News
'Violins in Wartime' Discussion Draws 100 Guests
In an event marking Yom Ha-Atzma’ut, the Israeli day of independence, members of the public and the UCLA community engaged in a discussion with award-winning director Yael Katzir on her latest film, set against the backdrop of the Lebanon war of 2006.
Posted: 5/16/2011
Buddhists, Neuroscientists Come to a Meeting of the Minds
The symposium brought researchers from UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior together with eminent Buddhist scholars for a two-hour conversation about their distinctive yet complementary understandings of compassion, creativity, mental flexibility and attention, as well as the role mindfulness meditation may play in cultivating these qualities.
Posted: 5/10/2011
Beyond Taiwan, a Writer and Her Readers Discover Each Other
Walls, fences and being overheard beyond walls and fences were the themes of Taiwanese intellectual Lung Ying-tai's May 2 lecture, in which she invited the audience to "sit along with me at the writer's desk." The event, attended by nearly 300 people, was sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.
Posted: 5/4/2011
Buddhism and Neuroscience: a Discussion on Attention, Mental Flexibility and Compassion
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was unable to attend this May 2, 2011, symposium as planned, due to ill health. In his stead, Geshe Thupten Jinpa, a principal English translator for His Holiness and Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Cambridge University) and Robert Thurman, Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, joined the discussion with four UCLA neuroscientists.
Posted: 5/2/2011
38 Artworks from Major Bequest in Upcoming Fowler Exhibition
Fowler in Focus exhibition "Radiance and Resilience: Arts of Africa and the Americas from the Goldenberg Collection" opens May 29
Posted: 4/28/2011
Vietnamese Student Union Marks Anniversary of Saigon’s Fall
The Vietnamese Student Union is hosting the 2011 Black April commemoration this week, reports The Daily Bruin. It continues Wednesday evening from 6:00 at the Fowler Museum on campus.
Posted: 4/27/2011
Vietnamese Student Union Marks Anniversary of Saigon’s Fall
The Vietnamese Student Union is hosting the 2011 Black April commemoration this week, reports The Daily Bruin. It continues Wednesday evening from 6:00 at the Fowler Museum on campus.
Posted: 4/27/2011
James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Oral Tradition, Religious Syncretism and Politics: The Example of Cote d'Ivoire
A discussion with writer, academic, artist and author of books for young people, Véronique Tadjo.
Posted: 4/20/2011
Popular Armenian Studies Professor to Deliver 'My Last Lecture'
On April 18, Richard Hovannisian will continue a campus tradition that began more than 55 years ago. He plans to continue lecturing to different audiences for years to come, even after he retires from UCLA this spring.
Posted: 4/15/2011
Vietnamese International Film Festival to Provide Close-Up of Culture
The free festival in Ackerman will display a variety of themes in shorts and the feature film 'Clash,' reports The Daily Bruin. The UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies is an event cosponsor.
Posted: 4/13/2011
Vietnamese International Film Festival to Provide Close-Up of Culture
The free festival in Ackerman will display a variety of themes in shorts and the feature film 'Clash,' reports The Daily Bruin. The UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies is an event cosponsor.
Posted: 4/13/2011
Before Orientalism: From Paris to Patna in the 17th Century
Watch video of CISA Director Sanjay Subrahmanyam delivering Vanderbilt University's annual Byrn Lecture on April 6. The Byrn Lecture is sponsored by the Vanderbilt Department of History.
Posted: 4/12/2011
Documentary Tribute to Jorge Prelorán
On Friday, April 8, at 7:30, the UCLA Film & Television Archive will present a documentary honoring the iconic Argentinean filmmaker’s life work, reports the Daily Bruin. Prelorán, a former School of Theater, Film and Television faculty member, passed away in 2009.
Posted: 4/7/2011
Anyang Archaeology in the 21st Century: New Perspectives in the Search for the Shang Civilization
TANG JIGEN (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) presents the twenty-third Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology and Art
Posted: 4/6/2011
Lata Mani Rethinks It All
The esteemed postcolonial feminist historian's talk this winter, entitled "Once Upon a Time in the Present," proposed an alternate ontological and epistemological orientation.
Posted: 4/1/2011
Gnawa and Moroccan Mystical Musics at UCLA
From a March 5, 2011, concert at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall featuring Abdenbi El Fakir, Abdelah El-Yaâkoubi El Kababi, Fattah Abbou and Mohamed Aoualou. The concert was sponsored by the Moroccan American Cultural Center of Los Angeles and UCLA's G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Posted: 3/21/2011
Exhibit Touts Jazz Ambassadors' Global Impact
From March 20 through Aug. 14 at the Fowler Museum, "Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World” will illustrate how some of our most famous musicians taught the world about the United States while learning about their host nations as well.
Posted: 3/17/2011
Forgetting Stalin and Ceausescu: Post-1989 Romania in Books and Films
A public lecture by award-winning writer Andrei Codrescu
Posted: 3/17/2011
Forgetting Stalin and Ceausescu: Post-1989 Romania in Books and Films
A public lecture by award-winning writer Andrei Codrescu
Posted: 3/17/2011
A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League
A book talk with author Lily Hirsch (Cleveland State University, Music) and discussant Neal Stulberg (UCLA, Music)
Posted: 3/15/2011
A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League
A book talk with author Lily Hirsch (Cleveland State University, Music) and discussant Neal Stulberg (UCLA, Music)
Posted: 3/15/2011
The Book that Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard's Religious Ceremonies of the World
A book talk with authors Lynn Hunt (UCLA, History), Margaret Jacob (UCLA, History), and Wijnand Mijnhardt (Utrecht University, Comparative History of the Social Sciences and Humanities), and discussant Paula Findlen (Stanford University, History)
Posted: 3/14/2011
Gnawa and Moroccan Mystical Musics
A concert featuring Abdenbi El Fakir, Abdelah El-Yaâkoubi El Kababi, Fattah Abbou, Mohamed Aoualou, performed at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall, March 5th, 2011
Posted: 3/11/2011
Silks and Quilts in Central Asian Cultures
Possibly the best-dressed scholarly meeting of the season, "Textiles as Treasures" looked at the place of fabrics in the lives and the industry of nomadic and urban Central Asian cultures over centuries. The March 5 conference was organized by the Asia Institute's Program on Central Asia; a day-long program on the music of the region is planned for April 1.
Posted: 3/9/2011
Food and Survival in Her Books and Her Life
Peek into Judith Carney’s background and you can understand her interests. "In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World," co-written with her husband, is one of two winners of the most recent Douglass prize, awarded to the best book written in English on slavery or abolition.
Posted: 3/4/2011
Page: Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next Last
6 of 29 pages. Total Records: 713. Displaying 25 records per page.
