Calendar of Events
Public lectures, symposium, colloquia and workshops about World Affairs at UCLA
Events for 2010
Nelson Freire
A documentary by JoãoMoreira Salles
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Language in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Azerbaijan: Policies and Processes
A public lecture by William Fierman (Indiana University at Bloomington, Central Eurasian Studies)
Thursday, January 07, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Of Concepts and History: Critiques of the Economic in 1930s-1940s China
Talk by REBECCA KARL (New York University)
Thursday, January 07, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Filipino Film "Grandpa Is Dead"
Film screening of "Grandpa Is Dead [Ded Na Si Lolo]" and discussion with the writer/director Soxie Topacio.
Friday, January 08, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:45 PM
167 Dodd Hall
Flagship Games and Tea
give your brain and social skills a workout
Friday, January 08, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Rolfe 1305
Jarayanat-e Islami Moaser dar Iran ve Jonbesh-e Democracy-Khahi
Irans Contemporary Intellectual and Political Trends within Islam and the Pro-Democracy Movement. A lecture in Persian by Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari
Sunday, January 10, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Study and Research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
An informal discussion about PUC-Rio, one of Brazil's largest private universities; how it functions, and what it has to offer.
Monday, January 11, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Disappointment, Hope, and Government Change: Emotions and Voting Behavior in the 2009 Japanese General Election
Colloquium with Takeshi Iida, Government, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study
Monday, January 11, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Doin The Robot: Pilipino Culture Night without Traditional Dance
Academic Presentation by Lorenzo Lozo Perillo, UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
160 Kaufman Hall
일제강점기 강원도 출신자 만주 이주사 연구 Korean Diaspora from Kangwon Province to Manchuria from 1930 to 1945
By Seung-Reul Lyu, Kangwon University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East
A lecture by Dawn Chatty, Oxford University.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Morometii
A screening of the Romanian Film "Morometii" followed by Q&A with Professor Gail Kligman (UCLA Sociology, CEES Director)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
6:30 PM
118 Haines Hall
Flagship Lecture
Topic: The Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and the U.S.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
A30 Humanities Building
Information Session: UCLA-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Faculty Research Grants
The UCLA Asia Institute and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) invite proposals for three-year projects of research workshops and conferences on topics related to China. This initiative is intended to build ties between the two institutions and to promote collaboration in research and training.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
11:30 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
India and Gauguin's Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism in a Global Frame
Revisit the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil's artistic career in modern Indian art. Presentation by UCLA Professor Saloni Mathur.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Musical Ritual of the Mevlevi Dervishes: Past and Present
A lecture by Walter Feldman
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
1420 Schoenberg Hall
Sons of Cuba
A film directed by Andrew Lang.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile
A one-day conference focusing on the development of Afghanistan's national literature over the past 50 years.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe Since 1973
A book talk with author Ivan Berend (UCLA, History)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Prof. Benjamin Cohen, UC Santa Barbara: "The Future of the Global Currency System"
Please join us for our first talk of the winter quarter. Prof. Cohen teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international political economy at the Political Science Department, UC Santa Barbara, and recently published a book on International Political Economy: An Intellectual History.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
Lost Heritage: Chinese Christians as Early Reformers
CAROL LEE HAMRIN discusses the new, edited volume "Salt and Light: Lives of Faith that Shaped Modern China"
Thursday, January 14, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Sangam Faculty-Student Luncheon
A luncheon aimed at connecting students with faculty, the South Asian American community and the South Asian Minor.
Friday, January 15, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Russian Games and Tea
Scrabble, Loto, and more
Friday, January 15, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Rolfe 1305
Reverse
A screening and discussion of Poland's Oscar Submission in the Best Foreign Language Film Category.
Friday, January 15, 2010
7:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Journeys and Arrivals: The Films of Jeon Soo-il--Himalaya: Where the Wind Dwells 2008, Time Between Dog and Wolf 2005
Presented in association with the Korean Film Council and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies
Friday, January 15, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Journeys and Arrivals: The Films of Jeon Soo-il--With a Girl of Black Soil 2007
Presented in association with the Korean Film Council and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies
Saturday, January 16, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Journeys and Arrivals: The Films of Jeon Soo-il--My Right to Ravage Myself 2003
Presented in association with the Korean Film Council and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies
Sunday, January 17, 2010
7:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Censorship and Liberty: Philippine Performance during the WWII Japanese Occupation
Academic presentation by Carolina San Juan, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
160 Kaufman Hall
Computing China's History
A talk by PETER BOL (Harvard)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Polarization and the De-Thaksification of Thai Politics
Colloquium with Prof. Allen Hicken, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Recovering Femininity and Desire: Women and Scar Literature
Graduate Student Colloquium- Jennifer Johnson will be presenting her research in Chinese literature
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Royce 243
Pre-Positional Conjunctions: Sexuality and/in Islam
A lecture by Joseph Massad, Columbia University
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Today We Pack, Tomorrow We Settle Film Screening
The African Activist Association at UCLA presents a film about Congolese refugees leaving a camp in Zambia and re-settling in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Filmmakers Marisa Lloyd and Krista Barnes will introduce the film and there will be a Q & A with them immediately after the screening.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Bitter Taste of Tea: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade
Film screening followed by a forum on tea and fair trade.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
James Bridges Theater, 1409 Melnitz
Memory, Democracy, and Moral Justice: Romania Confronts Its Communist Past
A public lecture by Vladimir Tismaneanu (University of Maryland, Government and Politics)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Bunche Center: A 40th Anniversary Retrospective
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies celebrates forty years of the Bunche Center with a reception and panel discussions.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall
Reception and Workshop on Gordon W. Prange Collection
The UCLA Library is now the proud, and only West Coast, owner of a microform set of magazines and newspapers from the Prange Collection, the premier archive of Japanese print media from the Allied Occupation.
Friday, January 22, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Library Presentation Room and East Asian Library
Flagship Friday Games, Cards, Tea, and Cookies
Games are more fun in Russian
Friday, January 22, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Rolfe 1305
Journeys and Arrivals: The Films of Jeon Soo-il--The Bird Who Stops in the Air 1999, Wind Echoing in My Being 1997
Presented in association with the Korean Film Council and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies
Sunday, January 24, 2010
7:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
"The Dragons Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa" Presentation and Book Signing
Professor Deborah Brautigam, American University in Washington D.C., tackles the myths and explains the realities of China's growing economic embrace of Africa.
Monday, January 25, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pacifying Wartime Technology: The Yamato Museum and Scientific Nationalism in Japan
Colloquium with history professor Hiromi Mizuno, University of Minnesota.
Monday, January 25, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Race and the Trace of History
A lecture by Patrick Wolfe, La Trobe University, Australia
Monday, January 25, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
조선시대 한국 전통 음식 용어 검색 시스템 개발 Developing a Customized Browser for the Corpus of the Chosŏn Dynasty Culinary Manuscripts
By Kilim Nam, Kyungpook National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The 9th Annual Korean Music Symposium
An academic presentation on Korean music followed by a Korean music concert
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building
The Regional Context of Turkey's Foreign Policy
A lecture by Dean Ahmet Evin, Sabanci University
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Conservative Nationalists and Right Radicals: Two Rival Trends of Hungarian Politics
A public lecture by Istvan Deak (Columbia University, History)
Thursday, January 28, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
International Career Panel
Join us for an opportunity to hear leaders in the field of international affairs speak candidly about what they did after graduation and how today's recent graduates can prepare for a career in international affairs. Our distinguished panelists have experience in founding a non-profit organization and working on micro-finance projects, as well as working in the Foreign Service and at the United Nations.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Beyond Frontiers: The International Reach of TV Globo and Brazilian Television
Presented by Ricardo Scalamandré, Head of International Business at TV Globo.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
4:00 PM
UCLA Anderson
Diverse Perspectives on Zionism and Israel in 2010 - Part 2: Assaf Likhovski, UCLA School of Law, Post-Post-Zionist Israeli Historiography
Assaf Likhovski, Tel-Aviv University and Visiting Schusterman Professor of UCLA School of Law, will speak on "Post-Post-Zionism in Israeli Historiography". This is the 2nd event of a 4-part lecture series titled, "Diverse Perspectives on Zionism and Israel in 2010".
Thursday, January 28, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1457
Islam and the Bible
A lecture by Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
Thursday, January 28, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Orientalism in the Works of Paul Bowles
Lecture by Philip Schuyler, University of Washington
Friday, January 29, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Gamelan Room, 1659 Schoenberg Hall
Russian Games, Cards, Tea + Cookies!
Get an early start on your weekend.
Friday, January 29, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Rolfe 1305
The Emergence of 'History': A Survey of the History of Taiwanese Historiography
A podcast of the talk by WU MI-CHA (Professor of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)is now available.
Friday, January 29, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Sierra Room
The 1950s in the Caribbean
A two-day conference organized by the UCLA Working Group on Caribbean Studies
Saturday, January 30, 2010
8:45 AM - 6:30 PM
Bunche 6275
The 1950s in the Caribbean
A two-day conference organized by the UCLA Working Group on Caribbean Studies
Sunday, January 31, 2010
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Bunche 6275
The Political Economy of India After Liberalization
A presentation by Dr. Akhil Gupta, Professor in Anthropology and Chair of Interdepartmental Programs in South Asian Studies.
Monday, February 01, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent Masculinities
A lecture by Marcia Inhorn, Yale University
Monday, February 01, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
Refugee Nation: A drama based on the stories of Laotian refugees and their descendents
More than just a telling of Laotian American history, this two-person performance eloquently touches upon crucial issues relating to the refugee experience, assimilation, generation gap, and mental health by interweaving drama, film, music, and audience interaction.
Monday, February 01, 2010
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
Yoruba Proverbs: "ABD OLOWE: T'a ba mu ede kuro lori 'le orile lasan lo ku"
The UCLA School of Arts and Architecture and the UCLA African Studies Center present a talk by artist and activist Tunde Odunlade, discussing Yoruba proverbs and the importance of preserving Yoruba culture, language, and tradition.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room 10383
Transnational Blackness and the Early Social History of Brazilian Popular Music
A talk presented by Dr. Darien J. Davis from Middlebury College.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Diverse Perspectives on Zionism and Israel in 2010 - Part 3: Raphaella Segal, Assistant Mayor of Kedumim, A View from a Settlement
Raphaella Segal, Assistant Mayor of Kedumim, will speak on "Current Israeli Political Debates: A View from a Settlement". This is the 3rd event of a 4-part lecture series titled, "Diverse Perspectives on Zionism and Israel in 2010".
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1447
Santíago
A documentary by João Moreira Salles
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Integrative Medicine Conference 2010
Learn about the application of integrative medicine at UCLA and why integrative medicine matters in health care.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
The Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in Postcommunist Eastern Europe
A public lecture by Radu Ioanid (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies)
Thursday, February 04, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Legacy of Laxness: An Anthropological View
A lecture by Gisli Palsson, University of Iceland
Thursday, February 04, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
A32 Humanities Building
Family Obligation & Assistance among Adolescents from Immigrant Families
A lecture by UCLA professors Andrew J. Fuligni and Eva Telzer. Hosted by the UCLA Migration Studies Group.
Friday, February 05, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Moore Hall 3340
Media Freedom in the Maghreb
A lecture by Abdelaziz Nouaydi, attorney at Rabat Bar
Friday, February 05, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
Countercurrents from the West: "Blue-eyed" Zen Masters, Vipassana Meditation and Buddhist Psychotherapy in Contemporary Korea
UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Prof. Ryan Bongseok Joo (Hampshire College)
Friday, February 05, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Royce Hall 243
Join us for Friday tea and cookies
and stay to play Russian cards + games
Friday, February 05, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1305 Rolfe Hall
Giasone
"Giasone" (Jason) is a Baroque opera composed in 1649 whose plot is loosely based on the story of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. The opera contains many comic elements too. Conducted by Stephen Stubbs and Directed by Peter Kazaras.
Friday, February 05, 2010
8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
UCLA VNLC Tet Festival "The Way Home"
Vietnamese New Year Celebration sponsored by the student group Vietnamese Language and Culture (VNLC) -- 2010 theme: Huong Sac Mua Xuan (The Way Home)
Saturday, February 06, 2010
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
Spirit of Uganda at Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center
Come experience the thunder of standing drums, melodic vocal tones and dramatic dance choreography of the Spirit of Uganda Dance and Music Troop
Saturday, February 06, 2010
8:00 PM - 12:00 AM
College of the Canyons
Giasone
"Giasone" (Jason) is a Baroque opera composed in 1649 whose plot is loosely based on the story of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. The opera contains many comic elements too. Conducted by Stephen Stubbs and Directed by Peter Kazaras.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
2:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Tahrim, Daramad-e Naft, va Eqtesad-e Iran (Sanctions, Oil Income and the Iranian Economy)
A lecture in Persian by Professor Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge University. Part of the CNES Bilingual Lecture Series.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Freedom and Heritage: Vietnamese American Articulations of Denizenship as Polite Critique
Colloquium with Thuy Vo Dang, Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Monday, February 08, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room
Overcoming the Surface: Rosetsu, Medium, and Performance
Colloquium with Matthew McKelway, Art History, Columbia University.
Monday, February 08, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
One Hundred Years of Oil Income and the Iranian Economy: A Blessing or a Curse
A lecture in English by Professor Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge university. Part of the CNES Bilingual Lecture Series.
Monday, February 08, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Prof. William Clark, UCSD: "Being Academic"
This lecture is part of a seminar series on the "Global Higher Education Revolution & the World-class Universities Movement." The speaker will offer a comparison of the heuristically simplified traditional university (monastic and guild-like) with the modern one (informed by industrial and bureaucratic practices). German academia provides the primary empirical base, with judicious comparisons to England and the US.
