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Results For 2008
Mediating Social Critique: Gender and Race in Hmong Diasporic Video
Lecture by Louisa Schein, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
Friday, January 18, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Downstairs Lounge
Pilipino Scholars Night at UCLA
An informal opportunity for the UCLA community to get together to survey, facilitate, and promote Filipino Studies on campus.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Kerkhoff Grand Salon
Vietnamese Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival
The student Vietnamese Language and Culture club continues its traditional Tet extravaganza.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
The Shwegyin Religious World: Continuity, Rupture, and Political Change in Myanmar
Jason Carbine, Whittier College
Friday, February 08, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
JMEWS Research Roundtable
Tracing Our Research Trajectories: The Study of Gender in Muslim Societies
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sequoia Room
The Rise of Asia in the 21st Century: Can America Handle the Challenge?
A lecture by the Hon. Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore's Former UN Ambassador & Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Modern Diplomacy: What Do Diplomats Actually Do?
Careers in Asia Talk with Professor Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Political Science and Burkle Center Senior Fellow
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA
A Mirror for Thai National Politics: The Curious Case of Pom Mahakan
Colloquium with Prof. Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University
Friday, February 22, 2008
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
10383 Bunche Hall
Energy Security: Security for Whom? Hydrocarbons and Human Rights in Military-ruled Burma
Colloquium with Matthew F. Smith and Naing Htoo, EarthRights International, Southeast Asia
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Byuti and Danger of Performing Transgender and Transnational Belonging
A colloquium with Allan Punzalan Isaac, Associate Professor of English, Wesleyan University, analyzing the film "Paper Dolls" (Bubot Niyar, Israel 2006) by Tomer Heymann.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
Vietnamese Cinema 4 Symposium on Filmmaking: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Discussion with nine Asian Americans in the film industry and the screening of three short films.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
2:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Northwest Auditorium
Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008
U.C. Berkeley / UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
Friday, April 25, 2008
9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
U.C. Berkeley campus
Ten Years After: Reformasi & New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008
U.C. Berkeley / UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
Saturday, April 26, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
U.C. Berkeley campus
To Touch the Soul: Make Art/Stop AIDS in Cambodia
Film screening and Q&A with filmmakers.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
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
Looking for Claveria's Children: State, Church and the Individual in the History of Philippine Naming Systems
Colloquium with Professor Francis Alvarez Gealogo, Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Times that try men's souls: Revolutionary Europe and the Destruction of Java's Old Order, 1808-1830
Lecture by Peter Carey, Trinity College, Oxford University
Saturday, May 17, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Clark Library
Music of Bali Ensemble
Balinese music under the direction of I Nyoman Wenten. Part of the UCLA Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Harberger Lecture with Regents Professor and Burkle Senior Fellow Dr. Suphamongkhon
The Annual Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development celebrates Al Harberger as an eminent scholar and teacher. The lectures provide a special forum for outstanding students of international economics and policy to present their thoughts and research on issues like those that Harberger himself has addressed. This year's topic is "Globalization: A Blessing or a Curse? A Thai Experience."
Monday, May 19, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon
Old Routes, New Exchanges
Symposium on Alternative Practices in Arts Organizing and Arts International Exchange in Southeast Asia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
3232 Campbell Hall
Cambodian American documentary film "New Year Baby"
A Cambodian American family traces its roots in the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Rieber Fireside Lounge
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
A reading by Filipino poet/novelist/playwright R. Zamora Linmark
Filipino poet/novelist/playwright R. Zamora Linmark will read from his collected works.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
A2 Haines Hall
How Citizens' Property Rights Constrain National Forest Policy in Vietnam
Colloquium with Dr. Cari An Coe, Department of Political Science, UCLA; Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Thai Cultural Night in the U.S.
Extraordinary evening of Thai traditional and classical music, dance, and puppet theater.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Schoenberg Auditorium
Ladyboys and Good Sons: Contemporary Mediums and Gender Identity in Northern Thai Trance Dance
Colloquium with Michael Sakamoto, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Asia in LA: Global Cities in Asia, Asia in the Global City
The first Asia in LA program brings together leading architects, designers, and UCLA faculty working in and on Asia.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Tom Bradley International Hall
Spiritual Refreshment, Medicine for the Heart: Islamic Preaching on Record and on the Air in Indonesia
Colloquium with Bernard Arps, Leiden University
Monday, November 10, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
International Opportunities Fair
Learn about opportunities for international studies, careers, and fellowships in celebration of International Education Week
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Kerckhoff State Rooms
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:
Innovation in Southeast Asian Ceramics Studies: The Work of Roxanna Brown
A symposium with Robert L. Brown, Caverlee Cary, and Nhung Tuyet Tran
Monday, November 24, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" UCLA Human Rights Film Series
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
7:00 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
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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