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CAW: Dru Gladney
Readings and discussion with Dru Gladney, Pomona College
Monday, January 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Religion and Politics on China's Silk Road: Muslims between Baghdad and Beijing
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Dru Gladney, Pomona College
Monday, January 09, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Transnational Afghanistan
Readings and Discussion with Nile Green, UCLA
Monday, January 23, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CAW: Islam after Communism
Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, February 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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
Heroin Heroines: Women and the Men Who Work with Them in Afghanistan's Drug Trade
Book talk by Fariba Nawa
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Kazakh Music Concert
A performance by the Kazakh Folk Ensemble "Kulansaz."
Friday, February 24, 2012
2:00 PM
Jan Popper Theater
Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women
Exhibit at the UCLA Fowler Museum
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Fowler Museum
CAW: Development and Civil Society
Central Asia Workshop: readings and discussion
Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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
CAW: Tengriism
Readings and Discussion with Kagan Arik, University of Chicago
Monday, March 05, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Shamanism and Healing in the Culture of the Kazakhs
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Kagan Arik, University of Chicago.
Monday, March 05, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Democracy@Large"
Film screening of "Democracy at Large" (2006)
Monday, April 02, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Gallery Tour of "Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women"
Roy Hamilton, Sr. Curator for Asian and Pacific Collections, UCLA Fowler Museum
Saturday, April 07, 2012
10:45 AM
UCLA Fowler Museum
CAW: Nineteenth-Century Persian Travelogues and the Construction of Political Space
Readings and discussion with Christine Noelle-Karimi, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Monday, April 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Concepts of Statehood and Territoriality in Early Modern Afghanistan
Afghan Studies Lecture by Christine Nölle-Karimi, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library
CAW: Lanuage and Identity Practice Presentations
Talks for Language and Identity in Central Asia by UCLA Grad Students
Monday, April 23, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Human Rights for Afghan Women
Fowler OutSpoken Conversation: Human Rights for Afghan Women
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
7:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum auditorium
Language and Identity in Central Asia
A two-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia
Friday, May 04, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Language and Identity in Central Asia (Day 2)
A two-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia
Saturday, May 05, 2012
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Central Asia: The Geopolitical Perspective
Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, May 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche
Tibetan Buddhism beyond Tibet
Leading scholars on Tibetan history and Buddhism join in a panel discussion on the meanings and impacts of Tibetan Buddhism in the histories of Asia and the contemporary world.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
West Coast Premiere Film Screening - Old Dog
Friday, May 11, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Marriage and Mourning at the Edge of the Jewish World: Ritual Practice among Central Asia's Bukharan Jews
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Alanna E. Cooper, PhD
Monday, May 21, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Contemporary Urbanization in Mongolia and Eastern Tibet
Led by Rick Miller and Nancy Levine
Monday, June 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Qara U'y: The Qaraqalpaq Yurt and Its Decoration
David and Sue Richardson, Independent Researchers, Nottingham, UK
Saturday, September 15, 2012
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Azerbaijan as a Regional Hub in Central Eurasia: A Strategic Assessment of Euro-Asian Trade and Transportation
A book talk with author Taleh Ziyadov, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy. Discussant: James Coyle, Pepperdine University.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Silk Fabrics of the Golden Horde: Historical, Cultural and Ideological Aspects
Zvezdana Dode, Stavropol State University, Russia
Thursday, October 04, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Cotsen Institute Seminar Room
Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan: 1500-2014
A lecture by Thomas Barfield, Boston University
Monday, October 08, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room
Do Fair Elections Enhance Perceptions of Government? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Michael Callen, UCSD
Friday, October 12, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
CAW: Borders, Ethnicity & Conflict: The Ferghana Valley Border Closing
Led by Ali Hamdan
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
CAW: Space and Bor(un)d(ari)ers between China, Russia, Mongolia and Tibet: Political and Cultural Barriers in Eastern Eurasia
Led by Andrew Grant
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Exotic Things and Strange Writings - Cultural Exchange in the Light of Artifacts Discovered along the Silk Road
Armin Selbitschka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich), Germany
Friday, November 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Fowler Museum Building, Room A222
CAW: Youth, Community, and Change in Ladakh
Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 1 of a two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Thursday, November 08, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
UCLA History Conference Room
UCI: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 2 two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Friday, November 09, 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
CAW: Dangerous Fortunes and Vitalities in Inner Asia
Led by Hannah Reiss
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
From the Arabs to the Mongols: Narratives of Foreign Conquest in Modern Iranian History Writing
Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford
Thursday, November 15, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 1 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Friday, November 16, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 2 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Saturday, November 17, 2012
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
CAW: (Re)imagining Kazakh Nationhood Through Cinema
Led by Naomi Caffee
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan
Afghan Studies Book Talk by U.S. Army Capt. Matt Zeller
Thursday, December 06, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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Identity and Place in Contemporary Central Asia
Thursday, May 16, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge
Performances of Extraordinary Gender in Mahari Dance
Monday, May 20, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" UCLA Human Rights Film Series
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
7:00 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
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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