Monday, February 08, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Public Affairs Building 3333
The Goldstone Report & Int'l Law - Part 3: Daniel Taub, State of Israel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Daniel Taub, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser, State of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will speak on "Israel, the Palestinians, and International Law". This is the 3rd event of a 3-part lecture series titled, "The Goldstone Report and International Law - Three Perspectives".
Monday, February 08, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1347
Israel, the Palestinians, and International Law
Part three of our co-sponsored speaker series: The Goldstone Report And International Law: Three Perspectives.
Monday, February 08, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1347
Lunch Around the World - India's Oven
Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA Dashew Center
An Ambiguous Beloved
Poetry reading and discussion by Professor Anurima Banerji, Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Kaufman Hall Room 160
Class conflict and a folk game as emotional resistance - Focus on the case of Kossaum folk art
By Yumi Song, Chonnam National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
War, Citizenship and Memory in Iraq
A lecture by Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Sikh Student Association Open Mic Night
Student Performances
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Kerckhoff Hall - Charles E. Young Grand Salon (248)
A Special Exhibition on the Korean Alphabet
You can learn the KOREAN ALPHABET in one morning
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Royce Hall 2nd Floor
Bunche Center Circle of Thought- Black Bodies and Breakthrough Science
Come hear about groundbreaking research work from scholars in African American Studies!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines Hall
Párpados azules (Blue Eyelids)
A film directed by Ernesto Contreras.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Ningbo Xiao Baihua Yue Opera Troupe
Performance by Ningbo Xiao Baihua Yue Opera Troupe
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
UCLA Freud Playhouse
Prof. Abe Lowenthal, USC School of Intl. Relations: "Global CA: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge"
Join us for a lecture with Dr. Abraham F. Lowenthal, Professor at the USC School of International Relations, on his recent book, "Global California: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge." Copies of his book will be available for purchase and signing at the lecture.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Journalists Under Fire: An Independent Reporter's View from Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan
A public lecture by Anne Nivat, Award-Winning Paris-Based Freelance War Reporter and Writer
Thursday, February 11, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Nisei Girls in Pre-War Little Tokyo
Valerie J. Matsumoto, UCLA History, speaks as part of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Breaking Grounds Speaker Series.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
3232 Campbell Hall
Real Estate or Holy Land: Conflicts of Sacred and Profane in the Making of Modern Israel
Chancellor Gene Block, the UCLA International Institute, and the UCLA Israel Studies Program cordially invite you to join them in welcoming Professor Arieh Saposnik as the The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Israel Studies. Please join us for this special lecture by Professor Saposnik.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Sequoia Room
Film Screening of "I Am Because We Are"
In conjunction with PS 98T, Comparative Responses to AIDS in Africa, the UCLA community and the general public are invited to watch a series of documentary films about the AIDS pandemic in Africa. The film this week is "I Am Because We Are."
Thursday, February 11, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
A 25 Haines Hall
Bunche Chair Lecture on "Transcending Race: The Cases of Ralph Bunche and Barack Obama"
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies presents the Fourth Bunche Chair Lecture and Reception featuring Dr. Charles Henry.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Covel Commons
"You Didn't See Anything in Kinshasa" Film Screening; Q&A with Director Mweze Ngangura
Congolese documentarian Mweze Ngangura visits Melnitz Movies and brings his latest film to be screened.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era
A one-day conference organized by Asli Bali, UCLA
Friday, February 12, 2010
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
School of Law, Room 1457
The Experience of Separations & Reunifications for Adolescent Immigrant Youth
A lecture by Dr. Carola Suarez-Orozco, Professor of Applied Psychology and Co-Director of Immigration Studies at NYU. Hosted by the UCLA Migration Studies Group.
Friday, February 12, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Moore Hall 3340
Friday Russian Games and Tea
Brain power + fun = Friday Russian Games
Friday, February 12, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1305 Rolfe Hall
Giasone
"Giasone" (Jason) is a Baroque opera composed in 1649 whose plot is loosely based on the story of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. The opera contains many comic elements too. Conducted by Stephen Stubbs and Directed by Peter Kazaras.
Friday, February 12, 2010
8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's Death
A documentary film screening and discussion
Saturday, February 13, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Giasone
"Giasone" (Jason) is a Baroque opera composed in 1649 whose plot is loosely based on the story of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. The opera contains many comic elements too. Conducted by Stephen Stubbs and Directed by Peter Kazaras.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
2:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Tea on the Axis of Evil
Jean Marie Offenbacher US, Syria | 2009 | 67 min | Documentary. Free Screening followed by Q&A.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
2160 E Broad Hall
Medical Savings Account in China and the Effect of its Balances on Outpatient Utilization
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Seminar
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
South Asian-American Experience and Imperatives
A presentation by Professor Snehendu Kar, UCLA School of Public Health
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
History, Memory, and Human Rights: The Politics of Reconciliation and Retribution
A public lecture by Adam Michnik (Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, UCLA Regents Lecturer)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
4:00 PM
1447 Law
Heaven's Taxi and Iran Zendan
A free screening of "Heavens Taxi" a full length feature and "Iran Zendan" a 30 minute short film
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Young Hall CS76
Creating Citizens' Democracy in Post-Communist Countries
A public lecture by Adam Michnik (Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, UCLA Regents Lecturer)
Thursday, February 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Program Information Session: UCLA Summer Travel Study Program: Thailand Sustainable Communities and Ecosystems
Information on summer study abroad program in Thailand.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche 10367
Visualization of Pattern Recognition from the Korean Buddhist Texts: Computational Humanities
UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies Numata Colloquium Series Presentation by Professor Lewis Lancaster (UC Berkeley) and Mr. Howie Lan (UC Berkeley)
Thursday, February 18, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Visualization Portal, 5628 Math Sciences
Cold War Borders in a Post-Socialist World: Hong Kong / China
A lecture by JAMES L. WATSON, in the series Beyond the Headlines: China and the Global Future
Thursday, February 18, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Hacienda Room
Film Screening of "Antonia"
The African Activist Association & A Passion for Portuguese present: Tata Amaral's "Antonia." This film is the story of four talented young women in Sao, Paulo, Brazil who form an all-female hip hop group.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
YRL Library Presentation Room
Crossing the Roof of the World
A one-day conference on people and geopolitics in Trans-Himalayan trade presented by the UCLA Central Asia Initiative
Friday, February 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
CANCELED: Home Girls: Language and Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs
A lecture by Dr. Norma Mendoza-Denton, Professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Hosted by the UCLA Migration Studies Group.
Friday, February 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Moore Hall 3340
First International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages
A three-day conference scheduled for February 19-21, 2010.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Covel Commons
Russian Game Session, Friday, Feb 19
We play a mean game of Durak.
Friday, February 19, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1305 Rolfe
Changing Paradigms Society, Democracy, and Theology In Contemporary Iran
Day one of a two day conference
Saturday, February 20, 2010
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
Tinariwen
UCLA Live presents Tinariwen.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Royce Hall
Changing Paradigms Society, Democracy, and Theology In Contemporary Iran
Day two of a two day conference
Sunday, February 21, 2010
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
TOPIC CHANGE: Visual Encounters in Early Modern South Asia
An illustrated talk by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor of History and Director, Center for India and South Asia
Monday, February 22, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Reforming Japanese Criminal Justice: Juries, Victims, and a Robust (?) Adversary System
Colloquium with Law professor Daniel Foote, Tokyo University and UCLA Terasaki Chair in US-Japan Relations.
Monday, February 22, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Diverse Perspectives on Zionism and Israel in 2010 - Part 4: Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, Toward Renewal of Zionist Idea
Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, Hillel at UCLA, will speak on "Toward a Renewal of the Zionist Idea". This is the 4th event of a 4-part lecture series titled, "Diverse Perspectives on Zionism and Israel in 2010".
Monday, February 22, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1430
"Not One Less" (1999) Movie Screening-CANCELLED
Co-sponsored by the Asia Institute and the Center for Chinese Studies
Monday, February 22, 2010
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
UCLA Travel Fair
Travel-related opportunities for students
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
11:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Ackerman Union - Grand Ballroom (2400)
Killing the Buddha
A World Arts and Cultures Chew on This! Lecture
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall - Phoenix Conference Room 160
A Yangban family's striving for the solidarity of kinsmen and its failure in Late Choson--A focus on the Yus of Sun-san's case
By Joo Hee Choi, Korea University/ CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Political Prospects in Argentina: Does "Kirchnerismo" Have a Future?
A lecture by Torcuato Di Tella, Professor emeritus at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and former national Secretary of Culture.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
3:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Taiwan and Its Flexible Foreign and Mainland Policies: Applying Theories to the New Reality
A conversation with KWEI-BO HUANG (Chairman, Research & Planning Committee, ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs), KUN-SHUAN CHIU (Director, Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University), CHIH-CHIANG LO (Vice President, Central News Agency), CHENG-PIN HONG (Dept.of North American Affairs, ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and CHUNG-CHIAN TENG (Dean, College of International Affairs, National Chengchi University)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
A Talk Presented by Gareth Wigan - Producer of "Not One Less" (1999) -CANCELLED
Co-sponsored by the Asia Institute and the Center for Chinese Studies
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Melnitz Hall, Room 1422A
A North Korean Political Prisoner's Journey to Refuge
Join us next week as special guest Shin Dong Hyuk shares his powerful and unique story of being born and raised in a concentration camp IN NORTH KOREA. There will be a Q&A session where you can actually ask any questions you might have for him, at the end of his presentation.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA LAW SCHOOL BUILDING
The Future of Opposition to Tyranny
A public lecture by Adam Michnik (Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, UCLA Regents Lecturer)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Condor
A film about the collaboration between South American military governments, which ended up with the kidnapping and murder of thousands of innocent people in the 1970s. This film is a human account of these events, telling the story of state terrorism and, above all, personal stories in the search for justice.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Staged Reading of "GOLIATH" with Jane Kaczmarek
Please join us for a reading of "Goliath" directed by Marya Mazor and starring Jane Kaczmarek.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
De Neve Auditorium on the UCLA North Campus
Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization
Day 1 of a two-day conference examining the role of transnational Islam and new technologies on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Karim Sadjadpour, Carnegie Endowment for Intl. Peace: "Iran: The Future of the Opposition & the Islamic Republic"
Join us for a talk by Mr. Karim Sadjadpour, Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Tehran and Washington, D.C.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Bunche 4357
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
A book talk with author Mary Elise Sarotte (University of Southern California, School of International Relations) and discussant Norman Naimark (Stanford University, History)
Thursday, February 25, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Domestic Violence Against Women in Cambodia
Colloquium with Sothy Eng, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, California Center for Population Research, UCLA
Thursday, February 25, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow)
A film by Peruvian director Claudia Llosa.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization
Day 2 of a two-day conference examining the role of transnational Islam and new technologies on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order.
Friday, February 26, 2010
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Freedom and Protection in Everyday Life: Experiences of Children from Migrant Communities
A lecture by Patricia Zamudio Grave, Ph.D. and Annabella Cruz Martinez from the Center for Research and Graduate Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Veracruz, Mexico. Hosted by the UCLA Migration Studies Group.
Friday, February 26, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Moore Hall 3340
Watsuji Tetsuro on Spatiality
Colloquium with Hans Peter Liederbach, professor of philosophy at Kansei Gakuin University.
Friday, February 26, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Mosaics Versus Collages in the Modern Taste for Musical Roots
A lecture by Professor Elizabeth Travassos, from the Universidade de Rio de Janeiro(UNIRIO), Brazil.
Friday, February 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building
Russian Cards, Games, + Cookies
The week's not complete without a game of Durak.
Friday, February 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Rolfe 1305
Rebuilding Afghanistan: One Drop at a Time
The 2nd Annual Fundraising Banquet for Afghanistan
Friday, February 26, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom
China: Driving the Global Economic Recovery
Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference
Friday, February 26, 2010
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Business
Contemporary Korea: Problems and Prospects--A Symposium
Hosted by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies, USC Korean Studies Institute, Southern California Association of Korean Studies.
Sponsored by the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Saturday, February 27, 2010
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Art, Activism, Access: 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA
Come out and celebrate 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA at the opening of this exhibit at the Fowler Museum!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Fowler Museum
Japan-U.S. Alliance and Security
10th SCJSF & JABA Forum with Ukeru Magosaki, former Director of Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Analysis Service
Sunday, February 28, 2010
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Prof. Peter Rosendorff, New York University: "The UN Convention Against Torture"
Join us for a talk by Dr. Peter Rosendorff, Associate Professor, Department of Politics, New York University
Monday, March 01, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 4357
Trading Places: China and the US in the International System
A talk by Richard Baum (UCLA) and Barry Naughton (UCSD)
Monday, March 01, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Religious Side of Hirata Atsutane
Colloquium with Wilburn Hansen, Religious Studies, San Diego State University.
Monday, March 01, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Dreams from an Elsewhere: Muslim Subjectivities beyond the Trope of Self-Cultivation
A lecture by Amira Mittermaier, University of Toronto
Monday, March 01, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
KILLING KASZTNER, a film screening and discussion
Please join us for a viewing of "Killing Kasznter," with discussion following. Light refreshments served. Doors open at 4:30 p.m.
Monday, March 01, 2010
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
UCLA school of Law, Room 1430
Before the Holocaust: Italian Fascist Concentration Camps in Colonial Libya, 1929-1933
Lecture by Prof. Ali Ahmida (University of New England).
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Islam and the Bible
A public lecture by Walid Saleh (University of Toronto)
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Royce 314
Chinese Student Association Annual Charity Concert
Performance fundraiser for Team HBV
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Kerkhoff Hall, Charles E. Young Grand Salon (248)
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations: "Mobilizing the Global Citizenry: the United Nations in a Changing World"
Join us for the Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace delivered by His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the presentation to His Excellency of The UCLA Medal.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
(Doors open at 8:30 a.m.)
