Calendar of Events
Public lectures, symposium, colloquia and workshops about World Affairs at UCLA
Events for November 2012
Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939
A book talk with author Maite Zubiaurre (UCLA, Spanish and Portuguese), and discussant Roberta Johnson (University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese)
Thursday, November 01, 2012
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprisings
A lecture by Professor James Gelvin, History Department, UCLA
Thursday, November 01, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA Spanish Film Festival: La Isla Interior (The Island Inside)
A 2010 Spanish film by directors Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso
Thursday, November 01, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Izkor: Slaves of Memory (1990)
Film Screening followed by discussion with Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Thursday, November 01, 2012
6:00 PM
A51 Humanities
AFI Fest 2012: Todo El Mundo Tiene A Alguien Menos Yo (Everybody's Got Somebody... Not Me)
A 2012 Mexican film by director Raul Fuentes- Screenings on November 3rd & 6th
Friday, November 02, 2012
10:00 PM - 11:45 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
Author Meets Critics session on Asian American Political Participation (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012)
Jane Junn (Political Science, USC); Critics: Louis DiSipio (Political Science, UCI): Loan Le (Political Science, UCLA). Co-Sponsored with the Institute for American Cultures.
Friday, November 02, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Exotic Things and Strange Writings - Cultural Exchange in the Light of Artifacts Discovered along the Silk Road
Armin Selbitschka, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich), Germany
Friday, November 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Fowler Museum Building, Room A222
AFI Fest 2012: The International Sign For Choking
A 2012 Argentine and American film by director Zach Weintraub- Screenings on November 2nd & 4th
Friday, November 02, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Here and There (Aquí y Allá)
A 2012 Mexican film by director Antonio Mendez Esparza- Screenings on November 2nd & 7th
Friday, November 02, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Post Tenebras Lux
A 2012 Mexican, French, German, and Dutch film by director Carlos Reygadas-
Screenings on November 2nd & 5th
Friday, November 02, 2012
7:15 PM - 9:15 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Después de Lucia (After Lucia)
A 2012 Mexican film by director Michael Franco- Screenings on November 3rd & 4th
Saturday, November 03, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Come Out and Play
A 2011 Mexican film by director Makinov- Screenings on November 3rd & 4th
Saturday, November 03, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: White Elephant
A 2012 Argentine, Spanish, and French film by director Pablo Trapero- Screenings on November 3rd & 4th
Saturday, November 03, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
American Cinematheque
2012 Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Robert D. Mowry, the Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums, and a Senior Lecturer on Chinese and Korean Art in Harvard’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture, will give the 25th Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum
AFI Fest 2012: Los Mejores Temas (Greatest Hits)
A 2012 Mexican, Canadian, and Dutch film by director Nicolás Pereda- Screenings on November 3rd & 4th
Saturday, November 03, 2012
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
AFI Fest 2012: Ahi Va El Diablo (Here Comes The Devil)
A 2012 Mexican film by director Adrían Garcia Bogliano- Screenings on November 4th & 7th
Sunday, November 04, 2012
12:00 AM - 1:30 AM
Level 3 of Hollywood & Highland Center
The Particularities of Our Culture [Ekhtesasat-e Farhangie ma]
A lecture by Morteza Mardiha, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Sunday, November 04, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
161 Dodd
Do Catholics See Things Differently? On Photographs & Museum Objects in Missionary Representations of Africa
Presentation by Professor Peter Pels, Leiden University.
Monday, November 05, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Film Screening of "Tey"
UCLA African Studies Center will host two screenings of the film "Tey" at the American Film Institute Fest (AFI Fest). AFI Fest runs November 1-8, 2012.
