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CISA Lunchtime Talk: "Stories of Connection and Disconnection in the Bibiyana Gas Field in Bangladesh"
By Dr. Zahir Ahmed, Postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Monday, January 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
A State of All its Citizens? Majority–Minority Complexities in Deeply Divided Democracies: A Comparative View on India and Israel
A free, public lecture by Ayelet Harel-Shalev, PhD, a research fellow at the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Situating Feminisms in New Delhi?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
"A SPATIAL SENSIBILITY: Geography and Colonial Cinema in Global Epistemologies."
Professor Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California
Friday, January 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
1422 Melnitz
Ungoverned and Uncivilized: Border Walls and the Discourse of Security
By Dr. Reece M Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Monday, January 30, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
1261 Bunche Hall
Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India
By Nile Green, Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Personnel, Department of History, UCLA
Monday, February 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pious Citizens: Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran
Hossein Ziai Memorial Lecture by Monica Ringer, Amherst College
Monday, February 06, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Ambiance of North Indian Classical Music: Or Why I Shall Probably Never Write on It
By Prof. Ashis Nandy, Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pakistan and Endgame to the War in Afghanistan
By Zahid Hussain, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.
Monday, February 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Diamond Road of India's Golconda Kingdom
By Dr. Robert Simpkins, Lecturer in Anthropology, San Jose State University
Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Last Mughal: The Great Uprising and the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
Book talk by William Dalrymple
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library
Tragic Fate of a Floodplain: What Happened to Certain Schemes in the Brahmaputra River Valley?
By Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Yale Agrarian Studies Program, Associate Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India
Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tragic Fate of a Floodplain: What Happened to Certain Schemes in the Brahmaputra River Valley?
By Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Yale Agrarian Studies Program, Associate Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India
Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
‘Progressive Possibilities in Occupant Urbanism’s Contesting Properties
By Prof. Solomon Benjamin, Manipal University, School of Architecture and Planning
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 BUNCHE HALL
"Bureaucracy and Gender: Memoirs of ICS in Independent India”
By Prof. Inderpal Grewal, Yale
Monday, April 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Ancient Buddhist Voyaging from India and Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia
Lecture by Prof. David Blundell, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Monday, April 09, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Library Writer Series: The Indian Dr. Seuss
by Anushka Ravishankar
Friday, April 20, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
CISA Annual Lecture: "Is There an Indian Style of Corruption?"
By Dr. Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Conference Room 11360
“Good to Eat, Good to Think: Changing Food Practices in India”
By Professor Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India
Thursday, April 26, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
352 Haines Hall
"Queer Selfhoods in the Shadow of Neoliberal Urbanism"
Lunchtime Talk by Jisha Menon, Department of Drama, Stanford University
Monday, May 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Urban India and Planning for Sustainable Cities"
Lunchtime Talk by Bhargav Adhvaryu, Fulbright Visiting Professor, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA
Monday, May 21, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Emergence and the Bengali Muslim Subject"
By Naveeda Khan, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Monday, June 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
International Institute IDP Open House & Fall Reception-Part of 'Welcome Week'!
As part of the campus-wide 'True Bruin Welcome Week' activities, the International Institute Interdepartmental Programs (IDPs) will be hosting an Open House & Fall Reception, to which you are cordially invited.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Hammer Screening: Jai Bhim Comrade
By Director Anand Patwardhan
Thursday, September 27, 2012
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Hammer Museum
Dastangoi: The Lost Art of Story-telling
By Mahmood Farooqui
Friday, October 05, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Auditorium A103B
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
We invite you to join in the 26th Annual UCLA Study Abroad Fair. Each year, more than 2000 students visit the fair to learn about the wide variety of study abroad programs available.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
The Buddha Sakyamuni and the Courtesan Utpalavarna in Gandhâran Buddhist Art
By Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi, Scholar of Gandharan Art and Sri Lankan Archaeology
Friday, October 12, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
275 Dodd Hall
Commerce with the Universe: Travel, Trade and the Afrasian Imagination
Professor Gaurav Desai, Tulane University, discusses the Asian (Indian) presence in and connections with Africa.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Raga Spirit 2012
The first symposium / festival of Indian Music at UCLA. Prominent scholars, musicologists and musicians of the highest caliber will showcase the splendour of this classical art form.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
9:30 AM
Schoenberg Hall
Pakistan in a Volatile Region
By Consul General Riffat Masood from Consulate General of Pakistan, Los Angeles
Monday, October 22, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Intro,Q&A
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
SYMPOSIUM: Strangers in a Strange Land: Art, Aesthetics and Displacement
Organized by UCLA faculty, Saloni Mathur and Aamir Mufti
Friday, November 09, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Hammer Museum
Decolonizing Literacies: Paulo Freire, "Theory" and Rural Women's Antiviolence Organizing in Eastern India
By Piya Chatterjee, Dorothy Cruickshand Backstrand Chair in Gender and Women's Studies, Scripps College, California
Monday, December 03, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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Spotlight Event(s)
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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