Events

Colloquium Series, Spring 2006

Public Lecture and Activities hosted by the Center

"New Year Baby": A Cambodian American Documentary Film in Progress

Presentation by filmmaker Socheata Poeuv
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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Teaching the Beaucarnot Diaries: Vietnamese and French Culture and Society under Colonialism and Beyond

A Colloquium with David Del Testa, Assistant Professor of History, Bucknell University
Monday, April 10, 2006
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Filipino Studies from Japan: Translations, Marriages, Politics

A Symposium
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Reconciling Scholarship with Civil Society Building in Cambodia: An Introduction to the Center for Khmer Studies

A colloquium with CKS Director Philippe Peycam
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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Colonial Service and Academic Distinction: The Professional Lives of O.W. Wolters

A lecture by Prof. Craig Reynolds, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Australian National University
Thursday, April 13, 2006
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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Islam and the Future of Democracy in Indonesia

A public lecture by M. Din Syamsuddin, President of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's largest modernist social and educational organization
Monday, May 01, 2006
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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The New Independent Film: Shining Hope of the Filipino Cinema

Lecture and Film Showings by Dean Nicanor G. Tiongson, University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication
Friday, May 05, 2006
3:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Islam in Asia -- a workshop for teachers

UCLA Asia Institute hosts day-long program for educators on Asia's Muslims, conservatively estimated to number more than 750 million people.
Saturday, May 13, 2006
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Islam and Southeast Asia: Local, National and Transnational Studies

A Symposium
Monday, May 15, 2006
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
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Buffalo Boy (Mua Len Trua)

Film screening and discussion with director Minh Nguyen-Vô
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
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Filipino Women Write America: America in the Narratives of Filipino Women Writers

A lecture by Prof. Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo, Department of English & Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
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Challenges to press freedom in Southeast Asia

Roby Alampay, executive director of the Bangkok-based Southeast Asian Press Alliance, visits UCLA to speak about the prospects for and limits on freedom of expression in Southeast Asia.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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