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"Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers, and Social Change in the Zambian Copper Belt"
The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment presents a discussion by Ching Kwan Lee.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 6275 Bunche Hall
Burning Fetishes, Casting Out Demons, and Creating Korean Shamanism: Powerful Encounters between Christianity and Shamanism in Early Modern Korea
By Professor Sung Deuk Oak/Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium
Friday, January 09, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Confucian Thought and Its Impact on My Life's Journey
A talk by Professor Xu Jialu
Monday, January 12, 2009
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Humanities A65
Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China
A talk by Amy Hanser (University of British Columbia)
Monday, January 12, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Three Approaches in Contemporary Classical Studies
Kuo-liang Yeh (Dean of National Taiwan University) will deliver three talks on contemporary Classical Studies under the general title "Three Approaches in Contemporary Classical Studies"
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Royce 243
Three Approaches in Contemporary Classical Studies
Kuo-liang Yeh (Dean of National Taiwan University) will deliver three talks on contemporary Classical Studies under the general title "Three Approaches in Contemporary Classical Studies"
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche 11377
Oil, Gas, and Environment in the Caspian
A panel discussion.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
2:00 PM
1261 Bunche Hall
Three Approaches in Contemporary Classical Studies
Kuo-liang Yeh (Dean of National Taiwan University) will deliver three talks on contemporary Classical Studies under the general title "Three Approaches in Contemporary Classical Studies"
Thursday, January 15, 2009
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Interpretation of Yogacara Philosophy in Huayan Buddhism
Numata Colloquium Series talk featuring Professor HAMAR Imre of Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest, Hungary), currently Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Virginia.
Friday, January 16, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Somewhere Else: Lotte World, Theme Parks and the Logic of Leisure Time
By Professor Timothy Tangherlini, UCLA/Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
A Traditional Residence in Namsan, Seoul, Built by the Master Carpenter of the Royal Palace
By Sang Oak Lee, Seoul National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Islam in the New Afghan Public Sphere
A public lecture by Nushin Arbabzadah, UCLA
Thursday, January 22, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Chinese New Year's Banquet
The Center for Chinese Studies will host a Chinese New Year Banquet at Hop Li Restaurant on January 23
Friday, January 23, 2009
6:30 PM
Pictures in Comic Elegance: Yosa Buson and Haiga (haiku painting)
Colloquium with Cheryl Crowley, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University.
Monday, January 26, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Xianbei, Fuyu, or Puyo: The Laoheshen Cemetery in Jilin, China, and Its Ethnicity and Women
A talk by Pak Yangjin (Chungnam University), cosponsored by the Center for Korean Studies --
TIME CHANGE: The lecture will be at 4 pm
Monday, January 26, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Conference on Languages of Southeast Asia, Day 1
A forum for presentations of new research and the exchange of ideas to create fresh conversations between scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian languages.
Friday, January 30, 2009
8:30 AM - 7:00 PM
314 and 306 Royce Hall
Conference on "Two Systems, One World: US-China Relations under the Obama Administration"
Friday, January 30th, 2009 - A one-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, with additional support from the UCLA Asia Insitute.
Friday, January 30, 2009
8:30 AM - 2:45 PM
Faculty Center
Conference on Languages of Southeast Asia, Day 2
A forum for presentations of new research and the exchange of ideas to create fresh conversations between scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian languages.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
8:30 AM - 8:30 PM
314 and 306 Royce Hall
Conference on Languages of Southeast Asia, Day 3
A forum for presentations of new research and the exchange of ideas to create fresh conversations between scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian languages.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
314 and 306 Royce Hall
Kushanshahr: Where Zoroastrians and Buddhists meet - A Visual Presentation
A CISA and Central Asia Initiative Seminar
Monday, February 02, 2009
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Kushanshahr: Where Zoroastrians and Buddhists meet - A Visual Presentation
A CISA and Central Asia Initiative Seminar
Monday, February 02, 2009
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Religion and the Public Good in Taiwan
A talk by ROBERT P. WELLER, in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
Monday, February 02, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Buddhist World Heritage Properties in Korea: Thoughts and Significance
By Jongmyung Kim, The Academy of Korean Studies/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy
Film screening and discussion with the filmmaker, Dr. Robert Lemelson
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:45 PM
3534 Franz Hall
8th Annual Korean Music Symposium
February 4-6, 2009, Lecture Series and Performances
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Gamelan Lecture Hall
Timurid Custom and Chinggisid Law: Continuity and Innovation
A CISA and Central Asia Initiative Seminar
Monday, February 09, 2009
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Drama as a Literary Genre in Modern Japan
Colloquium with Cody Poulton, Japanese Literature and Theatre, University of Victoria.
