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Results For 2010
Language in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Azerbaijan: Policies and Processes
A public lecture by William Fierman (Indiana University at Bloomington, Central Eurasian Studies)
Thursday, January 07, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Of Concepts and History: Critiques of the Economic in 1930s-1940s China
Talk by REBECCA KARL (New York University)
Thursday, January 07, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Filipino Film "Grandpa Is Dead"
Film screening of "Grandpa Is Dead [Ded Na Si Lolo]" and discussion with the writer/director Soxie Topacio.
Friday, January 08, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:45 PM
167 Dodd Hall
Disappointment, Hope, and Government Change: Emotions and Voting Behavior in the 2009 Japanese General Election
Colloquium with Takeshi Iida, Government, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study
Monday, January 11, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Doin The Robot: Pilipino Culture Night without Traditional Dance
Academic Presentation by Lorenzo Lozo Perillo, UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
160 Kaufman Hall
일제강점기 강원도 출신자 만주 이주사 연구 Korean Diaspora from Kangwon Province to Manchuria from 1930 to 1945
By Seung-Reul Lyu, Kangwon University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Information Session: UCLA-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Faculty Research Grants
The UCLA Asia Institute and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) invite proposals for three-year projects of research workshops and conferences on topics related to China. This initiative is intended to build ties between the two institutions and to promote collaboration in research and training.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
11:30 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
India and Gauguin's Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism in a Global Frame
Revisit the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil's artistic career in modern Indian art. Presentation by UCLA Professor Saloni Mathur.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile
A one-day conference focusing on the development of Afghanistan's national literature over the past 50 years.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Lost Heritage: Chinese Christians as Early Reformers
CAROL LEE HAMRIN discusses the new, edited volume "Salt and Light: Lives of Faith that Shaped Modern China"
Thursday, January 14, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Journeys and Arrivals: The Films of Jeon Soo-il--Himalaya: Where the Wind Dwells 2008, Time Between Dog and Wolf 2005
Presented in association with the Korean Film Council and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies
Friday, January 15, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Journeys and Arrivals: The Films of Jeon Soo-il--With a Girl of Black Soil 2007
Presented in association with the Korean Film Council and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies
Saturday, January 16, 2010
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Journeys and Arrivals: The Films of Jeon Soo-il--My Right to Ravage Myself 2003
Presented in association with the Korean Film Council and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies
Sunday, January 17, 2010
7:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Censorship and Liberty: Philippine Performance during the WWII Japanese Occupation
Academic presentation by Carolina San Juan, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
160 Kaufman Hall
Computing China's History
A talk by PETER BOL (Harvard)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Polarization and the De-Thaksification of Thai Politics
Colloquium with Prof. Allen Hicken, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Recovering Femininity and Desire: Women and Scar Literature
Graduate Student Colloquium- Jennifer Johnson will be presenting her research in Chinese literature
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Royce 243
The Bitter Taste of Tea: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade
Film screening followed by a forum on tea and fair trade.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
James Bridges Theater, 1409 Melnitz
Reception and Workshop on Gordon W. Prange Collection
The UCLA Library is now the proud, and only West Coast, owner of a microform set of magazines and newspapers from the Prange Collection, the premier archive of Japanese print media from the Allied Occupation.
Friday, January 22, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Library Presentation Room and East Asian Library
Journeys and Arrivals: The Films of Jeon Soo-il--The Bird Who Stops in the Air 1999, Wind Echoing in My Being 1997
Presented in association with the Korean Film Council and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies
Sunday, January 24, 2010
7:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
"The Dragons Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa" Presentation and Book Signing
Professor Deborah Brautigam, American University in Washington D.C., tackles the myths and explains the realities of China's growing economic embrace of Africa.
Monday, January 25, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pacifying Wartime Technology: The Yamato Museum and Scientific Nationalism in Japan
Colloquium with history professor Hiromi Mizuno, University of Minnesota.
Monday, January 25, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
조선시대 한국 전통 음식 용어 검색 시스템 개발 Developing a Customized Browser for the Corpus of the Chosŏn Dynasty Culinary Manuscripts
By Kilim Nam, Kyungpook National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The 9th Annual Korean Music Symposium
An academic presentation on Korean music followed by a Korean music concert
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building
The Emergence of 'History': A Survey of the History of Taiwanese Historiography
A podcast of the talk by WU MI-CHA (Professor of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)is now available.
Friday, January 29, 2010
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Sierra Room
The Political Economy of India After Liberalization
A presentation by Dr. Akhil Gupta, Professor in Anthropology and Chair of Interdepartmental Programs in South Asian Studies.
Monday, February 01, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Refugee Nation: A drama based on the stories of Laotian refugees and their descendents
More than just a telling of Laotian American history, this two-person performance eloquently touches upon crucial issues relating to the refugee experience, assimilation, generation gap, and mental health by interweaving drama, film, music, and audience interaction.
Monday, February 01, 2010
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
Integrative Medicine Conference 2010
Learn about the application of integrative medicine at UCLA and why integrative medicine matters in health care.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Countercurrents from the West: "Blue-eyed" Zen Masters, Vipassana Meditation and Buddhist Psychotherapy in Contemporary Korea
UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Prof. Ryan Bongseok Joo (Hampshire College)
Friday, February 05, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Royce Hall 243
UCLA VNLC Tet Festival "The Way Home"
Vietnamese New Year Celebration sponsored by the student group Vietnamese Language and Culture (VNLC) -- 2010 theme: Huong Sac Mua Xuan (The Way Home)
Saturday, February 06, 2010
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
Freedom and Heritage: Vietnamese American Articulations of Denizenship as Polite Critique
Colloquium with Thuy Vo Dang, Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Monday, February 08, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room
Overcoming the Surface: Rosetsu, Medium, and Performance
Colloquium with Matthew McKelway, Art History, Columbia University.
