Calendar of Events
Public lectures, symposium, colloquia and workshops about World Affairs at UCLA
Events for 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
Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake Colloquia Series
In 2011, the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies presented an exhibition documenting the lives and stories of those affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. This year marks the second anniversary of this catastrophic disaster and UCLA is proud to host a two-part colloquium presented by Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, chair of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission by the National Diet of Japan, and Professor Hitoshi Abe, Terasaki Center director.
Friday, March 22, 2013
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Royce Hall,Room 306
한국사회의 북한이탈주민: 정착지원 과정에서 민간단체의 역할 North Korean Migrants in South Korea: NGOs’ Roles in the Resettlement Process
By Jung Eun Lee, El Camino College
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Resource Competition in East Asia: Political and Environmental Implications
Presented by the School of International Relations and Program on Environmental Studies, USC
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
12:15 PM - 5:15 PM
USC
Diyarbekir 1915: Deportations, Massacres and New Alliances Among the Local Elites
A lecture by Ayhan Aktar, Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey). Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The End of History and the Last Anecdote
This talk analyzes the process of the end of the anecdotes tradition, and what replaced it.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
WEAL 2013 Workshop on East Asian Linguistics
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Friday, March 29, 2013
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
WEAL 2013 Workshop on East Asian Linguistics
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Saturday, March 30, 2013
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy (Lecture in Persian) - EVENT CANCELLED
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang
Sunday, March 31, 2013
5:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy (Lecture in English)
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang
Monday, April 01, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Luxury of Love: The Retreat/Retirement of Single Gay Men and the Rise of “Bats” in Post-IMF South Korea
By John Cho, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Childhoods at School: Negotiating Modernity, Social Change, and Identity in Ladakh, India."
Presented by Bonnie Richard, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
O Som Ao Redor (Neighboring Sounds)
A 2012 Brazilian film by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Melnitz 1409
Stalin on Stalinism: From His Personal Archive
U.K. historians Sarah Davies and James Harris will speak about their forthcoming monograph, based on research in Stalin’s personal archive. UCLA historian Arch Getty will moderate.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" with author Elliott Abrams
Please join us for a talk by Elliott Abrams, former deputy assistant and deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, about his new book, "Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Comments will be provided by Prof. Steven Spiegel, Director of the UCLA Center for Middle East Development. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1457
Zhou Zuoren and the Uses of Greek Mythology in Modern China
Zhang Wei, Fudan University
Thursday, April 04, 2013
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
167 Dodd Hall
Race, Religion and Political Incorporation of Contemporary Immigrants in the U.S.
A talk by Prema Ann Kurien, Sociology, Syracuse University.
Haines Hall 279
Friday, April 05, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Time of Literary History: Reconsidering Modernity in an Indian Vernacular
By Farina Mir, Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan
Monday, April 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
A Colloquium with Christina Laffin, Univ. of British Columbia, on her new book, "Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literacy Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu"
Book talk with Christina Laffin is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia and the Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture.
Monday, April 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA, Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
Are Signature Strikes Legal? Targeted Killings and International Law
Please join us for a talk with Kevin Heller, Associate Professor of International Criminal Law at Melbourne Law School. This event is co-sponsored with the UCLA School of Law Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project.
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1347
Puro Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire
Book talk with Lucy Burns, UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
CAW: Nation and State Building
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
2013 India Conference
Innovating, Investing, and Adapting in the Wake of New Economic Reforms
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cornell Hall
Return of the Brothers: Student Activism and Islamic Politics in 1970s Egypt
A lecture by Abdullah Al-Arian,Wayne State University.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal
CEES book talk with author Carl T. Dahlman, Miami University of Ohio, Geography. Discussant: Adam Moore, UCLA, Geography.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Isomorphic Pressures, Epistemic Communities and State-NGO Collaboration in China
A talk by Dr. Reza Hasmath
Thursday, April 11, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Migration and Sociopolitical Mobility in Africa and the African Diasporas International Conference Honoring Edward A. Alpers (Day 1)
Conference in honor of distinguished UCLA History Professor Edward A. Alpers
Thursday, April 11, 2013
8:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
Spatial Study with China Geo-Explorers: New Information, New Technology and New Directions
Dr. Shuming Bao is the director of the China Data Center at the University of Michigan
Friday, April 12, 2013
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
23167 Young Research Library
Migration and Sociopolitical Mobility in Africa and the African Diasporas International Conference Honoring Edward A. Alpers (Day 2)
Conference in honor of distinguished UCLA History Professor Edward A. Alpers
Friday, April 12, 2013
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Young Research Library Conference Center
April 13 Conference: Challenges and achievements in community language schools
This conference will bring together specialists from the UCLA National Heritage Language Resource Center with teachers, administrators, and parents from local community language schools to advance the goal of heritage language development.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Young Research Library Conference Room
Critical Histories of Activism: Indonesia’s New Order and its Legacies
This one-day conference, led by historian Jeffrey Hadler and political ecologist/sociologist Nancy Peluso of UC Berkeley, will examine forms of activism and protest that emerged in Indonesia during the “New Order” of President Soeharto (1967–1998).