Monday, February 09, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online
A talk by GUOBIN YANG (Barnard College)
Monday, February 09, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Modifications to and Comments on the Bible by Hong Xiuquan of the Taiping Movement
A talk by CHEN YIYI (Beijing University), sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Humanities Building 389
A Study on the Historical Nature of the National Movement among Korean Residents in Japan during the Period of Japanese Imperialism
By In Duck Kim, Sungkyungkwan University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Access to Chinese Electronic Resources
Presented by The East Asian Library
Thursday, February 19, 2009
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
East Asian Library
Paths to a Foreign Affairs Career with the U.S. Government for Asia Specialists
A Careers in Asia Talk with Kapil Gupta, US Dept. of State
Thursday, February 19, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Access to Korean Electronic Resources
Presented by The East Asian Library
Thursday, February 19, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
East Asian Library
Getting Published
By Namhee Lee, Professor, UCLA/Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Friday, February 20, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Access to Japanese Electronic Resources
Presented by The East Asian Library
Friday, February 20, 2009
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
East Asian Library
Theravada, But Not as We Know It: Forgotten Tantra in Theravada Buddhism
A talk on Theravada Buddhism by Professor Henrietta Kate Crosby of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK. Part of the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies Numata Colloquium Series.
Friday, February 20, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Royce Hall 243
Workshop on East Asian Langauges
15th Weal Workshop
Saturday, February 21, 2009
8:00 PM - 5:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
The Soldier and the Medium: Two sixteenth century authors on the Mughal Empire
A CISA and Central Asia Initiative Seminar
Monday, February 23, 2009
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Technologies of Asian Development" : Japanese Engineers in Wartime China and Manchuria (1937-1945)
Colloquium with Aaron Moore, History, UCLA Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Monday, February 23, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
A talk on Buddhism and science by Professor Donald Lopez of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Part of the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies Numata Colloquium Series.
Monday, February 23, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Royce Hall 243
Overcoming Capitalism: Protestant Christianity and Cooperative Living in Colonial Korea
By Albert L. Park, Assistant Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College/Im Colloquium of Korean Christianity
Monday, February 23, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Divergences and Convergences between Literati and Popular Drama in China
A talk by LU YINGKUN (Communications University of China)
Monday, February 23, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Early Pastoral-Nomadic Societies in the Eastern Eurasian steppes and Their Historical Significance
A talk by GUO WU (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Science), cosponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Changing Images of the Global
A talk by WANG GUNGWU, the inaugural lecture in the series Beyond the Headlines
Thursday, February 26, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
California Room
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL TRAJECTORIES IN EAST ASIA
Contemporary and Modern Architecture in East Asia
Friday, February 27, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Hacienda Room
MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN EAST ASIA: REGIONALISM/TRANSLATIONALISM
Contemporary and Modern Architecture in East Asia
Saturday, February 28, 2009
9:30 PM - 12:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 503
Modern Chinese Science
Visiting Chinese Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University will speak on modern Chinese science.
Monday, March 02, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Bunche 10383
The Making of the Chinese Intellectual: Theory, Findings, and Hypotheses
A talk by EDDY U (UC Davis)
Monday, March 02, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Politics of Uneven Development in Thailand: An Analytical Framework
Colloquium with Richard F. Doner, Emory University
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Contemplating Contemplation: Another Look at Meditation in Indian Buddhism
UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures' Graduate Colloquium Series, in partnership with the Center for Buddhist Studies, presents a talk by J. Wayne Bass.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Royce Hall 243
Phonological Analysis on Spelling Errors Made by Korean Language Users: Focusing on the Hyper-analytic Spelling
By Shin Ae So, Sogang University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Ikebana Exhibit
Kyoko Kassarjian and the members of the Sogetsu San Fernando Valley Branch will stage an exhibit and demonstration of Ikebana. The Japanese art of Ikebana is a highly refined and respected art form with over five centuries of history and development. The Sogetsu School of Ikebana, Japans most progressive avant-garde school, embraces todays modern aesthetic while at the same time respecting and reflecting the traditional Japanese sensitivity to the beauty of nature.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Ackerman Union
Mercantile connections between India and Central Asia in the early modern era
A CISA and Central Asia Initiative Seminar
Monday, March 09, 2009
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Explaining Gender Inequality in Japan, Europe, and North America
Colloquium with Margarita Esteves-Abe, Political Science, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
Monday, March 09, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
The Buddha as a Businessman: Economics and Law in an Old Indian Religion
106th UCLA FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE to be given by Gregory Schopen, Professor of Buddhism and Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Freud PlayHouse
Dealing with Responsibility for the Great Leap Famine in the Peoples Republic of China
A talk by FELIX WEMHEUER (University of Vienna)
Thursday, March 12, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration in China
A talk (in Chinese) by BAI NANSHENG (Renmin University)
Friday, March 20, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Work of the TRCK: Uncovering the Hidden Stories of the Korean War
By Dong-choon Kim, Associate Professor, Sung Kong Hoe University/Korea Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
민족화해와 통일을 위한 역사청산
Truth Verification for Bringing Reconciliation in the Korean Peninsula
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Garden Suite Hotel
The Aṭṭhakavagga Reconsidered: Between Wisdom and Dispassion
A CBS Colloquium Series Lecture by Professor Luis O. Gmez (Prof. Emeritus, University of Michigan and Profesor Investigador, El Colegio de Mxico).
