Calendar of Events
Public lectures, symposium, colloquia and workshops about World Affairs at UCLA
Events for Winter Quarter: 1/1/2013 - 3/19/2013
대한민국 법원의 외국 중재 판정 승인 및 집행 소고 - 미국 중재 판정 승인 및 집행을 중심으로 The Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Korea - With Focus on the US Matters
By Jahng Yongbeum, Judge, Seoul District Court
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: Tulpan, pt. 2
A Kazakh film discussion
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Nazarian Center Documentary Film Series - Gut Shabbes Vietnam
A young Israeli couple set out to the Far East – emissaries of the Chabad Movement who are sent to Vietnam
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Humanities Building, Rm 135
SAMBHI INDIAN MUSIC LECTURE SERIES
THE MOHINDAR BRAR SAMBHI LECTURE SERIES
ON INDIAN MUSIC
in association with the
NAZIR ALI JAIRAZBHOY COLLOQUIUM
ETHNOMU 291
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room 1344 Schoenberg Music Building
Xingu
A 2012 Brazilian drama film by director Cao Hamburger
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall 1409
Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, the Opposition and the End of East German Socialism
CEES book talk with author Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago, Sociology. Discussant: Gail Kligman, UCLA, Sociology.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Patriot of Persia
A book reading by Christopher de Bellaigue, Journalist
Thursday, January 10, 2013
2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Rejecting the 'Religious vs. Secular' Binary: Traditionalists in Jewish-Israeli Politics
Professor Yaacov Yadgar, Bar-Ilan University, Visiting Faculty UC Berkeley
Thursday, January 10, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall
“Keeping the Immigrant Bargain: The Costs and Rewards of Success in America”
A talk by Vivian Louie, Harvard University.
Location: Moore Hall Room 3340 (the Video Lab)
Friday, January 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Commemoration of the Iranian Media Legend Iraj Gorgin
A book launch
Sunday, January 13, 2013
5:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
Decentralized Disaster Management, Safety Nets and Local Governance in Bangladesh
Prof. Stephen Commins, UCLA Department of Urban Planning
Monday, January 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Health in Post-Socialist Georgia
Led by Hannah Reiss
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
New Leaders Make a Difference, but When? Reflections from Hong Kong on China’s Current Succession
Dr. David Zweig talks about China's political changes under the new leader, Xi Jinping
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
Europe in Crisis: Bolt from the Blue?
A book talk with author Ivan Berend, UCLA, History. Discussants: Dr. Bernd Fischer, Consul General of Germany, and Stefan Biedermann, Deputy Consul General of Germany in Los Angeles.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
숫자로 본 야구 Numbers, statistics, and Baseball
By Professor Nahm Jae Hyun, Korea University
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: From Ethnic Groups to Nationalities and Nations
led by Andrew Grant, UCLA Dept. of Geography
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The National Park: Biodiversity Conservation in Wartime Iraq
A lecture by Bridget Guarasci, Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Putin's Kiss
Reception at 6:30 pm. Documentary film screening at 7:00 pm followed by discussion with Arch Getty, UCLA, History. Part of the International Institute Human Rights Film Series.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
The Place of Film in the Romanian Secret Police Archives: "Reenactment" (1960) and its Files - CANCELLED
CEES public lecture by Cristina Vatulescu, New York University, Comparative Literature.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Palestine & the UN
A panel discussion about the significance of the "non-member state observer status" recently granted to Palestine by the UN General Assembly. Panelists include Asli Bali, UCLA Law; Steven Spiegel, UCLA Center for Middle East Development; and UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala, who will also moderate the discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, and the Center for Middle East Development.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1347
Funding Opportunities for International Grad Students
Information Workshop for International Graduate Students at UCLA
Thursday, January 24, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room (YRL 11348)
How Bananas Got to Africa
Presentation by Professor Christopher Ehret, University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, January 24, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche hall
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Route 181 (2003)
Screening of the first half of the film
Thursday, January 24, 2013
6:00 PM
A51 Humanities Building
Reconstituirea - CANCELLED
CEES film screening (in Romanian ONLY) and discussion with Cristina Vatulescu, New York University, Comparative Literature.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
6:30 PM
190 Royce Hall
Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education, and the Politics of Exclusion
A talk by Leigh Patel, Boston University
Location: Moore Hall 3340 (the Reading Room)
Friday, January 25, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Innovation: East Asian Perspectives
A multidisciplinary conference
Friday, January 25, 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
243/314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Innovation: East Asian Perspectives
A multidisciplinary conference
Saturday, January 26, 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
243/314 Royce Hall, UCLA
From Ancient Persia to Contemporary LA: 2,700 Years of Iranian Jewish History
A conference organized in conjunction with the exhibition Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews, this day-long conference brings together distinguished scholars to examine topics including religions and cultures in ancient Persia, religious minorities under Shiite Islamic rule, and contemporary issues of identity and culture, including women in Iran and the Jewish-Persian diaspora.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Fowler Museum
Discussion on a 4-Volume Book on the Holocaust
A panel discussion with Dr. Ardeshir Babaknia, Dr. Jaleh Pirnazar, and Reza Goharzad, Journalist
Sunday, January 27, 2013
6:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
"Can a Modern Science & Engineering Institution in Pakistan Be Sustained?"