In the Company of Strangers: Filipinos at Home and Abroad
Book talk with author Michelle Cruz Skinner
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture feat. Christopher Hitchens
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 2010 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Christopher Hitchens and titled "Varieties of Anti-Semitism." Online registration for this event is now closed; attrition is expected and stand-by seating will be available. Event details are below:
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
UCLA Anderson School
Era uma Vez... (Once upon a time in Rio)
A film by Breno Silveira
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Film Screening of "Disobedience"
The African Activist Association and A Passion for Portuguese present Licinio Azevedo's "Disobedience." Disobedience tells the story of a woman in Mozambique who is accused of having caused her husband's suicide by being disobedient and possibly, for having a spirit husband.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Young Research Library
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"An Evening of Taiko Drumming"
Thursday, March 04, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fowler Museum
Free Movie Premiere: "Mother"
Melnitz Movies, the Asia Institute, and the Center for Korean Studies
Thursday, March 04, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Promise or Peril? The China-ASEAN Trade Relationship
Colloquium with Dr. Walden Bello, Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines
Friday, March 05, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2125 Rolfe Hall
ESLABONES: State Terrorism and Resistance in Argentina
A panel discussion on Eslabones, a new volume of stories, poetry, and testimonial texts from the Former Political Prisoners of Crdoba, Argentina.
Friday, March 05, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Haines Hall 279
A Por Por Funeral for Ashirifie Film Screening and Discussion
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology presents a film and discussion by Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico.
Friday, March 05, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Jan Popper Theater
Leading Developments in Chinese Law
A half-day conference. Speakers and panels on civil society, environmental law, commercial arbitration, and legal reform will focus on legal developments in China and its implications for U.S.-China relations
Friday, March 05, 2010
11:00 AM - 7:30 PM
UCLA School of Law
"Segmented Assimilation and the New Second Generation"
A lecture by Professor Min Zhou, Ph.D. UCLA Department of Sociology. Hosted by the UCLA Migration Studies Group.
Friday, March 05, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Moore Hall 3340
Memory, Imagination, and Roots in the Music and Literature of Syrian-Lebanese Immigrants and their Descendants in Brazil
A lecture by A.J. Racy, UCLA and Robert Moser, University of Georgia
Friday, March 05, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
Haiti Rising
A discussion forum on ensuring empowerment, sustainability and human security to vulnerable groups in Haiti's recovery
Friday, March 05, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Broad Art Center 2160E & Courtyard
Friday Russian Games, Tea, Cookies
yes, it's Week 9, but you need some fun.
Friday, March 05, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Music and Dance of Bulgaria
A concert by the UCLA Balkan Music Ensemble
Friday, March 05, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Covel Commons
Workshop in Social Networks
A two day workshop on various aspects of social networks, using quantitative techniques applied to sociology and economics.
Friday, March 05, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
A Night of Arab and Brazilian Music
A free concert with A.J. Racy, Samba Society, and Special Guests - please RSVP online!
Saturday, March 06, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Workshop in Social Networks
A two day workshop on various aspects of social networks, using quantitative techniques applied to sociology and economics.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Shakespeare in Edo: Inoue Hisashi and the Performance as Hypertext
Colloquium with Stanca Scholz-Cionca, Japanologie, University of Trier, Germany
Monday, March 08, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Consuming Latinas: Cuban Global Considerations
A lecture by Professor Lucía Suárez from Amherst College. Hosted by the UCLA Working Group on Caribbean Studies
Monday, March 08, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Rolfe 4302 (Lydeen Library)
Music as Resistance, Healing and Transformation
A celebration of International Women's day with Susana Baca.
Monday, March 08, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
YRL Presentation Room
Tapologo Film Screening
Film screening in celebration of International Womens Day of a film about women in South Africa who have changed their lives and improved their community.
Monday, March 08, 2010
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
TaLK Program Info Session
Inhee Kim, NIIED(National Institute for International Education)
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
12:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Woman Question: Making of North Korean Women as Revolutionary Mothers (1945-1950)
By Suzy Kim, Emerson College in Boston/ Korea Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Mexican Revolution at 100: "The Legacy and Promise of the Mexican Revolution"
A lecture by Mr. Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, founder of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) and former governor of the state of Michoacán.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Charles E. Young Grand Salon (Kerckhoff Bldg)
The Jews of Italy's Response to Challenge: Past, Present and Future
A public lecture by Sergio DellaPergola (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Embattled Israeliness, Embedded Jewishness; Jewish Influences in Israeli Music
Assaf Shelleg, Efroymson Visiting Israeli Professor, Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Studies, Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1447
2010 Russian Poetry and Music Night
a UCLA Russian Program annual tradition
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
A book talk with author Vladislav Zubok (Temple University, History) and discussant Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley, Anthropology)
Thursday, March 11, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Education Equality and Civic Engagement: A Symposium on the Development of Education NGOs in China
ZHENG HONG (founder of the Dandelion School for children of migrant workers), and LIANG XIAOYAN (secretary-general of the Beijing Western Sunshine Foundation for Rural Development) speak in the Walter and Shirley Wang Contemporary China Lecture Series
Thursday, March 11, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
417 Kerckhoff Hall
International Relations of the Korean Peninsula
By Martin Perez Le-Fort, University of Chile/ Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, March 11, 2010
3:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Man'yoshu in the Interwar and Postwar
Colloquium with Yoshikazu Shinada from the University of Tokyo.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Mike Medavoy and Nathan Gardels: "American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age"
Join us for a lecture on "American Idol After Iraq: Competing for Hearts and Minds in the Global Media Age," with co-authors Mike Medavoy and Nathan Gardels. Medavoy is Chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures and Gardels is Editor of the New Perspectives Quarterly.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA School of Theater, Film, & Television
Russian Cards and Tea
bring your questions about Russian too.
Friday, March 12, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1305 Rolfe Hall (Library, Center for World Languages)
Waka Workshop
Waka and the Imperial Imagination, a workshop organized by Torquil Duthie, UCLA ALC.
Friday, March 12, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Waka Workshop
Waka Workshop organized by Torquil Duthie, UCLA ALC.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Brazil in the Emerging New World Economy
Presented by Ambassador José Alfredo Graça Lima, Consul General of Brazil in Los Angeles. Lecture followed by a piano recital by acclaimed artist Alexandre Dietrich.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Jan Popper Theater
The Armenian Communities of Asia Minor
Conference
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
1200 Rolfe Hall
Baz-afarini-ye gozashteh: Estefadeh va sue` estefadeh az "Iran bastan" dar dowreh-ye Pahlavi-ha va Jomhuri-ye Eslami
A lecture by Touraj Daryaee, UC Irvine
Sunday, March 28, 2010
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
"Common Political Democracy: The Marrano Register"
A Seminar with Professor Alberto Moreiras from University of Aberdeen. Hosted by the UCLA Working Group on Caribbean Studies
Monday, March 29, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Rolfe 4302 (Lydeen Library)
The Emerging Ideology of Nationalism in Modern Iran
A lecture by Touraj Daryaee, UC Irvine and Afshin Marashi, CSU Sacramento, with Nikki Keddie, UCLA as commentator
Monday, March 29, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Historical and Geopolitical Approaches to the Study of Identities in Korea
A Symposium
Monday, March 29, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
"Infrapolitical Literature: Hispanism and the Border"
A talk with Professor Alberto Moreiras from University of Aberdeen. Hosted by the UCLA Working Group on Caribbean Studies
Monday, March 29, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Rolfe 4302 (Lydeen Library)
Music and Tourism in Post-Disaster Economies: A Comparative Study of Post-Katrina New Orleans and Bali after the 2002 and 2005 Bombings
Colloquium with Liz Macy, UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
B544 Schoenberg Music Building
Prof. Dan Kammen, UC Berkeley: "Innovation for a Clean Economy"
Join us for a lecture co-sponsoring by the UCLA Institute of the Environment featuring Prof. Dan Kammen of UC Berkeley, an expert on energy and the environment.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Political Impact of New Media in China
A talk by ANNE-MARIE BRADY (University of Canterbury)
Thursday, April 01, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Israel's Democracy: Past, Present, Future - Part 1: Fania Oz-Salzberger, Haifa University; Eli Salzberger, Haifa University; and Jonathan Varat, UCLA School of Law, "Israel's Democracy and Supreme Court"
Fania Oz-Salzberger and Eli Salzberger of University of Haifa and Jonathan Varat of UCLA School of Law, will speak on "Israel's Democracy and Supreme Court". This is the 1st event of a 3-part lecture series titled, "Israel's Democracy: Past, Present, Future".
Thursday, April 01, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1357
Thai film "Agrarian Utopia" (Sawan baan na)
Sponsored by Melnitz Movies, the Asia Institute, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Thai Smakom.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
The James Bridges Theater
State of the Art: Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Day one of a two day conference organized by Sherine Hafez, University of California, Riverside and Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, April 01, 2010
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Russian Game Hour
Have some cookies and tea, play Durak, and bring your questions about Russian.
Friday, April 02, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Rolfe 1305
Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service
CANCELLED
Friday, April 02, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
State of the Art: Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Day two of a two day conference organized by Sherine Hafez, University of California, Riverside and Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los Angeles
Friday, April 02, 2010
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Michoacán: Másica y Másicos
Book discussion of "Michoacán: Música y Músicos" edited by Alvaro Ochoa Serrano, El Colegio de Michoacán, México.
Monday, April 05, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
144 Haines Hall (CSRC Library)
Prof. Richard Steinberg, UCLA School of Law: "Power, International Trade Law, and State Transformation"
Join us for a talk by Richard Steinberg, Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law.
Monday, April 05, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 4357
Zarina Hashmi, Mona Hatoum and the Forms of Dispossession
A presentation by UCLA Professor Aamir Mufti
Monday, April 05, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Secrets, Fear, Honor, and Outrage: Resistance to FGM/C Abolition in Sierra Leone and Sudan
A lecture by Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University
Monday, April 05, 2010
3:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom
RICHARD BAUM discusses his new book
Monday, April 05, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Saving Kun Opera: From "Fifteen Strings of Cash" to "The Peony Pavilion"
A talk by ZHOU QIN (Professor of Chinese Literature, Suzhou University), presented in Chinese
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Primo Basílio
A film by Daniel Filho.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Korean Culture Night
18th Annual Korean Culture Night
Thursday, April 08, 2010
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Royce Hall - Auditorium
A Conversation with Haiti's Ambassador to the U.S.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
UCLA Campus
Poncho Sanchez on Latin Jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms
Lecture/demonstration on Latin Jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms by Poncho Sanchez.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall #1100
CANCELLED: A Saint on the Move: Images of Efficacy in Devotional Diasporas of Shirdi Sai Baba
UCLA Center for the Study of Religion Faculty Seminar Series:
Works in Progress presented by Dr. Polly Nooter Roberts
Followed by a Q & A with Dr. Allen F. Roberts
Professors, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
Thursday, April 08, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Evolution of Confucian Landscape in the Andong Cultural Region of Korea: Universalism or Particularism?
By Je-Hun Ryu, Korea National University of Education/ Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, April 08, 2010
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Tjibaou Center: Post-/Neo-Colonialism in New Caledonia and Paris
a lecture by James Clifford, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology
Thursday, April 08, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Melnitz Movies and the Asia Institute present Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Air Doll"
Free screening of the latest film by the Japanese master filmmaker.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater, 1409 Melnitz
The Painter Farrukh Beg: A Traveler in Mughal India
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents its Fourth Annual Lecture by distinguished guest Dr. Milo Cleveland Beach.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
LACMA
To be or not to be Multilingual
A lecture by UCLA professor Jared Diamond with an introduction by Carlos Fuentes.
Friday, April 09, 2010
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Charles E. Young Grand Salon
The Chan Database Project
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Professor Christoph Anderl
Institute of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
Friday, April 09, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
The Chan Database Project
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Professor Christoph Anderl Institute of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley and Stanford University
Friday, April 09, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
India and Climate Change
All day symposium presented by the UCLA Law School Emmet Center for Climate Change and the Environment,Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Public Program, and UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.
Friday, April 09, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA School of Law
CSET Workshop Series in April
Workshop designed to help students prepare for the California Subject Examination for Teachers (CSET) in Mandarin
Saturday, April 10, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
King Hall Room C 2091
Book Presentation of Adán en Edén by Carlos Fuentes
Book presentation of Carlos Fuentes latest book Adán en Edén. Mexican actors Demián Bichir and Dolores Heredia will deliver a dramatized reading of passages from the book.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
5:00 PM
BP HALL, WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
California Eurasian Studies Kurultai
A Graduate Conference
Saturday, April 10, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 306
Out in India: A Family's Journey
Documentary Screening with Filmmaker Question and Answer.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Santa Monica Public Library- Main Branch
World Fest
WorldFest is UCLA students' weeklong multicultural festival celebrating UCLA's diversity and talents.
Monday, April 12, 2010
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Islam's Political Advantage: Evidence from Indonesia
Colloquium with Prof. Thomas B. Pepinsky, Department of Government, Cornell University
Monday, April 12, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Colloquium with Alan Tansman (POSTPONED; New date TBA)
Colloquium with Alan Tansman, UC Berkeley East Asian Languages & Cultures. POSTPONED.
Monday, April 12, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Deterrence and Proportionality: Assessing the Legality of the Dahiya Doctrine
Lecture by Omar Dajani, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Monday, April 12, 2010
4:30 PM
School of Law, Room 1420
Sombras y palabras en Juan Rulfo (Shadows and Words in Juan Rulfo)
Lecture by Keynote speaker Hugo Gutiérrez Vega. Inaugural lecture of the seminar, "Letras de la Revolución" (Literature of the Mexican Revolution.
