Series: The Indian Dr. Seuss
by Anushka Ravishankar
Friday, April 20, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
How much Arabic is in my poems: A Poetry reading interspersed by an essay on poetics and politics
Poet Maged Zaher
Friday, April 20, 2012
2:30 PM
11377 Bunche
A Night with Abbas Maroufi, author of The Symphony of the Dead
Saturday, April 21, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
Pearls of the Snowlands: Tibetan Buddhist Painting from the Derge Parkhang at Fowler Museum
Pearls of the Snowlands: Tibetan Buddhist Painting from the Derge Parkhang at the Fowler Museum, 4/22-10/14
Sunday, April 22, 2012
12:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
Vietnamese Cinema Symposium 6 – “Shifting Scenes”
Mini film festival showcasing several short films, plus panel discussion with filmmakers.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Iran and the Arab Spring: What is next?
A lecture by Mohamad Hossein Hafezian, Montclair State University
Sunday, April 22, 2012
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Increasing Access to Family Planning in Rural Ethiopia
Dr. Ndola Prata, UC Berkeley
Monday, April 23, 2012
1:00 PM
Gonda Building, 1st floor conference room
CAW: Lanuage and Identity Practice Presentations
Talks for Language and Identity in Central Asia by UCLA Grad Students
Monday, April 23, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Iran and the Arab Spring: What is next?
A lecture by Mohamad Hossein Hafezian, Montclair State University
Monday, April 23, 2012
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Internet and Social Mobilization in China
Monday, April 23, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce 243
Urban Stories of Brazil
A discussion with and reading of Luiz Rufato, UC Berkeley distinguished Brazilian writer in residence.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA Lydeen Library
Multitasking in the Middle East: Obama and the Challenges of Israel, Iran, and the Arab Awakening - a talk by Jeremy Ben-Ami, President of J-Street
Please join us for a talk with the President & Founder of J-Street, Jeremy Ben-Ami. This event is co-sponsored by Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
1430 Law School
CISA Annual Lecture: "Is There an Indian Style of Corruption?"
By Dr. Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Conference Room 11360
Living History with Professor James L. Gelvin
Gelvin is the author of the recently released book "The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know"
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (XII): Burnt by the Sun
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: Margarita Nafpaktitis, UCLA, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
6:30 PM
11360 Young Research Library
Beautiful Resistance: Defying the Occupation Through the Theater and the Arts
Talk by Abdelfattah Abusrour, Al-Rowwad Cultural & Theatre Center
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Downstairs Lounge at the Faculty Center
International Online Piracy Panel
Please join us for an International Online Piracy panel with panelists Noam Dromi, Dr. John Richardson Jr., and Danielle Van Lier. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, The Generation and the Undergraduate International Relations Society (UIRS).
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, room 6275
Human Rights for Afghan Women
Fowler OutSpoken Conversation: Human Rights for Afghan Women
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
7:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum auditorium
Our School
Film screening presented by the UCLA Television and Film Archive's Archive Documentary Spotlight, the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies and UCLA International Institute's Human Rights Film Series, in collaboration with SEE Fest (South East European Film Festival) and the Consulate General of Switzerland in Los Angeles.
In person: filmmaker Mona Nicoara.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
Putin's Russia : What is in the Cards?
CEES public lecture by Yevgenia Albats, Editor-in-Chief, The New Times (Novoye Vremya).
Thursday, April 26, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
“Good to Eat, Good to Think: Changing Food Practices in India”
By Professor Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India
Thursday, April 26, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
352 Haines Hall
The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
A lecture by Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia
Thursday, April 26, 2012
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Islam and the Making of the Public Space
Mamadou Diouf delivers the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Young Research Library Presentation
Film Screening: I Wish
Presented by Melnitz Movies and the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies as part of the New Visions of Japanese Cinema film series.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
A Conversation with Acclaimed Israeli-Arab Writer Sayed Kashua
The award-winning novelist, columnist, and TV writer discusses his latest novel "Second Person Singular" and other topics of Israeli society and culture
Thursday, April 26, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Dodd Hall Auditorium, Room 147
Indonesia in Global and Transnational Perspective
UCLA Indonesian Studies Conference 2012, Day 1
Friday, April 27, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Indonesia in Global and Transnational Perspective
UCLA Indonesian Studies Conference 2012, Day 2
Saturday, April 28, 2012
9:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Sayyid Zia, the First or Second Man of the Coup?
A lecture by Sadreddin Elahi, Independent Journalist and Writer
Sunday, April 29, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
JSPS Fellowship Program Information Session
Interested in a career in global academia? Want to do research in Japan but have no funding? Looking for scholarly activities in the summer?
Monday, April 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Young Research Library Presentation Room
Rebellion and Repression on the Arabian Peninsula
A colloquium with Tariq Ali, editor, New Left Review; Fred Lawson, Mills College
Monday, April 30, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Bicho de Sete Cabeças ("Brainstorm") (2001)
A 2001 Brazilian drama film directed by Laís Bodanzky
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Third Annual UCLA JRI Mini-Symposium
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA, May 2-3 2012
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
8:00 AM - 6:30 PM
California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
CEES book talk with author Carol Silverman, University of Oregon, Anthropology. Discussant: Timothy Rice, UCLA, Ethnomusicology/Herb Alpert School of Music.
Thursday, May 03, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Professor Joseph Hankins "Wounded Futures: Pain and the Possibilities of Solidarity"
Talk by Professor Joseph Hankins (Anthropology, U.C. San Diego).
Thursday, May 03, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
UCLA Haines Hall
South-East European Film Festival
May 3 - May 7 at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. **May 7 closing night: James Bridges Theatre, UCLA campus, Westwood**
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
A lecture and book signing with Isaiah Washington
The award-winning actor, father and philanthropist will share his story of ancestral discovery and his new book "A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life"
Thursday, May 03, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
María en tierra de nadie (Maria in No Man's Land)
A documentary regarding the parallel immigration stories of three Salvadoran women on a journey through Mexico
Thursday, May 03, 2012
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Bunche 10367
Militarization, human rights and threats to justice in Guatemala
Iduvina Hernández, journalist and activist
Friday, May 04, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library
Book talk and discussion of "Los Migrantes Que No Importan: En el Camino con los Centroamericanos Indocumentados en México"
Book by Oscar Martínez, Salvadoran journalist and coordinator of the project En el Camino
Discussants: Ruben Hernandez-Leon (Sociology, UCLA) & Leisy Abrego (Chicano and Chicano Studies, UCLA)
Friday, May 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Annual Dissertation Workshop
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies invites doctoral candidates to its 14th
annual Dissertation Workshop to be held May 4-6, 2012 at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
Friday, May 04, 2012
Time to be announced.