Asad Abidi, Chancellor's Professor, UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering
Monday, January 28, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Rogers Brubaker Readings
Led by Ali Hamdan
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Info Session: JRI Summer Research Exchange at Peking University
Q&A for students interested in 2013 JRI Summer Research Exchange at Peking University,
for UCLA undergraduate and graduate students in science and engineering
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Screening of "The Ayatollah’s Seal" and lecture on "Safety of Journalists"
A lecture by Mohammad Manzarpour BBC Persian Bureau Editor. Washington DC, following the screening of the documentary "The Ayatollah's Seal"
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Arab Uprisings: Between Change and Continuity
A Panel Discussion and Book Event
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
4:30 PM
Law School Room 1430
Lecture: Professor Akira Nishimura, Kagoshima University- Pacification of the Dead Spirits, Inspiration for the Living: The Relation of the Violent Structure of Japanese Society to the Commemoration for the War Dead
In Japan, two kinds of the dead have been discussed separately in the past research trends on the commemoration for war dead: the fallen soldiers and the civilian casualties like the atomic bomb dead. In this talk, Professor Akira Nishimura will try to recapitulate such genealogies of the commemorations based on the violent structure of Japanese society and abstract two types of vectors as “pacification and inspiration” which represent the relation of the living and the dead.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Rolfe Hall, Room 1301
The Élysée Treaty: Celebrating 50 Years of Franco-German Cooperation
CEES panel discussion marking the fiftieth anniversary of the post-war French-German reconciliation by the signing of the Élysée Treaty on January 22nd, 1963. Speakers: Dr. Bernd Fischer, Consul General of Germany, and Mr. Axel Cruau, Consul General of France. Moderator: Ivan Berend, UCLA History.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Encuentro con Carla Guelfenbein: Una chilena en la republica mundial de la novela
A lecture by novelist Carla Guelfenbein.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Rolfe 4302
CANCELLED - Taking the Place of Stalin: Everyday Life in Late Communism
CEES public lecture by Paulina Bren, Vassar College, History.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan
Program on Central Asia Book Talk by Ali Igmen, CSU Long Beach
Thursday, January 31, 2013
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche
Missing Identities: Conflicting sentiments in a world of enforced disappearance in the Southern Cone
Lecture by sociologist professor Gabriel Gatti
Thursday, January 31, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Route 181 (2003)
Part 2 of two-part documentary film screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Eyal Sivan and Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Thursday, January 31, 2013
6:00 PM
A51 Humanities Building
The U.S. Foreign Service: Behind the Scenes of American Diplomacy
Please join us for a talk by Nicholas Kralev, author of the book "America's Other Army" and former Financial Times and Washington Times correspondent. Comments will be provided by the Honorable Bill Martin, U.S. State Department Diplomat-in-Residence at UCLA.
Friday, February 01, 2013
12:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Vienna's Jewish Geography: Beyond the Leopoldstadt
Inaugural Seminar on Vienna in Los Angeles. Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, UCLA Department of History, NEH Endowment on Jewish Civilization, and UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Monday, February 04, 2013
12:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Flagship Scholarship Opportunity Information Sessions
Monday, February 04, 2013
EVENT CANCELLED! Are American Jews Distancing from Israel?: The New Politics of Israel in the American Jewish Community
We regret that, due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Ted Sasson is unable to come to UCLA and his talk have been cancelled. We hope to reschedule in the future.
