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Results For November 2012
Exotic Things and Strange Writings - Cultural Exchange in the Light of Artifacts Discovered along the Silk Road
Armin Selbitschka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich), Germany
Friday, November 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Fowler Museum Building, Room A222
2012 Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums, and a Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art in Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture, will give the 25th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum
Cambodia-Thailand Relations: The Questions of the Preah Vihear Temple and a Clash of Two Nationalisms
Colloquium with Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri, Department of History, Thammasat University
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Youth, Community, and Change in Ladakh
Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

A Talk by the Venerable Subul Sunim
Zen Meditation for Today: A New Approach by a Modern Korean Master
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Charles E Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall

Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Intro,Q&A
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
Careers in International Development, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy with Alfred Nakatsuma
Alfred Nakatsuma has just completed his assignment as the Director of the Office of Environment for USAID in Indonesia where he supervised programs in clean energy, climate change, forestry, marine management, clean water and sanitation, disaster response and risk reduction.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

UCLA: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 1 of a two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Thursday, November 08, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
UCLA History Conference Room

UCI: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 2 two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Friday, November 09, 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
The Young Artist Association in the Republic of Vietnam and After
Colloquium with Trinh Cung, Artist/Essayist
Friday, November 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
SYMPOSIUM: Strangers in a Strange Land: Art, Aesthetics and Displacement
Organized by UCLA faculty, Saloni Mathur and Aamir Mufti
Friday, November 09, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Hammer Museum
CAW: Dangerous Fortunes and Vitalities in Inner Asia
Led by Hannah Reiss
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Urbanization in Between: Theorizing Urbanization in Rapidly Industrializing China
Presented by Dr. Andrew Kipnis, Australian National University
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
New Findings on the Monochord and Non-mathematical Methods of Constructing the 12-Lülü Chromatic Scale in Ancient China
Lecture by Guangming Li
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (B544)
2013-2014 FLAS Fellowship Information Session
Learn about opportunities for language and area studies fellowships for the summer and academic year. Graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines are invited.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Young Research Library
Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism, A talk by Mark Rowe
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA

Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 1)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Japanese Kabuki Music
The Yamato Gaku ensemble presents a lecture and demonstration of kabuki music, featuring guest artist Osho Yamato on the shamisen (plucked lute).
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (1325)
Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 2)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Thursday, November 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
From the Arabs to the Mongols: Narratives of Foreign Conquest in Modern Iranian History Writing
Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford
Thursday, November 15, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Language and Culture of Ikema from Miyako Island of Okinawa
Workshop hosted by Professor Shoichi Iwasaki from UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
Friday, November 16, 2012
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library, Room 11360
"Tokyo Boogie Woogie" in California: The 1950 Sacramento Recordings in Japanese and Japanese-American Cultural History
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies invites Professor Michael K. Bourdaghs from the University of Chicago.
Friday, November 16, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Young Research Library, Room 11360
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 1 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Friday, November 16, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 2 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Saturday, November 17, 2012
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora
Book talk by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Monday, November 19, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Young 4216
CAW: (Re)imagining Kazakh Nationhood Through Cinema
Led by Naomi Caffee
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Creating a New Museum for Thailand: The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Colloquium with Dale Carolyn Gluckman, Former curator and department head, Costume and Textiles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Burden of History: Foreign Policy Challenges in the New Global Era
By SHIN Yeon-sung, Consul General, Korean Consulate General, Los Angeles, CA
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall

Regional Logic vs. Global Humanities: Where To from Here?
Ping-chen Hsiung, Director of the Research Institute for the Humanities and Professor of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Friday, November 30, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
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