Monday, February 08, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Lunch Around the World - India's Oven
Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
UCLA Dashew Center
An Ambiguous Beloved
Poetry reading and discussion by Professor Anurima Banerji, Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Kaufman Hall Room 160
Class conflict and a folk game as emotional resistance - Focus on the case of Kossaum folk art
By Yumi Song, Chonnam National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Sikh Student Association Open Mic Night
Student Performances
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Kerckhoff Hall - Charles E. Young Grand Salon (248)
A Special Exhibition on the Korean Alphabet
You can learn the KOREAN ALPHABET in one morning
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Royce Hall 2nd Floor
Ningbo Xiao Baihua Yue Opera Troupe
Performance by Ningbo Xiao Baihua Yue Opera Troupe
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
UCLA Freud Playhouse
Journalists Under Fire: An Independent Reporter's View from Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan
A public lecture by Anne Nivat, Award-Winning Paris-Based Freelance War Reporter and Writer
Thursday, February 11, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Nisei Girls in Pre-War Little Tokyo
Valerie J. Matsumoto, UCLA History, speaks as part of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Breaking Grounds Speaker Series.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
3232 Campbell Hall
Medical Savings Account in China and the Effect of its Balances on Outpatient Utilization
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Seminar
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
South Asian-American Experience and Imperatives
A presentation by Professor Snehendu Kar, UCLA School of Public Health
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Program Information Session: UCLA Summer Travel Study Program: Thailand Sustainable Communities and Ecosystems
Information on summer study abroad program in Thailand.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche 10367
Visualization of Pattern Recognition from the Korean Buddhist Texts: Computational Humanities
UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies Numata Colloquium Series Presentation by Professor Lewis Lancaster (UC Berkeley) and Mr. Howie Lan (UC Berkeley)
Thursday, February 18, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Visualization Portal, 5628 Math Sciences
Cold War Borders in a Post-Socialist World: Hong Kong / China
A lecture by JAMES L. WATSON, in the series Beyond the Headlines: China and the Global Future
Thursday, February 18, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Hacienda Room
Crossing the Roof of the World
A one-day conference on people and geopolitics in Trans-Himalayan trade presented by the UCLA Central Asia Initiative
Friday, February 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
First International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages
A three-day conference scheduled for February 19-21, 2010.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Covel Commons
TOPIC CHANGE: Visual Encounters in Early Modern South Asia
An illustrated talk by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor of History and Director, Center for India and South Asia
Monday, February 22, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Reforming Japanese Criminal Justice: Juries, Victims, and a Robust (?) Adversary System
Colloquium with Law professor Daniel Foote, Tokyo University and UCLA Terasaki Chair in US-Japan Relations.
Monday, February 22, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
"Not One Less" (1999) Movie Screening-CANCELLED
Co-sponsored by the Asia Institute and the Center for Chinese Studies
Monday, February 22, 2010
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
UCLA Travel Fair
Travel-related opportunities for students
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
11:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Ackerman Union - Grand Ballroom (2400)
Killing the Buddha
A World Arts and Cultures Chew on This! Lecture
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall - Phoenix Conference Room 160
A Yangban family's striving for the solidarity of kinsmen and its failure in Late Choson--A focus on the Yus of Sun-san's case
By Joo Hee Choi, Korea University/ CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Taiwan and Its Flexible Foreign and Mainland Policies: Applying Theories to the New Reality
A conversation with KWEI-BO HUANG (Chairman, Research & Planning Committee, ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs), KUN-SHUAN CHIU (Director, Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies, National Chengchi University), CHIH-CHIANG LO (Vice President, Central News Agency), CHENG-PIN HONG (Dept.of North American Affairs, ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and CHUNG-CHIAN TENG (Dean, College of International Affairs, National Chengchi University)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
A Talk Presented by Gareth Wigan - Producer of "Not One Less" (1999) -CANCELLED
Co-sponsored by the Asia Institute and the Center for Chinese Studies
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Melnitz Hall, Room 1422A
A North Korean Political Prisoner's Journey to Refuge
Join us next week as special guest Shin Dong Hyuk shares his powerful and unique story of being born and raised in a concentration camp IN NORTH KOREA. There will be a Q&A session where you can actually ask any questions you might have for him, at the end of his presentation.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA LAW SCHOOL BUILDING
Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization
Day 1 of a two-day conference examining the role of transnational Islam and new technologies on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Domestic Violence Against Women in Cambodia
Colloquium with Sothy Eng, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, California Center for Population Research, UCLA
Thursday, February 25, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization
Day 2 of a two-day conference examining the role of transnational Islam and new technologies on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order.
Friday, February 26, 2010
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Watsuji Tetsuro on Spatiality
Colloquium with Hans Peter Liederbach, professor of philosophy at Kansei Gakuin University.
Friday, February 26, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Rebuilding Afghanistan: One Drop at a Time
The 2nd Annual Fundraising Banquet for Afghanistan
Friday, February 26, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom
China: Driving the Global Economic Recovery
Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference
Friday, February 26, 2010
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Business
Contemporary Korea: Problems and Prospects--A Symposium
Hosted by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies, USC Korean Studies Institute, Southern California Association of Korean Studies.
Sponsored by the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Saturday, February 27, 2010
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Japan-U.S. Alliance and Security
10th SCJSF & JABA Forum with Ukeru Magosaki, former Director of Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Analysis Service
Sunday, February 28, 2010
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Trading Places: China and the US in the International System
A talk by Richard Baum (UCLA) and Barry Naughton (UCSD)
Monday, March 01, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Religious Side of Hirata Atsutane
Colloquium with Wilburn Hansen, Religious Studies, San Diego State University.
Monday, March 01, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Chinese Student Association Annual Charity Concert
Performance fundraiser for Team HBV
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Kerkhoff Hall, Charles E. Young Grand Salon (248)
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations: "Mobilizing the Global Citizenry: the United Nations in a Changing World"
Join us for the Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace delivered by His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the presentation to His Excellency of The UCLA Medal.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
(Doors open at 8:30 a.m.)
