Calendar of Events
Public lectures, symposium, colloquia and workshops about World Affairs at UCLA
Events for Spring Quarter: 3/20/2013 - 6/15/2013
Moving Forward: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake Colloquia Series
In 2011, the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies presented an exhibition documenting the lives and stories of those affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. This year marks the second anniversary of this catastrophic disaster and UCLA is proud to host a two-part colloquium presented by Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, chair of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission by the National Diet of Japan, and Professor Hitoshi Abe, Terasaki Center director.
Friday, March 22, 2013
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Royce Hall,Room 306
한국사회의 북한이탈주민: 정착지원 과정에서 민간단체의 역할 North Korean Migrants in South Korea: NGOs’ Roles in the Resettlement Process
By Jung Eun Lee, El Camino College
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Resource Competition in East Asia: Political and Environmental Implications
Presented by the School of International Relations and Program on Environmental Studies, USC
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
12:15 PM - 5:15 PM
USC
Diyarbekir 1915: Deportations, Massacres and New Alliances Among the Local Elites
A lecture by Ayhan Aktar, Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey). Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The End of History and the Last Anecdote
This talk analyzes the process of the end of the anecdotes tradition, and what replaced it.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
WEAL 2013 Workshop on East Asian Linguistics
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Friday, March 29, 2013
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
WEAL 2013 Workshop on East Asian Linguistics
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Saturday, March 30, 2013
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy (Lecture in Persian) - EVENT CANCELLED
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang
Sunday, March 31, 2013
5:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy (Lecture in English)
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang
Monday, April 01, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The Luxury of Love: The Retreat/Retirement of Single Gay Men and the Rise of “Bats” in Post-IMF South Korea
By John Cho, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
CAW: "Childhoods at School: Negotiating Modernity, Social Change, and Identity in Ladakh, India."
Presented by Bonnie Richard, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
O Som Ao Redor (Neighboring Sounds)
A 2012 Brazilian film by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Melnitz 1409
Stalin on Stalinism: From His Personal Archive
U.K. historians Sarah Davies and James Harris will speak about their forthcoming monograph, based on research in Stalin’s personal archive. UCLA historian Arch Getty will moderate.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
"Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" with author Elliott Abrams
Please join us for a talk by Elliott Abrams, former deputy assistant and deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, about his new book, "Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Comments will be provided by Prof. Steven Spiegel, Director of the UCLA Center for Middle East Development. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Thursday, April 04, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1457
Zhou Zuoren and the Uses of Greek Mythology in Modern China
Zhang Wei, Fudan University
Thursday, April 04, 2013
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
167 Dodd Hall
Race, Religion and Political Incorporation of Contemporary Immigrants in the U.S.
A talk by Prema Ann Kurien, Sociology, Syracuse University.
Haines Hall 279
Friday, April 05, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
The Time of Literary History: Reconsidering Modernity in an Indian Vernacular
By Farina Mir, Associate Professor of History, Director of the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan
Monday, April 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
A Colloquium with Christina Laffin, Univ. of British Columbia, on her new book, "Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literacy Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu"
Book talk with Christina Laffin is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia and the Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture.
Monday, April 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA, Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
Are Signature Strikes Legal? Targeted Killings and International Law
Please join us for a talk with Kevin Heller, Associate Professor of International Criminal Law at Melbourne Law School. This event is co-sponsored with the UCLA School of Law Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project.