Monday, November 05, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Cambodia-Thailand Relations: The Questions of the Preah Vihear Temple and a Clash of Two Nationalisms
Colloquium with Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri, Department of History, Thammasat University
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Youth, Community, and Change in Ladakh
Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
UCLA Spanish Film Festival: El Hombre de al Lado (The Man Next Door)
A 2010 Argentine film by directors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
A Talk by the Venerable Subul Sunim
Zen Meditation for Today: A New Approach by a Modern Korean Master
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Charles E Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Intro,Q&A
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
A Brown Bag Lunch Book Talk with journalist Jennifer Cockrall-King
Food and the City: Case Studies in Urban Agriculture from Five Countries
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
La Kretz Hall, Suite 300, Large Conference Room
Careers in International Development, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy with Alfred Nakatsuma
Alfred Nakatsuma has just completed his assignment as the Director of the Office of Environment for USAID in Indonesia where he supervised programs in clean energy, climate change, forestry, marine management, clean water and sanitation, disaster response and risk reduction.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Film Screening of "Tey"
UCLA African Studies Center will host two screenings of the film "Tey" at the American Film Institute Fest (AFI Fest). AFI Fest runs November 1-8, 2012.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Perish the Thought: Israel and the Search for Peace in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
A lecture by Dr. Avi Raz, Oxford University
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
To Know or Not to Know?: Genetics, Community and Public Health - An Israeli Perspective
A public talk by Professor Aviad Raz, Ben Gurion University, on the pros, cons and questions surrounding genetic testing for Jewish Israeli communities
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall, Rm 306
Canadian Studies at UCLA Inaugural Reception & Lecture
"Global Warming: A Canadian Perspective" presented by Andrew Weaver, Lansdowne Professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modeling and Analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
À Beira do Caminho (Roadside)
A 2012 Brazilian film directed by Breno Silveira
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall 1409
UCLA: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 1 of a two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Thursday, November 08, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
UCLA History Conference Room
Public Support for Global Climate Cooperation
A talk by Michael Bechtel, Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Thursday, November 08, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, room 4357
Bulgaria and the Holocaust: The Fragility of Goodness
Symposium, exhibition, and cultural events sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, the "1939" Club, and the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel. Cosponsored by the Bulgarian Jewish Heritage Alliance of America, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA Department of History, and UCLA Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music.
November 8 opening night reception with keynote speaker Steven F. Sage, U.S. Holocaust Museum and film screening of "The Optimists."
Thursday, November 08, 2012
4:00 PM
UCLA Hillel
UCLA Spanish Film Festival: Asalto al Cine (The Cinema Hold Up)
A 2011 Mexican film by director Irina Gómez Concheiro
Thursday, November 08, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
UCI: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 2 two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
Friday, November 09, 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
US Policy in the Middle East: A View from the Pentagon
A talk by Matthew Spence, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Friday, November 09, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2343
The Young Artist Association in the Republic of Vietnam and After
Colloquium with Trinh Cung, Artist/Essayist
Friday, November 09, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print, 1512-2012
A Conference in Honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian | An international conference organized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History [established by the Armenian Educational Foundation]
Friday, November 09, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
314 Royce Hall
SYMPOSIUM: Strangers in a Strange Land: Art, Aesthetics and Displacement
Organized by UCLA faculty, Saloni Mathur and Aamir Mufti
Friday, November 09, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Hammer Museum
Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print, 1512-2012
A Conference in Honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian | An international conference organized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History [established by the Armenian Educational Foundation]
Saturday, November 10, 2012
9:15 AM - 6:00 PM
Rolfe 1200
Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print, 1512-2012
A Conference in Honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian | An international conference organized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History [established by the Armenian Educational Foundation]
Sunday, November 11, 2012
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Rolfe 1200
Labour Agency in Refashioning the Discourse of Modernity and Social Developments in Iran [Forudastan va Bazkhani-ye Goftman Tajadod dar Iran]
A lecture by Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
CAW: Dangerous Fortunes and Vitalities in Inner Asia
Led by Hannah Reiss
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Captive Consumers? Shopping, Urban Space, and the Colonial Politics of Middle East Consumption
A lecture by Nancy Reynolds, Washington University in St. Louis
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Urbanization in Between: Theorizing Urbanization in Rapidly Industrializing China
Presented by Dr. Andrew Kipnis, Australian National University
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
“Start Up Nation”: Israel’s Innovation Economy and the Global Marketplace
Eli Groner, Israeli Minister of Economic Affairs to the United States, will discuss the Israeli experience in cultivating innovation and why this will be more important than ever in the coming decades.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
NEW LOCATION: Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
"Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern"
The talk attempts to understand the relations between iconoclasm (the attempt to destroy objectionable objects,) and ethnogenesis (the coming into being of qualitatively new ethnic identities).