Monday, April 12, 2010
7:00 PM
Royce Hall
Angkor: The Life and Demise of a Great City
Colloquium with Roland Fletcher, Professor of Theoretical and World Archaeology, University of Sydney, Australia
Monday, April 12, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
한국 전자산업의 고속성장 비결 -The Secret of Korean Electronic Companies' Fast Development
By Kyungup Ho, Chosun Daily Newspaper in Korea / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Israel's Democracy: Past, Present, Future - Part 2: Einat Wilf, Member of the Knesset on behalf of the Labor Party of Israel, "Education, Politics, and Democracy in Israel"
Einat Wilf, Member of the Knesset on behalf of the Labor Party of Israel, will speak on "Education, Politics, and Democracy in Israel". This is the 2nd event of a 3-part lecture series titled, "Israel's Democracy: Past, Present, Future".
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN ROOM: Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB), Room 1434A
Smyrna/Izmir, 1914-1916: A Special Case during the Armenian Genocide
A public lecture by Matthias Bjornlund, Archival Historian, Copenhagen. Part of a series commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History Souren and Verkin Papazian Fund
1915-1995: 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide - April 13-18, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Arab-Afghans, Jihad, and the Roots of 9/11
A lecture by Thomas Hegghammer; fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Living in the Sacraments: Catholic Culture in Contemporary Vietnam -- A Phenomenon to be Studied
Colloquium with Prof. Nguyen Van Huy, Founding Director, Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Poetry & Knowledge: Thinking Through Bosnia & Palestine
A lecture by Ammiel Alcalay, Queens College; The CUNY Graduate Center
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Eric Garcetti, LA City Council: "LA and CA in the World: Our Position & Our Global Interests"
Join us for a lecture by Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA School of Public Affairs
Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early 20th Century
A book talk with author Elisa Camiscioli (Binghamton University, History) and discussant Stephanie Limoncelli (Loyola Marymount University, Sociology)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Confiscation and Colonization: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property
A public lecture by Ugur Umit Ungor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin. Part of a series commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
An Ever-contested Poem: The Classic of Poetry's 'Hanyi' and the Sino-Korean History Debate
A talk by JAE-HOON SHIM (Fulbright Visiting Scholar)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Trauma, Bureaucraft and the Politics of Aid in Haiti
Lecture by Erica James, Professor of Anthropology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, April 15, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Haines 352
"Racial Migrations: Puerto Ricans in the Partido Revolucionario Cubano and the Comparative History of Race"
Presentation by Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Department of History, University of Michigan. Hosted by the Migration Study Group.
Friday, April 16, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
279 Haines Hall
Signs from the Unseen Realm (Mingxiang ji): A Collection of Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China
A Numata Colloquium Series talk by Professor Robert Campany, USC
Friday, April 16, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror
A one-day conference organized by Asli Bali, UCLA Law School
Friday, April 16, 2010
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
School of Law, Room 1310
Baaba Maal
UCLA Live presents Senegalese artist Baaba Maal.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Royce Hall
XXXIII Symposium on Portuguese Traditions- Day 1
A Symposium on Portuguese Traditions (Europe, America, Africa, Asia).
Saturday, April 17, 2010
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Sunset Recreation Center
A Tribute to Documentary Filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov (1927-2009)
Screening of his final work Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
Sunday, April 18, 2010
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Symposium Commemorating the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
1915-2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Glendale Library Auditorium
XXXIII Symposium on Portuguese Traditions- Day 2
A Symposium on Portuguese Traditions (Europe, America, Africa, Asia).
Sunday, April 18, 2010
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Sunset Recreation Center
Bombay Islam: A Religious Economy in the Western Indian Ocean
History Professor Nile Green will be discussing his latest book, Bombay Islam: A Religious Economy in the Western Indian Ocean.
Monday, April 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Elections in Africa Today: A review of the history of multiparty elections since resumption of multiparty politics
The UCLA Department of Political Science, the UCLA African Studies Center and the Globalization Research Center-Africa present a discussion of African elections by Dr. Joel Barkan, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Monday, April 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) and Prof. Paul Schroeder: "A Multilateral Moment: A New US Foreign Policy?"
Join us for a lecture co-sponsored by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History and the Burkle Center for International Relations. General Wesley K. Clark (ret.) is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center. Paul Schroeder is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Illinois.
Monday, April 19, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Devastation and Controversy: Consequences of the US Invasion for Iraqi Archives and Archival Documents since 2003
A lecture by Jeff Spurr, Harvard University
Monday, April 19, 2010
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Notes from the Pondok: Reports from artists returned from APPEX program in Bali, Indonesia
Artists will report on their journey, show photos and videos, and share the outcome of their international artistic experience.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room 101
Contemporary Chinese Migration to Central Asia: Trends, Challenges, and Responses (Case-study of Kazakhstan)
Elena Sadovskaya, Fulbright Visiting Scholar Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche, UCLA
Recent Trends of Islamization in the Middle East: A Political Economy View
Lecture by Salwa Ismail
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Israel's Democracy: Past, Present, Future - Part 3: Ruth Gavison, Haim Cohn Professor of Human Rights, Faculty of Law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, "Can Israel Be a Jewish and Democratic State?"
Ruth Gavison, Haim Cohn Professor of Human Rights, Faculty of Law at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will speak on "Can Israel Be a Jewish and Democratic State?" This is the 3rd event of a 3-part lecture series titled, "Israel's Democracy: Past, Present, Future".
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
4:15 PM - 6:30 PM
UCLA School of Law, Room 1420
Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City
Colloquium with author Benito M. Vergara, Jr.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Presentation Room
"Balcerowicz: All or Nothing"
A screening of the documentary film "Balcerowicz: All or Nothing," followed by Q&A with the producers.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room 2343
Campus to Community: The University's Role in Moral Education
The Fulbright Visiting Scholars Enrichment Program invites UCLA students, faculty, and community members to participate in an afternoon of thought-provoking discussion with Fulbright Scholars and alumni on the place of moral education in the university.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
UCLA Zapotexts Group
A special seminar on Zapotec Writings and Languages at UCLA, with visiting experts Professor Aaron Broadwell (Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany) and Professor David Tavarez (Anthropology, Vassar College).
Thursday, April 22, 2010
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Decipherment of the Caucasian Albanian Script and Classification of the language on the Basis of New Manuscript Finds on Mt. Sinai
A lecture by professor Zaza Aleksidze, Senior Scientific Researcher and Chair of the Department of Codicology at the National Center of Manuscripts and Director of the Armenian Studies Program at the I. Javakishvili University, Tbilisi.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
CONTEMPORARY DANCE IN CHINA-Folk Influences
Guest lecture presentation by Dancer & Scholar, DR. WEI ZHANG
Thursday, April 22, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
208 Glorya Kaufman Hall
Ko Un reading of Ko Un
By Ko Un / Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, April 22, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
CANCELLED - A Mestizo Planet: The Other Face of the Musee du Quai Branly
a lecture by Serge Gruzinski, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, History
Thursday, April 22, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Parallel Worlds: Shadow Law and Political Culture in Morocco
A lecture by Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University
Thursday, April 22, 2010
4:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
Nestorians and Manichaeans on the South China Coast in the time of Marco Polo
A talk by SAM LIEU (Macquarie University)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Fowler Out Loud: Pilipino Performance Night
Samahang Pilipino and other Pilipino performance groups from across campus celebrate the dynamic Pilipino performance community on the UCLA campus.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fowler Museum
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour
UCLA Live presents Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Royce Hall
Persia Beyond the Oxus: The Circulation of Iranian Languages and Cultural Practices in Central Asia
International Conference hosted by the Central Asia Initiative
Thursday, April 22, 2010
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
UCLA Zapotexts Group
Workshop to present and discuss the latest research on Zapotec Texts. Presentations by Prof. Aaron Broadwell (University of Albany SUNY) and Prof. David Tavarez (Vassar College).
Friday, April 23, 2010
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Russian Cards, Tea, Cookies, and Eralash
Have fun in a brainiac sort of way.
Friday, April 23, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Rolfe 1305
Indus Urbanism and Trade: Recent Discoveries from Pakistan and India
A lecture by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin Madison
Friday, April 23, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
Human Rights Film Series: "Tibet in Song" (2008, Tibet)
Directed by Ngawang Choephel
Friday, April 23, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Concert: Music of China Ensemble
Chi Li, Director
Saturday, April 24, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hammer Museum
Hot Water Buddha: Bathing Culture, Healing, and Purification in Japanese Buddhism
Colloquium with Duncan Williams, associate professor of Japanese Buddhism and Chair of Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley.
Monday, April 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
A lecture by Marc David Baer, UC Irvine
Monday, April 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Truth Commission: Connecting the Broken Pieces after the Cambodian Genocide
Forum with Mr. Youk Chhang, Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia
Monday, April 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
An Interrelationship between Indras Net in Hwaom and the Structure of Computer Networking over the Internet
By Kwangyoun Jin, Dongguk University/ CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Screening of "Ghost Town"
Presented by Melnitz Movies and the Asia Institute
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA
Lecture by Deborah Wong: Music of Thailand and Asian America
Part of the Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (B544)
"Joymoti" film screening
A film screening of Joymoti, the first Assamese feature film with discussion by Professor Aparna Sharma, Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Kaufman Room 101
Envisioning Brazilian Cinema
A conversation with Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia
a book talk with author Gul Ozcan (Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance and International Business, School of Management of Royal Holloway College, University of London)
Thursday, April 29, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
An Appraisal of Civil Society's Struggle for Democracy in Iran
A lecture by Shiva Falsafi, UCLA
Thursday, April 29, 2010
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Electric Car: Sustainability, Oil Independence, and Technology. Can Global Change Start in the Israeli Marketplace?
You're invited to hear about sustainability in Israel.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Haines Hall, Room 118
Screening of "Perfect Life"
Presented by Melnitz Movies and the Asia Institute
Thursday, April 29, 2010
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA
Educating Filipinos: Problems Facing the Next Philippine President
Colloquium with Isagani R. Cruz, former Philippine Undersecretary of Education and Professor Emeritus, De La Salle University, Philippines
Friday, April 30, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Royce 164
Indonesian Film "Red and White (Merah Putih)"
Special free screening is part of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Friday, April 30, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Directors Guild of America: Theater 2
Katsura: The Photographs of Ishimoto Yasuhiro
Presented by The Japan Foundation and Cousulate-General of Japan in San Francisco
Friday, April 30, 2010
6:00 PM
1317 Perloff Hall
Asia in LA 2010: Creating and Consuming Asian Cuisines
Join us for a fun and enlightening day with UCLA experts and well-known personalities in the world of Asian cuisine, plus special demonstrations and - of course - tasting opportunities!
Sunday, May 02, 2010
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA James West Alumni Center
"The Interpreters: Monica Hunter Wilson and Her Research Assistants, 1930-1970"
Professor Andrew Bank will discuss Monica Wilson and her many contributions to the fields of social anthropology and history.
Monday, May 03, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Mob Politics, Dangerous People. Non-Traditional Social Movements and Representation in Contemporary Venezuela
A talk by Professor Luis Duno Gottberg from Rice University.
Juan Pablo Lupi (UC-Santa Barbara), Commentator.
Monday, May 03, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Rolfe 4302
South-East European Film Festival Business Conference 2010
Why not be as creative about bringing your vision to the screen (and to audiences) as you are in creating the vision itself?
Monday, May 03, 2010
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Executive Dining Room, Gold Hall B208
A book reading in French, Dari & English by Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author
Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author reads from his book The Patience Stone
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Queer Diasporas, Filipina Victimhood and National Redress in The (Neo)Colonial City?
Colloquium with Professor Robert Garcia Diaz, Andrew Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Department of English
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Lines of Control - Partition as a Productive Space
Discussion by London based curator Hammad Nasar, co-founder of Green Cardamom.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Quanto Vale ou é Por Quilo? (What is it Worth?)
A film directed by S?rgio Bianchi.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
UCLA Zapotexts Group
A special seminar on Zapotec Writings and Languages at UCLA, with visiting experts Brook Lillehaugen and Michel Oudijk.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
History reading room
Constitutional Crises in Turkey
A public lecture by Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law
Thursday, May 06, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
South Seas Coloration: Colonialism and Ethnicity in Modern Chinese Travel Fiction
Colloquium with Brian Bernards, Ph.D. candidate, Asian Languages and Cultures
Thursday, May 06, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Royce 243
The First JRI Annual Mini-Symposium, UCLA, U.S.
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA, May 6-7 2010
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Opportunities for Scholars and Students with the Council of American Research Centers
A talk with Dr. Mary Ellen Lane, Executive Director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Thursday, May 06, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Quest for Moral Values in Contemporary Chinese Popular Thought
A lecture by PERRY LINK, in the series Beyond the Headlines: China and the Global Future
Thursday, May 06, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Hacienda Room
Ethnography for the Masses: The Musee de l'Homme and the 'Modern' Museum in 1930s Europe
A lecture by Alice Conklin, Ohio State University, History
Thursday, May 06, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Amb. Stephen Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, State Dept.: "The Obama Administration & International Justice"
This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center, UCLA School of Law's International Human Rights Law Program, and International Criminal Court Alliance.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 162
A Talk on Poetry and Cuban Affairs
A talk by Cuban Poet Nestor Diaz de Villegas.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Rolfe 4302
The Chicago Conspiracy
A documentary presented by Subversive Action Films.
Thursday, May 06, 2010
6:00 PM
Public Affairs 1234
Argentina:Economic and Cultural Background
A Conversation with Dr. Ricardo Lopez Murphy.
Friday, May 07, 2010
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA Zapotexts Group
Workshop to present and discuss the latest research on Zapotec Texts.
Friday, May 07, 2010
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Rethinking Arab Women as 'Subjects'
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies distinguished lecture and reception, Suad Joseph, UC Davis
Friday, May 07, 2010
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Faculty Center, California Room
Inconceivably Remote Future Accessible Now The Bodhisattva and Future Buddha Maitreya during the Kuṣāṇa Period
Numata Colloquium Series lecture by Prof. Christian Luczanits
Friday, May 07, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Royce 243
Don Diego de Mendoza de Austria Moctezuma: Entre la historia y el mito de México
A Special talk in Spanish by researcher Maria Castaeda de la Paz from the Universidad Autonoma de México. Hosted by the UCLA Zapotexts Group.