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1347
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
CAW: Nation and State Building
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
2013 India Conference
Innovating, Investing, and Adapting in the Wake of New Economic Reforms
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cornell Hall
Return of the Brothers: Student Activism and Islamic Politics in 1970s Egypt
A lecture by Abdullah Al-Arian,Wayne State University.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal
CEES book talk with author Carl T. Dahlman, Miami University of Ohio, Geography. Discussant: Adam Moore, UCLA, Geography.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Isomorphic Pressures, Epistemic Communities and State-NGO Collaboration in China
A talk by Dr. Reza Hasmath
Thursday, April 11, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Migration and Sociopolitical Mobility in Africa and the African Diasporas International Conference Honoring Edward A. Alpers (Day 1)
Conference in honor of distinguished UCLA History Professor Edward A. Alpers
Thursday, April 11, 2013
8:30 AM - 7:00 PM
Royce Hall 314
Spatial Study with China Geo-Explorers: New Information, New Technology and New Directions
Dr. Shuming Bao is the director of the China Data Center at the University of Michigan
Friday, April 12, 2013
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
23167 Young Research Library
Migration and Sociopolitical Mobility in Africa and the African Diasporas International Conference Honoring Edward A. Alpers (Day 2)
Conference in honor of distinguished UCLA History Professor Edward A. Alpers
Friday, April 12, 2013
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Young Research Library Conference Center
April 13 Conference: Challenges and achievements in community language schools
This conference will bring together specialists from the UCLA National Heritage Language Resource Center with teachers, administrators, and parents from local community language schools to advance the goal of heritage language development.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Young Research Library Conference Room
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
[East Asian Library Event ] A Year in the Clouds: A Taiwan Documentary Film
Documentary of a group of Taiwan's indigenous people living in the mountains
Monday, April 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
"The Fourth Way: Leading the Future" a lecture by Princess Basmah bint Saud
A lecture by Princess Basmah bint Saud on The Fourth Way, her concept of establishing a new platform to help succeed in bringing stability to the world where large international non-governmental organizations have been failing.
Monday, April 15, 2013
12:00 PM
306 Royce Hall
"Perilous Crossings: Shipwrecks, Migrations, and the Global Pursuit of Hope"
Professor Francoise Lionnet will present the 114th Faculty Research Lecture. There will be a reception immediately following the presentation.
Monday, April 15, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Schoenburg Hall
Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
Monday, April 15, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Israel: Spiritual Revival and the Fulfillment of Zionism
A Talk by Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller
Monday, April 15, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA Campus
CANCELLED - "Kumasi-Haifa" Documentary Film Screening & Discussion
Unfortunately, due to scheduling problems, we have had to cancel this event. We hope to screen the film at a future date.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Trade, Migration, and Acculturation: China and the Prehistoric Silk Routes
A talk on the history of the Silk Routes
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
3rd Annual African Growth Conference: African Open for Business
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
UCLA Anderson School of Management
CAW: Nation and State Building, cont'd
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Rethinking Binationalism: Binational Mexican Labor Activism in the Early 20th Century
Colloquium presented by Devra Weber from the University of California, Riverside
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Public Affairs 5391
What Are We Doing with the Chinese Economy?
Talk by Mr. Song Chengmin, Deputy Director of Editorial Department of Macroeconomic Management in China
Thursday, April 18, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Perspectives on Peace, Health & Hope: A Gaza Doctor's Journey from Personal Tragedy to a Search for Peace and Human Dignity
A public talk by Palestinian medical doctor and humanitarian Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, author of “I Shall Not Hate”. Dr. Abuelaish has devoted his life to peace and reconciliation, especially promoting health and education as strategies for resolving violent conflicts.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Broad Auditorium, 2160E Broad Art Center
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Insisting on Modernity Visions and Revisions in the Luso-Hispanic World
The 10th UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference
Thursday, April 18, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 306
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 1)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Friday, April 19, 2013
11:30 AM - 8:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
Back and Forth Across the Mediterranean
A talk by Pierre Bouvier, Université de Paris X - Nanterre.
Haines Hall 279
Friday, April 19, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
At the Crossroads: Surgery and Culture in Latin America
A symposium exploring the intersection between culture and surgery among indigenous communities in Latin America
Friday, April 19, 2013
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
Insisting on Modernity Visions and Revisions in the Luso-Hispanic World
The 10th UCLA Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference
Friday, April 19, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 306
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Rio, 40 graus
A 1956 film by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Saturday, April 20, 2013
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 2)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Saturday, April 20, 2013
9:30 AM - 6:45 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
Tactical Bodies: The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects (DAY 3)
A 3-day joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies graduate student conference)
Sunday, April 21, 2013
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Glorya Kaufman Hall Dance Theater
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim
A 2012 film by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Sunday, April 21, 2013
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
[East Asian Library Event] American Landscapes in Chinese Brush Painting
Artist Bo Hong introduces Chinese brush paintings
Monday, April 22, 2013
11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
The Sanganakallu-Kapgallu Hill Complex of Southern India: Recent Archeological and Multidisciplinary Research
By Dr. Ravi Korisettar, Professor of History and Archaeology at Karnatak University in Dharwad, India
Monday, April 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
한국의 소설네트워크 이용행동에 미치는 심리적 변수들의 효과 The Effects of Psychological Variables on SNS Usage Behavior in Korea
By Professor Ja Young Choi, Soongsil University
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Rape, Incest, and Abortion in the High Plains of Heaven: The Misdeeds of Susanoo Reconsidered
Presented by Bernhard Scheid, research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializes on the history of Shinto. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Shinto, including: The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion (2006, ed. with Mark Teeuwen), as well as on the history of Japanese studies.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Civil Society without Democracy? NGO Development in China
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Europe and the Middle East: What Does It Mean if the EU Turns Inward?