Sunday, April 14, 2013
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
[East Asian Library Event ] A Year in the Clouds: A Taiwan Documentary Film
Documentary of a group of Taiwan's indigenous people living in the mountains
Monday, April 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
"The Fourth Way: Leading the Future" a lecture by Princess Basmah bint Saud
A lecture by Princess Basmah bint Saud on The Fourth Way, her concept of establishing a new platform to help succeed in bringing stability to the world where large international non-governmental organizations have been failing.
Monday, April 15, 2013
12:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
"Perilous Crossings: Shipwrecks, Migrations, and the Global Pursuit of Hope"
Professor Francoise Lionnet will present the 114th Faculty Research Lecture. There will be a reception immediately following the presentation.
Monday, April 15, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Schoenburg Hall
Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
Monday, April 15, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Israel: Spiritual Revival and the Fulfillment of Zionism
A Talk by Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller
Monday, April 15, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Campus
CANCELLED - "Kumasi-Haifa" Documentary Film Screening & Discussion
Unfortunately, due to scheduling problems, we have had to cancel this event. We hope to screen the film at a future date.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Trade, Migration, and Acculturation: China and the Prehistoric Silk Routes
A talk on the history of the Silk Routes
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
3rd Annual African Growth Conference: African Open for Business
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
CAW: Nation and State Building, cont'd
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Rethinking Binationalism: Binational Mexican Labor Activism in the Early 20th Century
Colloquium presented by Devra Weber from the University of California, Riverside
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Public Affairs 5391
What Are We Doing with the Chinese Economy?
Talk by Mr. Song Chengmin, Deputy Director of Editorial Department of Macroeconomic Management in China
Thursday, April 18, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Perspectives on Peace, Health & Hope: A Gaza Doctor's Journey from Personal Tragedy to a Search for Peace and Human Dignity
A public talk by Palestinian medical doctor and humanitarian Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, author of “I Shall Not Hate”. Dr. Abuelaish has devoted his life to peace and reconciliation, especially promoting health and education as strategies for resolving violent conflicts.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Broad Auditorium, 2160E Broad Art Center
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8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Insisting on Modernity Visions and Revisions in the Luso-Hispanic World
The 10th UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference
Thursday, April 18, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 306
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 1)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Friday, April 19, 2013
11:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
Back and Forth Across the Mediterranean
A talk by Pierre Bouvier, Université de Paris X - Nanterre.
Haines Hall 279
Friday, April 19, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
At the Crossroads: Surgery and Culture in Latin America
A symposium exploring the intersection between culture and surgery among indigenous communities in Latin America
Friday, April 19, 2013
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
Insisting on Modernity Visions and Revisions in the Luso-Hispanic World
The 10th UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference
Friday, April 19, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 306
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Rio, 40 graus
A 1956 film by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Saturday, April 20, 2013
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 2)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Saturday, April 20, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:45 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 3)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Sunday, April 21, 2013
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim
A 2012 film by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Sunday, April 21, 2013
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
[East Asian Library Event] American Landscapes in Chinese Brush Painting
Artist Bo Hong introduces Chinese brush paintings
Monday, April 22, 2013
11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
The Sanganakallu-Kapgallu Hill Complex of Southern India: Recent Archeological and Multidisciplinary Research
By Dr. Ravi Korisettar, Professor of History and Archaeology at Karnatak University in Dharwad, India
Monday, April 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
한국의 소설네트워크 이용행동에 미치는 심리적 변수들의 효과 The Effects of Psychological Variables on SNS Usage Behavior in Korea
By Professor Ja Young Choi, Soongsil University
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Rape, Incest, and Abortion in the High Plains of Heaven: The Misdeeds of Susanoo Reconsidered
Presented by Bernhard Scheid, research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializes on the history of Shinto. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Shinto, including: The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion (2006, ed. with Mark Teeuwen), as well as on the history of Japanese studies.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Civil Society without Democracy? NGO Development in China
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Europe and the Middle East: What Does It Mean if the EU Turns Inward?
A lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO of the Legatum Institute in London.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Nation and State Building, cont'd
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Great Reversal: Defeated Japan as Ally and Liberated Korea as Enemy
By Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Jaffa: The Orange's Clockwork (2010)
Documentary film screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA. Final film of the quarterly film series "Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography."
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
6:00 PM
Franz 1260
Being Danish: Paradoxes of Identity in Everyday Life
CEES book talk with author Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield, Sociology. Discussant: Rogers Brubaker, UCLA, Sociology.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
2:15 PM - 8:30 PM
Arnold C. Harberger Lecture on Economic Development with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University: "What Causes Economic Growth? Two Centuries of Global Evidence"
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations proudly presents the 2012-13 Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development featuring Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute and Professor of Sustainable Development, and of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Anderson School's Center for Global Management, the UCLA Law School's Emmett Center on Climate Change & the Environment and the Environmental Law Center.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Tango from UCLA to New York City: a 25 Year Journey
A lecture by artist and producer Pablo Aslan
Thursday, April 25, 2013
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall 1345
Workers Speak Out Against Labor Rights Violations (UCLA/Indonesia)
Program with Indonesian garment workers who sewed Adidas college apparel and United Students Against Sweatshops
Thursday, April 25, 2013
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Student Activities Center, Ballroom 5 (3rd floor)
China and Taiwan Cross-Strait Relationship after Power Transitions
An International Symposium on issues in the cross-strait relationship
Thursday, April 25, 2013
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
California Room
2013 LABA Conference: Economic Trends and Capital Markets in Latin America
The 2013 Latin American Business Association Conference
Friday, April 26, 2013
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Anderson School of Management
Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet
A lecture by Murat Cankara, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
Friday, April 26, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A18 Haines Hall
Cafe de los Maestros
A 2008 film by Miguel Kohan
Friday, April 26, 2013
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Melnitz 1409
Transnationalism and International Migration in Historical Perspective
Organized by Roger Waldinger (Director, Program on International Migration and Professor of Sociology, UCLA) and Nancy Green (History, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), this two-day conference will bring together an international group of historians and social scientists who focus on the history of international migration.
Friday, April 26, 2013
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Transnationalism and International Migration in Historical Perspective
Organized by Roger Waldinger (Director, Program on International Migration and Professor of Sociology, UCLA) and Nancy Green (History, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), this two-day conference will bring together an international group of historians and social scientists who focus on the history of international migration.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Politics & Society in Contemporary Mexico
A lecture by Dr. Arnaldo Cordova from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Monday, April 29, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
China in the Global Economic Crisis: Social Dislocation, Government Response, and Prospects for Transformation
A talk featuring Wen Tiejun, Dean of the School of Agronomics & Rural Development, Renmin University of China.
Monday, April 29, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Book Talk: Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Afghan Studies Book Talk with Author William Dalrymple
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Young Research Library Main Conference Room
How Did Jesuit Science Become Superior in the Kangxi Court?
A talk by Dr. Minghui Hu as part of the History of Science Spring 2013 Colloquium.
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM
5288 Bunche
Más allá del mercado: Los usos de la literatura latinoamericana en la era neoliberal
A lecture by Ignacio Sánchez Prado from Washington University in St. Louis
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Rolfe 4302
NEW DATE: Film Screening -- Eyes Wide Open
Monday, April 29, 2013
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Politics & Society in Contemporary Mexico
A lecture by Dr. Arnaldo Cordova from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Eucalyptus Hall 2225
From Cumbia Colombiana to Rap: The Evolution and Interaction of Two Urban Music Cultures
Lecture by sociologist Jose Juan Olvera from Universidad Regiomontana of Monterrey, Mexico.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
CAW: Relationship between the State and Multinational Entities with regards to the Art Market
Led by Naomi Caffee
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Gender and Creolization on the Gold Coast: Castle Slaves in the Era of the Slave Trade
UCLA Atlantic History Colloquium
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Gonzaga: de Pai para Filho (Gonzaga: From Father to Son)
A 2012 film by Breno Silveira
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz 1409
Symposium: Informing Responses to Reduce Poverty and Improve Health in Latin America
UCLA Blum Center's Inaugural Spring Symposium
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
DeNeve Auditorium
Into the Jungle: Migration and Grammar in the New Europe
CEES faculty lecture by Dominic Thomas, UCLA, French and Francophone Studies.
