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Results For Winter Quarter: 1/1/2012 - 3/19/2012
New Perspectives on Chinese Archaeology (Day 1)
An International Symposium Organized under the joint auspices of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Center for Chinese Studies (Jan 6th - 7th, 2012)
Friday, January 06, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
New Perspectives on Chinese Archaeology (Day 2)
An International Symposium
Organized under the joint auspices of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the Center for Chinese Studies
(Jan 6-7, 2012)
Saturday, January 07, 2012
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall Room 314
CISA Lunchtime Talk: "Stories of Connection and Disconnection in the Bibiyana Gas Field in Bangladesh"
By Dr. Zahir Ahmed, Postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Monday, January 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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
한국어 교육의 현황과 남은 과제들: The Present Situation and Issues in Education for the Korean Language
By Sunwoo Lee, Korea University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars Colloquium Series
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
A State of All its Citizens? Majority–Minority Complexities in Deeply Divided Democracies: A Comparative View on India and Israel
A free, public lecture by Ayelet Harel-Shalev, PhD, a research fellow at the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
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
Situating Feminisms in New Delhi?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
314 Royce 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
CAW: Transnational Afghanistan
Readings and Discussion with Nile Green, UCLA
Monday, January 23, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
한국시에 나타난 미국의 심상지리(Imaginative Geography of America in Korean Modern Poetry)
Gi-Taek Nam, Kangwon National University/CKS Post Doc and Visiting Scholars
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Publication in Area Studies: An Informal Talk with Editor of The China Quarterly (2002-2011)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche 10383
"A SPATIAL SENSIBILITY: Geography and Colonial Cinema in Global Epistemologies."
Professor Priya Jaikumar, University of Southern California
Friday, January 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
1422 Melnitz
Film Screening: Hiroshima
A screening of Hideo Sekigawa's 1953 film, "Hiroshima" organized by Mariko Tamanoi and Toshie Marra
Friday, January 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
Ungoverned and Uncivilized: Border Walls and the Discourse of Security
By Dr. Reece M Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Monday, January 30, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
1261 Bunche Hall
Info Session on Summer Travel Study in China
Please join us for the information session on Summer Travel Study in China.
Monday, January 30, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall (10th floor)
CAW: Islam after Communism
Central Asia Workshop: Readings and discussion
Monday, February 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India
By Nile Green, Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Personnel, Department of History, UCLA
Monday, February 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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

Film Screening: Ashes to Honey
This screening will be followed by a discussion with director Hitomi Kamanaka and Daniel Hirsch, UC Santa Cruz.
Monday, February 06, 2012
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Taiwan on the Fault Lines of Postcolonialism/ Postmodernism
Waiting for a Native Theory?: Taiwan on the Fault Lines of Postcolonialism/Postmodernism
Monday, February 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
The Ambiance of North Indian Classical Music: Or Why I Shall Probably Never Write on It
By Prof. Ashis Nandy, Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
11th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980 - 2000
In this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger (UC Irvine) examines the effects of global markets on the domestic politics of major states
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 4357
Documentary Films from Taiwan
You are invited to screenings of two Taiwanese documentary films.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Pakistan and Endgame to the War in Afghanistan
By Zahid Hussain, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.
Monday, February 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CANCELLED-The Global Economy, Governance, and the G20/Asia's Role
Dr. Il SaKong (MBA’66, PhD ’69)
Chairman, Korea International Trade Association;
Former Finance Minister, Republic of Korea;
Former Chairman, Presidential Committee for the G20 Summit, Republic of Korea
Monday, February 13, 2012
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Korn Convocation 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
동아시아의 냉전을 다시 생각한다: Re-examining the Cold War in East Asia
Byeong Han Lee, Yonsei University/ Visiting Scholars and Post Doc Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Sacral Authority and Public Spirituality: Inculturation and the Crisis of Korean Protestant Christianity
Hak Joon Lee, Fuller Theological Seminary/Im Colloquium of Korean Christianity
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
164 Royce Hall
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

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

How to Turn Philosophical Ideas into Diagrams: Chinese Approaches and Insights
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
Film Screening: The Secret World of Arrietty
In partnership with Melnitz Movies, the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies presents a sneak preview of "The Secret World of Arrietty."
Thursday, February 16, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
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Nixon in China: A Legacy Revisited - FULL CONFERENCE MULTIMEDIA COVERAGE NOW AVAILABLE!!
A conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s historic visit to Beijing and Shanghai and his meetings with Chairman Mao
Thursday, February 23, 2012
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
UCLA James West Alumni Center
Kazakh Music Concert
A performance by the Kazakh Folk Ensemble "Kulansaz."
Friday, February 24, 2012
2:00 PM
Jan Popper Theater
English Rakugo with Master Utazo Katsura
English rakugo performance by Master Utazo Katsura.
Friday, February 24, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Broad Art Center 2160E
UCLA Music of Korea Benefit Concert
Sponsored by UCLA United Korean Voice (UKV)
Friday, February 24, 2012
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Wilshire Ebell Theatre
Teaching the Pacific
Teaching the Pacific: A New Initiative by the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Saturday, February 25, 2012
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum

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 Diamond Road of India's Golconda Kingdom
By Dr. Robert Simpkins, Lecturer in Anthropology, San Jose State University
Monday, February 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
China: Capitalist Development and Popular Resistance
The colloquium will examine the roots of popular resistance in contemporary China, and consider the way in which it is affecting capitalist development and the political system.
Monday, February 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche 6275
출판 한류의 가능성: 한미 문학의 출판 교류를 중심으로 - The Potential of the Korean Wave in Publishing: Focusing on the Exchanges of Literature Publishing between Korea and the United States
Young Wan Hong, Will Books Publishing Co./ Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
A Case Study of Mask Dance Drama Students: Capitalizing on Korean Heritage?
By CedarBough T. Saeji, Ph.D. Candidate
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
160 Kaufman 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
Center for Study of Religion talk by Natasha Heller (UCLA Dept of ALC)
Talk title: Buddhist Recitation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
NELC Seminar Room, 365 Humanities Bldg
The New People in the People’s Republic: Protesters in Housing Disputes in Urban China, 1980-2010
In this project, Professor Qin Shao examines urban protestors and their evolving identities by exploring what was demolished in old neighborhoods and what, besides highrises, has risen in their ruins.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche 10383
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

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
Before and After Superflat: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society
A book talk with Adrian Favell, Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris, and formerly Associate Professor and Professor of Sociology at UCLA.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
History Conference Room
Japan in the World
A roundtable discussion of Japanese foreign policy and U.S.-Japan relations. Participants will include Professor Mike Thies, UCLA; Christopher Hughes, University of Warwick; Jun Saito, Yale; Mireya Solis, American University; and Toshiaki Miura, Asahi Shinbun. Moderated by Tom Plate, Loyola Marymount University.
Friday, March 02, 2012
3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Nibei Center
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
Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake
A photojournalism exhibit co-organized by the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and The Kahoku Shimpo newspaper.
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Time to be announced.
Fowler Museum
Family Jam: Listen, Learn, Jam: A Bow to Japanese Music
A Fowler Event
Sunday, March 04, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Fowler Museum courtyard
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
China and the U.S. West Coast: Golden Business Opportunities
Chairman Wei Jiafu lays out a "roadmap" for capitalizing on the golden opportunities of doing business in China and attracting investment from China to the West Coast, offering valuable insights into what makes business work in China and how the West can take advantage of the expanding markets and investment opportunities both there and in the U.S.
Monday, March 05, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Race for Empire
A book talk by Takashi Fujitani, director, Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Humanities Bldg. Room 193
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
LA Premiere: LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, 2011)
Thursday, March 08, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
New Visions: The Sketch of Mujo
A documentary by filmmaker Omiya Koichi presented by Melnitz Movies and the Paul. I and Hisako Terasaki Center as part of the film series "New Visions of Japanese Cinema"
Friday, March 09, 2012
7:30 PM
The James Bridges Theater
Symposium: Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake
A half-day symposium with experts on the recovery and reconstruction of Japan. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Moving Forward: Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Fowler Museum
Tragic Fate of a Floodplain: What Happened to Certain Schemes in the Brahmaputra River Valley?
By Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Yale Agrarian Studies Program, Associate Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India
Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tragic Fate of a Floodplain: What Happened to Certain Schemes in the Brahmaputra River Valley?
By Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Post-Doctoral fellow at the Yale Agrarian Studies Program, Associate Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India
Monday, March 12, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Numata Colloquium Series Talk by Mario Poceski
“Literary Remaking and Historical Transformation of the Religious Persona(s) of Chan Teacher Mazu Daoyi," a talk by Prof. Mario Poceski (University of Florida)
Monday, March 12, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
북한체제의 변화를 위한 정보기술의 활용 Use of Information Technology (IT) for Change in North Korea
Sang Hyuk Yoon, Ministry of Unification/Post Doc and Visiting Scholar Colloquium Series
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
‘Progressive Possibilities in Occupant Urbanism’s Contesting Properties
By Prof. Solomon Benjamin, Manipal University, School of Architecture and Planning
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 BUNCHE HALL
Policing Protest: "Restrictions on Street Demonstrations in Japan"
A lecture by Lawrence Repeta—Professor, Meiji University Faculty of Law, Tokyo
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library
The 1988 Seoul Olympics and Its Significance in International Politics and the Korean Economy
Man Lip Choy, Pierre de Coubertin laureate / The Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Lecture for Contemporary Korean Studies
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Main Conference Room, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
The Use of Japanese Traditional Theater Aesthetics and Techniques in Contemporary Acting and Directing
A lecture-demonstration by Professor Zvika Serper, PhD, including live performance and video.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
7:00 PM
Nibei Foundation
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)
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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