Monday, February 04, 2013
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Humanities Building, Room 135
ISRAEL, IRAN AND THE US: Following the Israeli Election
Please join us for a talk by Professor David Menashri.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
CAW: Mathematics of Beauty: the Science of Architectural Restoration in Soviet Central Asia
Led by Igor Demchenko
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Said Sarmad the Jewish Saint
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Nahid Pirnazar, UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Mapping Red Sea Frontiers: Space and Mobility between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
Presentation by Professor Jonathan Miran, Western Washington University.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche hall
The Politics of Humor: A Historical Perspective of the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Colloquium with Katherine Bowie, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
La tristeza de los tigres y los misterios de Raúl Ruiz
By Verónica Cortínez and Manfred Engelbert
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
Uma Longa Viagem (A Long Journey)
A 2011 film directed by Lucia Murat
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz 1409
Debt, Credit and the “End” of Finance in Post-Fukushima Japan
Prof. Miyazaki examines two contrasting market responses to the TEPCO crisis, orchestrated by Tokyo’s financial market professionals, as manifestations of their conscious efforts to re-deploy theories and techniques of finance in a newly found sphere of profound uncertainty.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines Hall, Room 352
Molla Nasreddin: Embrace Your Antithesis
A lecture by Payam Sharifi, Paris-based essayist, artist, and strategist
Thursday, February 07, 2013
2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Movie Screening: Rent-a-Cat (2012, Naoko Ogigami)
"Cats for rent! Are you lonely? Why not rent a cat?"
Thursday, February 07, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Mayanamerican Families: Breaking and Blending Traditions
A talk by James Loucky, Western Washington University
Location: Moore Hall Room 3340 (The Reading Room)
Friday, February 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Translating the Essays and the Narrative Fiction of Mario Vargas Llosa
Lecture by Professor John King from the University of Warwick
Friday, February 08, 2013
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche 10383
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Session 2: Urban Discontent in the Long Eighteenth Century across Eurasia. A core conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Friday, February 08, 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Session 2: Urban Discontent in the Long Eighteenth Century across Eurasia. A core conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Saturday, February 09, 2013
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Chinese New Year's Celebration
Ring in the Year of the Snake at the Chinese New Year’s Day Festival at the Hammer Museum.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
2:00 PM
Hammer Museum
A Book Talk by Kambiz Navai on “Khesht o Khial: An Interpretation of Iranian Islamic Architecture”
A book talk by Kambiz Navai, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Sunday, February 10, 2013
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Punjabis in California: Then and Now
Prof. Karen Leonard, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Monday, February 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Efforts to Improve Quality of Public Service and Policy Implication: Focusing the Korean Cases
By Professor Huimun Ra, SungKyul University
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Beyond Identity Fetishism"
Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Ecstasy of the Angels - Free Screening
Political film directed by Koji Wakamatsu, filmed 1972
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
12th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Beyond Queering the Chain of Care: Affective Feminizations, Biological Investments
Colloquium with Aren Z. Aizura, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Re-visiting "The Ringworm Affair": X-rays and the Jewish Question in Early Israel
Professor Michael Berkowitz, University College London
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 6275
The Unreturned
A film screening and discussion with Asli Bali, UCLA Law School. Part of the International Human Rights Film Series.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965
CEES book talk with author John Connelly, UC Berkeley, History. Discussant: Paul Lerner, USC, History.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Asia and the Global South
JEASC Annual Conference & Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop
Thursday, February 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Social Sciences Building (SOS) B40, USC
Building Brics: Human Rights in a Multipolar World
UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (JILFA) Annual Symposium
Thursday, February 14, 2013
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA School of Law
A guerra segundo o Seu João: história e trauma em Guimarães Rosa
A talk by Professor Ettore Finazzi-Agrò
Thursday, February 14, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
12th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Thursday, February 14, 2013
7:30 PM
Grounding Globalization: Capitalist Connections between Africa, Asia and Latin America in the early 21st Century
A panel discussion presented by the UCLA Asia Institute
Friday, February 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
2013 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Friday, February 15, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