In the Company of Strangers: Filipinos at Home and Abroad
Book talk with author Michelle Cruz Skinner
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
Free Movie Premiere: "Mother"
Melnitz Movies, the Asia Institute, and the Center for Korean Studies
Thursday, March 04, 2010
7:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Promise or Peril? The China-ASEAN Trade Relationship
Colloquium with Dr. Walden Bello, Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines
Friday, March 05, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2125 Rolfe Hall
Leading Developments in Chinese Law
A half-day conference. Speakers and panels on civil society, environmental law, commercial arbitration, and legal reform will focus on legal developments in China and its implications for U.S.-China relations
Friday, March 05, 2010
11:00 AM - 7:30 PM
UCLA School of Law
Shakespeare in Edo: Inoue Hisashi and the Performance as Hypertext
Colloquium with Stanca Scholz-Cionca, Japanologie, University of Trier, Germany
Monday, March 08, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
TaLK Program Info Session
Inhee Kim, NIIED(National Institute for International Education)
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
12:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Woman Question: Making of North Korean Women as Revolutionary Mothers (1945-1950)
By Suzy Kim, Emerson College in Boston/ Korea Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Education Equality and Civic Engagement: A Symposium on the Development of Education NGOs in China
ZHENG HONG (founder of the Dandelion School for children of migrant workers), and LIANG XIAOYAN (secretary-general of the Beijing Western Sunshine Foundation for Rural Development) speak in the Walter and Shirley Wang Contemporary China Lecture Series
Thursday, March 11, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
417 Kerckhoff Hall
International Relations of the Korean Peninsula
By Martin Perez Le-Fort, University of Chile/ Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, March 11, 2010
3:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Man'yoshu in the Interwar and Postwar
Colloquium with Yoshikazu Shinada from the University of Tokyo.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Waka Workshop
Waka and the Imperial Imagination, a workshop organized by Torquil Duthie, UCLA ALC.
Friday, March 12, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Waka Workshop
Waka Workshop organized by Torquil Duthie, UCLA ALC.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Baz-afarini-ye gozashteh: Estefadeh va sue` estefadeh az "Iran bastan" dar dowreh-ye Pahlavi-ha va Jomhuri-ye Eslami
A lecture by Touraj Daryaee, UC Irvine
Sunday, March 28, 2010
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Historical and Geopolitical Approaches to the Study of Identities in Korea
A Symposium
Monday, March 29, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Music and Tourism in Post-Disaster Economies: A Comparative Study of Post-Katrina New Orleans and Bali after the 2002 and 2005 Bombings
Colloquium with Liz Macy, UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
B544 Schoenberg Music Building
The Political Impact of New Media in China
A talk by ANNE-MARIE BRADY (University of Canterbury)
Thursday, April 01, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Thai film "Agrarian Utopia" (Sawan baan na)
Sponsored by Melnitz Movies, the Asia Institute, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Thai Smakom.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service
CANCELLED
Friday, April 02, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Zarina Hashmi, Mona Hatoum and the Forms of Dispossession
A presentation by UCLA Professor Aamir Mufti
Monday, April 05, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom
RICHARD BAUM discusses his new book
Monday, April 05, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Saving Kun Opera: From "Fifteen Strings of Cash" to "The Peony Pavilion"
A talk by ZHOU QIN (Professor of Chinese Literature, Suzhou University), presented in Chinese
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Korean Culture Night
18th Annual Korean Culture Night
Thursday, April 08, 2010
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Royce Hall - Auditorium
CANCELLED: A Saint on the Move: Images of Efficacy in Devotional Diasporas of Shirdi Sai Baba
UCLA Center for the Study of Religion Faculty Seminar Series:
Works in Progress presented by Dr. Polly Nooter Roberts
Followed by a Q & A with Dr. Allen F. Roberts
Professors, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures
Thursday, April 08, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Evolution of Confucian Landscape in the Andong Cultural Region of Korea: Universalism or Particularism?
By Je-Hun Ryu, Korea National University of Education/ Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, April 08, 2010
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Melnitz Movies and the Asia Institute present Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Air Doll"
Free screening of the latest film by the Japanese master filmmaker.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater, 1409 Melnitz
The Painter Farrukh Beg: A Traveler in Mughal India
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents its Fourth Annual Lecture by distinguished guest Dr. Milo Cleveland Beach.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
LACMA
The Chan Database Project
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Professor Christoph Anderl
Institute of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
Friday, April 09, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
The Chan Database Project
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Professor Christoph Anderl Institute of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley and Stanford University
Friday, April 09, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
India and Climate Change
All day symposium presented by the UCLA Law School Emmet Center for Climate Change and the Environment,Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Public Program, and UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.
Friday, April 09, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA School of Law
CSET Workshop Series in April
Workshop designed to help students prepare for the California Subject Examination for Teachers (CSET) in Mandarin
Saturday, April 10, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
King Hall Room C 2091
Out in India: A Family's Journey
Documentary Screening with Filmmaker Question and Answer.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Santa Monica Public Library- Main Branch
World Fest
WorldFest is UCLA students' weeklong multicultural festival celebrating UCLA's diversity and talents.
Monday, April 12, 2010
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Islam's Political Advantage: Evidence from Indonesia
Colloquium with Prof. Thomas B. Pepinsky, Department of Government, Cornell University
Monday, April 12, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
Colloquium with Alan Tansman (POSTPONED; New date TBA)
Colloquium with Alan Tansman, UC Berkeley East Asian Languages & Cultures. POSTPONED.
Monday, April 12, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Angkor: The Life and Demise of a Great City
Colloquium with Roland Fletcher, Professor of Theoretical and World Archaeology, University of Sydney, Australia
Monday, April 12, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
한국 전자산업의 고속성장 비결 -The Secret of Korean Electronic Companies' Fast Development
By Kyungup Ho, Chosun Daily Newspaper in Korea / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Living in the Sacraments: Catholic Culture in Contemporary Vietnam -- A Phenomenon to be Studied
Colloquium with Prof. Nguyen Van Huy, Founding Director, Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
An Ever-contested Poem: The Classic of Poetry's 'Hanyi' and the Sino-Korean History Debate
A talk by JAE-HOON SHIM (Fulbright Visiting Scholar)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Signs from the Unseen Realm (Mingxiang ji): A Collection of Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China
A Numata Colloquium Series talk by Professor Robert Campany, USC
Friday, April 16, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Bombay Islam: A Religious Economy in the Western Indian Ocean
History Professor Nile Green will be discussing his latest book, Bombay Islam: A Religious Economy in the Western Indian Ocean.
