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
Webinar
Registration
Subjects and Sojourners: A New History of Indochinese in France
Charles Keith, Cindy Nguyen (moderator)
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
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
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
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, PAI
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
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
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, APC
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
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
Simone Giovine
Latin American Institute