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Results For 2012
Women Dalangs in Postcolonial Bali: Power, Tradition, and Puppets
Public lecture by Jennifer Goodlander, University of Kentucky
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
2534 Melnitz Hall
Modern Cambodia’s Emergence from the Killing Fields: What Happened in the Critical Years?
Book talk by Michael Haas, Professor of Political Science and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Lecture/Performance of Sundanese (Indonesian) Music
Featuring Ade Suparman, instrumentalist and composer of Sundanese music
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Jan Popper Theater, Room 1200 Schoenberg Music Building
Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Vietnamese Catholicism
Colloquium with Professor George Dutton, UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Human Rights in Burma Today
A Talk by Jack Healy, Founder of the Human Rights Action Center
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA School of Law Room 1447
The Vietnamese Sons of Victor Hugo: The Colonial Cult of the Occult and the Struggle for National Liberation
Colloquium with Professor Janet Hoskins, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Film Screening: "40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy"
Film screening and discussion with the filmmaker, Dr. Robert Lemelson
Friday, March 02, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Los Angeles Indonesian Consulate
Shamanism, Tourism, and Secrecy: Revelation and Concealment in Siberut, Western Indonesia
Colloquium with Christian S. Hammons, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
An Alternate Modernity: Twentieth-Century Balinese Painting
Illustrated lecture by Professor Adrian Vickers, Director, Australian Centre for Asian Art and Archaeology, The University of Sydney.
Monday, March 19, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Brown Auditorium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Sneak Preview: THE RAID (2011)
Award-winning film featuring silat - an Indonesian martial art
Thursday, March 22, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Cham Manuscripts in Viet Nam
Lecture by Thanh Phan, Center for Vietnamese & Southeast Asian Studies, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Democratic Development in East and Southeast Asia
Colloquium with Prof. Benjamin Reilly, Senior Visiting Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Friday, April 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
UCLA Indonesian Culture Night 2012 -- "I Wish"
Indonesian music, dance, food, and drama featuring the Indonesian Bruin Student Association
Sunday, April 08, 2012
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
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
Vietnamese Cinema Symposium 6 – “Shifting Scenes”
Mini film festival showcasing several short films, plus panel discussion with filmmakers.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Indonesia in Global and Transnational Perspective
UCLA Indonesian Studies Conference 2012, Day 1
Friday, April 27, 2012
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
Indonesia in Global and Transnational Perspective
UCLA Indonesian Studies Conference 2012, Day 2
Saturday, April 28, 2012
9:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library

Theater artists speak on their work on the U.S. Silent War on Laos
Presentation by Leilani Chan and Ova Saopeng of TeAda Productions
Monday, May 07, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall 208
The Politics of the Un-Political: Religious Protest in Contemporary Vietnam
Colloquium with Lan Chu, Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
Commemoration of the May 1998 Tragedy in Indonesia
Commemoration includes a lecture by Prof. Baskara T. Wardaya, Universitas Sanata Dharma
Saturday, May 12, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
509 E. Arrow Highway, 2nd Floor Auditorium
“One and Many”: Diversity of Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
Colloquium with Muhamad Ali, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
Reciprocity and/as Vengeance: Art and Cultural Patronage in the Philippines during the Marcos Years
Book talk by Pearlie Rose S. Baluyut, Author of Institutions and Icons of Patronage: Arts and Culture in the Philippines during the Marcos Years, 1965-1986
Thursday, May 24, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
The Ethos of Rice : The Ethics behind the Traditional Culture of Rice and its Production in the Philippines
Colloquium with Prof. Jeannette L. Yasol-Naval, Department of Philosophy, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
3400 Boelter Hall
Recent Discourse on Indonesia’s 1965 Tragedy
Colloquium with Prof. Baskara T. Wardaya, S.J., Sanata Dharma University and Gadjah Mada University
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz 2012: India and Bali
Music and dance from India and from Bali, Indonesia performed by UCLA students.
Friday, June 01, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Schoenberg Auditorium
A Journey to Harmony
A concert by Suanplu Chorus from Bangkok, Thailand
Sunday, July 15, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Schoenberg 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
Young Research Library Asian Studies New Student Reception
The Asia Institute invites new graduate students and visiting scholars to a welcome reception at YRL
Friday, October 05, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library Presentation Room
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
Night Letters: Art and Ambiguity in the Early Years of Soeharto’s New Order (1968-1976)
Colloquium with Jeffrey Hadler, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, October 11, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
2013-14 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.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Cambodia-Thailand Relations: The Questions of the Preah Vihear Temple and a Clash of Two Nationalisms
Colloquium with Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri, Department of History, Thammasat University
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall

Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Intro,Q&A
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
Careers in International Development, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy with Alfred Nakatsuma
Alfred Nakatsuma has just completed his assignment as the Director of the Office of Environment for USAID in Indonesia where he supervised programs in clean energy, climate change, forestry, marine management, clean water and sanitation, disaster response and risk reduction.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Young Artist Association in the Republic of Vietnam and After
Colloquium with Trinh Cung, Artist/Essayist
Friday, November 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
2013-2014 FLAS Fellowship Information Session
Learn about opportunities for language and area studies fellowships for the summer and academic year. Graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines are invited.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Young Research Library
Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora
Book talk by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Monday, November 19, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Young 4216
Creating a New Museum for Thailand: The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Colloquium with Dale Carolyn Gluckman, Former curator and department head, Costume and Textiles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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Past Events
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
