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Results For 2011
Miscellaneous happenings in and around the Pacific in 1884
Colloquium with Stefan Tanaka, History professor at US San Diego, and this year's UCLA Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations
Monday, January 24, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center

Book Event: Lori Meeks' Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan
Discussion of new book by Prof. Lori Meeks (University of Southern California) with Prof. Karen Derris (University of Redlands) and Karma Lekshe Tsomo (University of San Diego).
Thursday, January 27, 2011
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
"Love and Honor" film screening
A Japanese Film Screening and Panel Discussion.
Friday, February 04, 2011
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Explaining Democratic Breakdown: Completing the Puzzle of Interwar Japan
Colloquium with Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Political Science, UCLA Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Monday, February 14, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Teaching Hiroshima and the Holocaust
Colloquium with Alan Tansman, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Monday, March 07, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center

Takács Quartet with Nobuyuki Tsujii
UCLA Live Los Angeles Premiere - Performances at 2PM and 8PM
Sunday, April 03, 2011
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Royce Hall, UCLA
Writing, Language and Utopia in Tokugawa Thought
A talk by Emi Foulk, UCLA graduate student and first recipient of the Fred Notehelfer prize.
Monday, April 11, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
The Painted Gulag: Kazuki Yasuo and the Siberia Within Me
Colloquium with Andrew Barshay, History, UC Berkeley
Monday, May 02, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Faculty Center
Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice
Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism, day one of a three day workshop on Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Time to be announced.
Location TBA
Asia in LA 2011: Musical Measures of Asia
From classical traditions to the global transmission of pop music, this day-long program brings together performers, critics, scholars and students of Asian music.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Grand Horizon Room
Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice
Day two in a three day conference on Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
9:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Various
Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice
Day three in a three day conference on Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA
Tsuda Sōkichi (1873-1961) and the Age of the Gods
A colloquium with David Lurie, History, Columbia University.
Monday, May 23, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Intercollegiate Taiko Invitational
UCLA Undergraduate teams Kyodo Taiko and Yuko Daiko host this year's 17th Annual Intercollegiate Taiko Invitational. Day one of two.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
6:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
Intercollegiate Taiko Invitational
UCLA Undergraduate teams Kyodo Taiko and Yuko Daiko host this year's 17th Annual Intercollegiate Taiko Invitational. Day two of two.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
4:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
We invite you to join in the 25th 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 04, 2011
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
Rebuilding in a Post-Disaster Japan: Lessons from New Orleans
A one day symposium organized by the UCLA Center for the study of Urban Poverty.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA
Japanese And Asian Americans: Racializations and Their Resistances
Day one of a two day symposium organized by Lane Hirabayashi, UCLA George and Sakaye Aratani Professor and Endowed Chair, and Yasuko Takezawa, Chair of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall Rm 314
Film Screening
Melnitz Movies presents the LA Premiere of Takaomi Ogata's "Body Temperature."
Thursday, October 13, 2011
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Japanese And Asian Americans: Racializations and Their Resistances
Day two of a two day symposium organized by Lane Hirabayashi, UCLA George and Sakaye Aratani Professor and Endowed Chair, and Yasuko Takezawa, Chair of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.
Friday, October 14, 2011
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Faculty Center California Room
Resurrecting Nagasaki: Memories of Destruction, Visions of Reconstruction, 1945-1959
A lecture by Chad Diehl, 2011-12 Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Monday, October 17, 2011
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Utopias and the Japanese Imaginary
The 16th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on Japanese Studies.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
National Insecurity: The Politics of Japanese Cold War Film Culture in Asia, 1946-1973
A talk by Michael Baskett, professor of film/media studies at the University of Kansas
Friday, October 28, 2011
2:00 PM
Royce 243
Twice Bombed: The Legacy of Tsutomu Yamaguchi
A film screening with director Hidetaka Inazuka. Organized by Chad Diehl, 2011-12 Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Monday, November 14, 2011
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Young Research Library
A Path Through the Fields
A symposium in honor of the late Michael Marra.
Friday, November 18, 2011
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Sneak Preview: Outrage
Meltnitz Movies presents a sneak preview of Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage.' (2010)
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Wartime Animation and Multi-Ethnic Empire
A keynote lecture by Thomas Lamarre, McGill University
Thursday, December 01, 2011
4:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race under Japanese Empire
Part two of a two day workshop presented by Critical Studies on Asia.
Friday, December 02, 2011
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
243 Royce 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