Friday, May 07, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Haitian Earthquake Recovery: Local and Global Strategies
A talk by Ambassador Leslie Voltaire, Haitan Special Envoy to the United Nations
Friday, May 07, 2010
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Friday Tea + Cookies, Durak, and Eralash
Come join us
Friday, May 07, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1305 Rolfe Hall
Return to Daxinzhuang: Current Excavations at the Shang Colony in Eastern China
A talk by FANG HUI (Shandong University)
Friday, May 07, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Fowler Museum A222
La Cruz Andina/ Chakana (The Andean Cross)
A celebration of life/death in the Andean World.
Friday, May 07, 2010
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Fowler Museum Terrace
Los nuevos caminos del movimiento jaranero
A conversation with Son Jarocho Composer Patricio Hidalgo.
Monday, May 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines Hall 144
Citizens, Real Others, and Other Others: Biopolitical and Critical Phenomenological Reflections on Migrant Illegality in Tel Aviv
A lecture by Sarah S. Willen
Monday, May 10, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
Gender, Sensation, Stimuli: Interwar Cafe in Hori Tatsuo's "Awkward Angel"
Colloquium with Mayumi Manabe, UCLA Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Monday, May 10, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Coleman Memorial Lecture: The Development and Democratic Challenges of Postcolonial Kenya
Dr. Paul Zeleza examines the forces and factors that led to the 2007 election violence in Kenya. The presentation will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Monday, May 10, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Collins Conference Room
CISA 2010 Annual Lecture
The Center for India and South Asia 2010 Annual Lecture presents
"Engendering Technology: Machines as the Measure of Men (and Women)in Early 20th-Century India"
By Professor David Arnold, University of Warwick
Monday, May 10, 2010
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
School of Public Affairs Building
Screening of "Exodus 1947"
Film Screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and passengers of the Exodus
Monday, May 10, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Melnitz Hall
Opportunities and Challenges in Latin America: The Insiders View
The UCLA Anderson 2010 Latin America Conference.
Monday, May 10, 2010
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Gold Hall Room B209
The Korean War(1950-1953) and Christianity: The Pro-American Activities of the Christian Churches, North Korean Reactions, and House Churches
By Dr.Kim Heung Soo, Mokwon University / Im Colloquium of Korean Christianity
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
El vuelco del cangrejo (Crab Trap)
A film by Oscar Ruiz Navia.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Chinese Student Association Heritage Night
"Peach Blossom Fan"
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
4:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Ackerman Union - Grand Ballroom (2400)
Soviet Realms of Memory in Contemporary Cuban Culture
A talk by Jacqueline Loss from the University of Connecticut.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Rolfe 4302
The EU and the Fight Against Corruption in Romania and Bulgaria
A public lecture by Mitchell Orenstein, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, European Studies
Thursday, May 13, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Spring International Career Panel: Claire Panosian, Kantathi Suphamongkhon, and Stephen Commins
The Burkle Center proudly presents an opportunity for students to hear leaders in the field of international affairs speak candidly about what they did after graduation and how recent graduates can prepare for a career in international affairs.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche 6275
Middle Eastern and North African Studies Student Mixer
"Multiple Islams in the Middle East and North Africa"
Thursday, May 13, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Israeli Society During a War of Attrition: History Through the Lens of Cinema
You're invited to hear a talk given by Renen Schorr, founder and head of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Physics and Astronomy Building (PAB), Room 1434A
W.A.R Stories: Walter Anthony Rodney
A film by Clairmont M. Chung
Thursday, May 13, 2010
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Perloff 1102
Traditional Brazilian Rhythms and Guitar Techniques
Lecture and demonstration by Brazilian Guitarist and Composer Fabiano Borges.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building
Alamar (To the Sea)
A film by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio
Thursday, May 13, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Time to be announced.
Diss-ing Orientalism: Creolism and Subjectivity in Caribbean Nationalist Discourse
A talk by Professor Nalini Persram from York University.
Friday, May 14, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Rolfe 4302
(Neo)Liberal Ambivalence and the Deferral of Inclusion: Filipino Foreign Domestic Workers and their Families in Canada
Colloquium with Geraldine Pratt, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Friday, May 14, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1261 Bunche Hall (1st floor)
The Conflict of Re-Presentation: Re-Presenting Conflict In Africa Conference
The African Activist Association at UCLA presents their fifth annual conference on May 14-15, featuring African dance and drumming, spoken word, a film screening of A Slice of Fela, and excellent panel presentations.
Friday, May 14, 2010
5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Neuroscience Research Bldg. Auditorium (NRB)
Concert: Music of India Ensemble
Co-directed by Shujaat Khan and Abhiman Kaushal
Friday, May 14, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Thai Film Screening "Mundane History (Jao Nok Krajok)"
Los Angeles Premier! Sponsored at UCLA by Melnitz Movies
Friday, May 14, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Concert: Music of Bali Ensemble
Performance director: I Nyoman Wenten
Friday, May 14, 2010
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Beyond Borders: Migration, Security and Cooperation in North America
A two day workshop on various aspects of North American Integration.
Friday, May 14, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Third Annual China Undisciplined Conference
The UCLA China Studies Graduate Students, in conjunction with the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies present, China Undisciplined, an Interdisciplinary Conference.
Friday, May 14, 2010
9:00 AM
Contesting the Streets: Street Vending, Open Air Markets, and Public Space
A two day conference about street vending practices.
Friday, May 14, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
**Cancelled**South Asian Youth Conference
All day symposium offered by Sangam, a UCLA South Asian student organization.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Dodd Hall Room 147
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Time to be announced.
Three Degrees of Togetherness
A xiangsheng performance by three generations of comedians from Taiwan: Wu Chao-nan, Liu Tseng-kai, and Hsu Jia-pei
Saturday, May 15, 2010
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Popper Theater
Concert: Music of China Ensemble
Performance directed by Chi Li
Saturday, May 15, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Beyond Borders: Migration, Security and Cooperation in North America
A two day workshop on various aspects of North American Integration.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Third Annual China Undisciplined Conference
The UCLA China Studies Graduate Students, in conjunction with the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies present, China Undisciplined, an Interdisciplinary Conference.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
9:00 AM
The Conflict of Re-Presentation: Re-Presenting Conflict In Africa Conference
The African Activist Association at UCLA presents their fifth annual conference on May 14-15, featuring African dance and drumming, spoken word, a film screening of A Slice of Fela, and excellent panel presentations.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Neuroscience Research Bldg. Auditorium (NRB)
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Time to be announced.
Beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Future of Anti-nuclear Weapons Movement
A symposium with filmmaker M.T. Silvia and Chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Steve Leeper
Monday, May 17, 2010
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
The Secret History of Subversion: Sex, Modernity, and the Brazilian National Security State
A talk by UCLA Ph.D Candidate Benjamin Cowan.
Monday, May 17, 2010
4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
Composing and Arranging in a "Latin American" Style
Lecture and demonstration by Brazilian Guitarist and Composer Fabiano Borges.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Schoenberg Music Building
The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World, Day 1 of 2
The 2010 Levi Della Vida Award Honoring Professor C. Edmund Bosworth
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Nonproliferation in the Middle East
The Center for Middle East Development is pleased to present a talk by Fred Wehling entitled Weapons of Mass Destruction and Nonproliferation in the Middle East. Mr. Wehling will also discuss a new MA degree in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies available at the Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Monterey Institute of International Studies where he is an Associate Professor.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Broad Art Center
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Time to be announced.
Isobel Coleman, Council on Foreign Relations: "How Women are Transforming the Middle East"
Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Isobel Coleman, author of Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East, visits Zocalo and the Burkle Center to discuss Islamic feminism, the women behind the movement, and why their success is crucial to fighting extremism and creating progress and stability in the Islamic world. <a href=" http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/upcoming.php?event_id=389">RSVP via Zocalo</a>.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World, Day 2 of 2
The 2010 Levi Della Vida Award Honoring Professor C. Edmund Bosworth
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
'Us' and 'Them': Colonial Legacies and Shifting Identities in Paris' New Museums
a lecture by Benoit de l'Estoile, Ecole Normale Superieure, Anthropology
Thursday, May 20, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Latin American Concert: Music from Brazil, Argentina and Peru
Concert performing Brazilian Guitarist and Composer Fabiano Borges.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
8:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building
Technique and Performance in the Brazilian Choro Idiom
Lecture and demonstration by Brazilian Guitarist and Composer Fabiano Borges.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Schoenberg Music Building
Concert: Music of Korean Ensemble
Performance directed by Dong Suk Kim
Friday, May 21, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Concert: Music of Korean Ensemble
Performance directed by Dong Suk Kim
Friday, May 21, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures, Day 1 of 2
A two-day conference organized by Aamir Mufti, UCLA
Friday, May 21, 2010
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures, Day 2 of 2
A two-day conference organized by Aamir Mufti, UCLA
Saturday, May 22, 2010
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall, UCLA
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Time to be announced.
Samahang Pilipino Student Cultural Night
Traditional performances
Saturday, May 22, 2010
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Royce Hall Auditorium
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Time to be announced.
Zanan dar dastanha-ye Sadeq Hedayat [Women in Sadeq Hedayat's Fiction]
A lecture by Homayoun Katouzian, University of Oxford
Sunday, May 23, 2010
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Screening of "Super Typhoon"
Recent Popular Cinema of Mainland China
Sunday, May 23, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
UCLA Hammer Museum - Billy Wilder Theater
Gender and Politics of Language: Naturalism and Modernism in Japan
Colloquium with Tomi Suzuki, Japanese Literature, Columbia University.
Monday, May 24, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
The Short-Term Society, A study in the Long-Term Problems of Political and Economic Development in Iran
A lecture by Homayoun Katouzian, University of Oxford
Monday, May 24, 2010
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
On the Cusp Lecture Series - Lecture by Sou Fujimoto
The On The Cusp Lecture Series is presented by the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
Monday, May 24, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall - Perloff Gallery, Room 1302
Responsible Stakeholder or Revisionist Superpower? China and the World in the 21st Century
An all-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA International Institute, and Center for American Progress.
Monday, May 24, 2010
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
James West Alumni Center
The Current State of the Social Sciences in Brazil
A conversation with Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Chair and Professor in Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche 10383
The Shahnameh: Iran's National Epic
Day 1 of a two-day conference examining Iran's national epic, composed in the 10th century CE by Iran's national poet Ferdowsi.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Faculty Center
The Shahnameh: Iran's National Epic
Day 2 of a two-day conference examining Iran's national epic, composed in the 10th century CE by Iran's national poet Ferdowsi.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Unemployment and Precarious Work in Brazil: How International Comparisons Illuminate Brazilian Workers' Experiences
Presented by Nadya Araujo Guimarães, Chair and Professor in Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
279 Haines Hall
Intercultural Collaboration as Dialogue in the Performance of Japanese Theatre in the Philippines
Colloquium with Prof. Jina Umali, Center for International Studies, University of the Philippines
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Rolfe 3126
The Minsk Ghetto during World War II: Resistance and Inter-Ethnic Solidarity
A panel discussion with Barbara Epstein (UC Santa Cruz, History) and Maurice Zeitlin (UCLA, Sociology)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
7:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Moving West: French Primitivism from the Porte Doree to the Musee du Quai Branly
a lecture by Daniel Sherman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Art History
Thursday, May 27, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
China's Legal Reform: OYCF 12th Annual Meeting
The 12th annual OYCF conference, co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the International House at the University of Chicago, brings together scholars, students and practitioners from China and the United States to discuss the past, present, and future of Chinas legal reform. The topics of the panels include citizen rights, judicial reform, legal profession, corporate law, civil society, and property rights.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Time to be announced.
Sardar Patel Award Ceremony
The 2009 Sardar Patel Award is presented to Dr. Gayatri A. Menon.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UCLA Covel Commons
Indian Student Union Culture Show
Student Cultural Performance
Saturday, May 29, 2010
5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Royce Hall Auditorium
Film Screening of 442
A screening of "442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity," followed by a Q&A with director Junichi Suzuki.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Charles E. Young Library
Investment Opportunities in Bicentennial Argentina
A talk by Dr. Beatriz Nofal, President of Argentina's Investment Development Agency (ProspeAr)
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Domésticas (Maids)
A film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Nando Olival
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia, and China Compared
A public lecture by Ivan Szelenyi, Yale University, Sociology
Thursday, June 03, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Son Jarocho: A Living Being of Music, Dance and Poetry
A conversation with Son Jarocho artist Laura Marina Rebolloso-Cuellar.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Haines Hall 144
Affect and Technology in the Making of Stone Age New Guinea
Colloquium with Prof. Danilyn Rutherford, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
Lezama y el Moncada: Figuras de la insurgencia en Paradiso y Oppiano Licario
A Talk by Cesar Salgado from The University of Texas, Austin.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Rolfe 4302
Daoism Today: Science, Health, Ecology
6th International Conference on Daoist Studies
Thursday, June 03, 2010
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Mumbo Jumbo: Critical Perspectives on Black Atlantic Sacred Arts
The UCLA Mellon Seminar in Black Atlantic Studies presents its concluding conference, June 4-5, an event bringing together scholars and artists whose work explores ritual aesthetics of the African Diaspora in both contemporary and historical contexts.
Friday, June 04, 2010
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA
Labor Migration and the Expansion of the Sugar Industry: West Indian Workers in Cuba, 1900-1930
A lecture by Dr. Oscar A. Zanetti from Havana University.
Friday, June 04, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines 279
Censorship and Intelligence Activities in East Asia, 1920s-50s under Japanese Imperial Rule and SCAP/GHQ
A talk with Eizaburo Okuizumi from the University of Chicago Library
Friday, June 04, 2010
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
Mumbo Jumbo: Critical Perspectives on Black Atlantic Sacred Arts
The UCLA Mellon Seminar in Black Atlantic Studies presents its concluding conference, June 4-5, an event bringing together scholars and artists whose work explores ritual aesthetics of the African Diaspora in both contemporary and historical contexts.
