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Results For 2013
Nazarian Center Documentary Film Series - Gut Shabbes Vietnam
A young Israeli couple set out to the Far East – emissaries of the Chabad Movement who are sent to Vietnam
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Humanities Building, Rm 135
The Politics of Humor: A Historical Perspective of the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Colloquium with Katherine Bowie, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Beyond Queering the Chain of Care: Affective Feminizations, Biological Investments
Colloquium with Aren Z. Aizura, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Subnational Islamization through Secular Parties: Comparing Shari'a Politics in Two Indonesian Provinces
Colloquium with Prof. Michael Buehler, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Film Screening: "Enforcing the Silence" (Vietnam)
Screening and Q&A with the filmmaker, Tony Nguyen
Thursday, February 21, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
2100A Broad Hall
Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
Book talk by Prof. Lan P. Duong, Media and Cultural Studies Department, University of California, Riverside
Friday, February 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Come On! The Politics of Contemporary Visual Art in Cambodia, Viet Nam and Beyond
A talk by artist, curator and writer Việt Lê, Assistant Professor, Visual Studies | Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Thursday, February 28, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
2100A Broad Hall
Re-Membering the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Memory Work
A talk by Cathy Schlund-Vials, Associate Professor, English and Asian American Studies and director of Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Puro Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire
Book talk with Lucy Burns, UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Critical Histories of Activism: Indonesia’s New Order and its Legacies
This one-day conference, led by historian Jeffrey Hadler and political ecologist/sociologist Nancy Peluso of UC Berkeley, will examine forms of activism and protest that emerged in Indonesia during the “New Order” of President Soeharto (1967–1998).
Sunday, April 14, 2013
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
Workers Speak Out Against Labor Rights Violations (UCLA/Indonesia)
Program with Indonesian garment workers who sewed Adidas college apparel and United Students Against Sweatshops
Thursday, April 25, 2013
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Student Activities Center, Ballroom 5 (3rd floor)
Investigating Culture History and Culture Process: The Archaeology of Ifugao Rice Terraces, Northern Philippines
Colloquium with Prof. Stephen B. Acabado, Department of Anthropology, University of Guam
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Haines 352
Activism, Disciplinary Formations and Transnational Southeast Asian Cultural Studies
Colloquium with Mariam B. Lam, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Media & Cultural Studies, and Director of the Southeast Asian Studies Research Program (SEATRiP) at the University of California, Riverside
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia
Book talk with Prof. Rachmi Diyah Larasati, University of Minnesota
Monday, May 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
208 Glorya Kaufman Hall
Affective investments in the Manila region: Filipina migrants in rural Japan and transnational urban development in the Philippines
A talk by Lieba Faier, Department of Geography, UCLA.
Haines Hall 279
Friday, May 24, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Haines Hall 279
‘An Ounce of Prevention…’: U.S. Anti-Communist Operations in Indonesia, 1963-1965
Colloquium with Dahlia Setiyawan, Ph.D. candidate, UCLA Department of History
Thursday, May 30, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
A Symposium on Call Centers in India and the Philippines
The panel will raise questions and share critical insights on the "voice business."
Thursday, May 30, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Film Screening: "Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution"
Documentary screening followed by discussion with Geoffrey Robinson (UCLA History) and Director Alex Meillier. Part of the UCLA International Human Rights Film Series.
Monday, June 03, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Outside-In: Mambai Expectations of Returning Outsiders (East Timor)
Colloquium with Prof. Elizabeth G. Traube, Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Thursday, June 06, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines Hall 352
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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
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