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Results For 2008
Reading and Writing Ryoanji: (De)Constructing a Japanese Icon
Colloquium with Kendall Brown, Department of Art, California State University, Long Beach
Monday, January 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
US Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities, and the American Way of War from the Pacific War to Iraq
Colloquium with Mark Selden, East Asia Program, Cornell University; Coordinator, the Asia Pacific Journal, Japan Focus
Monday, January 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Blood Into Ink: the Poetry of the Shishi in Nineteenth Century Japan
Colloquium with Matthew Fraleigh, Asian Languages and Literature, Brandeis University
Monday, February 04, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
The Stealth Activism of the Japanese Judiciary - How Japanese Judges Surpass American Courts as Social Engineers
Colloqium with Frank Upham, the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, New York University School of Law
Friday, February 22, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Matsurou Sasaki
President, SAPS/Sasaki and Partners, Tokyo; Professor, Hosei University, Tokyo
Monday, March 03, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall (Decafe)
Sendai Kuji Hongi: Imitator or Facilitator
Colloquium with John Bentley, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Northern Illinois University
Monday, March 10, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Thursday, March 13, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Department of Sociology
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Friday, March 14, 2008
1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Hammer Museum, Lecture Hall
J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West
Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Saturday, March 15, 2008
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Public Policy Lounge 5391
Kimono: Sea of Silk
Lecture and demonstration by Nobuaki Tomita, Kimono Designer, Stylist, and Producer
Monday, March 17, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Faculty Center
Mobilizing Geographic vs. Nationally-Organized Interests in Trade Politics: Evidence from Trade Testimony before the Japanese Diet
Colloquium with Megumi Naoi, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Monday, April 07, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Berlin and Beyond: Yamada Kosaku and the Beginnings of Western Classical Music in Japan
Colloquium with Thomas Rimer, Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations, UCLA
Monday, April 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Solitary Warriors of Class Warfare: Kajiwara Ikki's Manga Heroes and Their Violent Quest for Historical Agency
Colloquium with Yoshikuni Igarashi, History, Vanderbilt University
Monday, May 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Symposium: Kuki Shuzo and the Question of Hermeneutics
Organized by UCLA Professor Michael Marra, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Friday, May 16, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Screening of Kon Ichikawa's 'Odd Obsession'
The screening of 'Odd Obsession' (1959, 96 min) is a tribute to the passing of director Kon Ichikawa, with Director Shunji Iwai.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Tokyo Then, Tokyo Now
A colloquium funded in part by the Arts Initiative, a program of UCLA Arts & UCLA Theater Film and Television. Special thanks to the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Perloff Hall
Power, Play, and Dialogic Imagination in Late Tokugawa Japan
Colloquium with Katsuya Hirano, History, Cornell University
Monday, June 02, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Joint Seminar with Shigemi Nakagawa and Barbara Sato
Joint Seminar by Shigemi Nakagawa, Japanese Modern Literature and Comparative Literature at Ritsumeikan University, and Barbara Sato, History, Seikei University
Monday, October 06, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Royce 243
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
Japan Translates: Words between Languages from Classics to Hyperculture
Graduate student symposium organized by Jordan Smith.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
306 Royce
Japan's Jazz Coffeeshops: Cultural Underground or Otaku Refuge?
Colloquium with Michael Molasky, History, University of Minnesota.
Monday, October 27, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Recent Discoveries in Japanese Archaeology
Presented by Prof. Donald McCallum, Japanese Art History
Friday, November 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Recent Developments in the Study of Buddhist Art
This symposium is intended to survey some of the most important recent developments in the study of Buddhist art throughout Asia.
Friday, November 21, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
for Friday's conference:
Out of the Glass Case: The Social Life of Urban Heritage in Kyoto
Colloquium with Christoph Brumann, anthropology, University of Cologne
Monday, November 24, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
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The Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace with Ambassador Ryan Crocker: "The Arab Spring and US Interests"
Thursday, May 30, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1357
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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Royce 314
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