Saturday, June 05, 2010
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Document: Iranian-Americans in L.A.
A day of programs celebrates the opening of the photography exhibition
Sunday, June 06, 2010
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum
Electoral Competition and Violence in Italy: The Challenge of Organized Crime (1983-2003)
A public lecture by Salvatore Sberna, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence
Thursday, June 10, 2010
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The 3rd US-China Computer Science Leadership Summit, Peking University, China
KIAA, PKU, June 14-15 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
The Impact of Globalization on Income Inequality
A lecture by Professor Yves Flckiger, Vice Rector of Universite de Geneve
Monday, June 14, 2010
3:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Film screening: "Street Days"
Presented as part of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
7:15 PM
Regal Cinemas
Peter Beinart, journalist and author: "The Limits of American Power"
Journalist Peter Beinart, Senior Political Writer at The Daily Beast, Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, visits Zocalo to explain why its so difficult and so crucial to acknowledge the limits of American power. <a href="http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/upcoming.php?event_id=408">RSVP via Zocalo </a>
Monday, June 21, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The Actors Gang
Celebrating Extraordinary Visionaries
Asia Society Southern California has selected six Extraordinary Visionaries to share their stories of success during the 25th Annual Gala.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
The Search for the Sacred in Modern India
Travel Writer and Historian William Dalrymple will present his book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, as part of the Zocalo Public Square series.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
UCLA Hammer Museum
Guest Speaker Talk: Models and Chips for Managing Energy Storage Used in Electric Vehicles and Smart Grid
Guest speaker: Professor Lei He, UCLA.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Peking University
Liverpool (2008)
A film by Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso
Friday, July 02, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
A Mulher Invisível (The Invisible Woman)
A film directed by Claudio Torres
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Los Muertos (2004) and Fantasma (2006)
Two films by Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso
Friday, July 09, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
La Libertad (2001)
A film by Argentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso
Sunday, July 11, 2010
7:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Comparative Literature: An Exchange with Graduate Students from Taiwan
An informal gathering with students from the Institute of Comparative Literature, Fu-jen Catholic University
Monday, July 12, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Humanities 348
China Modern: Designing Popular Culture, 1910-1970
Pacific Asia Museum exhibit runs from August 6, 2010, to February 6, 2011
Friday, August 06, 2010
Workshop in Scholarly Translation
Hosted by the UCLA Confucius Institute
Monday, August 09, 2010
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2010 K-12 Summer Workshop: Visualizing Cultures-Modern China and Japan
Offered by UCLA History-Geography Project, History Project at UCI, MIT, UCLA's Asia Institute, and the Pacific Asia Museum.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
8:30 PM
Ardiente Paciencia
A film by Antonio Skármeta.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Mark Taper Auditorium
Life in Ceramics: Five Contemporary Korean Artists
Life in Ceramics, running from August 22nd, 2010 - February 13, 2011, surveys the range of perspectives found among contemporary Korean ceramicists, bringing together for the first time the work of five important artists: Yikyung Kim, In Chin Lee, Kang Hyo Lee, Youngjae Lee, and Kwang-cho Yoon.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
1:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World
This exhibition, begins on August 22, 2010 and ends on November 28, 2010, is about Korean funerary figures from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
1:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
A Dialogue on Immigration Issues: We Are America/Nosotros Somos America
14th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival Filmmaker panel to discuss Immigration Issues.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Renaissance Hollywood Hotel & Spa, 3rd level
A Book Signing of 'Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities'
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies presents a book signing and talk by Bunche Center director Darnell Hunt and assistant director Ana-Christina Ramon.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Metropolis Books
The Second Industry Advisory Board Meeting, PKU, China
The Lakeview Hotel, PKU, September 2, 2010
Thursday, September 02, 2010
¡VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!: THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ON FILM
Screening of 'Enamorada'(1946). A film directed by Emilio Fernández.
Friday, September 10, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
¡VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!: THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ON FILM
Screening of 'Viva Villa'(1934). A film directed by Jack Conway.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Honoring Professor Teshome Gabriel; Film Screening of Teza
The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents an 'Archive Preview' of Teza, a special benefit screening honoring late Professor Teshome Gabriel. Filmmaker Haile Gerima, a former student of Professor Gabriel's, will attend the screening.
Monday, September 13, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
UCLA Hammer Museum
John Dau, Lost Boy of Sudan, to Speak at UCLA
The International Human Rights Law Program at the UCLA School of Law presents a talk by John Dau, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan who came to the US in 2001. Most recently, Dau was featured in the award-winning documentary, God Grew Tired of Us.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
room 1420
¡VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!: THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ON FILM
Screening of 'Viva Zapata'(1952). A film directed by Elia Kazan.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Law Enforcement Responses to Human Trafficking in the Netherlands and the United States
An exchange and round-table discussion with representatives of law enforcement, academic, and community anti-trafficking organizations.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Style Matters
A talk by INA ASIM (University of Oregon) in the Chinese Garden Lecture Series of the Huntington Library
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
7:30 PM
Friends Hall
Slavic Department Open House
Come learn about classes and programs, including the Russian Flagship, offered in the Slavic Department
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
311 Humanities Building
Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border
Author David Spener (Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University)meets critics panel. Hosted by the UCLA Migration Studies Group.
Friday, September 24, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines Hall 279
'Teza' Film Screening
The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values.
Friday, September 24, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex
An Afternoon with Professor Haile Gerima (Youth Event)
Discussion on the implications of Haile Gerima's film 'Teza' for today's generation of young Africans.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Loyola Marymount University
¡VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!: THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ON FILM
Screening of 'Duck, you sucker'(1971). A film directed by Sergio Leone.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Kids in the Courtyard: Beam Me Up, Nini
Indonesian-inspired event for children at UCLA's Fowler Museum
Sunday, September 26, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum
Redemptive Cinema Panel with Haile Gerima
An afternoon with Pan-African film makers.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Esowon Books
¡VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!: THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION ON FILM
Screening of 'Pedro Paramo'(1966), a film directed by Carlos Velo, and 'la Soldadera' (1966) directed by José Bolaños.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
7:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
'Is Aggressive War a Crime? The International Criminal Court and the Future of International Justice,' with Amb. David Scheffer and Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.)
A discussion between the first US Ambassador-at-Large for Crimes, Amb. Scheffer and Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.)
Monday, September 27, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1430
Is Freedom of Speech Possible in the Arab World?
On Tuesday, September 28, UCLA's Center for Middle East Development (CMED) will host a panel discussion on 'Is Freedom of Speech Possible in the Arab World?' with Tim Sebastian, Dr. Asli Bali and Professor David Kaye.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
How Seoul Received the Highest Recognition as an e-Government
Jeong Ho Lee, Seoul Metropolitan Government / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
12:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
'Are Hedge Funds Heroes or Villains?' a talk by Sebastian Mallaby, senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Sebastian Mallaby, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow and author of 'More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite', visits Zocalo and the Burkle Center to reveal the hidden history and workings of hedge funds, and the way they will shape the future booms and busts of our economy.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
Sauerkraut Cowboys: Sturm, Twang, and the Imaginary Wild West in Europe
A public lecture by Ruth Ellen Gruber, award-winning writer, photographer, editor and independent scholar
Thursday, September 30, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Message to García: Cuba, Jamaica, and the USA in 1898
A Talk by Peter Hulme, University of Essex, UK.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Humanities 193
Prestigious Goods along the Silk Road? An Archaeological Perspective
A lecture by ARMIN SELBITSCHKA (assistant professor of Sinology, University of Munich)
Friday, October 01, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Financial Crises and Real Estate Bubbles
A Miniconference sponsored by the Center for Economic History, the von Gremp seminar, and the Ziman Center
Friday, October 01, 2010
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Public Policy 4240
A Night at the Taj
The Pacific Asia Museum presents the 33rd Festival of the Autumn Moon, a celebration and fundraiser.
Saturday, October 02, 2010
5:30 PM - 10:30 PM
The California Club
Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, A Torch of Peace
The Ahimsa Center at Cal Poly Pomona presents the documentary, Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, a Torch for Peace. The film will be followed by a dialogue with the Producer/Director, Teri C. McLuhan.
Sunday, October 03, 2010
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Bronco Student Center (BSC)
'Israel, Iran, and the United States,' a talk by Prof. David Menashri, Tel Aviv University
David Menashri is the incumbent of the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies, Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.
Monday, October 04, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 6275
"Preventing Mother to Child HIV Transmission"
The UCLA School of Public Affairs presents a lecture by Dr. Mitch Besser, founder of the mothers2mothers program which assists HIV-positive mothers.
Monday, October 04, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room 2355
Exhibiting Africa: Critical Curatorial Practice in the 21st Century
A lecture series organized by Allen Roberts and Polly Nooter Roberts.
Monday, October 04, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th Floor)
Contemporary Controversies: Curatorial Activism in the Arts of Africa
Barbara Thompson, Stanford University
Monday, October 04, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th Floor)
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
The UCLA International Education Office is pleased to be hosting UCLA's 24th annual study abroad fair on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 in Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
Film Screening: 'Shadows & Illuminations' on Mental Illness, Spirit Possession and Social Violence in Bali
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the film's director, Prof. Robert Lemelson.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Haines Hall Reading Room 352
Seen Through the Camera Obscura: Cold War Anxiety, Masculine Nationalism, and the Korean War in Life Photographs
Junghyun Hwang, Sogang University / Korea Colloquium Series
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
3:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Culture Fix: Life in Ceramics
By Professor and guest curator Burglind Jungmann, UCLA Art History
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
12:00 PM
Life in Ceramics Exhibition Gallery
Argentina's Dirty War and the Quest for Justice
A conversation with Patricia Isasa, member of the Argentine Truth Commission.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA School of Law
Jean Charles
A film directed by Henrique Goldman. Based on a True Story.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
One Germany, Twenty Years Later
A documentary film screening and discussion with filmmakers Gabriele and Mark Hayes
Thursday, October 07, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Magical 'Display' and Dancing Female Figures in the Religions of Ancient Eurasia
A lecture by Miriam Robbins Dexter, UCLA Women's Studies
Thursday, October 07, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
A163 Bunche Hall
UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2010
A two-day conference that focuses on trans issues broadly construed from specific transgender embodiment to the intellectual, social, political, racial, global, theoretical, philosophical etc. 'crossings' that happen in queer lives and queer discourses.
Register to see Vaginal Davis' performance.
For free reservation email the LGBTS department at: lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu
Friday, October 08, 2010
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
306 & 314 Royce Hall
Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Workers to the World
Colloquium with Prof. Robyn Rodriguez, Sociology, Rutgers University.
Friday, October 08, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
279 Haines Hall
Iran Ideology Conference 2010
The Role of Ideology and Citizenship in Iran from the 1979 Revolution to the 2009 Green Movement
Saturday, October 09, 2010
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Humanities Building Room A51
UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2010
A two-day conference that focuses on trans issues broadly construed from specific transgender embodiment to the intellectual, social, political, racial, global, theoretical, philosophical etc. 'crossings' that happen in queer lives and queer discourses. Register to see Vaginal Davis' performance. For free reservation email the LGBTS department at: lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu
Saturday, October 09, 2010
8:30 AM - 8:00 PM
306 & 314 Royce Hall
Lucknow through the Lens of Bollywood
Visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for a presentation on the culture of Lucknow in films produced by directors of Hindi and Bollywood Cinema from the 1960s to the present.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Bing Theater
Morality of Citizenship: Japanese Immigration Politics in Comparative Perspective
Colloquium with Apichai Shipper, Visiting Scholar, UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
Monday, October 11, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
UCLA International Institute Open House
In association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars and the International Education Office
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10th and 11th Floors, Bunche Hall
'Partisan Financial Cycles: Politics, Policies, and Financial Crashes,' a talk by Lawrence Broz
Please join us for a talk by Lawrence Broz, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Political Science and part of the department's Comparative Pro-Seminar.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 6275
We Will Dance our Truth
Book presentation by Professor David Delgado Shorter. Hosted by the UCLA Library Writer Series.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
4:00 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library
Islamic Law and Legal Change: The Internal Critique
A lecture by Intisar Rabb, Boston College Law School
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
School of Law, Room 1357
Rebuilding Berlin: Urban Design and Planning after the Fall of the Wall
A public lecture by Deike Peters, Technical University Berlin, Center for Metropolitan Studies
Thursday, October 14, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Doubt Jurisprudence in Early Islamic Law and Society (7th-- 9th-Centuries)
A lecture by Intisar Rabb, Boston College Law School
Thursday, October 14, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Men, Masculinities, and Family Planning in Africa
The UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health and UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center present a conference on gender inclusivity in family planning programs and policies in Africa.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Experiencing China through Expos and Olympics: Reflections on 2010 Travel Study in China
A campus forum with UCLA faculty and students
Friday, October 15, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Experiencing China Through Expos and Olympics: Reflections on 2010 Travel Study in China
Interested in a travel study program in China or want to reconnect with classmates and faculty from Shanghai and Beijing? Want to learn more about Chinese cities today and options for study and majors?
Friday, October 15, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Friday Tea, Cookies and Cards
Head into the weekend with a rousing game of Durak
Friday, October 15, 2010
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Rolfe 1305
Institutions, Shocks and Economic Growth
A public lecture by Professor Leszek Balcerowicz, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland
Friday, October 15, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Public Affairs Building
Men, Masculinities, and Family Planning in Africa
The UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health and UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center present a conference on gender inclusivity in family planning programs and policies in Africa.
Friday, October 15, 2010
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
A Fowler OutSpoken Lecture: Journey to the Grave, Dance to Paradise: Korean Shaman Rituals for the Dead
By Laurel Kendall
Sunday, October 17, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Auditorium
Letters to My Torturer (lecture in Persian)
A lecture by Houshang Asadi, Journalist and Writer, Rooz Online
Sunday, October 17, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
2011-2012 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.