Thursday, May 02, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
South-East European Film Festival
May 2 - May 6 at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. **May 6 closing night: James Bridges Theatre, UCLA campus, Westwood**
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
Art & Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlan
A conversation with book author Edward J. McCaughan, artist Barbara Carrasco and Dr Colin Gunckel
Thursday, May 02, 2013
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Royce Hall 306
New Dimensions in the Study and Practice of Mexican and Chicana/o Social Movements
A binational symposium of scholars and activists
Thursday, May 02, 2013
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Royce Hall 306
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Como era gostoso o meu francês & Tenda dos milagres
1972 & 1977 films by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Friday, May 03, 2013
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
South-East European Film Festival Business Conference 2013
2013 South East European Film Festival Business Conference. Admission to the Conference is free, but RSVP is mandatory. Please RSVP directly to: rsvp@seefilmla.org
Saturday, May 04, 2013
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
Continuity and Change in the Cultural Legacy of Qajar Era
A lecture by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University
Sunday, May 05, 2013
5:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
The European External Action Service: European Foreign Policy in the Making
A conversation with Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission. Moderator: Terry McCarthy, President and CEO of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
Monday, May 06, 2013
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Gandhi and the Politics of Visual Representation
Prof. Vinay Lal, Department of History, UCLA
Monday, May 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
[East Asian Library Event] The Art of Face-Painting in Chinese Opera
Introducing the history of face painting in Chinese opera
Monday, May 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran and resistance to the British Raj
A lecture by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University
Monday, May 06, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
How to Build a Chinese Typewriter: Reimagining Technology and Script in the 19th and 20th Centuries
A talk by Thomas S. Mullaney as part of the History of Science Spring 2013 Colloquium.
Monday, May 06, 2013
4:00 PM
5288 Bunche
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Vidas Secas & Boca de Ouro
1963 films by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Monday, May 06, 2013
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
The President's Development Policy and four Priorities for Latin America
Conversation with Mark Feierstein, USAID Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Investigating Culture History and Culture Process: The Archaeology of Ifugao Rice Terraces, Northern Philippines
Colloquium with Prof. Stephen B. Acabado, Department of Anthropology, University of Guam
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Haines 352
ODISSI LECTURE--DEMONSTRATION
BY GURU ARUNA MOHANTY AND ORISSA DANCE ACADEMY
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall
CAW: "The Art of Not Being Governed"
Led by Andrew Grant
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Mining Countries: Breaking the Deadlock
A public lecture by Dr. Vusal Gasimli, Department of Economic Analysis and Global Affairs,
Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
12:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Ending the Korean War: Films
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice, which temporarily halted the fighting, yet failed to officially end the Korean War. We will show two documentary films on the impact of the unending Korean War and discuss it with the filmmakers. "Memory of Forgotten War" and "The Woman, The Orphan and The Tiger".
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Historical Critique and the Thresholds of Political Voice After the Ottoman Empire
A CPSC lecture by Kabir Tambar, Stanford University, Anthropology.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
12:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hollywood
A book talk by Yiman Wang, Assistant Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Thursday, May 09, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
Ending the Korean War: A Conference
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice, which temporarily halted the fighting, yet failed to officially end the Korean War. This conference will examine key issues surrounding the war and the ongoing division of Korea, such as separated families, Korea's militarization, and the humanitarian crisis in North Korea.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Main Conference Room, Charles E. Young Research Library
Barrios to Burbs: Middle Class Mexican Americans' Patterns of Mobility and Incorporation
A talk by Jody Angius Vallejo, Department of Sociology, USC.
