Calendar

Results For 2008

From Past to Present

The State of Research in Polish-Jewish Relations
Sunday, January 13, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Gunter Grass' Peeling the Onion

A book talk with translator MICHAEL HEIM, UCLA Slavic Languages and Literatures, and discussant HANS WAGENER, UCLA Germanic Languages
Thursday, January 17, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Calligraphers from the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe

A public lecture and Islamic calligraphy demonstration by Hilal Kazan, master calligrapher.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The 'Jewish Question' Among the German-Speaking Exiles in Los Angeles

A public lecture by EHRHARD BAHR, UCLA Germanic Languages
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Incorporating Technology into the Foreign Language Curriculum

This two-day workshop, led by Samantha Earp of Duke University, focuses on the latest tools, technologies, and best practices for technology-enhanced language instruction.
Friday, February 01, 2008
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The 12th Century Calls to the 20th: Two Poetic Excursions from a Hungarian Funeral Oration

A public lecture by Dr. John Ridland and Dr. Peter Czipott: Introduction of Sandor Marai's and Dezso Kosztolanyi's /Halotti beszed /through the translation process.
Friday, February 01, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Incorporating Technology into the Foreign Language Curriculum

This two-day workshop, led by Samantha Earp of Duke University, focuses on the latest tools, technologies, and best practices for technology-enhanced language instruction.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Two Talks on Russian Rock and Roll

By ARTEMY TROITSKY, Russian Cultural Commentator
Friday, February 08, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

'The Congo I Presume': Tepid Revisionism at the Belgian Royal Museum of Central Africa, Tervuren, 1910/2005

A faculty lecture by DEBORA SILVERMAN, UCLA, History
Thursday, February 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Tanchaz - Hungarian Dance Event

Basic steps of Hungarian Dances from Szekelyfold, Transylvania
Friday, February 15, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Sixth Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

The Armenian Graduate Students Association at UCLA invites the public to the sixth annual, Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies at UCLA on Friday, February 15, 2008. This day-long academic event will begin at 9:30 AM and be held in the famous Royce Hall, room 314.
Friday, February 15, 2008
9:30 PM - 5:00 PM

In Russia All Towns Are the Same: Chekhov and Symbolic Geography

A lecture by Anne Lounsbery (NYU)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Off the Radar Screen: The Unacknowledged Struggle to Protect Kosova's Islamic Traditions

A public lecture by ISA BLUMI, Georgia State University, History. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Chechnya after Putin

A lecture by TONY WOOD, Deputy Editor, New Left Review, Author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence (Verso 2007). The lecture is part of the Annual Colloquium Series of the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Paradigms of Marginality in Chekhovs Prose

A lecture by Mila Shevchenko (U of Michigan)
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan

A book discussion with author ADRIENNE EDGAR, UC Santa Barbara, History, and discussant ALI IGMEN, California State University Long Beach, History.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Owning the Past: Archaeology and Cultural Patrimony in the Late Ottoman Empire (Day 1)

An International Conference, February 29 - March 1, organized by Diane Favro, UCLA, and Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Friday, February 29, 2008
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Owning the Past: Archaeology and Cultural Patrimony in the Late Ottoman Empire (Day 2)

An International Conference, February 29 - March 1, organized by Diane Favro, UCLA, and Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Saturday, March 01, 2008
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Place of Balkan Muslims in the Shaping of European Islam

A public lecture by XAVIER BOUGAREL, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. The lecture is part of the ISLAM IN THE BALKANS series.
Monday, March 03, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Cultural Faultlines and Political Cleavages: The Legacy of History in Contemporary Ukraine

A public lecture by MYKOLA RIABCHUK, University of Kyiv, Center for European Studies
Thursday, March 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Danish American Business Summit 2008

March 6-7, 2008
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Danish Ambassador on Danish-US Relations

A talk by Danish Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen
Friday, March 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

The Roma in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: Marginalization and Resistance

A public lecture by GABRIEL TROC, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, Cultural Anthropology
Thursday, March 13, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Initiative Film Screening: "Little Angel, Make Me Happy"

Directed by Usman Saparov, Turkmenistan, 1992. Opening remarks by David MacFadyen, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Thursday, March 13, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Manoel de Oliveira's Voyage to the Beginning of the World

This film screening opens a retrospective of Oliveira's work, March 27 - April 27
Thursday, March 27, 2008
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Hypermedia Berlin and the Geo-Temporal Web

A CEES faculty lecture by TODD PRESNER, UCLA Germanic Languages
Thursday, April 10, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Killing Memory: Ethnicity, Religion and the Destruction of Culture in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s

A public lecture by Andras Riedlmayer, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Inventing Human Rights: A History

A book discussion with author LYNN HUNT, UCLA History, and discussant DAVID KAYE, UCLA Law
Thursday, April 17, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Maurice Crul, IMES, University of Amsterdam

Part of the UCLA Migration Study Group: 2007-8 Speakers Series
Friday, April 18, 2008
11:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Berlusconi's Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics

A book talk with author JOHN AGNEW, UCLA Geography, and discussant MARC LAZAR, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Thursday, April 24, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The World the Refugees Made: Representing the Evacuation of the Ninos de la Guerra to the Soviet Union

A public lecture by GLENNYS YOUNG, History and International Studies, University of Washington
Monday, April 28, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