Monday, October 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Civil War and Social Capital: Behavioral-Game Evidence from Nepal
The UCLA Department of Political Science presents Professor Michael Gilligan from the Department of Politics at New York University.
Monday, October 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
2011-2012 Pacific Rim Research Program: UCLA Campus Information Session
Information session concerning the 2011-2012 Pacific Rim Research Program.
Monday, October 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Letters to My Torturer
A lecture by Houshang Asadi, Journalist and Writer, Rooz Online
Monday, October 18, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Reimagining Curatorial Practice in 21st-Century Africa: Community Museums
Raymond Silverman, University of Michigan
Monday, October 18, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th Floor)
Drafting a United Germany
A public lecture by Horst Teltschik, Former National Security Adviser to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
BETA Ethiopian-Israeli Dance Troupe Performance
The Little Ethiopia Cultural Resource Center and the Westside Jewish Community Center present the only performance in Los Angeles by the renowned Ethiopian-Israeli dance group BETA!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Westside Jewish Community Center
The Limits of Genocide: An Attempt at Confidence Intervals on the Khmer-Rouge Death Toll
Colloquium with Professor Patrick Heuveline, Department of Sociology, UCLA
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
The Turkish Rom Social Dance Phenom
Modern Social "Belly Dance" as an Expressive Celebratory Tradition Among The Turkish Rom in Izmir and Istanbul, a lecture by Jaynie Aydin, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift (1984)
Film screening in advance of the 'Jews and Judaism in the Work and Biography of Franz Werfel' international conference.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
5:30 PM
Room 314
Film Screening: Enemies of the People: A Personal Journey into the Heart of the Killing Fields
Cambodia film and discussion with Writer/Producer Rob Lemkin
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
The Difficulty of Being Good
UCLA Anderson School of Management presents Gurcharan Das, best-selling author, management guru, public intellectual and former CEO of Procter & Gamble India.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
B-209 EDR
UCLA-HKUST Student Exchange Program Information Meeting
For students who are interested in studying with the HKUST School of Humanities and Social Sciences through the student exchange program, there will be an information session on the 21st of October in 11367 Bunche Hall.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
11367 Bunche Hall
Information Session: UCLA-HKUST Faculty Research Grants and Student Exchange Opportunities
The UCLA Asia Institute and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) offer faculty grants and exchange opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
11:30 PM - 1:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Subversions of Hi/story and Desire for Memory
15th Annual Graduate Student Conference in French and Francophone Studies - October 21-22
Thursday, October 21, 2010
306 Royce Hall
Modern China and Educational Studies
A Lecture by Dr. Yong Zhou, Associate Professor, East China Normal University
Thursday, October 21, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3320 Moore Hall
Israel and Apartheid: The Jewish State's Unspoken Alliance with Apartheid South Africa
A lecture by Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Senior Editor, Foreign Affairs
Thursday, October 21, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Solidarity 30 Years Later: Women's Roles in the Movement
A roundtable discussion with filmmaker Jolanta Chojecka, journalist Jane Dobija, and scholars Ewa Kondratowicz and Shana Penn
Thursday, October 21, 2010
6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Taj Mahal and Vieux Farka Toure in Concert
UCLA Live presents Taj Mahal with special guest Vieux Farka Toure.
Friday, October 22, 2010
8:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Royce Hall
Jews and Judaism in the Work and Biography of Franz Werfel/ Juden und Judentum in Werk und Biographie von Franz Werfel (Day One)
An international and interdisciplinary conference in German and English.
Friday, October 22, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Room 314
Film Screening: The Wedding Song [France, Tunisia]
Part of the 2010 Arab Film Festival at the Writer's Guild of America Theater in Beverly Hills.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
3:30 PM
Writer's Guild of America Theater
Jews and Judaism in the Work and Biography of Franz Werfel/ Juden und Judentum in Werk und Biographie von Franz Werfel (Day Two)
An international and interdisciplinary conference in German and English.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Room 314
Kids in the Courtyard: Life Drawing Meets Dead Dancing: A Day of the Dead Celebration
Join us for a Mexican-Korean fusion Day of the Dead inspired by artworks in Intersections: Worlds Arts, Local Lives and Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum Courtyard
Film Screening: Little Town of Bethlehem [USA]
Part of the 2010 Arab Film Festival at the Writer's Guild of America Theater in Beverly Hills.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
11:30 AM
Writers Guild of America Theater
섬세한 고려 불화의 세계- Exquisite Beauty: In Search of the Delicate Techniques of Koryŏ Buddhist Painting
By Woo Thak Chung, Dongguk University
Sunday, October 24, 2010
2:00 PM
Dorothy Collins Brown Auditorium
Atta Kwami and Sylvester Ogbechie: Africa and Modernity
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents a discussion exploring African art as part of the Fowler OutSpoken Conversation series.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
China's Strike Wave and the Prospects for Labor Relations Reform
A talk by Liu Cheng, Shanghai Normal University
Monday, October 25, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
279 Haines Hall
The United States and Japan: Can a Hawk and a Dove Remain Allies?
An afternoon in celebration of Hans H. Baerwald with special guest speaker Sam Jameson.
Monday, October 25, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Memorias del desarrollo (Memories of Overdevelopment)
Based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes. Directed by Miguel Coyula
Monday, October 25, 2010
4:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Humanities 135
147 memoria "Life is Beautiful" and the Dirty War
A Talk and Art Exhibition by Chilean Artist Victor Videla Godoy
Monday, October 25, 2010
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Design Media Arts Grad Gallery
'How America Ends its Wars' a talk by Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign Affairs
Gideon Rose, Editor of Foreign Affairs and author of 'How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle,' visits Zocalo and the Burkle Center to explain how to conclusively and effectively end our wars.
Moderated by Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala
Monday, October 25, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Actor's Gang
헐리우드와 한국의 엔터테인먼트 산업 비교--A Comparative Study of Hollywood and Korean Entertainment Industries
By Tae You Chang, Seoul Broadcasting System / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
12:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
From Early Judeo-Iranian Jargons to Central Asiatic Argots of Rom Groups: Evidence for an Influential Jewish Underworld in the Late Abbasid Period
A lecture by Martin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Chinese Garden Lecture Series: Plant Collecting in China
A lecture by Dr. Bruce Bartholomew, Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
7:30 PM
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Identities in Transition: Jews and Israelis in the Age of Doubt
A public lecture with Bambi Sheleg, founder and editor-in-chief of Israel's leading magazine, Eretz Aheret.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Being Hui Muslim in Xinjiang: Ethnic and Religious Identity of a Minority in a Minority Region
A lecture by Yang Zhongdong, Xinjiang University
Thursday, October 28, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans
A book talk with author Jelena Subotic (Georgia State University, Political Science) and discussant Chip Gagnon (Ithaca College, Politics)
Thursday, October 28, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
'Air's Substantiations' by Timothy Choy (UC Davis, Anthropology)
Culture, Power, and Social Change - UCLA Department of Anthropology
Thursday, October 28, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
The Crooked Line: Memory, Communism and Feminism in India
Sponsored by the Department of English & the Mellon Grant for Cultures in Transnational Context. With respondent Jenny Sharpe.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Sequoia Room
A Unique Look inside North Korea: The Personal Experience of the 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand
A Marschak Colloquium featuring Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Burkle Center Senior Fellow and former Foreign Minister of Thailand. This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center and the Center for Korean Studies.
Friday, October 29, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Anderson School of Management, Korn Convocation Hall
The Future of Korea-Japan Relations: Economics, Culture, and History
A UCLA & USC joint workshop
Friday, October 29, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Intellectual Commons Room, Doheny Library
Pakistan's New Literature: A Conversation with John Freeman, editor of Granta
A talk with Mr. Freeman on Granta's newest issue #112, dedicated to contemporary Pakistani literature.
Friday, October 29, 2010
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
4357 Bunche Hall
Film screening - FAIR GAME: Wife, Mother, Spy
FAIR GAME, a thriller directed by Doug Liman (Bourne Identity) and starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, is based on the true story of Valerie Plame and on Plame's memoir, 'Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House.' THIS IS AN EXCLUSIVE PRE-RELEASE SCREENING. This screening is co-sponsored with the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Friday, October 29, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
UCLA Melnitz Hall, James Bridges Theater
First International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse
October 29 - 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Die and Let Live: Death and Regeneration in Art
Indonesian mythology shares lecture on death and regeneration in art with other genres.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Auditorium at the Fowler Museum
Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival
The Tazzla Institute for Cultural Diversity presents a celebration of Amazigh culture through film, food and music
Saturday, October 30, 2010
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Barnsdall Theatre and Art Gallery
Film Screening: Not an Illusion (Na Yek Tavahhom) [Iran]
Screening of the film Not an Illusion (Na Yek Tavahhom), followed by a Q&A session with director, writer, producer Torang Abedian. In Persian with English Subtitles.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
Research or Teach in Vietnam with the Fulbright Program: An Information Session
Meeting with Ms. Do Thu Huong, Assistant of the Fulbright Program in Vietnam
Monday, November 01, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Ciudad Juarez: The Definitive Neoliberal City"
A presentation by grassroots organizer Verónica Leyva.
Monday, November 01, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
YRL Presentation Room
Simultaneous Translation: In and out of Africa/ In and out of Time
Gemma Rodrigues, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Monday, November 01, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th Floor)
China and the Global Environmental Challenges Ahead
JONATHAN WATTS (Asia correspondent of the Guardian) in conversation with Kenneth Pomeranz (UCI Chancellor's Professor of History) at UC Irvine
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room 135
Workshop with Gamelan Cudamani
The exhilarating 26-member ensemble from Bali conducts a hands-on movement/music workshop.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Theatre
Tibetan Sand Mandala
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Phukhang Khangtsen monastery create a mandala at the Pacific Asia Museum
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Shari'ah Watch: A View from the Inside
Lecture and Extended Q&A with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, Moderated by Professor Asli Bali
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
School of Law, Room 1357
Corporate Social Responsibility in Japan
'East Meets West: What is Moral Capitalism?' Come learn from Dr. Hiroshi Tasaka, a distinguished business philosopher, prolific author and founder of SophiaBank, a think tank that supports social entrepreneurs in Japan, and the Japan Social Entrepreneur Forum.
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
B210, UCLA Anderson School of Management
O homem que engarrafava nuvens (The Man who Bottled Clouds) (2009)
A film directed by Lírio Ferreira
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
The Current State of Luso-Brazilian Studies in Japan
A lecture by Professor Akira Kono from Osaka University.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Dodd 167
The Dynamics of Transnational Formations: Albanian Migrants in Europe
A public lecture by Janine Dahinden, Transnational Studies, Center for the Understanding of Social Processes, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Thursday, November 04, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
'The Economic Crisis and You' a Regents' Lecture by Skip Victor
Please join us for a Regents' Lecture by Skip Victor, Senior Managing Director of Duff and Phelps Corp. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Political Science.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, room 6275
"The China-U.S. Relationship in a Changing World" and "Harmony in Diversity"
Talks by Ambassadors WU JIANMIN and SHI YANHUA
Thursday, November 04, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Collins Alumni Conference Room
Material Culture and Maritime Asia: New International Perspectives
The Fourth China in Asia workshop in honor of Roxanna Brown, in conjunction with the Huntington Library conference, "Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and "Connections across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times."
Thursday, November 04, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hacienda Room
International Coffee Break
International Coffee Break event sponsored by the Dashew Center.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bradley International Hall
Buddhist and Manichaean Textual Iconographies in Early Persian Poetry
A lecture by Stefano Pellò, University of Venice
Thursday, November 04, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Courtesan's Other: Visibility, Sexuality, and the Republican Lady in Early Twentieth-Century China
JOAN JUDGE (York University) discusses 'Republican ladies,' a new demographic of woman in early twentieth century China, at the Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College
Thursday, November 04, 2010
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Today's Struggle from Slavery to Freedom in Karnataka
Come hear Shivanna and Kiran talk about the important work they do in rural India with the courageous grassroots organization JEEVIKA. Shivanna Puttaiah and Kiran Kamal Prasad are the 2010 recipients of the Harriet Tubman Award, as part of the Free the Slaves Freedom Awards.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Performing the Barrio Negro: Blackface, Poetry Recital, and Afro-Cubans in 1930s New York
A Talk by Professor Antonio López from George Washington University.
Friday, November 05, 2010
3:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Film & Television Archive: 'Bi, Don't Be Afraid!'
Screening of 'New Voices From Vietnam' and In-Person Talk with Director Thien Do
Friday, November 05, 2010
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Economic History and Development
Economic History Mini-Conference
Friday, November 05, 2010
8:45 AM - 3:30 PM
Bunche 9383
The First North American Conference on the Kurdish Language
The conference will bring linguists, students, and scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe to address research on Kurdish studies
Friday, November 05, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Collins Conference room
Anyang Archaeology in the 21st Century: New Perspectives in the Search for the Shang Civilization
TANG JIGEN (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) presents the twenty-third Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology and Art
Saturday, November 06, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Social structure, cultural kinship, and cooperation among the Lamalera whale hunters of Indonesia
Colloquium with Michael Alvard, Texas A&M University Department of Anthropology
Monday, November 08, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines Hall 352
The Floating Lexicon: Amitav Ghosh, Hobson-Jobson and the OED
A lecture by Kate Teltscher, Roehampton University
Monday, November 08, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
348 Humanities
한국과 미국의 저항가요 비교 - A Comparative Study on Korean and American Protest Songs
By Kyeong Eun Chung, Korea University / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
12:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Memory and Representation of the Holocaust in Israeli Art
A public talk by artist Maya Zack
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Fowler A139
Taxonomies, Minorities, and Boundaries: The League of Nations and the Interwar Middle East
A lecture by Sarah Shields, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Symposium: Fifty Years of Ethnomusicology at UCLA
UCLA Student/Alumni Symposium and Dinner
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building
The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia
Central Asia Initiative International Conference
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
ADRIENN PAL (PAL ADRIENN): film screening
AFI FEST 2010 presented by AUDI
(November 4-11)
Grauman's Chinese Theater, neighboring Mann 6 Theaters, and the Egyptian Theatre.
