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Results For April 2013
The Luxury of Love: The Retreat/Retirement of Single Gay Men and the Rise of “Bats” in Post-IMF South Korea
By John Cho, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Childhoods at School: Negotiating Modernity, Social Change, and Identity in Ladakh, India."
Presented by Bonnie Richard, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Zhou Zuoren and the Uses of Greek Mythology in Modern China
Zhang Wei, Fudan University
Thursday, April 04, 2013
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
167 Dodd Hall
The Time of Literary History: Reconsidering Modernity in an Indian Vernacular
By Farina Mir, Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan
Monday, April 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
A Colloquium with Christina Laffin, Univ. of British Columbia, on her new book, "Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literacy Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu"
Book talk with Christina Laffin is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia and the Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture.
Monday, April 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA, Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
Puro Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire
Book talk with Lucy Burns, UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
2013 India Conference
Innovating, Investing, and Adapting in the Wake of New Economic Reforms
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cornell Hall
Isomorphic Pressures, Epistemic Communities and State-NGO Collaboration in China
A talk by Dr. Reza Hasmath
Thursday, April 11, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Spatial Study with China Geo-Explorers: New Information, New Technology and New Directions
Dr. Shuming Bao is the director of the China Data Center at the University of Michigan
Friday, April 12, 2013
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
23167 Young Research Library
Critical Histories of Activism: Indonesia’s New Order and its Legacies
This one-day conference, led by historian Jeffrey Hadler and political ecologist/sociologist Nancy Peluso of UC Berkeley, will examine forms of activism and protest that emerged in Indonesia during the “New Order” of President Soeharto (1967–1998).
Sunday, April 14, 2013
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
[East Asian Library Event ] A Year in the Clouds: A Taiwan Documentary Film
Documentary of a group of Taiwan's indigenous people living in the mountains
Monday, April 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
Monday, April 15, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Trade, Migration, and Acculturation: China and the Prehistoric Silk Routes
A talk on the history of the Silk Routes
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
What Are We Doing with the Chinese Economy?
Talk by Mr. Song Chengmin, Deputy Director of Editorial Department of Macroeconomic Management in China
Thursday, April 18, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 1)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Friday, April 19, 2013
11:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 2)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Saturday, April 20, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:45 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 3)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Sunday, April 21, 2013
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
[East Asian Library Event] American Landscapes in Chinese Brush Painting
Artist Bo Hong introduces Chinese brush paintings
Monday, April 22, 2013
11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
The Sanganakallu-Kapgallu Hill Complex of Southern India: Recent Archeological and Multidisciplinary Research
By Dr. Ravi Korisettar, Professor of History and Archaeology at Karnatak University in Dharwad, India
Monday, April 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
한국의 소설네트워크 이용행동에 미치는 심리적 변수들의 효과 The Effects of Psychological Variables on SNS Usage Behavior in Korea
By Professor Ja Young Choi, Soongsil University
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Rape, Incest, and Abortion in the High Plains of Heaven: The Misdeeds of Susanoo Reconsidered
Presented by Bernhard Scheid, research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializes on the history of Shinto. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Shinto, including: The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion (2006, ed. with Mark Teeuwen), as well as on the history of Japanese studies.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Civil Society without Democracy? NGO Development in China
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Great Reversal: Defeated Japan as Ally and Liberated Korea as Enemy
By Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Workers Speak Out Against Labor Rights Violations (UCLA/Indonesia)
Program with Indonesian garment workers who sewed Adidas college apparel and United Students Against Sweatshops
Thursday, April 25, 2013
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Student Activities Center, Ballroom 5 (3rd floor)
China and Taiwan Cross-Strait Relationship after Power Transitions
An International Symposium on issues in the cross-strait relationship
Thursday, April 25, 2013
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
California Room
China in the Global Economic Crisis: Social Dislocation, Government Response, and Prospects for Transformation
A talk featuring Wen Tiejun, Dean of the School of Agronomics & Rural Development, Renmin University of China.
Monday, April 29, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Book Talk: Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Afghan Studies Book Talk with Author William Dalrymple
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Young Research Library Main Conference Room
How Did Jesuit Science Become Superior in the Kangxi Court?
A talk by Dr. Minghui Hu as part of the History of Science Spring 2013 Colloquium.
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM
5288 Bunche
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Spotlight Event(s)
Identity and Place in Contemporary Central Asia
Thursday, May 16, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge
Performances of Extraordinary Gender in Mahari Dance
Monday, May 20, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" UCLA Human Rights Film Series
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
7:00 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
Film Screening: "Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution"
Monday, June 03, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
STARTALK/NHLRC Heritage Language Teacher Workshop for K-16 Teachers of Less Commonly Taught Languages
Monday, July 22, 2013
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