Friday, April 03, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
The Korean Community in Brazil: Challenges, Achievement and Prospects
By Lytton L. Guimaraes, Ph.D., Coordinator, Asian Studies Group, University of Brasilia
Friday, April 03, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
USC Korean Studies Institute
The Life and Legacy of an Afghan Leader: Ahmed Shah Massoud
Central Asia Initiative Book Talk with Marcela Grad, author of "Massoud: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Afghan Leader"
Monday, April 06, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Seoul 1988 Olympic Games and Urban Renewal: a longer view
By Professor Lisa Kim Davis/Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Monday, April 06, 2009
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Isotope Research on Ancient Chinese Diets
A talk by ZHANG XUELIAN
Monday, April 06, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Sri Lanka Mask Dance and Southeast Asia
Colloquium with David Blundell, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Changing Pattern of Burial Construction in Early Imperial China
A talk by YANG ZHEFENG (Peking University)
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Vietnamese International Film Festival at UCLA, Part 1
Seven short films about Vietnam and the Vietnamese in Diaspora
Thursday, April 09, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Ackerman 2nd Floor Lounge
Vietnamese International Film Festival at UCLA, Part 2
Feature film "When Autumn Sunlight Comes (KHI NANG THU VE)"
Thursday, April 09, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:45 PM
Moore Hall 100
Beyond "Shinto": Justifications for Rulership around the Tenmu Dynasty, 650-750
Colloquium with UCLA Professor Herman Ooms, Department of History
Monday, April 13, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Preserving Local Heritage: A Case Study from Cavite, Philippines
Colloquium with Dr. Emmanuel Franco Calairo, Professor of History and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University-Dasmarinas
Monday, April 13, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China and Global Imbalances: It's Not the Exchange Rate
A talk by CALLA WIEMER (Visiting Scholar, UCLA)
Monday, April 13, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Korean Pop Culture: The Border Crossing Heroines of Hallyu
By CedarBough T. Saeji/Chew on This: A Series of Artist, Academic, and Choreographic Presentations by World Arts & Cultures Graduate Students and Faculty
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
160 Kaufman Hall
First Different Western Views on Ancient Korean History
By Baek Lan Moon, Yonsei University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Cambodian Human Rights Film: Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
A film by Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France, 2007.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Korean Christianity in Korea-U.S. and Korea-Canada Relations
2009 Im Conference of Korean Christianity
Friday, April 17, 2009
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Tsuchimoto Noriaki Tribute Screening
A tribute screening of "Minamata: The Victims and Their World(1971)" followed by "On the Road: A Document(1964)."
Friday, April 17, 2009
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
UCLA Melnitz Hall
First UCLA Indonesian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Day 1
Theme: "Community, Identity, Change"
Friday, April 17, 2009
8:45 AM - 6:00 PM
Downstairs Lounge
Cup of Java: Javanese Dance Voices
In a rare American appearance, seven master Javanese artists from Indonesia offer an extraordinary evening of gamelan music, dance, theater and spiritual traditions.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
First UCLA Indonesian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Day 2
Theme: "Community, Identity, Change"
Saturday, April 18, 2009
8:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Downstairs Lounge
Korean Christianity in Korea-U.S. and Korea-Canada Relations
2009 Im Conference of Korean Christianity
Saturday, April 18, 2009
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Cup of Java: Javanese Dance Voices
In a rare American appearance, seven master Javanese artists from Indonesia offer an extraordinary evening of gamelan music, dance, theater and spiritual traditions.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
The Cultural Foundations of the East Asian Classical World: A Program for Graduate Study
A Workshop organized by Torquil Duthie (UCLA Asian Languages & Cultures)
Monday, April 20, 2009
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall 306
Territorialization and Deterritorialization of Peasants in China's Urban Transformation
A talk by YOU-TIEN HSING (UC Berkeley)
Monday, April 20, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Thailand: What is Going On?: An Informal Discussion on the Current Situation in Thailand
Discussion with Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Senior Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Establishing a Culture of Human Rights through Education, Training, Practices and Networking
Colloquium with Dr. Suthin Nophaket, Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand
Friday, April 24, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Land of Morning Calm: Korean Culture Then and Now Book Signing
Author John Stickler and his wife, fine artist Soma Han, will be signing and chopping their book, Land of Morning Calm: Korean Culture Then and Now, during the L.A. Times Festival of Books.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Booth 845, L.A. Times Festival of Books
The Alley-Level State: Residents and Neighborhood Organizations in Beijing and Taipei
A talk by BENJAMIN L. READ (UC Santa Cruz)
Monday, April 27, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Screening of Big Man Japan
Melnitz Movies, in co-sponsorship with the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, presents a free screening of BIG MAN JAPAN.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Imaginary Power of Korean Folk Painting: Chaekkori
Professor Pyongmo Chong, Department of Cultural Assets, Gyeongju University
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
11:00 AM
146 Dodd Hall
A/cute Tokyo Symposium
A/cute Tokyo explores the dynamics of Tokyo, highlighting ongoing urban and design research conducted by UCLA and Tokyo Institute of Technology faculty and students. A/cute Tokyo is organized by UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
12:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Hammer Museum
They Can Decide What They Want in the Morning, I'll Sing the Way I Want in the Evening: Debating the Standardization of Raga in South India, 1930-1952
A CISA Seminar.