ALL REGULAR SCREENINGS ARE FREE!
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
9:45 PM - 11:15 PM
Grauman's Chinese Theater #3
Meet the Artist: Maya Zack and the Art of Reconstructed Memory
A public talk by artist Maya Zack
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Dodd 146
Music Recordings and Films of Bali, 1928 - 1930s
Colloquium with Dr. Edward Herbst, Udayana University
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue
This inter-faith event seeks to promote dialogue and mutual understanding between Buddhism and Catholicism.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Pizza Talk: Glass Making in Ancient India
The history of glass-making in India:
Recent research at the site of Kopia
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A222 Fowler
The History of Glass-making in India: Recent Research at the Site of Kopia
The UCLA Department of Anthropology and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology presents Dr. Alok Kumar Kanungo, Deccan College, Pune, India and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room A222
Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in Conversation with Renee Montagne, Co-Host, Morning Edition, National Public Radio
FULL MULTIMEDIA EVENT COVERAGE NOW AVAILABLE
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Preserving the Two-State Solution
A lecture by Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the US
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
The Sor Juana Revue
Performance, lecture and discussion about Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
4:00 PM
1330 Macgowan Hall
Gamelan Cudamani - Bamboo to Bronze
Music and dance from Bali, Indonesia
Thursday, November 11, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Royce Hall
The Ottoman Contribution to European Modernity
A public lecture by Haldun Gulalp, Political Science and International Relations, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
Friday, November 12, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Promoting Moderate Islam and Interfaith Tolerance in Indonesia
A group of Indonesian religious experts discuss Indonesia's promotion of moderate Islam, tolerant interfaith coexistence and democracy.
Friday, November 12, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Literatura y cine de la revolución mexicana: Visiones y revisiones
Film and Literature of the Mexican Revolution. A one-day symposium hosted by the Center for Mexican Studies.
Friday, November 12, 2010
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Kucha and the Silk Road
USC Departments of Art History and East Asian Languages and Cultures host a one-day symposium exploring the monuments found along China's Silk Road
Saturday, November 13, 2010
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Waite Phillips Hall B27
Kids in the Courtyard: Textiles for the Table
Children's activity at the Fowler Museum inspired by the textiles in the exhibit 'Weaver's Stories from Island Southeast Asia.'
Sunday, November 14, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum Courtyard
ArtBites: Korean Food and Symbols
Speaker: Maite Gomez-Rejon
Sunday, November 14, 2010
11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Shanghai Girl Gets All Dressed Up
BEVERLEY JACKSON will discuss and sign 'Shanghai Girl Gets All Dressed Up'
Sunday, November 14, 2010
2:00 PM
Pacific Asia Museum
Art of Change-Making: Philanthropy at its Best
Screening of the documentary film 'Lady of the Roses,' followed by a bilingual (English/Persian) panel discussion
Sunday, November 14, 2010
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
Study Abroad Information Fair
Special Event - International Education Week 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Bruin Plaza Stage
Cultures of Sacrificial Death in 12th and 13th Century India
The Center for India and South Asia and the UCLA Department of Art History presents Professor Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania. The talk is a discussion of various forms of ritual suicide, both religious and secular, in the 12th and 13th century in India. Professor Ali will focus on the culture of the Hoysala dynasty in the Deccan using inscriptions, literary texts, and art.
Monday, November 15, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Israel's National Security Debate
Shai Feldman, Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics at Brandeis University
Monday, November 15, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Public Affairs 2232
Economía de guerra en tiempos de paz: los cubanos y el arte de inventar
A Seminar by Elzbieta Sklodowska (Washington University, St Louis)
Monday, November 15, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Rolfe 4302 (Lydeen Library)
UCLA Travel Study Info Sessions
Learn more details, meet the faculty director, and chat with former participants of the programs.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Various locations and times throughout the week
Mariachi y la Revolución Mexicana
A Lecture by Dr. Alvaro Ochoa-Serrano from Centro de Estudios de las Tradiciones, El Colegio de Michoacán. Presented by the Center for Mexican Studies.
Monday, November 15, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Curating Africa as a Site of Globalization
Sylvester Ogbechie, UC Santa Barbara
Monday, November 15, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th Floor)
Across the Windward Passage: Haiti in the Cuban Imaginary
A Public Talk by Elzbieta Sklodowska (Washington University, St Louis)
Monday, November 15, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Rolfe 4302 (Lydeen Library)
2010 International Opportunities Fair
Stop by for information on fellowships, international careers, study abroad opportunities, and events at UCLA. For graduate and undergraduate students.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Kerckhoff State Rooms
Contentious Spirits: Book Talk with David K. Yoo
Book Signing and Colloquia for 'Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945' by Professor David K. Yoo. Cosponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Asian American Studies Department, Center for Religious Studies, Department of History
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA Travel Study Info Sessions
Learn more details, meet the faculty director, and chat with former participants of the programs.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Various locations and times throughout the week
Lunch Around the World
Special Event - International Education Week 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Westwood Restaurants
Right to Education: Obstacles to Academic Freedom in Occupied Palestine
A lecture by Randa Siniora, Executive Director, Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Humanitarian Diplomacy and Public Service: Refugee Issues in Africa and Humanitarian Diplomacy on a Global Level
A lecture and discussion with Dr. Reuben Brigety II, the Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration at the US Department of State.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Culture Fix: African Divination Objects
The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents Gemma Rodrigues discussing African divination objects in the Fowler's permanent exhibition 'Intersections.'
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Pursuing Global Justice through Grassroots Change
The UCLA School of Law presents a conversation with Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service, and Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Rosaria Memorial Trust, Zimbabwe.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Room 1447
Antecedents and Emergent Forms of Organizational Innovation
By Jin Nam Choi, Seoul National University / Korea Colloquium Series
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
279 Haines Hall
UCLA Travel Study Info Sessions
Learn more details, meet the faculty director, and chat with former participants of the programs.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Various locations and times throughout the week
Film Screening: 'Climate Refugees'
Join us and the UCLA community for a screening of 'Climate Refugees,' a documentary film about 'the human face of climate change.' There will be a small reception preceding the screening at 5:30 pm and the screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker Michael Nash and subject experts.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
Film Screening: Z32 [Israel]
A screening of Avi Mograbi's documentary film, Z32, followed by a discussion with Arnon Degani, History Department, UCLA. Film in Hebrew with English Subtitles.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
7:00 PM
EVENT LOCATION CHANGED to Humanities Building Room A51
Perceptions of Boundary Policing in the Lives of Black-White Couples in Rio de Janeiro
A presentation by UCLA Ph.D Candidate of Sociology, Chinyere Osuji.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
1:00 PM
167 Dodd
'Why Limited Force Rarely Works,' a talk by Micah Zenko
Please join us for a talk by Micah Zenko, Fellow for Conflict Prevention in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA), Council on Foreign Relations
Thursday, November 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, room 10383
UCLA Travel Study Info Sessions
Learn more details, meet the faculty director, and chat with former participants of the programs.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Various locations and times throughout the week
Was the Mexican Revolution Ecologically Sustainable?
A Lecture by Mikael D. Wolfe. Presented by the Center for Mexican Studies.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Storm that Swept Mexico
A two hour documentary film of the gripping story of the Mexican revolution of 1910; its causes and its legacy
Thursday, November 18, 2010
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Digital Screening Theater
Mapping the Sources of Racial Economic Inequality Using Geographic Information Science
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies presents Professor Robert Singleton discussing the impact of economic and environmental changes on African American and White communities.
Friday, November 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Haines Hall 135
Russian Cards, Tea, and Cookies
Come play Durak with us!
Friday, November 19, 2010
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
305 Humanities Building
Memorial Service for Professor Teshome Gabriel
The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television celebrates the inspiring life of Professor Teshome Gabriel, 1939 - 2010.
Friday, November 19, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Freud Playhouse
El Mariachi en California (1878-2009)
A Lecture by Dr. Alvaro Ochoa-Serrano from Centro de Estudios de las Tradiciones, El Colegio de Michoacán. Presented by the Center for Mexican Studies and UNAMLA.
Friday, November 19, 2010
6:30 PM
634. S. Spring St. Los Angeles
Traces and Memory of Jorge Preloran
A documentary by Fermín Álvarez Rivera about an independent filmmaker that gave Argentina a new cinematic identity.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
5:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre
'Theorizing Modern Ethiopianism: The Case of the Universal Ethiopian Students Association, 1927-1948'
The UCLA Department of History, the UCLA African Studies Center and the UCLA International Institute present a talk by Hillina Seife.
Monday, November 22, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
15-16세기 조선불화의 양상--Aspects of 15-16th Century Chosŏn Dynasty Buddhist Painting
By Woo Thak Chung, Dongguk University / Korea Colloquium Series
Monday, November 22, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
167 Dodd Hall
The Myth of Nuclear Family and the Rise of Individualized Households: Families in Shanghai
A talk by SHEN YIFEI (Fudan University)
Monday, November 22, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
UCLA Jazz Combos
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology presents UCLA Jazz Combos featuring student combo ensembles.
Monday, November 22, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Social Innovations in Latin America and the Caribbean
a one day symposium on social innovations organized by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Monday, November 22, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Village Videos and the Cultural Politics of Media in Rural, Ethnic China
A talk by JENNY CHIO (China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
3:30 PM
University of Southern California
Gendering the Globe: The Political and Imperial Thought of Philip Francis
The Center for India and South Asia and the Department of History presents Professor Linda Colley, Princeton University.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Film Screening: Masquerades [Algeria]
Screening of the film Masquerades, followed by a Q&A session with director Lyes Salem.
Photo courtesy of the Global Film Initiative.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
7:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
UCLA Big Band Holiday Concert
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Ethnomusicology presents a Big Band Holiday Concert featuring UCLA's Award Winning Jazz Ensembles.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Books, Wonder, and Exchange: American Protestants in 19th-Century Iran
A lecture by Adam H. Becker, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Classics, Director of the Religious Studies Program, New York University
Monday, November 29, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Law and Politics in the Middle East Peace Process
The Honorable Dan Meridor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy
Monday, November 29, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
1347 Law School
저작권의 침해 및 구제 - Copyright Infringement and Remedies
By Soonkyo Hwang, Seoul Western District Court of Korea / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
3:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Hu Yinglin (1551-1602) and the Shisou
A talk by WANG MINGHUI (University of International Business and Economics)
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pizza Talk: Archaeological Survey at the Wen-Si River Basin
Archaeological Survey at the Wen-Si River Basin, Eastern China: Preliminary Observations
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A222 Fowler
Tour of Fowler Museum Exhibits on Southeast Asian Women and Textiles
Docent tour by Roy W. Hamilton, Senior Curator for Asian and Pacific Collections at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Fowler Museum (meet in main lobby)
É Proibido Fumar (Smoke gets in your eyes) (2009)
A film directed by Anna Muylaert
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Europe since 1980
A book talk with author Ivan Berend (UCLA, History) and discussant Ken Jowitt (UC Berkeley, Political Science; Hoover Institution, Senior Fellow)
Thursday, December 02, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Leisurely Islam: Youth Negotiations of Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut
A lecture by Lara Deeb, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College
Thursday, December 02, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
Some Comments on Israel's Borders: The Hebrew Bible and the Middle East Conflict
A public talk by Prof. Gideon Aran
Thursday, December 02, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche 10383
Performing Politics in Japan and Modern East Asia
An interdisciplinary conference, organized by UCLA History professor William Marotti
Friday, December 03, 2010
Time to be announced.
Russian Tea, Cookies, Cards
Week 10's over -- join us for tea and cookies.
Friday, December 03, 2010
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Humanities 311
Performing Politics in Japan and Modern East Asia
An interdisciplinary conference, organized by UCLA History professor William Marotti
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Time to be announced.
Maasai at the Crossroads, Mozambique and Coexist Film Screening
The 7th Annual Artivist Film Festival and Awards presents a screening of these three films as part of the festival which runs December 1-4, 2010.
Saturday, December 04, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre
Performing Politics in Japan and Modern East Asia
An interdisciplinary conference, organized by UCLA History professor William Marotti
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Time to be announced.
Echoes of the Ancient Skies
Fowler OutSpoken Lecture combines Indonesian cosmology and worldwide engagement with the night sky.
Sunday, December 05, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Auditorium at the Fowler Museum
Dar pey-ye mardomsalari: talash-ha ye sad saleh-ye demokrasi-khahi dar Iran
A lecture by Fakhreddin Azimi, Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Sunday, December 05, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Constitutionalism and Political Legitimacy in Modern Iran: Strategies of creating and confronting political authority
A lecture by Fakhreddin Azimi, Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Monday, December 06, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Future of Spanish-Language Literature
A conversation with Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists Carlos Labbé, Carlos Yushimito and Daniel Alarcón.
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Applying for EU grants from the European Research Council
a presentation by Ronald Rogowski, UCLA, Political Science
Thursday, December 09, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Rise and Fall of Courtly Lucknow: A Courtesan's Perspective
A lecture presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Saturday, December 11, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Brown Auditorium
Peony Pavilion Performance
Downey Civic Theatre, December 11 and 12
Saturday, December 11, 2010
7:00 PM
The Chess Players
An exhibition screening presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Bing Theater
Kids in the Courtyard: Kimchi for You, Kimchi for Me
A hands-on workshop
Sunday, December 12, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum Courtyard
Historical and Cultural Preservation in China, Part 2: The Dunhuang Caves of the Silk Road
A talk by NEVILLE AGNEW (Getty Conservation Institute) at the Pacific Asia Museum
Saturday, December 18, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