Monday, April 19, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Notes from the Pondok: Reports from artists returned from APPEX program in Bali, Indonesia
Artists will report on their journey, show photos and videos, and share the outcome of their international artistic experience.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room 101
Contemporary Chinese Migration to Central Asia: Trends, Challenges, and Responses (Case-study of Kazakhstan)
Elena Sadovskaya, Fulbright Visiting Scholar Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche, UCLA
Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City
Colloquium with author Benito M. Vergara, Jr.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Presentation Room
CONTEMPORARY DANCE IN CHINA-Folk Influences
Guest lecture presentation by Dancer & Scholar, DR. WEI ZHANG
Thursday, April 22, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
208 Glorya Kaufman Hall
Ko Un reading of Ko Un
By Ko Un / Korea Colloquium Series
Thursday, April 22, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Nestorians and Manichaeans on the South China Coast in the time of Marco Polo
A talk by SAM LIEU (Macquarie University)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Fowler Out Loud: Pilipino Performance Night
Samahang Pilipino and other Pilipino performance groups from across campus celebrate the dynamic Pilipino performance community on the UCLA campus.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Fowler Museum
Persia Beyond the Oxus: The Circulation of Iranian Languages and Cultural Practices in Central Asia
International Conference hosted by the Central Asia Initiative
Thursday, April 22, 2010
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Indus Urbanism and Trade: Recent Discoveries from Pakistan and India
A lecture by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin Madison
Friday, April 23, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
Human Rights Film Series: "Tibet in Song" (2008, Tibet)
Directed by Ngawang Choephel
Friday, April 23, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater
Concert: Music of China Ensemble
Chi Li, Director
Saturday, April 24, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hammer Museum
Hot Water Buddha: Bathing Culture, Healing, and Purification in Japanese Buddhism
Colloquium with Duncan Williams, associate professor of Japanese Buddhism and Chair of Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley.
Monday, April 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Truth Commission: Connecting the Broken Pieces after the Cambodian Genocide
Forum with Mr. Youk Chhang, Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia
Monday, April 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
An Interrelationship between Indras Net in Hwaom and the Structure of Computer Networking over the Internet
By Kwangyoun Jin, Dongguk University/ CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Screening of "Ghost Town"
Presented by Melnitz Movies and the Asia Institute
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA
Lecture by Deborah Wong: Music of Thailand and Asian America
Part of the Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (B544)
"Joymoti" film screening
A film screening of Joymoti, the first Assamese feature film with discussion by Professor Aparna Sharma, Department of World Arts and Cultures.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Kaufman Room 101
Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia
a book talk with author Gul Ozcan (Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance and International Business, School of Management of Royal Holloway College, University of London)
Thursday, April 29, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Screening of "Perfect Life"
Presented by Melnitz Movies and the Asia Institute
Thursday, April 29, 2010
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA
Educating Filipinos: Problems Facing the Next Philippine President
Colloquium with Isagani R. Cruz, former Philippine Undersecretary of Education and Professor Emeritus, De La Salle University, Philippines
Friday, April 30, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Royce 164
Indonesian Film "Red and White (Merah Putih)"
Special free screening is part of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Friday, April 30, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Directors Guild of America: Theater 2
Katsura: The Photographs of Ishimoto Yasuhiro
Presented by The Japan Foundation and Cousulate-General of Japan in San Francisco
Friday, April 30, 2010
6:00 PM
1317 Perloff Hall
Asia in LA 2010: Creating and Consuming Asian Cuisines
Join us for a fun and enlightening day with UCLA experts and well-known personalities in the world of Asian cuisine, plus special demonstrations and - of course - tasting opportunities!
Sunday, May 02, 2010
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA James West Alumni Center
A book reading in French, Dari & English by Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author
Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author reads from his book The Patience Stone
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Queer Diasporas, Filipina Victimhood and National Redress in The (Neo)Colonial City?
Colloquium with Professor Robert Garcia Diaz, Andrew Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Department of English
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Lines of Control - Partition as a Productive Space
Discussion by London based curator Hammad Nasar, co-founder of Green Cardamom.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
South Seas Coloration: Colonialism and Ethnicity in Modern Chinese Travel Fiction
Colloquium with Brian Bernards, Ph.D. candidate, Asian Languages and Cultures
Thursday, May 06, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Royce 243
The Quest for Moral Values in Contemporary Chinese Popular Thought
A lecture by PERRY LINK, in the series Beyond the Headlines: China and the Global Future
Thursday, May 06, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Hacienda Room
Inconceivably Remote Future Accessible Now The Bodhisattva and Future Buddha Maitreya during the Kuṣāṇa Period
Numata Colloquium Series lecture by Prof. Christian Luczanits
Friday, May 07, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Royce 243
Return to Daxinzhuang: Current Excavations at the Shang Colony in Eastern China
A talk by FANG HUI (Shandong University)
Friday, May 07, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Fowler Museum A222
Gender, Sensation, Stimuli: Interwar Cafe in Hori Tatsuo's "Awkward Angel"
Colloquium with Mayumi Manabe, UCLA Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Monday, May 10, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
CISA 2010 Annual Lecture
The Center for India and South Asia 2010 Annual Lecture presents
"Engendering Technology: Machines as the Measure of Men (and Women)in Early 20th-Century India"
By Professor David Arnold, University of Warwick
Monday, May 10, 2010
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
School of Public Affairs Building
The Korean War(1950-1953) and Christianity: The Pro-American Activities of the Christian Churches, North Korean Reactions, and House Churches
By Dr.Kim Heung Soo, Mokwon University / Im Colloquium of Korean Christianity
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Chinese Student Association Heritage Night
"Peach Blossom Fan"
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
4:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Ackerman Union - Grand Ballroom (2400)
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Time to be announced.
