Calendar of Events
November 2024
All times are Pacific Time. Certain events are in
person, others are virtual or hybrid. Please check links.
1
12:00 PM
Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC 227), USC
3607 Trousdale Pkwy, LA
Registration
"Carving the Divine" Film Screening and Q&A
Yujiro Seki
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
1
12:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
"Citizenship as Political Membership"
A Fundamental Strand of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century European History
Dieter Gosenwinkel
Center for Study of International Migration
1
2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Potent Matrix of Buddhist Merit-Making: The Rise and Fall of Imperial Calligraphy on Clay Tablets for the Great Goose Pagoda
Sammy Lee Seminar
Foong Ping
Center for Chinese Studies
1
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond / Chungking Express
A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary
Eric Nakamura, Martin Wong, Dylan Robertson, Daniel Wu
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
2
2:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
One of the First to Emerge from the Library Cave: A Buddhist Sutra and the Belgian Mandarin
Sammy Yukuan Lee Lectures on Chinese Art and Archaeology
Foong Ping
Center for Chinese Studies
2
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Terminal USA / Mysterious Skin
A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary
Eric Nakamura, Jon Moritsugu
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
3
7:00 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Science Fiction Against the Margins: Labor
Film Screenings of "Robots of Brixton," "Sleep Dealer" and "Advantageous"
UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Series
UCLA International Institute
4
6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908
İlkay Yılmaz
Armenian Genocide Research Program
5
10:00 AM
Royce Hall, Rm 243
Problematic Analogies
Diplomatic Exchange and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
Center for Chinese Studies
5
3:00 PM
Rolfe Hall, Rm 4302
Sentimentalismo, Masculinidades, e Imaginarios de Progreso en El Salvador de Entresiglos (in Spanish)
Central American Book Presentation Series
Karina Zelaya Central
Latin American Institute
5
4:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & online
Registration
By Guru's Grace
Religion, Caste, and Empowerment among the Billava Community
Mukesh Kumar
Center for India and South Asia
7
12:00 PM
Webinar
Registration
Teatro Mexicano de Ciencia Ficción y Lectura Dramatizada
Felipe Cervera, Antonio Prieto, Anne Johnson, Zaida Navarro (Event in Spanish)
Latin American Institute
7
12:00 PM
Webinar
Registration
The French Army and Mobile Field Brothels: Algeria, France, Indochina (1939-1962)
Christelle Taraud
Center for Near Eastern Studies
7
1:30 PM
Young Research Library, West Classroom (Rm. 23167; 2nd floor)
Time and History across China's Northeastern Borders
Ed Pulford
Center for Korean Studies
7
2:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & online
Registration
The Digitized Florentine Codex
Indigenous Voices of Mexico in The Digital Age
Kevin Terraciano
Latin American Institute
7
4:00 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 243
Developing Interactional Competence through Authentic Conversations
Pedagogical Approaches and Effects
Meng Yeh
Center for Chinese Studies
7
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
All About Lily Chou-Chou
A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary
Eric Nakamura
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
7
7:30 PM
Melnitz Hall, James Bridges Theater
Registration
Film Screening and Q&A: "Invisible Nation"
Taiwan in the World Program
Vanessa Hope, Wei-San Hsu, Alex Wang
Asia Pacific Center
8
12:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Registration
The Legacies of Anti-Colonial Struggle in Algeria
A Panel Honoring the Life and Activism of Elaine Mokhtefi
Ali Behdad, Aomar Boum, Elaine Mokhtefi, Susan Slyomovics
Center for Near Eastern Studies
8
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Tekkonkinkreet
A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary
Eric Nakamura; Michael Arias
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
9
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Science Fiction Against the Margins: Is He or Isn't He?