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
UCLA Spanish Film Festival: Chico & Rita
A 2012 Spanish film by directors Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
New Findings on the Monochord and Non-mathematical Methods of Constructing the 12-Lülü Chromatic Scale in Ancient China
Lecture by Guangming Li
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (B544)
2013-2014 FLAS Fellowship Information Session
Learn about opportunities for language and area studies fellowships for the summer and academic year. Graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines are invited.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Young Research Library
Tales of Masked Men
2012 documentary by Director/Producer Carlos Avila
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
144 Haines Hall
Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism, A talk by Mark Rowe
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 1)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Algeria's Cultural Identity: Fanon, Yacine & Mammeri
A lecture by Kenneth Brown, Founding Editor Mediterraneans, Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, France
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Japanese Kabuki Music
The Yamato Gaku ensemble presents a lecture and demonstration of kabuki music, featuring guest artist Osho Yamato on the shamisen (plucked lute).
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Schoenberg Music Building (1325)
Talks on Jewish Studies in China (Session 2)
Presented by Professor Song Lihong (宋立宏), Nanjing University, China
Thursday, November 15, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
314 Royce Hall
Hecho en México ("Made in Mexico")
CANCELED
Thursday, November 15, 2012
CANCELED
From the Arabs to the Mongols: Narratives of Foreign Conquest in Modern Iranian History Writing
Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford
Thursday, November 15, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Language and Culture of Ikema from Miyako Island of Okinawa
Workshop hosted by Professor Shoichi Iwasaki from UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
Friday, November 16, 2012
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Young Research Library, Room 11360
Immigration Policy after the 2012 Elections
A lecture by Tom K. Wong, Political Science, UCSD. Co-Sponsored with the Institute for American Cultures.
Friday, November 16, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
"Tokyo Boogie Woogie" in California: The 1950 Sacramento Recordings in Japanese and Japanese-American Cultural History
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies invites Professor Michael K. Bourdaghs from the University of Chicago.
Friday, November 16, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Young Research Library, Room 11360
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 1 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Friday, November 16, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
A two-day core conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Friday, November 16, 2012
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Day 2 of a core conference at the Clark Library- organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Saturday, November 17, 2012
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library- UCLA
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
A core program conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Saturday, November 17, 2012
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora
Book talk by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
Monday, November 19, 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Young 4216
CAW: CANCELLED
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Are International Institutions Succeeding or Failing?
A talk by Amb. Stephen Lewis, the previous UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa & Co-Director of AIDS-Free World.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Law, Room 1447
CAW: (Re)imagining Kazakh Nationhood Through Cinema
Led by Naomi Caffee
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Creating a New Museum for Thailand: The Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Colloquium with Dale Carolyn Gluckman, Former curator and department head, Costume and Textiles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Recent Trends in Mexican Migration to the US: Evidences from EMIF-Norte
A seminar with Professor Marie-Laure Coubes, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
4240 Public Affairs Bldg
The Burden of History: Foreign Policy Challenges in the New Global Era
By SHIN Yeon-sung, Consul General, Korean Consulate General, Los Angeles, CA
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
O Palhaço (The Clown)- Brazilian entry for "Best Foreign Language Film" at the 85th Academy Awards
A 2011 Brazilian film by director and star Selton Mello.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall 1409
Reading and Q&A with Granta’s best young Brazilian novelists
A reading and discussion with 5 of Brazil's best young novelists
Thursday, November 29, 2012
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
The Eurozone Crisis and Lessons from Latin America
CEES faculty lecture by Aaron Tornell, UCLA, Economics.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Separate and Different: Religious Rights and the Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel
Professor Michael Karayanni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thursday, November 29, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA School of Law
Author Meets Critics session on Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora
Dan Kanstroom (Law, Boston College); Commentators: TBA. Co-sponsored with the Institute for American Cultures.
Friday, November 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Elizabeth Bishop's Brazilian Pastoral
A presentation and workshop by Katrina Dodson, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Friday, November 30, 2012
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lydeen Library - Rolfe 4302
Regional Logic vs. Global Humanities: Where To from Here?
Ping-chen Hsiung, Director of the Research Institute for the Humanities and Professor of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Friday, November 30, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
Morelos
A 2012 Mexican film by Director Antonio Serrano
Friday, November 30, 2012
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall 1409
