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How to Turn Philosophical Ideas into Diagrams: Chinese Approaches and Insights
A public lecture by Dr. Michael Lackner. The presentation will shed some light on possible precedents of this new form of diagrams and give an introduction into the multi-faceted functioning of diagrams on the basis of selected material.
Posted: 5/24/2012
Urban Renewal and its Discontents: IBA 1984/87
A lecture by Esra Akcan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Posted: 5/21/2012
Writing Sex, Food, and Politics
LI Ang (李昂), a prominent Taiwanese writer, investigates gender and politics in social life and literary creation, opening up new spaces of critical reflection on the question of women in literary writing.
Posted: 5/11/2012
Beautiful Resistance: Defying the Occupation Through the Theater and the Arts
Talk by Abdelfattah Abusrour, Al-Rowwad Cultural & Theatre Center
Posted: 5/9/2012
Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora
A book talk with author Carol Silverman, University of Oregon, Anthropology. Discussant: Timothy Rice, UCLA, Ethnomusicology/Herb Alpert School of Music.
Posted: 5/4/2012
Mamadou Diouf delivers the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Islam and the Making of the Public Space
Mamadou Diouf is Leitner Family Professor of African Studies. He leads Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs.
Posted: 4/27/2012
Putin's Russia : What is in the Cards?
A public lecture by Yevgenia Albats, Editor-in-Chief, The New Times (Novoye Vremya).
Posted: 4/27/2012
Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy - Afaf Nash and Susan Slyomovics
Afaf Nash reads "there is still a sun that rises…"by Abdul Satar (Abu Ali), from the documentary film A Candle for the Shabandar Cafe (directed by Emad Ali). Susan Slyomovics reads the English translation of the same poem.
Posted: 4/26/2012
The Emerging Cultural and Creative Industries in the Greater China Economy: The Cross-strait Co-opetitive Strategy
Professor DONG, is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UCLA and UCSD. He specializes in digital content and cultural & creative industries, industrial research of motion pictures, innovation & entrepreneurship and investment, intellectual property and Asia-Pacific business strategies.
Posted: 4/26/2012
The Internet and Social Mobilization in China
A public lecture by Professor Yong HU on how the Internet helps build links and facilitates collective action in China.
Posted: 4/26/2012
A Night with Abbas Maroufi (in Persian)
A talk and reading by Abbas Maroufi, author of The Symphony of the Dead
Posted: 4/23/2012
How much Arabic is in my poems: A Poetry reading interspersed by an essay on poetics and politics
Poet Maged Zaher
Posted: 4/23/2012
The Modern Recovery of the Ismaili Legacy and Its Importance for the Study of the Fatimids
A lecture by Paul Walker, University of Chicago
Posted: 4/23/2012
Thai Smakom to host 14th annual culture night event
Student group's annual event to feature drama, dance and music performance
Posted: 4/19/2012
French scholar awarded 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
Professor Laure Murat is this year's lone UCLA recipient
Posted: 4/18/2012
Honoring Iranian films on the big screen
UCLA Film and Television Archive celebrates tradition, conviction of Iranian filmmakers with eight-part series
Posted: 4/13/2012
For this acclaimed writer, Southern California is the perfect hideaway
UCLA Professor Alain Mabanckou will celebrate the American debut of his award-winning and recently translated book "Memoirs of a Porcupine" with a reading at the Hammer Museum on May 1, 2012.
Posted: 4/5/2012
Poets, writers mark anniversary of bombing of Baghdad's cultural center
Center for Near Eastern Studies collaborates to keep memory of al-Mutanabbi Street alive
Posted: 3/27/2012
Manthia Diawara will provide an analysis of the films of Abderrhamane Sissako and Haroun Mahat Saleh
Manthia Diawara, NYU.
Posted: 3/26/2012
Expanding Horizons: Pumzi, Science Fiction and African Cinema
A Podcast by Jude G. Akudinobi, UC Santa Barbara.
Posted: 3/22/2012
Framing Biopolitics: Jo Ramaka's Cinema of Power
Dr. Akinwumi Adesokan, Indiana University
Posted: 3/21/2012
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