Film Screenings of "Man Facing Southeast" and "The Brother from Another Planet"
UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Series
UCLA International Institute
10
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Giant Robots! Johnny Sokko, Voyage into Space and Gigantor
A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary
Eric Nakamura
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
12
10:00 AM
Webinar
The New U.S. President and the Impact on the MENA Region
Jay Footlik, Zev Furst, Steve Zipperstein
Center for Middle East Development
12
4:00 PM
Rolfe Hall, Rm 4302
Unexpected Routes and Beautiful Friendships: Refugee Writers in Mexico
Tabea Alexa Linhard
Latin American Institute
13
10:00 AM
Webinar
Registration
Literature, Politics, and Identity: A Conversation with Andrey Kurkov
Andrey Kurkov
Center for European and Russian Studies
13
12:30 PM
States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security
Joshua W. Busby
Burkle Center for International Relations
13
3:00 PM
Bunche Hall Rm 10383
Influence of Taiwanese Films on a Writing Career: Author Talk with Po-Ching Chen (陳栢青)
Po-ching Chen (陳栢青), Andrea Goldman, Yu-Ping Kao
Asia Pacific Center
14
12:00 PM
Royce Hall Rm 243
Reflections on a Writing Career: Po-Ching Chen (陳栢青)
Po-ching Chen (陳栢青), Michael Berry, Andrea Goldman
Asia Pacific Center
14
12:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & online
Registration
A Just Home: Lessons from the Laws of Social Reproduction
Prabha Kotiswaran
Center for India and South Asia
14
5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & online
Registration
Israel’s Palestinian-Arab Citizens: Why They Play by the Rules
Hybrid Event
Sammy Smooha
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
15
12:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
"Legal and Spatial Precarity"
Comparing Thai Migrant Workers' Labor Rights and Mobilization in the US and South Korea
Sudarat Musikawong
Center for Study of International Migration
15
12:30 PM
Rolfe Hall, Rm 4302
Plotting Coordinates of Blackness in Central America
Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Latin American Institute
15
2:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & Online
Registration
"Where We Stand"
A Conversation on Black Feminisms with Djamila Ribeiro
Latin American Institute
15
6:30 PM
Melnitz Hall, James Bridges Theater
Film Screening: "Strangers in a Promised Land"
Bryan Bedrosian, Carla Garapedian
The Promise Armenian Institute
15
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Science Fiction Against the Margins: Seeing is Not Believing
Screenings of "Stranger Baby," "To Infinity and Beyond," "Save the Green Planet!" and two other films
UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Series
UCLA International Institute
16
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe
A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary
Eric Nakamura; Ayako Fujitani
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
17
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
One Nite in Mongkok
A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary
Eric Nakamura; Daniel Wu
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
18
International Education Week (IEW) 2024
November 18–22
A campuswide celebration of international education & exchange
UCLA International Institute
18
2:00 PM
Webinar
Registration
Information Session: Summer 2025 FLAS Fellowships
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
18
3:00 PM
Webinar
Registration
Information Session: Academic Year 2025-2026 FLAS Fellowships
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
18
4:30 PM
Webinar
Registration
FLAS Funding Career Roundtable
Center for European and Russian Studies
19
2:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & online
Registration
Funding Information Session with German Funding Organizations (All Disciplines)
Center for European and Russian Studies
19
4:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & online
Registration
Hindutva Pop Culture (H-Pop)
Everyday Hate Through Beats And Rhymes
Kunal Purohit
Center for India and South Asia
20
10:00 AM
Webinar
Registration
To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism
Yaacov Yadgar
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
20
12:00 PM
Webinar
Registration
Elon Musk vs. Brazil’s Supreme Court
The Legal and Political Implications of Regulating Fake News
David Nemer
Latin American Institute
20
12:30 PM
Webinar
Registration
When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia
Burkle Center for International Relations
20
4:00 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 243
Registration
How Japanese Buddhists Tried to Make Bad Kids Good
Jolyon Thomas
Center for Buddhist Studies
21
12:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 6275 & online
Registration
Surgery and Salvation
The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
Elizabeth O’Brien, Fernando Perez-Montesinos
Latin American Institute
21
12:30 PM
Webinar
Registration
Women's Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement
An Online Book Talk with Nazan Üstündağ
Nazan Üstündağ
Center for Near Eastern Studies
21
1:00 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 314
Screening & Panel Discussion: "Behind the Mask"
Program on Central Asia Event
Abduweli Ayup, Nancy Levine (UCLA), Arienne Dwyer (The University of Kansas), Morris Rossabi (Columbia University)
Program on Central Asia
21
2:30 PM
Rolfe Hall, Rm 4302 (Lydeen Library)
El Mar y sus Metáforas
The Conquest of the Pacific: Navigation and Mapping
Ricardo Padrón
Latin American Institute
21
4:00 PM
300 UCLA Medical Plaza, Marisa Leif Conference Room (3rd Floor, Room 3200) & Online: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92286606113
[POSTPONED] Global Health Opportunities Coffee Talk with Program Chair And Faculty Member
Hybrid Event
Ippolytos Kalofonos, M.D., Ph.D., International Institute, Medicine
Academic Programs
21
6:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 10383
An Analytical-Discursive Tripod: The Armenian 'Mahmet', Pax Islamica, and 'Ghuran'
Seta B. Dadoyan
The Promise Armenian Institute
22
12:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & online
Registration
Order and Disorder in the Ottoman Empire: Book Roundtable
Hybrid Event
Choon Hwee Koh, Nir Shafir, Nile Green, Meng Zhang
Center for Near Eastern Studies
22
1:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
Reflections on a Chinese Education
Peter Hessler
Center for Chinese Studies
22
7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Science Fiction Against the Margins: Dystopian Future
Film Screenings of "Pumzi" and "Night Raiders"
UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Series
UCLA International Institute
26
4:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Registration
The Cybercene: The Othering of Europe’s Black and Brown Migrants and Pathways towards Ecocultural Healing
Vetri Nathan
Center for European and Russian Studies