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Language and Identity in Central Asia
A two-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia
Friday, May 04, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Japanese Technology Innovation: A Vision for the Future
Keynote Lecture: 1pm - 3pm
Panel Discussion: 3:30pm - 5pm
Reception: 5pm - 7pm
Saturday, May 05, 2012
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Connecting Hollywood and South-East Europe
2012 South-East European Film Festival Business Conference. Registration required.
Saturday, May 05, 2012
10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Annual Dissertation Workshop
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies invites doctoral candidates to its 14th
annual Dissertation Workshop to be held May 4-6, 2012 at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
Saturday, May 05, 2012
Time to be announced.
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Language and Identity in Central Asia (Day 2)
A two-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia
Saturday, May 05, 2012
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Annual Dissertation Workshop
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies invites doctoral candidates to its 14th
annual Dissertation Workshop to be held May 4-6, 2012 at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Time to be announced.
Center for Near Eastern Studies
From Pashas to Pariahs: The Arrogant Years of Egypt's Jewry
A lecture by Lucette Lagnado, Author, Reporter
Sunday, May 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Faculty Center
Exploring the Meanings of Jewish Sovereignty - A two-day International Conference
First day of a two-day conference examining the impact of Jewish sovereignty - 60+ years after the creation of the state of Israel - on Jewish life and culture, and relations between the Jewish and the non-Jewish worlds.
Sunday, May 06, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 314
Urban Renewal and its Discontents: IBA 1984/87
A lecture by Esra Akcan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Monday, May 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
CAW: Central Asia: The Geopolitical Perspective
Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, May 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche
"Queer Selfhoods in the Shadow of Neoliberal Urbanism"
Lunchtime Talk by Jisha Menon, Department of Drama, Stanford University
Monday, May 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Theater artists speak on their work on the U.S. Silent War on Laos
Presentation by Leilani Chan and Ova Saopeng of TeAda Productions
Monday, May 07, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall 208
The Black Mediterranean: Migration and Revolution in the Global Millennium
A public lecture by Alessandra Di Maio, University of Palermo, English.
Monday, May 07, 2012
4:00 PM
236 Royce Hall
Taro Igarashi
A lecture by Taro Igarashi, a professor at Tohoku University and architectural critic in Sendai, Japan
Monday, May 07, 2012
6:30 PM
Perloff Hall, Decafé
"No Woman, No Cry"
Join us for a special screening of "No Woman, No Cry," a documentary film on maternal health, directed and produced by Christy Turlington Burns. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and a small reception. Admission is free and open to the public.
Monday, May 07, 2012
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
UCLA Tamkin Auditorium, Ronald Reagan Medical Center
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A free exhibit featuring photographs by Noritaka Minami from April 30–June 1
Monday, May 07, 2012
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Perloff Gallery
Exploring the Meanings of Jewish Sovereignty
Second day of the Exploring the Meanings of Jewish Sovereignty conference.
Monday, May 07, 2012
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 314
Modernity’s Rage: Youth Culture, Religion and Rural Reconstruction in Colonial Korea
By Professor Albert L. Park, Claremont McKenna College
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
미국과 한국 지방정부의 재정위기 사례 및 시사점: The Cases of Financial Crisis of the Local Governments in the US and Korea and its Implications
By Jay Hyun Park, Deputy Governor of Gyeongnam Province
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Making Citizens and Contesting Citizenship in Late Ottoman Palestine
A lecture by Michelle Campos, University of Florida
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (XIII): Brother
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: Michael Heim, UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
6:30 PM
11348 Young Research Library
The Politics of the Un-Political: Religious Protest in Contemporary Vietnam
Colloquium with Lan Chu, Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
The Restructuring of the Steel Industry in Mexico: The Impact on Workers
A lecture by Dr. Eleocadio Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
Complex Compatriots: Jews in Post-Vichy Algeria
A lecture by Sung Choi, UCLA
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tibetan Buddhism beyond Tibet
Leading scholars on Tibetan history and Buddhism join in a panel discussion on the meanings and impacts of Tibetan Buddhism in the histories of Asia and the contemporary world.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
The Next Convergence: Developing Country Growth & the Transformation of the Global Economy - 2012 Harberger lecture by Nobel Laureate Michael Spence
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations proudly presents the 2012 Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development featuring Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate and professor of Economics at New York University.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Anderson Entrepreneurs Hall, Room C-315
POSTPONED UNTIL Fall 2012 - Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, the Opposition and the End of East German Socialism
CEES book talk with author Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago, Sociology. Discussant: TBA.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
12:00 PM
TBA
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
As Southern California’s largest and most prestigious film festival of its kind, the LAAPFF launches the celebration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month through this year’s slate of 189 films arranged in over 60 program screening events.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Time to be announced.
CGV Cinemas
West Coast Premiere Film Screening - Old Dog
Friday, May 11, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Planet of Snail
Co-presented by the Center for Korean Studies. This documentary video is part of the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
CGV Cinemas 2
Panel Voces de Migración I
Recuperación de la memoria de la migración Mexicana a Estados Unidos
Saturday, May 12, 2012
4:00 PM
Salón Alfonso Reyes
Commemoration of the May 1998 Tragedy in Indonesia
Commemoration includes a lecture by Prof. Baskara T. Wardaya, Universitas Sanata Dharma
Saturday, May 12, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
509 E. Arrow Highway, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Panel Voces de Migración II
El registro de la memoria; Entrevista con José Huizar
Sunday, May 13, 2012
11:00 AM
Salón Alfonso Reyes
Panel Voces de Migración III
Memoria de la migración, voces de Temaca
Sunday, May 13, 2012
12:00 PM
Salón Alfonso Reyes
Human Rights in North Korea
A Symposium Co-hosted by the National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea
Monday, May 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Main Conference Room
Canada's approach to sustainability
Presented by Consul General of Canada David Fransen
Monday, May 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
La Kretz Hall, Suite 300
Addressing Conflicts in a Changed World
A presentation and discussion forum with Michael van Walt, Executive President, Kreddha Foundation.
Monday, May 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Market Insights and Political Perspectives of Latin American Leaders
2012 Latin American Business Conference
Monday, May 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Anderson School of Management
Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas
Book talk with author Allison Hedge Coke
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Conference Room
“One and Many”: Diversity of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
Colloquium with Muhamad Ali, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
Civility and Sectarianism in Syria: What Now?
A lecture by Lindsay Gifford, UCLA
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Reducing Maternal Mortality in Africa: What We Know
Dr. Grace Kodindo, Columbia University
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
1:00 PM
School of Public Health (SPH), 17-256 CHS
The Journey Home: A Freed Mulatto Brazilian Priest and his Mission to Dahomey
Junia Ferreira Furtado
Professor in Early Modern History
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche 10383
A French Sex Scandal that Could Only Start in the U.S.