South-East European Film Festival, Los Angeles

April 30 - May 5
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM

South-East European Film Festival, Los Angeles

April 30 - May 5
Thursday, May 01, 2008
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM

The Demographic Crisis in Russia

A public lecture by MURRAY FESHBACH, Woodrow Wilson Center
Thursday, May 01, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Unequal opportunities and ethnic origin: the labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in France and Europe

Special Graduate Workshop seminar in MIGRATION/STRATIFICATION/EUROPEAN STUDIES
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan: State Ownership and Rentierism in the Former Soviet Union

A public lecture by PAULINE JONES LUONG, Brown University, Political Science
Thursday, May 08, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

A Sud di Lampedusa

Documentary film screening.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Europe's Borderlands Conference

International graduate student conference on migration, trafficking, and regional integration. May 8-10, 2008.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Ever closer Union, ever further borders?The costs of European border policies and the consequences for EU legitimacy

A public lecture by Virginie Guiraudon, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Lille.
Friday, May 09, 2008
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

California Clean Innovation 2008

The conference is intended for a wide audience, including industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investment professionals, policy makers, lawyers, journalists, and university staff, faculty and students.
Friday, May 09, 2008
8:00 AM - 7:30 PM

Enforced Migration and Sedentarization in Modern Central Asia

Panel discussion preceding film screening of "Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People"
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Adorno in America

A public lecture by DETLEV CLAUSSEN, University of Hannover, Sociology.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Reforming Welfare States: Comparative Perspectives

A public lecture by IVAN SZELENYI, UCLA/Yale University Department of Sociology
Thursday, May 15, 2008
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Politics, Law, and Women's Health

4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days - film screening and panel discussion
Friday, May 23, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism

A book talk with author EHRHARD BAHR, UCLA Germanic Languages, and discussant PETER LOEWENBERG, UCLA History.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Scaling the Wall: "Circulation" and Communication across the Cold War

A public lecture by SUSAN GAL, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Thursday, May 29, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Monks, Merchants and Millworkers: Connecting Europe and Asia in World History

2008 UCLA Summer Institute for World History Teachers, July 28th - August 8th
Monday, July 28, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Immigration and Conflict

A lecture by RAFAELA DANCYGIER, Princeton University, Department of Politics
Friday, September 26, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Immigration and National Identity in France

A public lecture by MICHEL WIEVIORKA, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Monday, October 06, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

European Business Networking Event

European Attractiveness Roadshow 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

UCLA International Institute Open House

in association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars & the Office of International Education
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Stalin

film screening and discussion with director Ivan Passer
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Coping with the spread of HIV infection in Central Asia: the case of Kazakhstan

A public lecture by DARDANE ARIFAJ
Thursday, October 16, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Central Asia Initiative: Mobility and Governability in Central Asia

An international conference presented by the Asia Institute
Saturday, October 18, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium

A book talk with author RONALD FINDLAY, Columbia University, Economics, and discussant ROBERT BRENNER, UCLA, History.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

"Gypsy Sluts" and "Russian Heroes": Performing Authenticity on the Early Soviet Stage

A public lecture by BRIGID O'KEEFFE, Brooklyn College, History
Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Marking the 70th Anniversary of Kristallnacht and the 65th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Public lectures by MICHAEL BRENNER, University of Munich, History, and SAMUEL KASSOW, Trinity College, History
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Advances in Development Reverse Fertility Declines

A public lecture by HANS-PETER KOHLER, University of Pennsylvnia, Sociology
Thursday, November 13, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Napoli! The System, the Camorra and the Pizza: Breaking the Stereotypes

A three-day program of Neapolitan cinema, literature & food
Friday, November 14, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The Harki Case: History's Forgotten/"History's Forgotten"

A public lecture by Vincent Crapanzano, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Staging Migration and Post-National Identities

Farnaz Arbabi - award-winning Iranian-Swedish playright and theater director
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Three Songs about Motherland

A documentary film screening and discussion with the film maker, Marina Goldovskaya, UCLA Film School. Hosted by David MacFadyen, Chair of the UCLA Slavic Department.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe

A book talk with author NEIL FLIGSTEIN, UC Berkeley, Sociology, and discussant MICHAEL MANN, UCLA, Sociology.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Kazakh Jazz

A concert by the women's jazz vocal ensemble INZHU (Pearl) from the Kazakh National Academy of Music in Astana, Kazakhstan
Thursday, November 20, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

A book talk with author NINA BANDELJ, UC Irvine, Sociology
Thursday, November 20, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Beaujolais Passions

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Thursday, November 20, 2008
6:30 PM - 11:30 PM

Marta Sebestyen and the Muzsikas Hungarian Folk Ensemble

A demonstration and discussion
Friday, November 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Pro Dia Nascer Feliz

Celebrate International Education Week with a Screening of Pro Dia Nascer Feliz (Joo Jardim, 2007)
Friday, November 21, 2008
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Criminals in the Soviet Union 1917-1938

A public lecture by MARC JUNGE, University of Bochum, History
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The European Union Today: Internal and External Challenges

A panel discussion with the British, Czech, French, German, and EU Ambassadors to the US
Friday, December 05, 2008
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

The Jewish Question in French Philosophy after the Holocaust

A symposium.
Sunday, December 07, 2008
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM