Calendar of Events
Public lectures, symposium, colloquia and workshops about World Affairs at UCLA
Events for February 2013
The U.S. Foreign Service: Behind the Scenes of American Diplomacy
Please join us for a talk by Nicholas Kralev, author of the book "America's Other Army" and former Financial Times and Washington Times correspondent. Comments will be provided by the Honorable Bill Martin, U.S. State Department Diplomat-in-Residence at UCLA.
Friday, February 01, 2013
12:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Vienna's Jewish Geography: Beyond the Leopoldstadt
Inaugural Seminar on Vienna in Los Angeles. Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages, UCLA Department of History, NEH Endowment on Jewish Civilization, and UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Monday, February 04, 2013
12:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Flagship Scholarship Opportunity Information Sessions
Monday, February 04, 2013
EVENT CANCELLED! Are American Jews Distancing from Israel?: The New Politics of Israel in the American Jewish Community
We regret that, due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Ted Sasson is unable to come to UCLA and his talk have been cancelled. We hope to reschedule in the future.
Monday, February 04, 2013
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Humanities Building, Room 135
ISRAEL, IRAN AND THE US: Following the Israeli Election
Please join us for a talk by Professor David Menashri.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
CAW: Mathematics of Beauty: the Science of Architectural Restoration in Soviet Central Asia
Led by Igor Demchenko
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Said Sarmad the Jewish Saint
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Nahid Pirnazar, UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Mapping Red Sea Frontiers: Space and Mobility between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
Presentation by Professor Jonathan Miran, Western Washington University.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
10383 Bunche hall
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
La tristeza de los tigres y los misterios de Raúl Ruiz
By Verónica Cortínez and Manfred Engelbert
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
Uma Longa Viagem (A Long Journey)
A 2011 film directed by Lucia Murat
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz 1409
Debt, Credit and the “End” of Finance in Post-Fukushima Japan
Prof. Miyazaki examines two contrasting market responses to the TEPCO crisis, orchestrated by Tokyo’s financial market professionals, as manifestations of their conscious efforts to re-deploy theories and techniques of finance in a newly found sphere of profound uncertainty.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines Hall, Room 352
Molla Nasreddin: Embrace Your Antithesis
A lecture by Payam Sharifi, Paris-based essayist, artist, and strategist
Thursday, February 07, 2013
2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Movie Screening: Rent-a-Cat (2012, Naoko Ogigami)
"Cats for rent! Are you lonely? Why not rent a cat?"
Thursday, February 07, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Mayanamerican Families: Breaking and Blending Traditions
A talk by James Loucky, Western Washington University
Location: Moore Hall Room 3340 (The Reading Room)
Friday, February 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Translating the Essays and the Narrative Fiction of Mario Vargas Llosa
Lecture by Professor John King from the University of Warwick
Friday, February 08, 2013
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Bunche 10383
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Session 2: Urban Discontent in the Long Eighteenth Century across Eurasia. A core conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Friday, February 08, 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
Session 2: Urban Discontent in the Long Eighteenth Century across Eurasia. A core conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
Saturday, February 09, 2013
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Chinese New Year's Celebration
Ring in the Year of the Snake at the Chinese New Year’s Day Festival at the Hammer Museum.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
2:00 PM
Hammer Museum
A Book Talk by Kambiz Navai on “Khesht o Khial: An Interpretation of Iranian Islamic Architecture”
A book talk by Kambiz Navai, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
Sunday, February 10, 2013
5:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Punjabis in California: Then and Now
Prof. Karen Leonard, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
Monday, February 11, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Efforts to Improve Quality of Public Service and Policy Implication: Focusing the Korean Cases
By Professor Huimun Ra, SungKyul University
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Beyond Identity Fetishism"
Led by Bonnie Dixson
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Ecstasy of the Angels - Free Screening
Political film directed by Koji Wakamatsu, filmed 1972
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA
12th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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
Re-visiting "The Ringworm Affair": X-rays and the Jewish Question in Early Israel
Professor Michael Berkowitz, University College London
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 6275
The Unreturned
A film screening and discussion with Asli Bali, UCLA Law School. Part of the International Human Rights Film Series.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965
CEES book talk with author John Connelly, UC Berkeley, History. Discussant: Paul Lerner, USC, History.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Asia and the Global South
JEASC Annual Conference & Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop
Thursday, February 14, 2013
12:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Social Sciences Building (SOS) B40, USC
Building Brics: Human Rights in a Multipolar World
UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (JILFA) Annual Symposium
Thursday, February 14, 2013
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA School of Law
A guerra segundo o Seu João: história e trauma em Guimarães Rosa
A talk by Professor Ettore Finazzi-Agrò
Thursday, February 14, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
12th Annual Korean Music Symposium
A series of lectures and performances of Korean Performing Arts
Thursday, February 14, 2013
7:30 PM
Grounding Globalization: Capitalist Connections between Africa, Asia and Latin America in the early 21st Century
A panel discussion presented by the UCLA Asia Institute
Friday, February 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
2013 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Friday, February 15, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
Sex and Sectarianism: Recognition and the Disarticulation of Madhhab/Sect and Sex/Gender in Lebanon
A lecture by Maya Mikdashi, New York University
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche 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
"Rediscovering Chinese Scholastic Chan in Edo Japan," talk by George Keyworth
A Numata Colloquium Series Talk
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall, UCLA
The Rights Movement and Civic Engagement in China Today: A Conversation with Teng Biao
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
ANDRÉ AZOULAY, SENIOR ADVISOR TO H. E. KING MOHAMMED VI OF MOROCCO
GROWTH & STABILITY IN AFRICA. Mr. Azoulay will discuss Morocco’s role in Africa and importance of continent wide cooperation. He will address the importance of peace and stability as prerequisites to economic growth and share his predictions and expectations for Africa.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Korn Convocation Hall
Discourse and Power in a Postwar European Periphery: the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
CEES public lecture by Danijela Majstorovic, UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies Fulbright Fellow and Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
12:00 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
A Critical Reflection on ‘Liberal Humanism’ in Japan’s Modernization
By Professor Katsuya Hirano, Cornell University
Thursday, February 21, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History
A one-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History
Friday, February 22, 2013
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
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
FORUM - Illegal drug markets, crime and violence in Latin America
A forum that will bring together scholars, political leaders, and institutions leading the discussion on organized crime, corruption and drug trafficking in Latin America.
Friday, February 22, 2013
8:15 AM - 6:00 PM
YRL Conference Room 11360
Inhumanities: UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
And plenary speakers include: Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley), David T. Goldberg (UC Irvine), Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar), Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Friday, February 22, 2013
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
306 Royce Hall
UC-Wide Immigration Conference
"We asked for workers, and families came:" Children and Families in Migration
Friday, February 22, 2013
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM
POLICY PANEL- Illegal drug markets...: A perspective from drug enforcement authorities
A panel presentation that will bring together some of the most important policy makers in security, drug policy and enforcement to present their views on the relationship between drugs, drug policy and security in Latin America.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
YRL Conference Room 11360
Evening of Moroccan Gnawa Music
An evening of music with the godfather of Gnawa music, Hassan Hakmoun, one of the most notable figures in contemporary Moroccan music.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Inhumanities: UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
Plenary speakers include: Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley), David T. Goldberg (UC Irvine), Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar), Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago)
Saturday, February 23, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
Ardeshir Mohasses: The Rebellious Artist
Film screening followed by Q&A with Bahman Maghsoudlou, Director/Writer/Producer
Sunday, February 24, 2013
5:00 PM
147 Dodd Hall
The Indian Journey in Global Health: Recent Historic Developments and Opportunities
Prof. Snehendu Kar, UCLA Department of Public Health and Asian/American Studies
Monday, February 25, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Pinkwashing: Gay Rights and Queer Indigeneities
A lecture by Professor Nada Elia, Gender and Global Studies Department, Antioch University, Seattle
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
1:00 PM
1301 Rolfe Hall
What A Mayor Can Do To Green A City
Join a conversation with Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles and David Miller, Former Mayor of Toronto. Moderated by Glen MacDonald, Director, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
California NanoSystems Institute
지방행정체제 개편의 과정분석과 통합효과 : 청주청원통합을 중심으로 The Process Analysis on the Reform of Local Administration System and Effects of Integration : Focused on the Cheongju City-Cheongwon Gum
By Yong Hwan Choi, Chungbuk Research Institute
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: Biological Citizenship
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Economic Statecraft: Why Economic Growth is a Critical Foreign Policy Tool, by Under Secretary of State Robert D. Hormats
Please join us for a talk by Robert D. Hormats, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. This event is sponsored by The Center for Middle East Development, the Burkle Center for International Relations, and the Anderson School Center for Global Management.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Shu-mei Shih Lecture, Is Feminism Translatable?-Taiwan, Spivak, A-Wu
Presented by UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
4:00 PM
Royce 314
Learning and Networking in Migration: On Migrancy, Cultural Dynamics and Networked Forms of Learning
A talk by Mariette de Haan, Utrecht University
Location: Moore Hall 3340 (The Reading Room)
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Chaos and Grassroots Organizations in Mexico
Lecture by Lauren Carlsen and Gloria Muñoz Ramírez
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Haines 144
Religion on the Battlefield: How Religious Practices Shape Strategic Decisions in Modern Wars
Professor Ron Hassner, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 10383
The Newly-elected Abe Administration and its Policies
Consul General Niimi comes to UCLA to give a presentation detailing the results and implications of the recent national poll, which delivered the LDP a supermajority in the lower house, and outline the economic and foreign policies of the new administration.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:15 PM - 5:15 AM
Royce Hall Room 306
Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture with Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA proudly present the 2012-13 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture featuring Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Labor Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey, Ethnic Kinship, and the Politics of Relative Privilege
A CPSC lecture by Ayse Parla, Anthropology, Sabanci University, Turkey.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
12:30 PM
352 Haines 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
The Role of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean World: An Archaeological View
Presentation by Krish Seetah, Stanford University.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall - new location
