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Society must be Led: the Vanguard and its Dilemmas in some Post-Independence Indian Novels in India
Talk by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Global Distinguished Professor of English, New York University.
Monday, January 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
A Reading from My Family and Other Saints
Kirin Narayan will share sections of her recent book, My Family and Other Saints. Drawing on her background as an anthropologist and folklorist, Narayan retells family narratives formed at the crossroads of Indian and American approaches to spiritual questing in the late 60s and early 70s.
Monday, January 14, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Kingship, Courts and Capitals: Sultanate Delhi in the 13th and 14th Centuries
Talk by Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi
Friday, February 08, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Coolie: An Ethno-Historical Poem
Talk by Professor E. Valentine Daniel, Columbia University.
Monday, February 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Emergency, Difference, and Popular Politics in Karachi
Talk by Tahir Naqvi, Reed College
Monday, February 25, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Theatre of Death in the Impossibilities of Utopia: Stories from the Indian People's Theater Association
Talk by Geeta Patel, Wellesley College
Monday, March 10, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Blurring of Distinctions: The Art Work and the Religious Icon in Contemporary India
Talk by Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Monday, April 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
From Radio Sharia to Radio Shakira: The Story of the Media in Afghanistan
Distinguished International Speaker Series featuring Ms. Nushin Arbabzadah, Former Chief Sub. Editor of BBC World Service, hosted by the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Bradley International Hall, Room 217
Is it the End of India's AIDS Epidemic?
Discussion with Siddharth Dube
Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:00 PM
208 Kaufman Hall
The Ruins of Memory: The Writing of Brahmin Self in South India
Talk by Dilip Menon, University of Delhi
Friday, April 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Music For a Goddess
Screening of Professors Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoys (Ethnomusicology) latest work.
Friday, April 25, 2008
12:30 PM
Room 1343, Schoenberg Hall
The Modernization of Hindustani Music and the Adaptive Strategies of Hereditary Musicians: The Case of the Tabla Notebooks of Abid Hussain Khan
James Kippen, Visiting Professor from The University of Toronto
*NOTE DATE CHANGE*
Friday, May 02, 2008
3:00 PM
Gamelan Room
Gender of "Terror" Conference
This conference will foreground the centrality of gender and sexuality to the construction of terror and examine how terror is configured across cultural, historical, and transnational contexts.
Friday, May 02, 2008
9:15 AM - 5:30 PM
California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Spring Festival of World Music with the Hammer Museum
UCLA Student Ensemble Performances
Saturday, May 03, 2008
2:00 PM
Hammer Museum
Landscapes of Loss: Post-Tsunami Reflections on Death, Destruction & Displacement
Talk by Malathi de Alwis, University of Colombo
Monday, May 05, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
AIDS | SIDA: Global Updates, Art, and Performance
Academic updates on HIV/AIDS from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia plus related performance art from each region.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
200 Glorya Kaufman Hall
The Sounds of Bengali Scrolls
Exhibition event at the Fowler Museum.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Social Theory and the Urban Poor: Notes from Delhi, India
CISA Annual Lecture: Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, May 15, 2008
5:00 PM
Room A2, Haines Hall
Bahār
Lecture and North Indian Classical Concert By Santoor Exponent Tarun Bhattacharya
Sunday, May 18, 2008
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
100 Moore Hall
Ruined Histories: Archaeology, Islam and the Making of Gandhara Art in Divided South Asia
Talk by Vazira Zamindar, Brown University
Monday, May 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Recent Excavations at Sisupalgarh, India: Exploring Monumental Architecture at a City of the Early Centuries AD
Cotsen Institute Of Archaeology Spring Quarter Pizza Talk
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A222, Cotsen Institute
No Colonialism, No Culture: Macaulay, Kipling And The Interpellation Of Indians
Talk by Qadri Ismail, University of Minnesota
Monday, June 02, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Hindi as a Heritage Language
Teaching Hindi in the Community
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce Hall
2008 World Festival of Sacred Music
The World Festival of Sacred Music is presented by Foundation for World Arts and UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
UCLA International Institute Open House
in association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars & the Office of International Education
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10th and 11th Floors, Bunche Hall
Central Asia Initiative: Mobility and Governability in Central Asia
An international conference presented by the Asia Institute
Saturday, October 18, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tom Bradley International Hall
" SAMARPAN ", A Hindustani (Indian Classical) Vocal Concert by Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Presented by SPICMACAY
Sunday, November 09, 2008
3:00 PM
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium
Afghan Society after the Taliban: The View from the Hills
Central Asia Initiative Panel Presentation: Leading anthropologists discuss contemporary Afghanistan
Monday, November 17, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
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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
Time to be announced.
Royce 314
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