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Results For 2009
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
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
Access to Japanese Electronic Resources
Presented by The East Asian Library
Friday, February 20, 2009
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
East Asian Library
Workshop on East Asian Langauges
15th Weal Workshop
Saturday, February 21, 2009
8:00 PM - 5:30 PM
314 Royce 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Spotlight Event(s)
"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
Time to be announced.
Royce 314
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