A CEES faculty lecture by Abigail Saguy, UCLA, Sociology.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Student workshop: Writing a winning application
Workshop for International Institute students applying to jobs/internships and graduate school
Thursday, May 17, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10367
China Undisciplined Graduate Student Conference Day 1
The Fifth Annual UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Chinese Studies
Friday, May 18, 2012
12:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Bunche Hall 6275, 6th Floor History Dept Conference Room
The Tigers of Jinbah: Smugglers and border entrepreneurs in the southern West Bank and Israel (2005-2010)
A talk by Cedric Parizot, CNRS and Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix en Provence
Friday, May 18, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Findings from the George Washington University Coptic Diaspora Survey: Implications for Egypt and its Development
A panel presentation
Friday, May 18, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Rethinking Food Provisioning in Complex Societies and Urban Centers: If Animal Bones Could Only Talk
A lecture by Levent Atici, University of Nevada
Friday, May 18, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A222 Fowler Museum
AAA Conference: "The Business of Africa"
The African Activist Association at UCLA presents the 7th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium. The keynote address on Friday, May 18 features H.E James Kimonyo, Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda to the United States. The Saturday, May 19th program will consist of panel discussions and presentations on the Business of Africa in its manifold manifestations.
Friday, May 18, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Kerckhoff State Rooms
Department of Ethnomusicology: Music of China Spring Concert
Start of the 2012 Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz
Friday, May 18, 2012
8:15 PM - 9:30 PM
Schoenberg Music Hall
AAA Conference: "The Business of Africa"
Seventh Annual Conference hosted by the African Activist Association.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall 306
China Undisciplined Graduate Student Conference Day 2
The Fifth Annual UCLA Graduate Student Conference on Chinese Studies
Saturday, May 19, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, 6th Floor History Dept Conference Room
Freedom of the Press in Latin America
A symposium that will bring together media professionals from Latin America and the United States who cover organized crime, corruption, and drug trafficking in Latin America to share and discuss their experiences.
Monday, May 21, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
California Room
"Urban India and Planning for Sustainable Cities"
Lunchtime Talk by Bhargav Adhvaryu, Fulbright Visiting Professor, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA
Monday, May 21, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Marriage and Mourning at the Edge of the Jewish World: Ritual Practice among Central Asia's Bukharan Jews
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Alanna E. Cooper, PhD
Monday, May 21, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Globalization and Brazilian Visual Culture
A colloquium with Telmo Estevinho (PUC-SP/UFMT), Maria Helena Costa (UFRN), and Sonia Marques (UFPB).
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
기업범죄 규제수단으로서의 ‘준법감시 프로그램’ 비교 A Comparative Study on Compliance Program as a Regulation of Corporate Crimes
By Dong Kun Kang, Ministry of Justice
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Great Recession and Its Aftermath: A Global Overview - a talk by Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University
Please join us for a talk by Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University’s Department of Government.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, room 4357
Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962: The Baha’i Faith in Africa
Anthony A Lee, Ph.D. (2007) is General Editor of the academic series Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions (Kalimat Press) and has published in African history and African American history.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (XIV): The Return
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: Margarita Nafpaktitis, UCLA, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
6:30 PM
11348 Young Research Library
BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo, 1990)
Movie Screening of Hong Kong classic "BULLET IN THE HEAD"
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
Female Genital Cutting in Africa: Public Health Implications
Dr. Nawal Nour, Harvard University
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
1:00 PM
School of Public Health (SPH), 17-256 CHS
After the Earthquake: Popular Memory as History in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Watson Denis, Université d'Etat d'Haiti;
Teresa Barnet, UCLA;
Robin Derby, UCLA
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
12:00 PM
History Conference Room
2011-2012 Faucett Family Research Fellowship Student Panel
The purpose of the Faucett Graduate Student Research Panel is to present research findings and promote the exchange of ideas among students and participants working in various disciplines.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche 10383
The Dynamics of Peacebuilding Success and Failure in Bosnia
CEES faculty lecture by Adam Moore, UCLA, Geography.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The End of Plantation? Coffee and Land Inequality in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo
Renato Perim Colistete, Professor of Economics, FEA-USP
Thursday, May 24, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche 10383
2012 Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies
Structures of Personalized Power in the Modern Middle East: Presidents, Prime Ministers and Party Bosses, A two-day conference honoring the scholarship of Professor Roger Owen
Thursday, May 24, 2012
3:30 PM
Sequoia Room, Faculty Center
Reciprocity and/as Vengeance: Art and Cultural Patronage in the Philippines during the Marcos Years
Book talk by Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut, Author of Institutions and Icons of Patronage: Arts and Culture in the Philippines during the Marcos Years, 1965-1986
Thursday, May 24, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
HARD BOILED (John Woo, 1992)
Movie Screening of Hong Kong classic "HARD BOILED"
Thursday, May 24, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
Transnational Incest: Mexican Families, Sexual Violence, and Migration
A lecture by Gloria González-López, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Friday, May 25, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 144
2012 Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies
Structures of Personalized Power in the Modern Middle East: Presidents, Prime Ministers and Party Bosses, A two-day conference honoring the scholarship of Professor Roger Owen
Friday, May 25, 2012
9:45 AM - 6:00 PM
Sequoia Room, Faculty Center
Resentment of the Iranian Intelligentsia
An approach to the psychological complexities of the Third-Worldly intelligentsia, with emphasis on its Iranian case, on the basis of the Nietzsche and Max Scheler’s analysis of the social-psychological phenomenon of “Resentment”
Sunday, May 27, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
The Ethos of Rice : The Ethics behind the Traditional Culture of Rice and its Production in the Philippines
Colloquium with Prof. Jeannette L. Yasol-Naval, Department of Philosophy, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
3400 Boelter Hall
Chinese independent film screening - No.89 Shimen Road
TFT student group ELEVATE will screen Chinese independent film No. 89 Shimen Road with a post-screening Q&A with director Shu Haolun.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall Design Room
Within the Shadowz of Belize: A Green Day Arises
A poetry reading and film screening by Belizean artist Clyde Gillett
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
1:00 PM
Presentation Room
It Takes Two To Tango: The Question of the Malvinas Islands and the Situation in the South Atlantic
A presentation by Jorge Martín Arturo Argüello, Ambassador of Argentina to the United States
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Hacienda Room
Recent Discourse on Indonesia’s 1965 Tragedy
Colloquium with Prof. Baskara T. Wardaya, S.J., Sanata Dharma University and Gadjah Mada University
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Queering International Marriages
Rhacel Parreñas- Sociology, University of Southern California
Thursday, May 31, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Haines 352
Marina Goldovskaya Documentary Retrospective Series (IV)
Screening of "The House on Arbat Street" and "Lucky to be Born in Russia" followed by discussion with filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, UCLA, Film and Television. Moderator: Shannon Kelley, Head of Public Programs, UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
7:00 PM
A51 Humanities Building
Roads Taken: Peddlers and the Modern Jewish Migration
Talk by Hasia R. Diner (History, New York University)
Friday, June 01, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279, UCLA
New Visions of Japan Annual Forum (please RSVP)
The 2011 - 2012 academic year marks the 20th Anniversary of the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies. To commemorate this milestone, the Terasaki Center will be holding its first ever annual forum, New Visions of Japan. Please join us for this special event on Friday, June 1, 2012 at 4 PM.