(Neo)Liberal Ambivalence and the Deferral of Inclusion: Filipino Foreign Domestic Workers and their Families in Canada
Colloquium with Geraldine Pratt, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Friday, May 14, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
1261 Bunche Hall (1st floor)
Concert: Music of India Ensemble
Co-directed by Shujaat Khan and Abhiman Kaushal
Friday, May 14, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Thai Film Screening "Mundane History (Jao Nok Krajok)"
Los Angeles Premier! Sponsored at UCLA by Melnitz Movies
Friday, May 14, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Concert: Music of Bali Ensemble
Performance director: I Nyoman Wenten
Friday, May 14, 2010
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Third Annual China Undisciplined Conference
The UCLA China Studies Graduate Students, in conjunction with the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies present, China Undisciplined, an Interdisciplinary Conference.
Friday, May 14, 2010
9:00 AM
**Cancelled**South Asian Youth Conference
All day symposium offered by Sangam, a UCLA South Asian student organization.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Dodd Hall Room 147
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Time to be announced.
Three Degrees of Togetherness
A xiangsheng performance by three generations of comedians from Taiwan: Wu Chao-nan, Liu Tseng-kai, and Hsu Jia-pei
Saturday, May 15, 2010
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Popper Theater
Concert: Music of China Ensemble
Performance directed by Chi Li
Saturday, May 15, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Third Annual China Undisciplined Conference
The UCLA China Studies Graduate Students, in conjunction with the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies present, China Undisciplined, an Interdisciplinary Conference.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
9:00 AM
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Time to be announced.
Beyond Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Future of Anti-nuclear Weapons Movement
A symposium with filmmaker M.T. Silvia and Chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Steve Leeper
Monday, May 17, 2010
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World, Day 1 of 2
The 2010 Levi Della Vida Award Honoring Professor C. Edmund Bosworth
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Time to be announced.
The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World, Day 2 of 2
The 2010 Levi Della Vida Award Honoring Professor C. Edmund Bosworth
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Concert: Music of Korean Ensemble
Performance directed by Dong Suk Kim
Friday, May 21, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Concert: Music of Korean Ensemble
Performance directed by Dong Suk Kim
Friday, May 21, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures, Day 1 of 2
A two-day conference organized by Aamir Mufti, UCLA
Friday, May 21, 2010
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures, Day 2 of 2
A two-day conference organized by Aamir Mufti, UCLA
Saturday, May 22, 2010
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce Hall, UCLA
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Time to be announced.
Samahang Pilipino Student Cultural Night
Traditional performances
Saturday, May 22, 2010
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Royce Hall Auditorium
The Chinese Film Festival
The Chinese Film Festival, co-presented by UCLA Film and Television Archives, China Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film & Television, and Beauty Media/ICN with special thanks to the UCLA Library.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Time to be announced.
Screening of "Super Typhoon"
Recent Popular Cinema of Mainland China
Sunday, May 23, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
UCLA Hammer Museum - Billy Wilder Theater
Gender and Politics of Language: Naturalism and Modernism in Japan
Colloquium with Tomi Suzuki, Japanese Literature, Columbia University.
Monday, May 24, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
On the Cusp Lecture Series - Lecture by Sou Fujimoto
The On The Cusp Lecture Series is presented by the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
Monday, May 24, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Perloff Hall - Perloff Gallery, Room 1302
Responsible Stakeholder or Revisionist Superpower? China and the World in the 21st Century
An all-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA International Institute, and Center for American Progress.
Monday, May 24, 2010
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
James West Alumni Center
Intercultural Collaboration as Dialogue in the Performance of Japanese Theatre in the Philippines
Colloquium with Prof. Jina Umali, Center for International Studies, University of the Philippines
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Rolfe 3126
China's Legal Reform: OYCF 12th Annual Meeting
The 12th annual OYCF conference, co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and the International House at the University of Chicago, brings together scholars, students and practitioners from China and the United States to discuss the past, present, and future of Chinas legal reform. The topics of the panels include citizen rights, judicial reform, legal profession, corporate law, civil society, and property rights.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Time to be announced.
Sardar Patel Award Ceremony
The 2009 Sardar Patel Award is presented to Dr. Gayatri A. Menon.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UCLA Covel Commons
Indian Student Union Culture Show
Student Cultural Performance
Saturday, May 29, 2010
5:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Royce Hall Auditorium
Film Screening of 442
A screening of "442: Live with Honor, Die with Dignity," followed by a Q&A with director Junichi Suzuki.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Charles E. Young Library
The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia, and China Compared
A public lecture by Ivan Szelenyi, Yale University, Sociology
Thursday, June 03, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Affect and Technology in the Making of Stone Age New Guinea
Colloquium with Prof. Danilyn Rutherford, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
352 Haines Hall
Daoism Today: Science, Health, Ecology
6th International Conference on Daoist Studies
Thursday, June 03, 2010
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Censorship and Intelligence Activities in East Asia, 1920s-50s under Japanese Imperial Rule and SCAP/GHQ
A talk with Eizaburo Okuizumi from the University of Chicago Library
Friday, June 04, 2010
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
Celebrating Extraordinary Visionaries
Asia Society Southern California has selected six Extraordinary Visionaries to share their stories of success during the 25th Annual Gala.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Millennium Biltmore Hotel
The Search for the Sacred in Modern India
Travel Writer and Historian William Dalrymple will present his book, Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, as part of the Zocalo Public Square series.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
UCLA Hammer Museum
Comparative Literature: An Exchange with Graduate Students from Taiwan
An informal gathering with students from the Institute of Comparative Literature, Fu-jen Catholic University
Monday, July 12, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Humanities 348
China Modern: Designing Popular Culture, 1910-1970
Pacific Asia Museum exhibit runs from August 6, 2010, to February 6, 2011
Friday, August 06, 2010
Workshop in Scholarly Translation
Hosted by the UCLA Confucius Institute
Monday, August 09, 2010
1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2010 K-12 Summer Workshop: Visualizing Cultures-Modern China and Japan
Offered by UCLA History-Geography Project, History Project at UCI, MIT, UCLA's Asia Institute, and the Pacific Asia Museum.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
8:30 PM
Life in Ceramics: Five Contemporary Korean Artists
Life in Ceramics, running from August 22nd, 2010 - February 13, 2011, surveys the range of perspectives found among contemporary Korean ceramicists, bringing together for the first time the work of five important artists: Yikyung Kim, In Chin Lee, Kang Hyo Lee, Youngjae Lee, and Kwang-cho Yoon.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
1:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World
This exhibition, begins on August 22, 2010 and ends on November 28, 2010, is about Korean funerary figures from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
1:00 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Style Matters
A talk by INA ASIM (University of Oregon) in the Chinese Garden Lecture Series of the Huntington Library
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
7:30 PM
Friends Hall
Kids in the Courtyard: Beam Me Up, Nini
Indonesian-inspired event for children at UCLA's Fowler Museum
Sunday, September 26, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum
How Seoul Received the Highest Recognition as an e-Government
Jeong Ho Lee, Seoul Metropolitan Government / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
12:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Prestigious Goods along the Silk Road? An Archaeological Perspective
A lecture by ARMIN SELBITSCHKA (assistant professor of Sinology, University of Munich)
Friday, October 01, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
A Night at the Taj
The Pacific Asia Museum presents the 33rd Festival of the Autumn Moon, a celebration and fundraiser.