Sex and Sectarianism: Recognition and the Disarticulation of Madhhab/Sect and Sex/Gender in Lebanon
A lecture by Maya Mikdashi, New York University
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Subnational Islamization through Secular Parties: Comparing Shari'a Politics in Two Indonesian Provinces
Colloquium with Prof. Michael Buehler, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Rediscovering Chinese Scholastic Chan in Edo Japan," talk by George Keyworth
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
The Rights Movement and Civic Engagement in China Today: A Conversation with Teng Biao
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
ANDRÉ AZOULAY, SENIOR ADVISOR TO H. E. KING MOHAMMED VI OF MOROCCO
GROWTH & STABILITY IN AFRICA. Mr. Azoulay will discuss Morocco’s role in Africa and importance of continent wide cooperation. He will address the importance of peace and stability as prerequisites to economic growth and share his predictions and expectations for Africa.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Korn Convocation Hall
Discourse and Power in a Postwar European Periphery: the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
CEES public lecture by Danijela Majstorovic, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies Fulbright Fellow and Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Film Screening: "Enforcing the Silence" (Vietnam)
Screening and Q&A with the filmmaker, Tony Nguyen
Thursday, February 21, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
2100A Broad Hall
A Critical Reflection on ‘Liberal Humanism’ in Japan’s Modernization
By Professor Katsuya Hirano, Cornell University
Thursday, February 21, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History
A one-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History
Friday, February 22, 2013
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
Book talk by Prof. Lan P. Duong, Media and Cultural Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
Friday, February 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
FORUM - Illegal drug markets, crime and violence in Latin America
A forum that will bring together scholars, political leaders, and institutions leading the discussion on organized crime, corruption and drug trafficking in Latin America.
Friday, February 22, 2013
8:15 AM - 6:00 PM
YRL Conference Room 11360
Inhumanities: UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
And plenary speakers include: Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley), David T. Goldberg (UC Irvine), Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar), Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Friday, February 22, 2013
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
306 Royce Hall
UC-Wide Immigration Conference
"We asked for workers, and families came:" Children and Families in Migration
Friday, February 22, 2013
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
POLICY PANEL- Illegal drug markets...: A perspective from drug enforcement authorities
A panel presentation that will bring together some of the most important policy makers in security, drug policy and enforcement to present their views on the relationship between drugs, drug policy and security in Latin America.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
YRL Conference Room 11360
Evening of Moroccan Gnawa Music
An evening of music with the godfather of Gnawa music, Hassan Hakmoun, one of the most notable figures in contemporary Moroccan music.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Inhumanities: UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
Plenary speakers include: Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley), David T. Goldberg (UC Irvine), Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar), Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Saturday, February 23, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Ardeshir Mohasses: The Rebellious Artist
Film screening followed by Q&A with Bahman Maghsoudlou, Director/Writer/Producer
Sunday, February 24, 2013
5:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
The Indian Journey in Global Health: Recent Historic Developments and Opportunities
Prof. Snehendu Kar, UCLA Department of Public Health and Asian/American Studies
Monday, February 25, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pinkwashing: Gay Rights and Queer Indigeneities
A lecture by Professor Nada Elia, Gender and Global Studies Department, Antioch University, Seattle
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
1:00 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
What A Mayor Can Do To Green A City
Join a conversation with Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles and David Miller, Former Mayor of Toronto. Moderated by Glen MacDonald, Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
California NanoSystems Institute
지방행정체제 개편의 과정분석과 통합효과 : 청주청원통합을 중심으로 The Process Analysis on the Reform of Local Administration System and Effects of Integration : Focused on the Cheongju City-Cheongwon Gum
By Yong Hwan Choi, Chungbuk Research Institute
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: Biological Citizenship
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Economic Statecraft: Why Economic Growth is a Critical Foreign Policy Tool, by Under Secretary of State Robert D. Hormats
Please join us for a talk by Robert D. Hormats, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. This event is sponsored by The Center for Middle East Development, the Burkle Center for International Relations, and the Anderson School Center for Global Management.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Shu-mei Shih Lecture, Is Feminism Translatable?-Taiwan, Spivak, A-Wu
Presented by UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