Friday, June 01, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2012: India and Bali
Music and dance from India and from Bali, Indonesia performed by UCLA students.
Friday, June 01, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Schoenberg Auditorium
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2012: Music of Korea Ensemble
DongSuk Kim, Director
Saturday, June 02, 2012
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
"Emergence and the Bengali Muslim Subject"
By Naveeda Khan, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Monday, June 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Contemporary Urbanization in Mongolia and Eastern Tibet
Led by Rick Miller and Nancy Levine
Monday, June 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Gender Violence: Lessons from the experience of an Argentine Judge.
A presentation by Monica Bravo Mayuli, Second Court District Judge, Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Monday, June 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room 1337
미디어 빅뱅 시대, 네트워크 TV의 채널 전략 A Study on the Channel Strategy of Network TV in Media Big Bang
By Kyung Taik Han, KBS
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
New Visions of Japan: Disaster and Recovery
An exhibit that has been installed at the Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery. The exhibition will remain on view through August 31.
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Charles E. Young Research Library
Soviet History through Soviet Film Series (XV): Night Watch
CEES film screening and discussion. Discussant: Margarita Nafpaktitis, UCLA, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
6:30 PM
11348 Young Research Library
Onde está a Felicidade? ("Where is Happiness?") (2011)
A 2011 Brazilian comedy film directed by Carlos Alberto Riccelli
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
My Research on Mexican Music from the Colonial Period to the Present
A lecture by Jose Antonio Robles Cahero, CENIDIM
Thursday, June 07, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room 1200 (Jan Popper Theater)
New Visions: ABOUT THE PINK SKY (Keiichi Kobayashi, 2011)
A film; part of the New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Thursday, June 07, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Where Does This Writer Belong?
A lecture on the international reception of Machado de Assis
Monday, June 11, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
4302 Rolfe Hall
Family Jam: Raga and Tala: Music of India
A Fowler Event
Sunday, June 17, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum, UCLA
National Association of Professors of Hebrew
2012 International Conference at UCLA.
The 2012 International Conference of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew will be held from June 25-27, 2012.
A Special Panel Discussion is scheduled on June 27th, from 4-5:45 pm in Royce 314.
This event is not open to the public because of space consideration. If you have any questions, please e-mail Prof. Lev Hakak, chair for the NAPH conference, at hakak@humnet.ucla.edu
Monday, June 25, 2012 - 12:45 AM
Royce 314
PKU Welcomes UCLA Students, June 25th
Monday, June 25, 2012
Peking University
Making Sense of It All: Understandings of War in Japanese Film, 1945-1974
Presented by By Erik Ropers University of Melbourne on Monday, July 2, 2012, at 11:00 a.m. at UCLA Bunche Hall 11377.
Monday, July 02, 2012
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Romanian Poetry Night
Ion Caramitru reading poems by Mihai Eminescu. Please note that all readings will be in Romanian. RSVP required at the link below.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
7:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
A Journey to Harmony
A concert by Suanplu Chorus from Bangkok, Thailand
Sunday, July 15, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Fowler OutSpoken Lecture: Pearl of the Snowlands: Printing and Tibet's Living Heritage
UCLA Fowler Museum presents a lecture with guest curator Patrick Dowdey from the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies.
Saturday, August 04, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
The Blue Hour
A bilingual reading from Alonso Cueto's novel followed by a conversation with the author about literature and translation
Thursday, August 09, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Humanities 348
Qara U'y: The Qaraqalpaq Yurt and Its Decoration
David and Sue Richardson, Independent Researchers, Nottingham, UK
Saturday, September 15, 2012
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
In The Name of Iran
A book reading by Parastou Forouhar, Artist and Author
Sunday, September 16, 2012
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
What Happens After Zionism
Editors/authors present two new books on the Israeli/Palestinian conundrum
Thursday, September 20, 2012
7:00 PM
Westwood Hills Congregational Church
An Unforgettable History of World War II: the Tokyo Trials
A talk on the 1946 Tokyo Trials by Professor Xiang Longwan, Director of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Tokyo Trial Research Center, and son of one of the eleven original trial prosecutors.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room (11348 YRL)
International Institute IDP Open House & Fall Reception-Part of 'Welcome Week'!
As part of the campus-wide 'True Bruin Welcome Week' activities, the International Institute Interdepartmental Programs (IDPs) will be hosting an Open House & Fall Reception, to which you are cordially invited.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Azerbaijan as a Regional Hub in Central Eurasia: A Strategic Assessment of Euro-Asian Trade and Transportation
A book talk with author Taleh Ziyadov, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. Discussant: James Coyle, Pepperdine University.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Hammer Screening: Jai Bhim Comrade
By Director Anand Patwardhan
Thursday, September 27, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Hammer Museum
Cancelled - Investing in Africa's Future
Due to unexpected last minute changes on the United Nations General Assembly program, President Paul Kagame regrets that he is unable to visit UCLA on September 28, 2012, and deliver his planned lecture.
Friday, September 28, 2012
The Obamians - a conversation with best-selling author James Mann about his new book
Please join us for a conversation with James Mann, author of New York Times bestsellers "The Rise of the Vulcans" and "The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan", and Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala about the acclaimed author's new book, "The Obamians." ROOM AND TIME CHANGE: UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW, ROOM 1420 AT 4:30 PM
Monday, October 01, 2012
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
School of Law, room 1420
Vou Rifar Meu Coração ("I Will Raffle Off My Heart") (2011)
A 2011 Brazilian documentary directed by Ana Rieper
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Silk Fabrics of the Golden Horde: Historical, Cultural and Ideological Aspects
Zvezdana Dode, Stavropol State University, Russia
Thursday, October 04, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Cotsen Institute Seminar Room
Nowhere to Turn: Abuse and Exploitation of Migrant Workers in the Arab World
A lecture by Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch
Friday, October 05, 2012
12:00 PM
Moore Hall 3027
Young Research Library Asian Studies New Student Reception
The Asia Institute invites new graduate students and visiting scholars to a welcome reception at YRL
Friday, October 05, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room
Dastangoi: The Lost Art of Story-telling
By Mahmood Farooqui
Friday, October 05, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Auditorium A103B
Artes e manhas da crônica: Fernando Sabino e Clarice Lispector (The Art and Skill of the crônica: Fernando Sabino e Clarice Lispector)
Writing workshop with Fernando Paixão (IEB-USP) in Portuguese
Monday, October 08, 2012
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan: 1500-2014
A lecture by Thomas Barfield, Boston University
Monday, October 08, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room
On Ideology and Ideologues: The Issue of "Japanism" in the Study of Wartime Japan
A colloquium with the 2012-2013 UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. John Person, University of Chicago.