Monday, May 04, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Hearing the Future: Twenty Years of Listening to Popular Music in Taiwan
A talk by NANCY GUY (UC San Diego), in the series New Directions in Taiwan Studies
Monday, May 04, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Grand Salon
The Peace in Aceh: The Role of Democracy for Conflict Resolution
Colloquium with Gyda Sindre, UCLA and University of Oslo Departments of Political Science
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
옥소 권섭과 문집 옥소고 (Okso Gwŏnsŏp and His Book-Oksogo)
By Chang Hui Lee, Professor, Korea University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
When Human Rights Meet the Market: Prosecuting Human Trafficking from Colombia to East Asia
Presented by Center for Study of Women
Thursday, May 07, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
Methods of Calligraphy: Chinese Calligraphy Demonstration by Dr. Xue Longchun
Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies
& UCLA Confucius Institute
Thursday, May 07, 2009
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Indonesian Culture Night at UCLA
Theme: The Legend of "Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih"
Saturday, May 09, 2009
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
Northeast Asia and America in the Age of Obama
A lecture with Junichi Ihara, Consul General of Japan in Los Angeles, and Kim Jae Soo, Consul General of the Republic of Korea.
Monday, May 11, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
School of Public Affairs
Science And Technology Conflict Between US And Japan in the Late 1980s
Colloquium with Shigeru Nakayama, History, UCLA Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations.
Monday, May 11, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Ancient Chinese Checkpoints and How They Possibly Worked
A talk by ENNO GIELE (University of Arizona)
Monday, May 11, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Sino-Soviet Alliance and China's Entry into the Korean War
A talk by SHEN ZHIHUA (East China Normal University)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Far Horizon: Society, Scale and Complexity in first millennium BCE South India
A CISA Seminar
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
4:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
POSTPONED: Genealogy and Lineage in Early Japan
Workshop organized by UCLA Professor Torquil Duthie, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO FALL 2009.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Time to be announced.
Royce Hall
Changing Religious Landscapes: Why Some Muslims Convert to Christianity-The Case of Central Asia
A Central Asia Initiative Lecture by Olivier Roy
Friday, May 15, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
History Conference Room
Life Writing as Literary Relic: Image, Inscription, and Consecration in Tibetan Biography
A CBS Colloquium Series Lecture by Andrew Quintman, PhD (Cotsen-Mellon Fellow, Princeton University).
Friday, May 15, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
POSTPONED: Genealogy and Lineage in Early Japan
Workshop organized by UCLA Professor Torquil Duthie, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO FALL 2009.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Time to be announced.