Haines Hall 279
Friday, May 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
At the Crossroads: Community Wellbeing and Culture in Latin America
A symposium exploring the intersection between community wellbeing and culture among indigenous communities in Latin America
Friday, May 10, 2013
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
11360 YRL Conference Room
Ending the Korean War: A Day of Action
Organized by United Methodist Women (UMW), this day will include a public forum on the Korean crisis that examines the ongoing cost of militarization of the Korean peninsula and the steps needed to replace the temporary armistice treaty with a permanent peace treaty. The forum will look at how the road to peace in Korea runs through Washington, DC, and how women and the Korean diaspora must steward it along the way.
Friday, May 10, 2013
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
Gatha Odissi
An Indian dance demonstrated by the Orissa Dance Academy
Sunday, May 12, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
William Bristol Civic Auditorium
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Memórias do cárcere
1984 film by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Sunday, May 12, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
Crisis and Resistance in Greece and the Eurozone
Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Annual Colloquium with Stathis Kouvelakis, King's College London, Political Theory and Costas Lapavitsas, University of London, Economics.
Monday, May 13, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
한국의 주민참여예산제도, 쟁점과 대안 모색 Participatory Budgeting in Korea, its Controversial Issues and Alternatives
By Jong Ahn Ko, Ministry of Strategy and Finance in Korea
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Activism, Disciplinary Formations and Transnational Southeast Asian Cultural Studies
Colloquium with Mariam B. Lam, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Media & Cultural Studies, and Director of the Southeast Asian Studies Research Program (SEATRiP) at the University of California, Riverside
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Singing, Chanting, and Chatter: Street Sounds and Songs of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
A lecture by Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Contemporary Chinese Art, 1976-Present
A talk by Christina Yu Yu, Assistant Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Dodd 161
Competing Cosmologies, Sacred Spaces and Powerful Objects: Enacting Empire among and between Rome, Sasanian Iran, and Sui-Tang China
Matthew Canepa, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America
Book Talk presented by Mark Anner (Penn State University) and discussed by Mark Sawyer (UC Los Angeles)
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Public Affairs 5391
Encuentro con Alicia Scherson: Una chilena en la república mundial del cine
A lecture by Alicia Scerson, Chilean film director and producer.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
2012-2013 Faucett Fellowship Student Panel
The purpose of the Faucett Fellowship Research Panel is to present research findings and promote the exchange of ideas among students and participants working in various disciplines. These research fellowships are made possible by support from the Faucett Catalyst Fund.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche 6275 (History Conference Room)
Identity and Place in Contemporary Central Asia
A panel presentation of new research by UCLA graduate students
Thursday, May 16, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge
The Euro Crisis: A Longer-Term View
A CEES public lecture by Barry Eichengreen, UC Berkeley, Economics and Political Science.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period
A lecture by Michael Cooperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Infraestructuras Transfronterizas: Etnografia de itinerarios en el espacio social de Monterrey-San Antonio
A lecture and book presentation by Efren Sandoval Hernandez
Friday, May 17, 2013
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
“A LUTA CONTINUA - THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES”: A CELEBRATION AND A CHALLENGE
“A Luta Continua-The Struggle Continues” is a symposium that will explore the impact of students from Southern Africa on the UCLA campus and the City of Los Angeles, and consider the ways in which their example can be followed in making a difference in Africa.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum & Terrace
Mostafa Sho‘aiyan: The Forgotten Revolutionary and the Possibility of Unified Action
A lecture by Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria
Saturday, May 18, 2013
6:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Performances of Extraordinary Gender in Mahari Dance
Prof. Anurima Banerji, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Monday, May 20, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia
Book talk with Prof. Rachmi Diyah Larasati, University of Minnesota
Monday, May 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
208 Glorya Kaufman Hall
Unfolding the Principle of Color Decoration in Yingzao Fashi, a 12th Century’s Chinese Imperial Building Standard
A talk by Luke Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Monday, May 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
International Career Panel
Please join us for the 2013 International Career Panel with panelists Brooke Christopher, Holly Derheim, and Erroll Southers. This panel will provide insight about various fields and professions in the international arena, and guide students on how to best prepare for international careers. Alexandra Lieben, Deputy Director of the UCLA Burkle Center, will moderate the discussion.
Monday, May 20, 2013
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall
A Public Lecture by Leading Scholar of Ancient Chinese Culture, Professor Li Ling (李零)
International Animals: Images of Lion and Tiger in Chinese Archaeological Findings
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela
A lecture by Waïl S. Hassan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
African Muslim Women and the Global Feminist Movement: Rethinking the Empowerment Paradigm
Professor Pearl T. Robinson, Tufts University, will deliver the Annual James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
University of California, Los Angeles
CAW: Migration, Trade, Travel
Led by Marjan Wardaki
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The politics and emotions of change in South African Universities
UCLA's Graduate School of Education, the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, and the Institute of American Cultures cordially invite you to Chancellor Jonathan Jansen's presentation.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Dodd 175
Saramamalla (Mother Corn)- Climate Change and the Andean Corn Culture
An academic and cultural event by the UCLA Kichwa/Quechua class
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" UCLA Human Rights Film Series
Please join us for a documentary screening and panel discussion of "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," as part of the UCLA International Human Rights Film Series.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
7:00 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
Historia Indígena de México Michoacán Durante la Época Colonial y el Siglo XIX
First International Symposium on Michoacán during colonial era and the XIX century
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
YRL Conference Room 11360
Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders
A conference to honor the career of Professor Ismail Poonawala.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Affective investments in the Manila region: Filipina migrants in rural Japan and transnational urban development in the Philippines
A talk by Lieba Faier, Department of Geography, UCLA.
Haines Hall 279
Friday, May 24, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Jazz Reggae Festival at UCLA
2013 Jazz Reggae Festival at UCLA
Sunday, May 26, 2013
UCLA Intramural Field
The Jazz Reggae Festival at UCLA
2013 Jazz Reggae Festival at UCLA
Monday, May 27, 2013
UCLA Intramural Field
브랜드 위기시 소비자의 행동투자 매몰비용이 브랜드전환행동에 미치는 영향 The Effect of Consumers' Behavioral Investment Sunk Cost on Brand Switching Behavior in Brand Crisis
By Jieun Lee, Chung-Ang University
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Flowers, Fragrance, and Porcelain Wares in the Cultural History of Song China 宋人與花與香與瓷器
A Talk by Yang Zhishui 揚之水
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
West Electronic Classroom (2nd floor of YRL)
UFAHAMU Journal of African Studies Digitization Launch Party
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum Terrace
Expanding the Urban Horizon: Research in the Hinterlands of the Kalinga Polity, India
By Professor Monica Smith, UCLA Department of Anthropology
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
12:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Fowler Museum Building
CAW: TBD
Led by Catherine Formusa
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
A Discussion of Local Customs in Hanafi Sources from the 10th to 16th Centuries
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Dr. Zafar Najmiddinov, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton
Thursday, May 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace with Ambassador Ryan Crocker: "The Arab Spring and US Interests"
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations proudly presents the 2012-13 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace featuring Ambassador Ryan Crocker. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia, the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, The UCLA Center for Middle East Development, and the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1357
‘An Ounce of Prevention…’: U.S. Anti-Communist Operations in Indonesia, 1963-1965
Colloquium with Dahlia Setiyawan, Ph.D. candidate, UCLA Department of History
Thursday, May 30, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
A Symposium on Call Centers in India and the Philippines
The panel will raise questions and share critical insights on the "voice business."
Thursday, May 30, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Lexilalia: On Translating a Dictionary of Untranslatable Philosophical Terms
The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies presents a lecture by Professor Emily Apter
Thursday, May 30, 2013
4:30 PM
UCLA
Film Screening: "Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution"
Documentary screening followed by discussion with Geoffrey Robinson (UCLA History) and Director Alex Meillier. Part of the UCLA International Human Rights Film Series.
Monday, June 03, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Egypt’s Search for Regime Security and the Failure in the making of the U.S.-Egypt Cold War Alliance During the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years
A lecture by Kangsuk Kim, Fulbright Visiting Graduate Researcher from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: TBD
Led by Feruza Djumaniyazova
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Protest Dialectics: The Emergence and Evolution of South Korea’s Democracy Movement (1970-1979)
By Paul Y. Chang, Yonsei University
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Corações Sujos (Dirty Hearts)
A 2011 film by Vicente Amorim
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall 1409
STARTALK/NHLRC Heritage Language Teacher Workshop for K-16 Teachers of Less Commonly Taught Languages
A 5-day long workshop, July 22-26, 2013 at UCLA. Application deadline April 15, 2013.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Time to be announced.
Royce 314