Monday, October 08, 2012
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
We invite you to join in the 26th Annual UCLA Study Abroad Fair. Each year, more than 2000 students visit the fair to learn about the wide variety of study abroad programs available.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
Eroticism and the Body in Brazilian Culture: A discussion of the film "Natural Love"
Talk in Engish by Eliane Robert Moraes
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Public Affairs 1246
Music & Dance of Zimbabwe
Featuring Martha Thom & Jacob Mafuleni.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Jan Popper Theater
A resenha em questão: jornalistas x acadêmicos (Questioning the Review: Journalists vs. academics)
Writing workshop with Fernando Paixão (IEB-USP) in Portuguese
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
Sephardic Philanthropy and the Origins of a Modern Jewish Nation
A public talk by Matthias Lehmann, Associate Professor of History and Teller Family Chair in Jewish History, UC Irvine
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 306
A 2nd Century BC Shipwreck in the Indian Ocean and the Role of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara as the Protector of Mariners
Professor Osmund Bopearachchi is a Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (C.N.R.S. Paris), where he oversees the 'Hellenism and Oriental Civilisations' program of the C.N.R.S. UMR 8546/5, and also a visiting professor of Central Asian and South-Asian archaeology and art history at the Paris IV-Sorbonne University.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Who is Joseph Kony...and does KONY 2012 matter?
Presentation by Professor Ayesha Nibbe, Hawaii Pacific University.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Night Letters: Art and Ambiguity in the Early Years of Soeharto’s New Order (1968-1976)
Colloquium with Jeffrey Hadler, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, October 11, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Onde anda o erotismo na ficção contemporânea? (Where is the eroticism in contemporary Brazilian fiction?)
Talk in Portuguese by Eliane Robert Moraes
Thursday, October 11, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
Fernando Paixão: Poetry Reading and Bilingual Discussion
A reading and bilingual discussion of Fernando Paixão's recent poetry
Thursday, October 11, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
The Crisis in Syria
Please join us for a panel discussion regarding the current crisis in Syria with panelists UCLA Law professor Asli Bali, RAND Political Scientist Dalia Dassa Kaye and UCLA Political Science professor Daniel Treisman. This panel will be moderated by UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
1347 Law School
The Mexican Political System after the 2012 Elections
A panel combining two of the most well-known and respected analysts of contemporary politics in Mexico
Thursday, October 11, 2012
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
New Visions of Japanese Cinema Film Series: The Face of Another screening
The Graduate Student Association Melnitz Movies and the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies co-sponsor a film screening of Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1966 film, The Face of Another.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA Melnitz 1409
Razão e emoção na escrita: equilíbrio possível? (Reason and emotion in writing: possible equilibrium?)
Writing workshop with Fernando Paixão (IEB-USP) in Portuguese
Friday, October 12, 2012
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
Do Fair Elections Enhance Perceptions of Government? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Michael Callen, UCSD
Friday, October 12, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
The Buddha Sakyamuni and the Courtesan Utpalavarna in Gandhâran Buddhist Art
By Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi, Scholar of Gandharan Art and Sri Lankan Archaeology
Friday, October 12, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
275 Dodd Hall
“On Behalf of All and For All”: The Place of Liturgy in Russian Cultural History
A two-day conference, October 12 - 13. Organized by the UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Friday, October 12, 2012
9:30 AM
10383 Bunche Hall
China Onscreen Biennial: Shanghai Strangers (非典情人) West Coast Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 13, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
China Onscreen Biennial: LACUNA (醉后一夜) North American Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 13, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora
2012 IAAB International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora, Day 1
Saturday, October 13, 2012
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Covel Commons
China Onscreen Biennial: All Apologies (爱的替身) North American Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Sunday, October 14, 2012
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora
2012 IAAB International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora, Day 2
Sunday, October 14, 2012
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Covel Commons
"Into the Niger Delta" Film Screening
Acclaimed Nigerian director Jeta Amata brings his documentary film depicting the conditions in the Niger Delta and showing seven diverse Americans as they travel to the to witness firsthand the environmental devastation and social unrest caused by catastrophic oil spills. Amata, participants in the film and Professor Jude Akudinobi, UCSB, will be present for a panel discussion and Q&A.
Monday, October 15, 2012
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
미국 TV드라마 경향과 한국 TV드라마 비교 A Comparative Study on American and Korean TV Drama Trends
By Jae Sang Lee, KBS
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Will the Peace Treaties between Israel, Jordan and Egypt Survive?
A lecture by Ambassador Oded Eran.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
CAW: Borders, Ethnicity & Conflict: The Ferghana Valley Border Closing
Led by Ali Hamdan
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
China Onscreen Biennial: The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven 3D (大闹天宫 3D) West Coast Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Linwood Dunn Theater
Too Much Too Soon: The Euro and the Future of Europe
CEES public lecture by Josef Joffe, Editor, Die Zeit. Discussant: Ronald Rogowski, UCLA, Political Science.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Commerce with the Universe: Travel, Trade and the Afrasian Imagination
Professor Gaurav Desai, Tulane University, discusses the Asian (Indian) presence in and connections with Africa.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Diasporas on the Internet : The E-Diaspora Atlas
A lecture by Dana Diminescu, Maison des Sciences de l’’Homme [Paris] and Institut Mines-Telecom
Co-sponsored with the Center for European and Eurasian Studies
Friday, October 19, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
China Onscreen Biennial: The Red Detachment of Women (1970)( 红色娘子军)
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Friday, October 19, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
COB: THE RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN (1970) (银幕中国双年展: 红色娘子军)
A Film Screening and Post-screening panel discussion moderated by UCLA professor Robert Chi; with Beijing opera master and former yangbanxi performer Qi Shufang; theater director Peter Sellars; and Director of UCLA’s Center for Chinese Studies Yan Yunxiang.