Royce Hall
Eminent Monks' Views on Buddhism in Silla Korea
By Professor Jongmyung Kim, Academy of Korean Studies/Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Monday, May 18, 2009
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Erosion of Paternalistic Democracy in Chinese Factories
A talk by J0EL ANDREAS (Johns Hopkins University)
Monday, May 18, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Observing the World from Africa: Italy and Japan in two Ethiopian Travelogues
A presentation by Hailu Habtu, Senior Research Scholar at the
Institute for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa University
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Can Kim Jong Il Be a Good Man? Two North Korean Defectors, Whang Jang Yop and Kim Duk Hong's Answer to the Question
By Jae Jung Lee, Producer of Korean Broadcasting System/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Popular Millenarianism in the People's Republic of China during the Mao Era: Rumors and Narratives
A talk by Stephen A. Smith
Thursday, May 21, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Iran: Realities and Policy Issues, Past and Present
Seminar on: Iran's Ethnic and Religious Minorities:
Analyzing Realities and Policy Issues, Past and Present
Friday, May 22, 2009
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
Rethinking the emergence of the colonial countryside. Or, Marx and India once again presented by Jon Wilson
CISA Seminar
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Music of Korea
2009 Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz
Friday, May 29, 2009
7:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Dis/continuities: Nation-State Formation in Japan with Science, Technology, and Medicine during Imperialism, War, Occupation, and Peace, 1932-62
A Workshop organized by Sharon Traweek, UCLA History and Women's Studies, Shigeru Nakayama, UCLA Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations, Aaron Moore, UCLA Terasaki Post-doctoral Fellow, and Michiko Takeuchi, UCLA Doctoral Candidate, history.
Friday, May 29, 2009
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
2355 Public Policy
Dis/continuities: Nation-State Formation in Japan with Science, Technology, and Medicine during Imperialism, War, Occupation, and Peace, 1932-62
A Workshop organized by Sharon Traweek, UCLA History and Women's Studies, Shigeru Nakayama, UCLA Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations, Aaron Moore, UCLA Terasaki Post-doctoral Fellow, and Michiko Takeuchi, UCLA Doctoral Candidate, history.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
2355 Public Policy
The Abode of a Naga King: Questions of Art, Audience, and Popular Deities at the Ajanta Caves presented by Robert DeCaroli
A CISA Seminar
Monday, June 01, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Changes to Traditional Music in North Korea
By Professor Dongsuk (Don) Kim, Department of Ethnomusicology/Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series
Monday, June 01, 2009
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Global soft power and the adaptive state: China's differing pathways of adaptation to international norms
A talk by Titus Chen
Monday, June 01, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Free Screening of Treeless Mountain
WRITER-DIRECTOR: So Yong Kim / CAST: Hee Yeon Kim, Song Hee Kim, Soo Ah Lee, Mi Hyang Kim, Boon Tak Park / An Oscilloscope Laboratories release (In Korean with English subtitles) / 89 min.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
China, UNESCO, and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series lecture by Helen Rees
Friday, June 05, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
B544 Schoenberg Music Building
RUMBLE
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design Exposition Opening
June 9-13, 2009
Monday, June 08, 2009
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Perloff Hall
Claire Chiu DMA Final Degree Piano Recital 趙瑾 鋼琴博士音樂會
Featuring Traditional and Post-1980s Chinese Piano Music
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
UCLA Schoenberg Hall
Who Was Lu Xun's First Love?
A talk by ZHANG ENHE
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Crude Oil Part 1
Part of the Los Angeles Film Festival
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
11:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Gallery 6 at the Hammer Museum
Asia Society Southern California Annual Gala Dinner
Asia Society Southern California honoring Kobe Bryant, Liu Peng, and Timothy J. Leiweke
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Beverly Hills Hilton
Hammer Lecture: Hitoshi Abe
Public Program presented by Hammer Museum
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Hammer Museum
Urban China: Jiang Jun & Benjamin Godsil
Urban China exhibition related program
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Hammer Museum
The International Conference on Peace & Reconciliation
Embracing the Displaced: Shaping Theories and Practices for a Sustainable Peace
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Displacement/Emplacement: Korea, Latin America, and Beyond
The Center for Korean Studies at UCLA and the Centro de Estudios Corea Argentina at University of Buenos Aires will hold a conference on Joint Research Project titled Displacement/Emplacement: Korea, Latin America, and Beyond. This conference will be at UBA on 7/14/09. The purpose of this conference is to bring scholars in various disciplines from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and the USA to explore transnational Korean communities in the Americas.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum, August 16-November 29, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
UCLA Fowler Museum
Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Exhibit at the UCLA Fowler Museum from August 16 to November 29
Friday, August 28, 2009
Japan's Post-Bubble Political Economy
A workshop organized my Michael Thies, UCLA Department of Political Science (thies@polisci.ucla.edu).
Friday, September 11, 2009
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Curator Lecture: Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Beatrice Hohenegger, exhibition curator and author of "Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West"
Saturday, September 12, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Japan's Post-Bubble Political Economy
A workshop organized my Michael Thies, UCLA Department of Political Science (thies@polisci.ucla.edu).
Saturday, September 12, 2009
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: A Failed Experiment in Hybrid Justice?
Colloquium with Dr. John Hall, Associate Professor, Chapman University School of Law
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Room 1327
From Elephants to Tea: The Nilgiris under Colonial Rule
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA Professor of History
Thursday, September 24, 2009
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Symphony Orchestra Visits UCLA
Please join on campus for an evening of music performed by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Cao Peng, former Shanghai Symphonic Orchestra conductor.