Saturday, October 02, 2010
5:30 PM - 10:30 PM
The California Club
Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, A Torch of Peace
The Ahimsa Center at Cal Poly Pomona presents the documentary, Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, a Torch for Peace. The film will be followed by a dialogue with the Producer/Director, Teri C. McLuhan.
Sunday, October 03, 2010
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Bronco Student Center (BSC)
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
The UCLA International Education Office is pleased to be hosting UCLA's 24th annual study abroad fair on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 in Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
Film Screening: 'Shadows & Illuminations' on Mental Illness, Spirit Possession and Social Violence in Bali
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the film's director, Prof. Robert Lemelson.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Haines Hall Reading Room 352
Seen Through the Camera Obscura: Cold War Anxiety, Masculine Nationalism, and the Korean War in Life Photographs
Junghyun Hwang, Sogang University / Korea Colloquium Series
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
3:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Culture Fix: Life in Ceramics
By Professor and guest curator Burglind Jungmann, UCLA Art History
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
12:00 PM
Life in Ceramics Exhibition Gallery
Magical 'Display' and Dancing Female Figures in the Religions of Ancient Eurasia
A lecture by Miriam Robbins Dexter, UCLA Women's Studies
Thursday, October 07, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
A163 Bunche Hall
Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Workers to the World
Colloquium with Prof. Robyn Rodriguez, Sociology, Rutgers University.
Friday, October 08, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
279 Haines Hall
Lucknow through the Lens of Bollywood
Visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for a presentation on the culture of Lucknow in films produced by directors of Hindi and Bollywood Cinema from the 1960s to the present.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Bing Theater
Morality of Citizenship: Japanese Immigration Politics in Comparative Perspective
Colloquium with Apichai Shipper, Visiting Scholar, UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
Monday, October 11, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
UCLA International Institute Open House
In association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars and the International Education Office
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10th and 11th Floors, Bunche Hall
Experiencing China through Expos and Olympics: Reflections on 2010 Travel Study in China
A campus forum with UCLA faculty and students
Friday, October 15, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Experiencing China Through Expos and Olympics: Reflections on 2010 Travel Study in China
Interested in a travel study program in China or want to reconnect with classmates and faculty from Shanghai and Beijing? Want to learn more about Chinese cities today and options for study and majors?
Friday, October 15, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
A Fowler OutSpoken Lecture: Journey to the Grave, Dance to Paradise: Korean Shaman Rituals for the Dead
By Laurel Kendall
Sunday, October 17, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Auditorium
2011-2012 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.
Monday, October 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Civil War and Social Capital: Behavioral-Game Evidence from Nepal
The UCLA Department of Political Science presents Professor Michael Gilligan from the Department of Politics at New York University.
Monday, October 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
2011-2012 Pacific Rim Research Program: UCLA Campus Information Session
Information session concerning the 2011-2012 Pacific Rim Research Program.
Monday, October 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
The Limits of Genocide: An Attempt at Confidence Intervals on the Khmer-Rouge Death Toll
Colloquium with Professor Patrick Heuveline, Department of Sociology, UCLA
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
The Turkish Rom Social Dance Phenom
Modern Social "Belly Dance" as an Expressive Celebratory Tradition Among The Turkish Rom in Izmir and Istanbul, a lecture by Jaynie Aydin, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Film Screening: Enemies of the People: A Personal Journey into the Heart of the Killing Fields
Cambodia film and discussion with Writer/Producer Rob Lemkin
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
The Difficulty of Being Good
UCLA Anderson School of Management presents Gurcharan Das, best-selling author, management guru, public intellectual and former CEO of Procter & Gamble India.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
B-209 EDR
UCLA-HKUST Student Exchange Program Information Meeting
For students who are interested in studying with the HKUST School of Humanities and Social Sciences through the student exchange program, there will be an information session on the 21st of October in 11367 Bunche Hall.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
11367 Bunche Hall
Information Session: UCLA-HKUST Faculty Research Grants and Student Exchange Opportunities
The UCLA Asia Institute and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) offer faculty grants and exchange opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
11:30 PM - 1:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Modern China and Educational Studies
A Lecture by Dr. Yong Zhou, Associate Professor, East China Normal University
Thursday, October 21, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
3320 Moore Hall
Kids in the Courtyard: Life Drawing Meets Dead Dancing: A Day of the Dead Celebration
Join us for a Mexican-Korean fusion Day of the Dead inspired by artworks in Intersections: Worlds Arts, Local Lives and Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum Courtyard
섬세한 고려 불화의 세계- Exquisite Beauty: In Search of the Delicate Techniques of Koryŏ Buddhist Painting
By Woo Thak Chung, Dongguk University
Sunday, October 24, 2010
2:00 PM
Dorothy Collins Brown Auditorium
China's Strike Wave and the Prospects for Labor Relations Reform
A talk by Liu Cheng, Shanghai Normal University
Monday, October 25, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
279 Haines Hall
The United States and Japan: Can a Hawk and a Dove Remain Allies?