Friday, October 19, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Arab Film Festival
16th Annual Arab Film Festival: October 19th - 21st
Friday, October 19, 2012
8:00 PM
Writers Guild of America Theater
China Onscreen Biennial: Beijing Flickers Pop-up Exhibition 《有种》流动展览
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 20, 2012
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Mandarin Plaza, Chinatown
China Onscreen Biennial: Sauna On Moon (嫦娥) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 20, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
Raga Spirit 2012
The first symposium / festival of Indian Music at UCLA. Prominent scholars, musicologists and musicians of the highest caliber will showcase the splendour of this classical art form.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
9:30 AM
Schoenberg Hall
China Onscreen Biennial: Are We Really So Far From The Madhouse? (我们离疯人院有多远) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Sunday, October 21, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
Nine Rubies
A book talk by Mahru Ghashghaei and Susan Snyder, Authors
Sunday, October 21, 2012
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Pakistan in a Volatile Region
By Consul General Riffat Masood from Consulate General of Pakistan, Los Angeles
Monday, October 22, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Low Carbon Development in China: Fitting Global Climate Norms to National Policymaking Institutions
A talk by Eric Zusman, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), on climate change reform policy efforts in China.
Monday, October 22, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall, UCLA
May it Never End: Fantasies & Drama of Fluctuating Temporality in Eastern DRC
Presentation by Professor James Smith, University of California, Davis
Monday, October 22, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World
The aim of this colloquium is to explore how authoritative texts, culture heroes, and authors were invoked ritually for cursing, protection, and divination in the ancient and late antique Near Eastern and Mediterranean world. The speakers represent a wide range of specializations in ancient ritual practice, including Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian materials.
Monday, October 22, 2012
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
306 Royce Hall
China Onscreen Biennial: Animated, Golden and Restored (International Restoration Premiere)
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Monday, October 22, 2012
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex, 631 West 2nd Street
CAW: Space and Bor(un)d(ari)ers between China, Russia, Mongolia and Tibet: Political and Cultural Barriers in Eastern Eurasia
Led by Andrew Grant
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Los Últimos Cristeros (The Last Cristeros)
A 2011 Mexican film by director Matias Meyer
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2160 E Broad Art Center
China Onscreen Biennial: Beijing Flickers (有种) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex, 631 West 2nd Street
The Cristero Rebellion in Mexico: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
A lecture by author and CIDE Professor Emeritus Jean Meyer
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Hasidic Courts: A photographic look inside Israel's ultra-orthodox communities
A public talk by photographer Gil Cohen-Magen
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 362
2013-14 UC Pacific Rim Research Fellowship (PRRP) Campus Information Session
This session will give faculty and students an opportunity to learn more about the PRRP program and answer any questions.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Global Migrants, Guest Workers and Good Mothers: Gender and (Con)Temporary Labor Migration to Spain
A CEES public lecture by Christy Glass, Utah State University, Sociology. Part of the UCLA Department of Sociology's Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Impact of the I Ching on Merce Cunningham and Deborah Hay
The I Ching, or the Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese text––perhaps the first written document in human history––and was originally used exclusively as an oracle. Three thousand years old, the I Ching is one of the most revered books in Chinese literature, and it has inspired the most eminent Chinese scholars throughout history.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Presentation Room, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
The Relative Chronology of the Passages of the Qur'an: A New Approach to an Old Problem
A lecture by Professor Behnam Sadeghi, Stanford University
Thursday, October 25, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
TBD
Exit Emperor Kim Jong-il: Notes from His Former Mentor
By John Cha, Writer/Translator
Thursday, October 25, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: Poetry by Palestinian Poet Ghassan Zaqtan
Zaqtan will perform his poems in Arabic alongside his translator, Fady Joudah, who will read them in English.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
詠劇詩歌：明清戲曲接受史的生動記錄 (Poetry in Praise of Drama: A Vivid Record of the History of Reception of Ming and Qing Drama)
A talk in Mandarin by Professor Zhao Shanlin, East China Normal University, on the reception of Ming and Qing drama.
Friday, October 26, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLA
China Onscreen Biennial: Double Exposure (二次曝光) North American Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Friday, October 26, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
Critical Frameworks of Transmission
The UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies hosts the 17th Annual Graduate Symposium on Japanese Studies.
Friday, October 26, 2012
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 306
China Onscreen Biennial: Three Sisters ( 三姊妹) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 27, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
China Onscreen Biennial: The Ditch (夹边沟) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Saturday, October 27, 2012
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
China Onscreen Biennial: The Cremator (焚尸人 ) US Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Sunday, October 28, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
China Onscreen Biennial: Feng Shui (万剑穿心): North American Premiere
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Sunday, October 28, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
Kishinev’s Pogrom in Mythology and History: The Transmutation of the 1903 Riot in Hebrew Poetry, Jewish Politics, and the Protocols of the Elders in Zion
A talk by Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University, History) in the Faculty/Student Seminar Series sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies. Cosponsored by UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA Department of History, UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
12:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
킬러 컨텐츠의 발생과 진화 과정: ‘한반도의 공룡 점박이’ 사례연구 The origin and evolution of 'killer content': A case study of 'Speckles the Tarbosaurus'
By Sangho Han, EBS
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: Paper Presentation Workshop
TBD
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA Spanish Film Festival: También la LLuvia (Even The Rain)
A 2011 Spanish film by director Icíar Bollaín
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
Documentary Film Series - "I Had A Dream"
The story of Yona Bugale, the "Herzl" of Ethiopian Jewry, and his struggle to bring his people to Israel.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Humanities Building, Rm 135
520 Years of Dictatorship: Survival, Struggle and Militancy of the Mapuche People
A talk by poet and political activist Graciela Huinao
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
China Onscreen Biennial: Painted Skin:The Resurrection (画皮 II)
Part of the UCLA Confucius Institute's inaugural China Onscreen Biennial （银幕中国双年展）project, an unprecedented bicoastal collaboration among seven distinguished American educational and cultural organizations to promote US-China dialogue through the art of film.
October 13-31, Los Angeles | October 26-11, Washington, DC
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
UCLA Film & Television Archive Billy Wilder Theater, The Hammer Museum
Painted Skin: The Resurrection (画皮II) Halloween Screening
Los Angeles Premiere / Halloween Screening!
PAINTED SKIN: THE RESURRECTION 2012
(画皮II)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
UCLA Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939
A book talk with author Maite Zubiaurre (UCLA, Spanish and Portuguese), and discussant Roberta Johnson (University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese)
Thursday, November 01, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprisings
A lecture by Professor James Gelvin, History Department, UCLA
Thursday, November 01, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Spanish Film Festival: La Isla Interior (The Island Inside)
A 2010 Spanish film by directors Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso
Thursday, November 01, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Izkor: Slaves of Memory (1990)
Film Screening followed by discussion with Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Thursday, November 01, 2012
6:00 PM
A51 Humanities
AFI Fest 2012: Todo El Mundo Tiene A Alguien Menos Yo (Everybody's Got Somebody... Not Me)
A 2012 Mexican film by director Raul Fuentes- Screenings on November 3rd & 6th
Friday, November 02, 2012
10:00 PM - 11:45 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
Author Meets Critics session on Asian American Political Participation (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012)
Jane Junn (Political Science, USC); Critics: Louis DiSipio (Political Science, UCI): Loan Le (Political Science, UCLA). Co-Sponsored with the Institute for American Cultures.