4:00 PM
Royce 314
Learning and Networking in Migration: On Migrancy, Cultural Dynamics and Networked Forms of Learning
A talk by Mariette de Haan, Utrecht University
Location: Moore Hall 3340 (The Reading Room)
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Chaos and Grassroots Organizations in Mexico
Lecture by Lauren Carlsen and Gloria Muñoz Ramírez
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines 144
Religion on the Battlefield: How Religious Practices Shape Strategic Decisions in Modern Wars
Professor Ron Hassner, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
The Newly-elected Abe Administration and its Policies
Consul General Niimi comes to UCLA to give a presentation detailing the results and implications of the recent national poll, which delivered the LDP a supermajority in the lower house, and outline the economic and foreign policies of the new administration.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:15 PM - 5:15 AM
Royce Hall Room 306
Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture with Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA proudly present the 2012-13 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Labor Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey, Ethnic Kinship, and the Politics of Relative Privilege
A CPSC lecture by Ayse Parla, Anthropology, Sabanci University, Turkey.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
12:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
Come On! The Politics of Contemporary Visual Art in Cambodia, Viet Nam and Beyond
A talk by artist, curator and writer Việt Lê, Assistant Professor, Visual Studies | Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Thursday, February 28, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
2100A Broad Hall
The Role of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean World: An Archaeological View
Presentation by Krish Seetah, Stanford University.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall - new location
Western Ottoman Workshop
Friday, March 01, 2013
Time to be announced.
306 Royce Hall
"The Turbulent Life of the Platform Sutra" talk by Prof. Morten Schlutter
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk
Friday, March 01, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Royce 243
Western Ottoman Workshop
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Time to be announced.
306 Royce Hall
The Seventh Annual Distinguished Lecture on South and Southeast Asian Art
Present by UCLA Professor Robert L. Brown
Saturday, March 02, 2013
2:00 PM
Brown Auditorium, LACMA Museum
How to Deal with Loanwords in Translation: Some Considerations on Translations Strategy
A lecture by Professor Akira Kono from Osaka University
Monday, March 04, 2013
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
A6 Haines Hall
Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century with Authors Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels
Please join us for a panel discussion with Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels, authors of the book "Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East." This event is co-sponsored by UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and will be moderated by Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala.
Monday, March 04, 2013
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355
"Emperor" Starring Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones
Please join us for a special screening of the film "Emperor." A panel discussion will follow the screening with Producers Yoko Narahashi and Eugene Nomura, Professor Kal Raustiala, and Professor William Marotti.
Monday, March 04, 2013
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
Survival in the Diaspora
2nd annual Judeo-Spanish Conference
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Time to be announced.
Young Research Library Presentation Room
CAW: African-Americans in the USSR
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Nationalist Internationalism, or a pre-history of non-Alignment
A lecture by Noor-Aiman I. Khan, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Program in Middle East and Islamic Civilizations, Colgate University
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
오늘 날의 일본 사회와 한국 근현대사 연구 Contemporary Japanese Society and the Writing of Korean Modern History
By Professor Ota Osamu, Doshisha University
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Documentary Film Series -- Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions
A film screening and discussion with Israeli documentary film maker Duki Dror
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
UCLA Campus
Re-Membering the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Memory Work
A talk by Cathy Schlund-Vials, Associate Professor, English and Asian American Studies and director of Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Survival in the Diaspora
2nd annual Judeo-Spanish Conference
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Time to be announced.
Young Research Library Presentation Room
Double Feature Lecture: Prof. Feng Shi and Prof. Miao Zhe
Prof. Feng Shi from the Institute of Archaeology, CASS, and Prof. Miao Zhe from Zhejiang University
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
The Persistence of the Past: How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our World Today
A lecture by Ronald Grigor Suny. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A18 Haines Hall
Histórias que só existem quando lembradas (Found Memories)
A 2012 film by Julia Murat
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz 1409
Dispensing Justice on Screen: Stanley Kramer's "Judgment at Nuremberg"
CEES public lecture by Elisabeth Bronfen (University of Zurich, English and American Studies).