A lecture by Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO of the Legatum Institute in London.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: Nation and State Building, cont'd
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Great Reversal: Defeated Japan as Ally and Liberated Korea as Enemy
By Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Jaffa: The Orange's Clockwork (2010)
Documentary film screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA. Final film of the quarterly film series "Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography."
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
6:00 PM
Franz 1260
Being Danish: Paradoxes of Identity in Everyday Life
CEES book talk with author Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield, Sociology. Discussant: Rogers Brubaker, UCLA, Sociology.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
2:15 PM - 8:30 PM
Arnold C. Harberger Lecture on Economic Development with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University: "What Causes Economic Growth? Two Centuries of Global Evidence"
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations proudly presents the 2012-13 Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development featuring Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute and Professor of Sustainable Development, and of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Anderson School's Center for Global Management, the UCLA Law School's Emmett Center on Climate Change & the Environment and the Environmental Law Center.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Tango from UCLA to New York City: a 25 Year Journey
A lecture by artist and producer Pablo Aslan
Thursday, April 25, 2013
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall 1345
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)
China and Taiwan Cross-Strait Relationship after Power Transitions
An International Symposium on issues in the cross-strait relationship
Thursday, April 25, 2013
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
California Room
2013 LABA Conference: Economic Trends and Capital Markets in Latin America
The 2013 Latin American Business Association Conference
Friday, April 26, 2013
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Anderson School of Management
Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet
A lecture by Murat Cankara, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
Friday, April 26, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A18 Haines Hall
Cafe de los Maestros
A 2008 film by Miguel Kohan
Friday, April 26, 2013
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Melnitz 1409
Transnationalism and International Migration in Historical Perspective
Organized by Roger Waldinger (Director, Program on International Migration and Professor of Sociology, UCLA) and Nancy Green (History, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), this two-day conference will bring together an international group of historians and social scientists who focus on the history of international migration.
Friday, April 26, 2013
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Transnationalism and International Migration in Historical Perspective
Organized by Roger Waldinger (Director, Program on International Migration and Professor of Sociology, UCLA) and Nancy Green (History, L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), this two-day conference will bring together an international group of historians and social scientists who focus on the history of international migration.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Politics & Society in Contemporary Mexico
A lecture by Dr. Arnaldo Cordova from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Monday, April 29, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Bunche Hall 6275
China in the Global Economic Crisis: Social Dislocation, Government Response, and Prospects for Transformation
A talk featuring Wen Tiejun, Dean of the School of Agronomics & Rural Development, Renmin University of China.
Monday, April 29, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Book Talk: Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Afghan Studies Book Talk with Author William Dalrymple
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Young Research Library Main Conference Room
How Did Jesuit Science Become Superior in the Kangxi Court?
A talk by Dr. Minghui Hu as part of the History of Science Spring 2013 Colloquium.
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM
5288 Bunche
Más allá del mercado: Los usos de la literatura latinoamericana en la era neoliberal
A lecture by Ignacio Sánchez Prado from Washington University in St. Louis
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Rolfe 4302
NEW DATE: Film Screening -- Eyes Wide Open
Monday, April 29, 2013
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Politics & Society in Contemporary Mexico
A lecture by Dr. Arnaldo Cordova from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Eucalyptus Hall 2225
From Cumbia Colombiana to Rap: The Evolution and Interaction of Two Urban Music Cultures
Lecture by sociologist Jose Juan Olvera from Universidad Regiomontana of Monterrey, Mexico.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
CAW: Relationship between the State and Multinational Entities with regards to the Art Market
Led by Naomi Caffee
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Gender and Creolization on the Gold Coast: Castle Slaves in the Era of the Slave Trade
UCLA Atlantic History Colloquium
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Gonzaga: de Pai para Filho (Gonzaga: From Father to Son)
A 2012 film by Breno Silveira
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz 1409
Symposium: Informing Responses to Reduce Poverty and Improve Health in Latin America
UCLA Blum Center's Inaugural Spring Symposium
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
DeNeve Auditorium
Into the Jungle: Migration and Grammar in the New Europe
CEES faculty lecture by Dominic Thomas, UCLA, French and Francophone Studies.
Thursday, May 02, 2013
12:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
South-East European Film Festival
May 2 - May 6 at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles. **May 6 closing night: James Bridges Theatre, UCLA campus, Westwood**
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
Art & Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlan
A conversation with book author Edward J. McCaughan, artist Barbara Carrasco and Dr Colin Gunckel
Thursday, May 02, 2013
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Royce Hall 306
New Dimensions in the Study and Practice of Mexican and Chicana/o Social Movements
A binational symposium of scholars and activists
Thursday, May 02, 2013
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Royce Hall 306
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Como era gostoso o meu francês & Tenda dos milagres
1972 & 1977 films by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Friday, May 03, 2013
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
South-East European Film Festival Business Conference 2013
2013 South East European Film Festival Business Conference. Admission to the Conference is free, but RSVP is mandatory. Please RSVP directly to: rsvp@seefilmla.org
Saturday, May 04, 2013
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
Continuity and Change in the Cultural Legacy of Qajar Era
A lecture by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University
Sunday, May 05, 2013
5:00 PM
Dodd Hall 121
The European External Action Service: European Foreign Policy in the Making
A conversation with Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs & Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission. Moderator: Terry McCarthy, President and CEO of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
Monday, May 06, 2013
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Gandhi and the Politics of Visual Representation
Prof. Vinay Lal, Department of History, UCLA
Monday, May 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
[East Asian Library Event] The Art of Face-Painting in Chinese Opera
Introducing the history of face painting in Chinese opera
Monday, May 06, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Young Research Library - Presentation Room 11348 YRL
Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran and resistance to the British Raj
A lecture by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University
Monday, May 06, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
How to Build a Chinese Typewriter: Reimagining Technology and Script in the 19th and 20th Centuries
A talk by Thomas S. Mullaney as part of the History of Science Spring 2013 Colloquium.
Monday, May 06, 2013
4:00 PM
5288 Bunche
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Vidas Secas & Boca de Ouro
1963 films by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Monday, May 06, 2013
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
The President's Development Policy and four Priorities for Latin America
Conversation with Mark Feierstein, USAID Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
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
ODISSI LECTURE--DEMONSTRATION
BY GURU ARUNA MOHANTY AND ORISSA DANCE ACADEMY
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Hall
CAW: "The Art of Not Being Governed"
Led by Andrew Grant
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Mining Countries: Breaking the Deadlock
A public lecture by Dr. Vusal Gasimli, Department of Economic Analysis and Global Affairs,
Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
12:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Ending the Korean War: Films
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice, which temporarily halted the fighting, yet failed to officially end the Korean War. We will show two documentary films on the impact of the unending Korean War and discuss it with the filmmakers. "Memory of Forgotten War" and "The Woman, The Orphan and The Tiger".
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Historical Critique and the Thresholds of Political Voice After the Ottoman Empire
A CPSC lecture by Kabir Tambar, Stanford University, Anthropology.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
12:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hollywood
A book talk by Yiman Wang, Assistant Professor of Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Thursday, May 09, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
Ending the Korean War: A Conference
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice, which temporarily halted the fighting, yet failed to officially end the Korean War. This conference will examine key issues surrounding the war and the ongoing division of Korea, such as separated families, Korea's militarization, and the humanitarian crisis in North Korea.