An afternoon in celebration of Hans H. Baerwald with special guest speaker Sam Jameson.
Monday, October 25, 2010
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
헐리우드와 한국의 엔터테인먼트 산업 비교--A Comparative Study of Hollywood and Korean Entertainment Industries
By Tae You Chang, Seoul Broadcasting System / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
12:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
From Early Judeo-Iranian Jargons to Central Asiatic Argots of Rom Groups: Evidence for an Influential Jewish Underworld in the Late Abbasid Period
A lecture by Martin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Chinese Garden Lecture Series: Plant Collecting in China
A lecture by Dr. Bruce Bartholomew, Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
7:30 PM
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Being Hui Muslim in Xinjiang: Ethnic and Religious Identity of a Minority in a Minority Region
A lecture by Yang Zhongdong, Xinjiang University
Thursday, October 28, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
'Air's Substantiations' by Timothy Choy (UC Davis, Anthropology)
Culture, Power, and Social Change - UCLA Department of Anthropology
Thursday, October 28, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
The Crooked Line: Memory, Communism and Feminism in India
Sponsored by the Department of English & the Mellon Grant for Cultures in Transnational Context. With respondent Jenny Sharpe.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Sequoia Room
A Unique Look inside North Korea: The Personal Experience of the 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand
A Marschak Colloquium featuring Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Burkle Center Senior Fellow and former Foreign Minister of Thailand. This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA Burkle Center and the Center for Korean Studies.
Friday, October 29, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Anderson School of Management, Korn Convocation Hall
The Future of Korea-Japan Relations: Economics, Culture, and History
A UCLA & USC joint workshop
Friday, October 29, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Intellectual Commons Room, Doheny Library
Pakistan's New Literature: A Conversation with John Freeman, editor of Granta
A talk with Mr. Freeman on Granta's newest issue #112, dedicated to contemporary Pakistani literature.
Friday, October 29, 2010
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
4357 Bunche Hall
First International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse
October 29 - 31, 2010
Friday, October 29, 2010
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Die and Let Live: Death and Regeneration in Art
Indonesian mythology shares lecture on death and regeneration in art with other genres.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Auditorium at the Fowler Museum
Research or Teach in Vietnam with the Fulbright Program: An Information Session
Meeting with Ms. Do Thu Huong, Assistant of the Fulbright Program in Vietnam
Monday, November 01, 2010
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China and the Global Environmental Challenges Ahead
JONATHAN WATTS (Asia correspondent of the Guardian) in conversation with Kenneth Pomeranz (UCI Chancellor's Professor of History) at UC Irvine
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room 135
Workshop with Gamelan Cudamani
The exhilarating 26-member ensemble from Bali conducts a hands-on movement/music workshop.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Theatre
Tibetan Sand Mandala
Monks from the Drepung Loseling Phukhang Khangtsen monastery create a mandala at the Pacific Asia Museum
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Corporate Social Responsibility in Japan
'East Meets West: What is Moral Capitalism?' Come learn from Dr. Hiroshi Tasaka, a distinguished business philosopher, prolific author and founder of SophiaBank, a think tank that supports social entrepreneurs in Japan, and the Japan Social Entrepreneur Forum.
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
B210, UCLA Anderson School of Management
"The China-U.S. Relationship in a Changing World" and "Harmony in Diversity"
Talks by Ambassadors WU JIANMIN and SHI YANHUA
Thursday, November 04, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Collins Alumni Conference Room
Material Culture and Maritime Asia: New International Perspectives
The Fourth China in Asia workshop in honor of Roxanna Brown, in conjunction with the Huntington Library conference, "Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and "Connections across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times."
Thursday, November 04, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hacienda Room
International Coffee Break
International Coffee Break event sponsored by the Dashew Center.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bradley International Hall
Buddhist and Manichaean Textual Iconographies in Early Persian Poetry
A lecture by Stefano Pellò, University of Venice
Thursday, November 04, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Courtesan's Other: Visibility, Sexuality, and the Republican Lady in Early Twentieth-Century China
JOAN JUDGE (York University) discusses 'Republican ladies,' a new demographic of woman in early twentieth century China, at the Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College
Thursday, November 04, 2010
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Today's Struggle from Slavery to Freedom in Karnataka
Come hear Shivanna and Kiran talk about the important work they do in rural India with the courageous grassroots organization JEEVIKA. Shivanna Puttaiah and Kiran Kamal Prasad are the 2010 recipients of the Harriet Tubman Award, as part of the Free the Slaves Freedom Awards.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Film & Television Archive: 'Bi, Don't Be Afraid!'
