Calendar of Events
February 2025
All times are Pacific Time. Certain events are in
person, others are virtual or hybrid. Please check links.
2
1:00 PM
Lani Hall
Registration
Israeli Art Songs: Between Fantasies and Realities
Co-sponsored Event
Iris Malkin, Ido Ariel
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
2
4:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
"The Water Will Take Us" and "Lady Urmia" (in Persian with English subtitles)
Bilingual Lecture Series: Film Screening and Director Q&A
Mohammad Ehsani
Center for Near Eastern Studies
3
5:00 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room
Film Screening: "Bahala na si Bathala sa mga Banal na Bata" (God Will Take Care of the Blessed Children)
Reuben T. Domingo, Tita Pambid
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
4
2:00 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 314
Registration
Digital Mapping, Digital Humanities and the Holocaust
Tim Cole
Center for European and Russian Studies
4
3:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
Registration
National Insecurity: The United States, Imperialism, and 1920s Resource Sovereignty
Historiography of the Middle East Lecture Series
Chris Dietrich
Center for Near Eastern Studies
5
12:30 PM
Webinar
Marketing Democracy: The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East
Burkle Center for International Relations
5
4:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Ferroconcrete Dreams and Their Desolate Beauty
From Cho Sehŭi's Ecocriticism to Young June Lee's Machine-Criticism
Pil Ho Kim
Center for Korean Studies
5
4:00 PM
Webinar
Registration
Subjects and Sojourners: A New History of Indochinese in France
Charles Keith, Cindy Nguyen (moderator)
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
6
12:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Registration
The Role of Women in Making Inca Territorial Spaces
Latin American Institute Lunch and Learn Series
Stella Nair
Latin American Institute
6
2:00 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 314
Registration
Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory
Todd Presner
Center for European and Russian Studies
6
5:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum
Registration
Is Israeli–Palestinian Peace Possible in the Foreseeable Future?
Harry C. Sigman Distinguished Lecture
Yossi Beilin, Dov Waxman
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
7
3:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383 & online
Registration
Two Arabicate Inventions
The Thaana Script and the First Dhivehi Lhen Poem of the Maldives
Garrett Field
Center for India and South Asia
8
8:00 AM
Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium
Armenian Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, and Future
The Promise Armenian Institute
8
10:30 AM
Location provided upon RSVP
Registration
Medicine in the Islamic World: A History through Manuscripts
Deborah Schlein
Center for Near Eastern Studies
8
2:00 PM
Wende Museum
Registration
Late Soviet War Crimes Trials: Re-Living, Re-Litigating & Re-Narrating WW2
Jared McBride
Center for European and Russian Studies
10
1:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Poetic Soliloquy: When Waka is Not in Dialogue
Phuong Ngo
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
10
4:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 6275 & Online
Registration
Haiti Situation Today
Widlore Mérancourt
Latin American Institute
11
5:00 PM
Royce 306 & online
Registration
Can the Subaltern Sweat?
Bharat Venkat
Center for India and South Asia
13
10:00 AM
Webinar
Registration
Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in Modern Iran
Meir Litvak, Luke Yarbrough
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
13
5:00 PM
Webinar
Registration
Fandango Alive
Exploring the Living Legacy of Son Jarocho in Veracruz
César Castro
Latin American Institute
19
3:00 PM
Ostin Ensemble Room 110A
Peking Opera Past and Present: A Conversation with Shi Yihong (史依弘)
Shi Yihong (史依弘)
Asia Pacific Center
19
6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 (10th floor)
Registration
The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics
Julien Zarifian
Armenian Genocide Research Program
20
1:00 PM
Webinar
Registration
Migrantes indígenas deportados
una perspectiva desde la frontera norte de México (Event in Spanish)
Gaudencio Sirenio Pioquinto
Latin American Institute
20
1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Registration
Changing Russian Propaganda against Ukraine: Quantitative Textual Analysis of Newspapers in Russia (1997 – 2022)
Masaaki Higashijima
Center for European and Russian Studies
20
3:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
The Amazon in Times of War
Marcos Cólon
Latin American Institute
20
6:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Registration
Sustaining Heritage and Empowering Communities
Marlon Martin
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
21
12:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Book Talk: Dreams Achieved and Denied
Mexican Intergenerational Mobility
Robert Smith, Jody Agius Vallejo
Center for Study of International Migration
21
12:30 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 4276
Registration
Carbon Politics, American Power, and the Almighty Dollar
Burkle Center for International Relations
22
1:00 PM
UCLA Geffen Hall Auditorium
Registration
Frontiers in Science: Innovations in AI and Data Science
Federico Marcon
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
24
12:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Registration
Colonization by migration: Czech migration to the Americas, nationalist discourses and colonial fantasies in the 19th and 20th centuries
Markéta Křížová
Center for European and Russian Studies
24
1:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Why in the world should a historian of Japan write about “fascism”?
Federico Marcon
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
24
3:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Registration
Between Canon and Coincidence: Using data-driven approaches to investigate the provenance of Indigenous Latin America collections in European museums
Martin Berger
Center for European and Russian Studies
25
3:00 PM
Macgowan 1350
Registration
Dangerous Direction: in Conversation with Meng Jinghui
Center for Chinese Studies
25
4:00 PM
Haines 352 (Reading Room) & online
Registration
Temporal Power to Reform a Nation
Deyal Likhon by Generation Z in Bangladesh
Kazuyo Minamide
Center for India and South Asia
25
5:30 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 314
Registration
Challenges to Democracy and the Struggle over Israel's Soul
Rami Hod, Tamar Hofnung
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
26
3:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
The Youth of Kazakhstan at the Intersection of the West and Asia: An Exploration of the Interplay Between Globalization and Traditionalization in the Kazakhstani Context
Program on Central Asia Lecture Series
Mira Maulsharif
Program on Central Asia
26
4:00 PM
Rolfe Hall, Rm 4302 (Lydeen Library)
Política e identidad Maya Mam en el siglo XXI
Periodismo comunitario y redes sociales
Glendy Agustin
Latin American Institute
26
5:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Registration
Film Screening: The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life
Persis M. Karim
Center for Near Eastern Studies
27
2:00 PM
Kaufman Hall, Rm 200
For an Amefrican Art: A Global Debate on Afro-Diasporic Art History and the Absences of the South
Igor Simões
Latin American Institute
27
5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Book Talk: Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs
Outsiders Inside Armenian Los Angeles
Daniel Fittante, Chris Herring
Center for Study of International Migration
27
5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room)
Registration
Shaming During War: Israeli Public Response to Diaspora Criticism
Yehonatan Abramson, Elizabeth Stein
Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
28
12:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Instrumentalist Memory Politics
Armenian Genocide Recognition in Europe
Daniel Fittante
Center for Study of International Migration
28
2:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
With Feet Between Two Worlds
Coletivo Beture and Kayapó Filmmaking
Pat-i Kayapó, Simone Giovine
Latin American Institute