Thursday, March 07, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
An Extra on the Stage of History: Kurosawa Tokiko’s Political Activism in late-Tokugawa Japan
By Professor Laura Nenzi, University of Tennessee
Thursday, March 07, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Transitional Imperial Networks: From Dutch Slave Trading to British Anti-Slave Trading at the Cape in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Presentation by Kerry Ward, Rice University.
Thursday, March 07, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Book Release: Regarding Educación: Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Binational Improvement
A talk by Adam Sawyer (Bard College), Bryant Jensen (BYU), and Patricia Gándara (UCLA)
Book Release: Regarding Educación: Mexican-American Schooling, Immigration, and Binational Improvement
Friday, March 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Buddhas of Mes Aynak
Documentary film screening with director Brent Huffman, Northwestern University
Friday, March 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Young Research Library
At the Crossroads: Medicine and Culture in Latin America
A symposium exploring the intersection between culture and medicine among indigenous communities in Latin America.
Friday, March 08, 2013
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
YRL Conference Room 11360
Global Ecologies: Nature/Narrative/Neoliberalism - A two-day conference
Global Ecologies: Nature/Narrative/Neoliberalism stages an interdisciplinary conversation about globally relevant environmental issues such as neo-liberalism, militarism, waste dumping, deforestation, and food, land, and water sovereignty.
Friday, March 08, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 314
Global Ecologies: Nature/Narrative/Neoliberalism - A two-day conference
Global Ecologies: Nature/Narrative/Neoliberalism stages an interdisciplinary conversation about globally relevant environmental issues such as neo-liberalism, militarism, waste dumping, deforestation, and food, land, and water sovereignty.
Saturday, March 09, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall, Room 314
Iran and the Rise of the 21st Century Intellectuals
A lecture by Ata Hoodashtian, Institut Canadien de Management
Sunday, March 10, 2013
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
"ISRAEL IN 3-D" - ONE DAY UNIVERSITY
As part of its ongoing outreach activities, the UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies will sponsor a one-day university for the general public on Sunday, March 10. “Israel in 3-D” will offer two panel discussions and four short courses on contemporary political, economic, and foreign affairs issues in Israel. There is a fee of $36 to attend the luncheon and keynote speech by Israeli journalist Natasha Mozgovaya, who has written extensively for Ha’aretz. RSVP required.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
9:30 AM - 4:15 PM
UCLA Campus
Systemic Illegibility and the Contradictions of Development in India: an Ethnographic Exploration of Anti-Poverty Schemes in Bihar
By Prof. Jeffrey Witsoe, Department of Anthropology, Union College, New York
Monday, March 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
글로벌 시대에 한국적 텔레비전 콘텐츠 포맷의 가치 조명 (Illuminating) The Value of Korean Television Content Format in the Era of Globalization
By Intae Jun, KBS
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Nomadic and domestic: dwelling on the edge of Ulaanbaatar"
Rick Miller, Geography
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
“Japan, Photography, Nature: Exceptional and Unexceptional States”
Professor Julia Thomas, University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall
"Tzadik Yesod Olam" - The Temple Mount and Israeli Religious-Nationalist Society
A talk by Sarina Chen, Nazarian Center Schusterman Postdoctoral Fellow
Thursday, March 14, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall
A Talk by Hector Tobar
A talk by Hector Tobar, author.
Location: Moore Hall Room 3340 (The Reading Room)
Friday, March 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Chinese Studies Grad Students Pro-Seminar
Week 10: Prehistoric Cultures of the Liangshan Area? Cultural Contacts and Local Preconditions in a Multiregional Interaction Sphere
Friday, March 15, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
Practice, Ideology, Symbolics: Symposium in Honor of Herman Ooms
Symposium in honor of Prof. Herman Ooms
Saturday, March 16, 2013
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
UCLA, Rocye Hall Room 306
The Limits of Human Rights Advocacy: Syria and the Blowback of the Arab Spring
A talk by Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch. Sponsored by the UCLA School of Law Epstein Public Interest Law Program.
Monday, March 18, 2013
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room 1447
Teahouse Arts of China
Enjoy an evening of tea, snacks, music, and narrative ballad singing by master artists from Tianjin.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
7:30 PM
10899 Wilshire Blvd