Screening of 'New Voices From Vietnam' and In-Person Talk with Director Thien Do
Friday, November 05, 2010
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Anyang Archaeology in the 21st Century: New Perspectives in the Search for the Shang Civilization
TANG JIGEN (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) presents the twenty-third Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology and Art
Saturday, November 06, 2010
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Social structure, cultural kinship, and cooperation among the Lamalera whale hunters of Indonesia
Colloquium with Michael Alvard, Texas A&M University Department of Anthropology
Monday, November 08, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines Hall 352
The Floating Lexicon: Amitav Ghosh, Hobson-Jobson and the OED
A lecture by Kate Teltscher, Roehampton University
Monday, November 08, 2010
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
348 Humanities
한국과 미국의 저항가요 비교 - A Comparative Study on Korean and American Protest Songs
By Kyeong Eun Chung, Korea University / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
12:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Symposium: Fifty Years of Ethnomusicology at UCLA
UCLA Student/Alumni Symposium and Dinner
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
8:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building
The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia
Central Asia Initiative International Conference
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Music Recordings and Films of Bali, 1928 - 1930s
Colloquium with Dr. Edward Herbst, Udayana University
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue
This inter-faith event seeks to promote dialogue and mutual understanding between Buddhism and Catholicism.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
243 Royce Hall
Pizza Talk: Glass Making in Ancient India
The history of glass-making in India:
Recent research at the site of Kopia
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A222 Fowler
The History of Glass-making in India: Recent Research at the Site of Kopia
The UCLA Department of Anthropology and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology presents Dr. Alok Kumar Kanungo, Deccan College, Pune, India and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room A222
Gamelan Cudamani - Bamboo to Bronze
Music and dance from Bali, Indonesia
Thursday, November 11, 2010
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Royce Hall
Promoting Moderate Islam and Interfaith Tolerance in Indonesia
A group of Indonesian religious experts discuss Indonesia's promotion of moderate Islam, tolerant interfaith coexistence and democracy.
Friday, November 12, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Kucha and the Silk Road
USC Departments of Art History and East Asian Languages and Cultures host a one-day symposium exploring the monuments found along China's Silk Road
Saturday, November 13, 2010
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Waite Phillips Hall B27
Kids in the Courtyard: Textiles for the Table
Children's activity at the Fowler Museum inspired by the textiles in the exhibit 'Weaver's Stories from Island Southeast Asia.'
Sunday, November 14, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum Courtyard
ArtBites: Korean Food and Symbols
Speaker: Maite Gomez-Rejon
Sunday, November 14, 2010
11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Shanghai Girl Gets All Dressed Up
BEVERLEY JACKSON will discuss and sign 'Shanghai Girl Gets All Dressed Up'
Sunday, November 14, 2010
2:00 PM
Pacific Asia Museum
Study Abroad Information Fair
Special Event - International Education Week 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Bruin Plaza Stage
Cultures of Sacrificial Death in 12th and 13th Century India
The Center for India and South Asia and the UCLA Department of Art History presents Professor Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania. The talk is a discussion of various forms of ritual suicide, both religious and secular, in the 12th and 13th century in India. Professor Ali will focus on the culture of the Hoysala dynasty in the Deccan using inscriptions, literary texts, and art.
Monday, November 15, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Travel Study Info Sessions
Learn more details, meet the faculty director, and chat with former participants of the programs.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Various locations and times throughout the week
2010 International Opportunities Fair
Stop by for information on fellowships, international careers, study abroad opportunities, and events at UCLA. For graduate and undergraduate students.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Kerckhoff State Rooms
Contentious Spirits: Book Talk with David K. Yoo
Book Signing and Colloquia for 'Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945' by Professor David K. Yoo. Cosponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Asian American Studies Department, Center for Religious Studies, Department of History
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Antecedents and Emergent Forms of Organizational Innovation
By Jin Nam Choi, Seoul National University / Korea Colloquium Series
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
279 Haines Hall
UCLA Travel Study Info Sessions
Learn more details, meet the faculty director, and chat with former participants of the programs.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Various locations and times throughout the week
15-16세기 조선불화의 양상--Aspects of 15-16th Century Chosŏn Dynasty Buddhist Painting
By Woo Thak Chung, Dongguk University / Korea Colloquium Series
Monday, November 22, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
167 Dodd Hall
The Myth of Nuclear Family and the Rise of Individualized Households: Families in Shanghai
A talk by SHEN YIFEI (Fudan University)
Monday, November 22, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Village Videos and the Cultural Politics of Media in Rural, Ethnic China
A talk by JENNY CHIO (China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
3:30 PM
University of Southern California
Gendering the Globe: The Political and Imperial Thought of Philip Francis
The Center for India and South Asia and the Department of History presents Professor Linda Colley, Princeton University.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
저작권의 침해 및 구제 - Copyright Infringement and Remedies
By Soonkyo Hwang, Seoul Western District Court of Korea / CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
3:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Hu Yinglin (1551-1602) and the Shisou
A talk by WANG MINGHUI (University of International Business and Economics)
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pizza Talk: Archaeological Survey at the Wen-Si River Basin
Archaeological Survey at the Wen-Si River Basin, Eastern China: Preliminary Observations
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
A222 Fowler
Tour of Fowler Museum Exhibits on Southeast Asian Women and Textiles
Docent tour by Roy W. Hamilton, Senior Curator for Asian and Pacific Collections at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Fowler Museum (meet in main lobby)
Performing Politics in Japan and Modern East Asia
An interdisciplinary conference, organized by UCLA History professor William Marotti
Friday, December 03, 2010
Time to be announced.
Performing Politics in Japan and Modern East Asia
An interdisciplinary conference, organized by UCLA History professor William Marotti
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Time to be announced.
Performing Politics in Japan and Modern East Asia
An interdisciplinary conference, organized by UCLA History professor William Marotti
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Time to be announced.
Echoes of the Ancient Skies
Fowler OutSpoken Lecture combines Indonesian cosmology and worldwide engagement with the night sky.
Sunday, December 05, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Auditorium at the Fowler Museum
The Rise and Fall of Courtly Lucknow: A Courtesan's Perspective
A lecture presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Saturday, December 11, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Brown Auditorium
Peony Pavilion Performance
Downey Civic Theatre, December 11 and 12
Saturday, December 11, 2010
7:00 PM
The Chess Players
An exhibition screening presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Bing Theater
Kids in the Courtyard: Kimchi for You, Kimchi for Me
A hands-on workshop
Sunday, December 12, 2010
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum Courtyard
Historical and Cultural Preservation in China, Part 2: The Dunhuang Caves of the Silk Road
A talk by NEVILLE AGNEW (Getty Conservation Institute) at the Pacific Asia Museum
Saturday, December 18, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Events by Quarter
Past Events
Spotlight Event(s)
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
Time to be announced.
Royce 314
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