Friday, September 25, 2009
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Mawangdui and Its Place in the History of Chinese Funerary Customs
Lecture sponsored by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art featuring Lothar von Falkenhausen (Professor of Art History and Archaeology)
Sunday, September 27, 2009
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Mary Craig Auditorium
The Right to Peace in Korea: Moving from Truth to Reconciliation
by Eric Sirotkin, NLG Human Rights Attorney and Korea Peace Activist, Korea Colloquium Series
Monday, September 28, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China and Taiwan: The Prospects for Cross-Straits Relations
A talk by HUNG-MAO TIEN, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
H. E. Mr. Shaukat Aziz, Former Prime Minister of Pakistan: Burkle Forum on "Pakistan & Afghanistan"
Burkle Forums serve the UCLA community by presenting lectures, panels, and other events featuring internationally renowned scholars, practitioners, and leaders who share their views on the most important international relations issues confronting the U.S. and the world today.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
James West Alumni Center
International Human Rights Forum with Somaly Mam
Join us for a special one-time only event in which Somaly Mam shares her experiences and her passion for fighting back against human trafficking. Mam will be introduced by Somaly Mam Foundation Board Member, actress and UCLA alumna Laurie Holden.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA School of Law
Reconstructing the History of a Monastery: The Kaiyuansi of Ji'nan
A talk by GAO JIXI (Ji'nan Municipal Institute of Archaeology)
Thursday, October 01, 2009
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Artist Talk: Chen Qiulin
Hammer Museum Lecture
Thursday, October 01, 2009
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Hammer Museum
Graduate Student - Faculty Mixer
Mixer for graduate students and faculty in Chinese Studies
Friday, October 02, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
K-12 Teacher Training Workshop: Food for Thought
An ARTalk Multi-Part Teachers Workshop at the Fowler Museum
Saturday, October 03, 2009
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
The UCLA International Education Office (IEO) is pleased to be hosting UCLA's 23rd annual study abroad fair for UCLA students.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Grand Ballroom
The Body, Solar Terms,and Lyrics: The Relationship Between Han and Wei Dynasty Literature, The Songs of Chu and Yue-ling
A talk by CHENG YU-YU (Professor of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University)
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Perspectives on the Dramatic Change in Korean TV Drama
By Hae Ryong Jung, Producer and Director, Korean Broadcasting System/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
An Interpretation of Wu (external things) in the Chinese Classical Literary Tradition
A talk by CHENG YU-YU (Professor of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
Thursday, October 08, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Archaeology in Sri Lanka: Challenges and Prospects for the Future
A presentation on the archaeological challenges and future prospects in Sri Lanka.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Lenart Auditorum
A Roundtable on the Chinese Literary Tradition
A roundtable with CHANG SU-CHING and CHENG YU-YU, of National Taiwan University
Friday, October 09, 2009
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Todd Shimoda on his novel "Oh! A Mystery of 'Mono no Aware'"
An Afternoon with the Author
Friday, October 09, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Korean Buddhism Betrayed? The Korean Wonjong's Attempted Alliance with the Japanese Sotoshu in 1910
A Center for Buddhist Studies Numata Colloquium Series lecture by Professor Hwansoo Kim of Duke University.
Friday, October 09, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA International Institute Open House
In association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars and the International Education Office
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10th and 11th Floors, Bunche Hall
Brahmans, Society and the State in Colonial and Post-colonial Tamilnadu by Professor Chris Fuller, London School of Economics
A CISA seminar.
Brahmans, the traditional caste elite of Tamilnadu, who make up no more than 2.5 per cent of its population, are very well-represented in the IT industry...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Islam and the Army in Colonial India
A book talk by Professor Nile Green (UCLA History)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art
An exhibition at the Pacific Asia Museum, through January 17, 2010
Friday, October 16, 2009
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
HIV/AIDS NGOs in China and Their Relationship with the Government
A talk by WAN YANHAI (founding director of the Beijing Aizhi Action Project)
Friday, October 16, 2009
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Mapping of Japanese Space
The 15th Annual Graduate Student symposium in Japanese Studies on Mapping of Japanese Space: Place and Geography in the Study of Japan. Organized by UCLA graduate students, Caleb Carter (calebcarter@yahoo.com) and Jessica Woo (ipjinnie@gmail.com).
Saturday, October 17, 2009
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
The Sky Below documentary screening
Sarah Singh recently completed The Sky Below, an award-winning documentary in which she explores the creation of Pakistan and the India-Pakistan relationship.