Friday, November 02, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Exotic Things and Strange Writings - Cultural Exchange in the Light of Artifacts Discovered along the Silk Road
Armin Selbitschka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich), Germany
Friday, November 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Fowler Museum Building, Room A222
AFI Fest 2012: The International Sign For Choking
A 2012 Argentine and American film by director Zach Weintraub- Screenings on November 2nd & 4th
Friday, November 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Here and There (Aquí y Allá)
A 2012 Mexican film by director Antonio Mendez Esparza- Screenings on November 2nd & 7th
Friday, November 02, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Post Tenebras Lux
A 2012 Mexican, French, German, and Dutch film by director Carlos Reygadas-
Screenings on November 2nd & 5th
Friday, November 02, 2012
7:15 PM - 9:15 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Después de Lucia (After Lucia)
A 2012 Mexican film by director Michael Franco- Screenings on November 3rd & 4th
Saturday, November 03, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Come Out and Play
A 2011 Mexican film by director Makinov- Screenings on November 3rd & 4th
Saturday, November 03, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: White Elephant
A 2012 Argentine, Spanish, and French film by director Pablo Trapero- Screenings on November 3rd & 4th
Saturday, November 03, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
American Cinematheque
2012 Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums, and a Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art in Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture, will give the 25th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum
AFI Fest 2012: Los Mejores Temas (Greatest Hits)
A 2012 Mexican, Canadian, and Dutch film by director Nicolás Pereda- Screenings on November 3rd & 4th
Saturday, November 03, 2012
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Ahi Va El Diablo (Here Comes The Devil)
A 2012 Mexican film by director Adrían Garcia Bogliano- Screenings on November 4th & 7th
Sunday, November 04, 2012
12:00 AM - 1:30 AM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
The Particularities of Our Culture [Ekhtesasat-e Farhangie ma]
A lecture by Morteza Mardiha, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Sunday, November 04, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
161 Dodd
Do Catholics See Things Differently? On Photographs & Museum Objects in Missionary Representations of Africa
Presentation by Professor Peter Pels, Leiden University.
Monday, November 05, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Film Screening of "Tey"
UCLA African Studies Center will host two screenings of the film "Tey" at the American Film Institute Fest (AFI Fest). AFI Fest runs November 1-8, 2012.
Monday, November 05, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Cambodia-Thailand Relations: The Questions of the Preah Vihear Temple and a Clash of Two Nationalisms
Colloquium with Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri, Department of History, Thammasat University
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Youth, Community, and Change in Ladakh
Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA Spanish Film Festival: El Hombre de al Lado (The Man Next Door)
A 2010 Argentine film by directors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
A Talk by the Venerable Subul Sunim
Zen Meditation for Today: A New Approach by a Modern Korean Master
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Charles E Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Intro,Q&A
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
A Brown Bag Lunch Book Talk with journalist Jennifer Cockrall-King
Food and the City: Case Studies in Urban Agriculture from Five Countries
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
La Kretz Hall, Suite 300, Large Conference Room
Careers in International Development, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy with Alfred Nakatsuma
Alfred Nakatsuma has just completed his assignment as the Director of the Office of Environment for USAID in Indonesia where he supervised programs in clean energy, climate change, forestry, marine management, clean water and sanitation, disaster response and risk reduction.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Film Screening of "Tey"
UCLA African Studies Center will host two screenings of the film "Tey" at the American Film Institute Fest (AFI Fest). AFI Fest runs November 1-8, 2012.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Perish the Thought: Israel and the Search for Peace in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
A lecture by Dr. Avi Raz, Oxford University
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
To Know or Not to Know?: Genetics, Community and Public Health - An Israeli Perspective
A public talk by Professor Aviad Raz, Ben Gurion University, on the pros, cons and questions surrounding genetic testing for Jewish Israeli communities
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 306
Canadian Studies at UCLA Inaugural Reception & Lecture
"Global Warming: A Canadian Perspective" presented by Andrew Weaver, Lansdowne Professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modeling and Analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
À Beira do Caminho (Roadside)
A 2012 Brazilian film directed by Breno Silveira
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall 1409
UCLA: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 1 of a two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Thursday, November 08, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
UCLA History Conference Room
Public Support for Global Climate Cooperation
A talk by Michael Bechtel, Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Thursday, November 08, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, room 4357
Bulgaria and the Holocaust: The Fragility of Goodness
Symposium, exhibition, and cultural events sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, the "1939" Club, and the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel. Cosponsored by the Bulgarian Jewish Heritage Alliance of America, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA Department of History, and UCLA Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music.
November 8 opening night reception with keynote speaker Steven F. Sage, U.S. Holocaust Museum and film screening of "The Optimists."
Thursday, November 08, 2012
4:00 PM
UCLA Hillel
UCLA Spanish Film Festival: Asalto al Cine (The Cinema Hold Up)
A 2011 Mexican film by director Irina Gómez Concheiro
Thursday, November 08, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
UCI: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 2 two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Friday, November 09, 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
US Policy in the Middle East: A View from the Pentagon
A talk by Matthew Spence, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Friday, November 09, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2343
The Young Artist Association in the Republic of Vietnam and After
Colloquium with Trinh Cung, Artist/Essayist
Friday, November 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print, 1512-2012
A Conference in Honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian | An international conference organized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History [established by the Armenian Educational Foundation]
Friday, November 09, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
SYMPOSIUM: Strangers in a Strange Land: Art, Aesthetics and Displacement
Organized by UCLA faculty, Saloni Mathur and Aamir Mufti
Friday, November 09, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Hammer Museum
Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print, 1512-2012
A Conference in Honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian | An international conference organized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History [established by the Armenian Educational Foundation]
Saturday, November 10, 2012
9:15 AM - 6:00 PM
Rolfe 1200
Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print, 1512-2012
A Conference in Honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian | An international conference organized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History [established by the Armenian Educational Foundation]
Sunday, November 11, 2012
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Rolfe 1200
Labour Agency in Refashioning the Discourse of Modernity and Social Developments in Iran [Forudastan va Bazkhani-ye Goftman Tajadod dar Iran]
A lecture by Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
CAW: Dangerous Fortunes and Vitalities in Inner Asia
Led by Hannah Reiss
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Captive Consumers? Shopping, Urban Space, and the Colonial Politics of Middle East Consumption
A lecture by Nancy Reynolds, Washington University in St. Louis
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Urbanization in Between: Theorizing Urbanization in Rapidly Industrializing China
Presented by Dr. Andrew Kipnis, Australian National University
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
“Start Up Nation”: Israel’s Innovation Economy and the Global Marketplace
Eli Groner, Israeli Minister of Economic Affairs to the United States, will discuss the Israeli experience in cultivating innovation and why this will be more important than ever in the coming decades.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
NEW LOCATION: Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
"Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern"
The talk attempts to understand the relations between iconoclasm (the attempt to destroy objectionable objects,) and ethnogenesis (the coming into being of qualitatively new ethnic identities).
