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Results For Spring Quarter: 3/20/2013 - 6/15/2013

Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake Colloquia Series
In 2011, the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies presented an exhibition documenting the lives and stories of those affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. This year marks the second anniversary of this catastrophic disaster and UCLA is proud to host a two-part colloquium presented by Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, chair of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission by the National Diet of Japan, and Professor Hitoshi Abe, Terasaki Center director.
Friday, March 22, 2013
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Royce Hall,Room 306
WEAL 2013 Workshop on East Asian Linguistics
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Friday, March 29, 2013
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
WEAL 2013 Workshop on East Asian Linguistics
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Saturday, March 30, 2013
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Royce Hall 314

A Colloquium with Christina Laffin, Univ. of British Columbia, on her new book, "Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literacy Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu"
Book talk with Christina Laffin is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia and the Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture.
Monday, April 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA, Faculty Center, Hacienda Room

Rape, Incest, and Abortion in the High Plains of Heaven: The Misdeeds of Susanoo Reconsidered
Presented by Bernhard Scheid, research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializes on the history of Shinto. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Shinto, including: The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion (2006, ed. with Mark Teeuwen), as well as on the history of Japanese studies.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
The Great Reversal: Defeated Japan as Ally and Liberated Korea as Enemy
By Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall

The US Occupation’s Politics of Censorship towards the Postwar Japanese Leftist Popular Culture, 1946-49: The Case of Hataraku Fujin (Working Women)
Presented by Professor Yumi Soeshima, State University of New York-New Paltz
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 AM
UCLA, Young Research Library, WEC
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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