Monday, October 19, 2009
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Haines Hall A25
한국과 미국의 노인용 IT 용품 비교연구 (A Comparative Study between Korean and American Information Technology Products for the Elderly)
By Won-Seok Chang, Konyang University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Human Rights in the Philippines: Is U.S. Involvement Helping the Cause?
Colloquium with Rep. Neri Javier Colmenares, a human rights lawyer, academic, and representative of the Bayan Muna party in the Philippine Congress.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room 1430 UCLA School of Law
Workshop on Ryukyu Languages and Linguistic Research
The workshop consists of presentations by established Ryukyuanists, young specialists as well as those who have recently started to engage in the study. As part of the workshop a native speaker of Ikema has been invited. Mr. Hiroyuki Nakama, a former Principal of Miyako High School, will give a language lesson to UCLA undergraduate students enrolled in Shoichi Iwasaki's field methods class.
Friday, October 23, 2009
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
On to the Empty Table: Althusser's 'materialism of the encounter' and the case of Korean day workers in interwar Japan
By Ken Kawashima, University of Toronto/Korea Colloquium Series
Friday, October 23, 2009
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Workshop on Ryukyu Languages and Linguistic Research
Second Day of a 3-Day workshop with 18 speakers from the U.S., Japan and France. The workshop consists of presentations by established Ryukyuanists, young specialists as well as those who have recently started to engage in the study.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
Tea and Chinese Cultural Aesthetics
Pei-kai Cheng, Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Saturday, October 24, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
UCLA Institute of the Environment: Support India's Sustainable Development @ Grassroots
Association for Indias Development (Los Angeles Chapter) Invites you to the seminar event of 2009.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Kerckhoff State Room 131
Workshop on Ryukyu Languages and Linguistic Research
Last Day of a 3-Day workshop with 18 speakers from the U.S., Japan and France. The workshop consists of presentations by established Ryukyuanists and young specialists as well as those who have recently started to engage in the study.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
Where Did the Ryukyuans Come from?
Colloquium with Leon Serafim, East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawaii
Monday, October 26, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
A Roundtable Conversation with Mark Edward Lewis
A roundtable discussion with MARK EDWARD LEWIS (Stanford University) at the USC Doheny Library
Monday, October 26, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
East Asian Library Seminar Room
2010-2011 UC Pacific Rim Research Fellowship (PRRP) Campus Information Session
This session will give faculty and students an opportunity to learn more about the PRRP program and answer any questions.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Cambodian Stone Sculptures
Pizza Talk - Institute of Archeology
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A222 Fowler Building
Cinematheque 108
THe USC School of Cinematic Arts presents the Chinese Female Filmmakers Screening Series
Thursday, October 29, 2009
7:00 PM
Fowler Museum Food Workshop
"Sweet Tea and Sticky Rice"
Sunday, November 01, 2009
11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Fowler Museum
Shoji Yamada on his book "Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West"
An Informal Lecture
Monday, November 02, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Jack Healey, former Director of Amnesty International: "Burma and a Lifetime of Human Rights Advocacy"
Join us for a lecture by world-renowned human rights activist and pioneer, Jack Healey, followed by discussion with members of the UCLA community.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Law School Room 1327
Architecture & Confucian Ritual in the Chosŏn Dynasty (조선시대 건축과 유교 예제(禮制))
By Seung Jai Hong, Wonkwang University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Teacher, sailor, call center operator: Race and the making of Filipino labor niches in emerging global markets
Colloquium with Prof. Steve McKay, Department of Sociology, U.C. Santa Cruz
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines 279
The Buddhist Arts of Tea in Medieval China
James A. Benn delivers the 22nd Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Saturday, November 07, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Gender Issues in Malaysian Computer Science Over the Last Three Decades
Colloquium with Prof. Ulf Mellstrom, Director, Program on Gender and Technology, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; Professor, Gender Studies, Linkoping University; Editor, Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies; and Chair, Swedish National Secretariat for Gender Research
Monday, November 09, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
5288 Bunche Hall
Chew on This! Noontime Lecture
"From Purani Dilli to Gurgaon: Mapping the Ends in India's Capital City"
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall - Phoenix Conference Room 160
From Purani Dilli to Gurgaon: Mapping the Ends in India's Capital City
An artistic presentation examining the contemporary urban experience by Professor Aparna Sharma, Department of World Arts & Cultures.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Kaufman Hall
Red-Headed Mummies and Indo-European Languages: The Archaeology and Linguistics of Migration in 'Chinese' Eurasia
Panel Presentation with Elizabeth Barber and Melanie Malzahn, with Discussant Lothar Von Falkenhausen
Thursday, November 12, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
China's Urban Poorest and their Program: Anti-Emblem of Municipal Modernization
A talk by DOROTHY SOLINGER at the University of Southern California
Thursday, November 12, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
USC University Club
Taiwan Culture in the New Millennium: A Conversation with Two Cultural Figures
A roundtable with screenwriter and novelist CHU TIEN-WEN, and novelist, poet, and naturalist LIU KE-SHIANG
Thursday, November 12, 2009
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Korean Music and Dance Ensemble
Fowler Out Loud Concert
Thursday, November 12, 2009
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fowler Museum
UCLA Korean Music and Dance Ensemble
A Fowler Out Loud Concert
Thursday, November 12, 2009
6:00 PM
Fowler Museum
Red Cliff Screening
Movie Screening presented by the Graduate Student Association and the Asia Institute
Thursday, November 12, 2009
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Tocharian 100 Years after its Decipherment
A Center for Buddhist Studies Numata Colloquium Series lecture by Professor Melanie Malzahn (University of Vienna)
Friday, November 13, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Fowler Museum Tea Ceremony Demonstration
A Japanese Chanoyu ceremony
Saturday, November 14, 2009
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Fowler Museum
Fowler On the Town: Kulov's Tea Tour
"The Big Chill": second of two tours focuses on teas of the east
Sunday, November 15, 2009
11:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Fowler Museum
The World of Yugen: a lecture and presentation
Colloquium with Kyoko Ibe, Special Advisor for Cultural Exchange, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology.