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
UCLA Spanish Film Festival: Chico & Rita
A 2012 Spanish film by directors Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
New Findings on the Monochord and Non-mathematical Methods of Constructing the 12-Lülü Chromatic Scale in Ancient China
Lecture by Guangming Li
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (B544)
2013-2014 FLAS Fellowship Information Session
Learn about opportunities for language and area studies fellowships for the summer and academic year. Graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines are invited.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Young Research Library
Tales of Masked Men
2012 documentary by Director/Producer Carlos Avila
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
144 Haines Hall
Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism, A talk by Mark Rowe
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 1)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Algeria's Cultural Identity: Fanon, Yacine & Mammeri
A lecture by Kenneth Brown, Founding Editor Mediterraneans, Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, France
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Japanese Kabuki Music
The Yamato Gaku ensemble presents a lecture and demonstration of kabuki music, featuring guest artist Osho Yamato on the shamisen (plucked lute).
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (1325)
Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 2)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Thursday, November 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Hecho en México ("Made in Mexico")
CANCELED
Thursday, November 15, 2012
CANCELED
From the Arabs to the Mongols: Narratives of Foreign Conquest in Modern Iranian History Writing
Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford
Thursday, November 15, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Language and Culture of Ikema from Miyako Island of Okinawa
Workshop hosted by Professor Shoichi Iwasaki from UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
Friday, November 16, 2012
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library, Room 11360
Immigration Policy after the 2012 Elections
A lecture by Tom K. Wong, Political Science, UCSD. Co-Sponsored with the Institute for American Cultures.
Friday, November 16, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
"Tokyo Boogie Woogie" in California: The 1950 Sacramento Recordings in Japanese and Japanese-American Cultural History
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies invites Professor Michael K. Bourdaghs from the University of Chicago.
Friday, November 16, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Young Research Library, Room 11360
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 1 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Friday, November 16, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
A two-day core conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Friday, November 16, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 2 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Saturday, November 17, 2012
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
A core program conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Saturday, November 17, 2012
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora
Book talk by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Monday, November 19, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Young 4216
CAW: CANCELLED
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Are International Institutions Succeeding or Failing?
A talk by Amb. Stephen Lewis, the previous UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa & Co-Director of AIDS-Free World.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Law, Room 1447
CAW: (Re)imagining Kazakh Nationhood Through Cinema
Led by Naomi Caffee
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Creating a New Museum for Thailand: The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Colloquium with Dale Carolyn Gluckman, Former curator and department head, Costume and Textiles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Recent Trends in Mexican Migration to the US: Evidences from EMIF-Norte
A seminar with Professor Marie-Laure Coubes, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
4240 Public Affairs Bldg
The Burden of History: Foreign Policy Challenges in the New Global Era
By SHIN Yeon-sung, Consul General, Korean Consulate General, Los Angeles, CA
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
O Palhaço (The Clown)- Brazilian entry for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 85th Academy Awards
A 2011 Brazilian film by director and star Selton Mello.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall 1409
Reading and Q&A with Granta’s best young Brazilian novelists
A reading and discussion with 5 of Brazil's best young novelists
Thursday, November 29, 2012
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
The Eurozone Crisis and Lessons from Latin America
CEES faculty lecture by Aaron Tornell, UCLA, Economics.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Separate and Different: Religious Rights and the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel
Professor Michael Karayanni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thursday, November 29, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA School of Law
Author Meets Critics session on Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora
Dan Kanstroom (Law, Boston College); Commentators: TBA. Co-sponsored with the Institute for American Cultures.
Friday, November 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Elizabeth Bishop's Brazilian Pastoral
A presentation and workshop by Katrina Dodson, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Friday, November 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lydeen Library - Rolfe 4302
Regional Logic vs. Global Humanities: Where To from Here?
Ping-chen Hsiung, Director of the Research Institute for the Humanities and Professor of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Friday, November 30, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Morelos
A 2012 Mexican film by Director Antonio Serrano
Friday, November 30, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall 1409
Old Society, New Faith: Religious Encounter and Cultural Identity in Early Medieval China and Europe
Workshop in Comparative History
Saturday, December 01, 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Myths in Bahram Beyzaie's Works [اسطورهها در آثار بهرام بیضایی]
A lecture by Bahram Beyzaie, film/theater Director, screen/play writer, researcher
Sunday, December 02, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
Decolonizing Literacies: Paulo Freire, "Theory" and Rural Women's Antiviolence Organizing in Eastern India
By Piya Chatterjee, Dorothy Cruickshand Backstrand Chair in Gender and Women's Studies, Scripps College, California
Monday, December 03, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Taiwan Since Martial Law
Book talk by David Blundell, National Chengchi University
Monday, December 03, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Rebirth: Recent Work by Mariko Mori
To take place on Monday, December 3, 2012 from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. at UCLA, Dodd Hall 275.
Monday, December 03, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monseñor: The Last Journey of Óscar Romero
A 2012 documentary about Archbishop Óscar Romero, the brave soul who dared to defend the disenfranchised people of El Salvador in the late 1970s, and paid the ultimate price for standing up to a repressive government.
Monday, December 03, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Melnitz 1409
CAW: Tulpan
A Kazakh film discussion
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2012 한국 대통령 선거 따라잡기 Understanding of the 2012 South Korea Presidential Election
By Kim Sung Tak, Joong-Ang Ilbo
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan
Afghan Studies Book Talk by U.S. Army Capt. Matt Zeller
Thursday, December 06, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Package Tour
Documentary film screening and discussion with director Gyula Gazdag, UCLA, Film and Television.
Thursday, December 06, 2012
6:30 PM
A51 Humanities Building
A Night of Poetry with Renowned Iranian Poet: Houshang Ebtehaj (Sayeh)
Sunday, December 09, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Dodd Hall 147
Heroes of Antiquity: French Historical Re-enactment, Sparticus and the Roman Legion
Histor'Event : between Archeology and Entertainment
Saturday, December 15, 2012
3:00 PM
Equestrian Center of Los Angeles
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 12:45 AM
Bunche Hall