Monday, November 16, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
The Quintessential Oneness of Amar, Akbar and Anthony: The Portrayal of Religious Minorities in Bollywood Masalas
A conversation with Madhu Kishwar: Portrayals of religious minorities in Bollywood films.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
IEW 2009: International Opportunities Fair
Information tables and panel sessions on international opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Kerckhoff State Rooms
International Opportunities Fair
Find out about various study abroad options - and ways to pay for them!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Kerckhoff State Rooms
고려시대 국왕과 혼인한 자매들 Sharing Spouses in Royal Families in the Koryŏ Dynasty
By Soo Jung Shin, Sungshin Women's University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Reconstructing Indian Population History
A roundtable discussion of the recently published paper: Reconstructing Indian Population History (Reich et al. 2009).
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
2125 Rolfe Hall
Hammer Readings: Yiyun Li
Hammer Museum Readings,
Some Favorite Writers: Yiyun Li
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Hammer Museum
East Asian Library Instruction 2009
Event sponsored by the East Asian Library on November 19, 2009.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Exploring Visual Types of Gandharan Buddha Images: Its Ramifications
A talk on Gandharan Buddhist art by Professor Rhi Juhyung of Seoul National University
Thursday, November 19, 2009
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Dodd 221A
Buddhist Cave Temples of the Kucha Kingdom
An Afternoon of Presentations and Discussion
Friday, November 20, 2009
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Seminar Room, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Contemporary Chinese America
A book talk by MIN ZHOU
Friday, November 20, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Presentation Room
The Transformation of China during the 1990s
Talks by BAIZHU CHEN (USC) and R. BIN WONG (UCLA)
Friday, November 20, 2009
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of a New Global Order
A talk by MARTIN JACQUES
Friday, November 20, 2009
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
"Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country" Film Screening
Armed with video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters [VJ=Video Journalist] face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country.
Friday, November 20, 2009
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Beyond the Surface: Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
Two-day symposium hosted by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Saturday, November 21, 2009
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Beyond the Surface: Bronze Mirrors from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection
Two-day symposium hosted by the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Sunday, November 22, 2009
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Tea of the Samurai in Times of War and Peace
Morgan Pitelka, Occidental College
Sunday, November 22, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Civil Society with Chinese Characteristics
A talk by SONG QINGHUA
Monday, November 23, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Screening of The Sun
Melnitz Movies, in co-sponsorship with the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, presents a free screening of THE SUN.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance: Giving Thanks
Music and Dance from India, Brazil and Hawaii
Saturday, November 28, 2009
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
244 S. San Pedro St.
Beyond the Global Financial Crisis : The Case of Korea
By DoSung Choi, Monetary Policy Committe of the Bank of Korea/SNU-UCLA Joint Colloquium Series
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
A book talk and signing by TRITIA TOYOTA
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Presentation Room
북한의 위협과 환경변화에 따른 사이버전 North Korea's Cyber Threats and Cyber Warfare in a Changing Environment
By Sang Min Park, Korean Ministry of National Defense/CKS Post Doc Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Funeral and Sacrifice in 186 BC: The Luozhuang Mausoleum, Shandong
A talk by GAO JIXI
Thursday, December 03, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The State of Chinese America: A Community Forum
A public forum examining issues facing Chinese Americans today
Saturday, December 12, 2009
12:00 PM - 3:30 PM
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