Thursday, May 09, 2013
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Main Conference Room, Charles E. Young Research Library
Barrios to Burbs: Middle Class Mexican Americans' Patterns of Mobility and Incorporation
A talk by Jody Angius Vallejo, Department of Sociology, USC.
Haines Hall 279
Friday, May 10, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
At the Crossroads: Community Wellbeing and Culture in Latin America
A symposium exploring the intersection between community wellbeing and culture among indigenous communities in Latin America
Friday, May 10, 2013
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
11360 YRL Conference Room
Ending the Korean War: A Day of Action
Organized by United Methodist Women (UMW), this day will include a public forum on the Korean crisis that examines the ongoing cost of militarization of the Korean peninsula and the steps needed to replace the temporary armistice treaty with a permanent peace treaty. The forum will look at how the road to peace in Korea runs through Washington, DC, and how women and the Korean diaspora must steward it along the way.
Friday, May 10, 2013
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
Gatha Odissi
An Indian dance demonstrated by the Orissa Dance Academy
Sunday, May 12, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
William Bristol Civic Auditorium
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos: Memórias do cárcere
1984 film by director Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Sunday, May 12, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Billy Wilder Theater (Hammer Museum)
Crisis and Resistance in Greece and the Eurozone
Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Annual Colloquium with Stathis Kouvelakis, King's College London, Political Theory and Costas Lapavitsas, University of London, Economics.
Monday, May 13, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
한국의 주민참여예산제도, 쟁점과 대안 모색 Participatory Budgeting in Korea, its Controversial Issues and Alternatives
By Jong Ahn Ko, Ministry of Strategy and Finance in Korea
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
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
Singing, Chanting, and Chatter: Street Sounds and Songs of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
A lecture by Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Contemporary Chinese Art, 1976-Present
A talk by Christina Yu Yu, Assistant Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Dodd 161
Competing Cosmologies, Sacred Spaces and Powerful Objects: Enacting Empire among and between Rome, Sasanian Iran, and Sui-Tang China
Matthew Canepa, University of Minnesota
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America
Book Talk presented by Mark Anner (Penn State University) and discussed by Mark Sawyer (UC Los Angeles)
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Public Affairs 5391
Encuentro con Alicia Scherson: Una chilena en la república mundial del cine
A lecture by Alicia Scerson, Chilean film director and producer.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Rolfe Hall 4302
2012-2013 Faucett Fellowship Student Panel
The purpose of the Faucett Fellowship Research Panel is to present research findings and promote the exchange of ideas among students and participants working in various disciplines. These research fellowships are made possible by support from the Faucett Catalyst Fund.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bunche 6275 (History Conference Room)
Identity and Place in Contemporary Central Asia
A panel presentation of new research by UCLA graduate students
Thursday, May 16, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge
The Euro Crisis: A Longer-Term View
A CEES public lecture by Barry Eichengreen, UC Berkeley, Economics and Political Science.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period
A lecture by Michael Cooperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Infraestructuras Transfronterizas: Etnografia de itinerarios en el espacio social de Monterrey-San Antonio
A lecture and book presentation by Efren Sandoval Hernandez
Friday, May 17, 2013
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Bunche Hall 10383
“A LUTA CONTINUA - THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES”: A CELEBRATION AND A CHALLENGE
“A Luta Continua-The Struggle Continues” is a symposium that will explore the impact of students from Southern Africa on the UCLA campus and the City of Los Angeles, and consider the ways in which their example can be followed in making a difference in Africa.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum & Terrace
Mostafa Sho‘aiyan: The Forgotten Revolutionary and the Possibility of Unified Action
A lecture by Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria
Saturday, May 18, 2013
6:00 PM
121 Dodd Hall
Performances of Extraordinary Gender in Mahari Dance
Prof. Anurima Banerji, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Monday, May 20, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:00 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
Unfolding the Principle of Color Decoration in Yingzao Fashi, a 12th Century’s Chinese Imperial Building Standard
A talk by Luke Li, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Monday, May 20, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 11377
International Career Panel
Please join us for the 2013 International Career Panel with panelists Brooke Christopher, Holly Derheim, and Erroll Southers. This panel will provide insight about various fields and professions in the international arena, and guide students on how to best prepare for international careers. Alexandra Lieben, Deputy Director of the UCLA Burkle Center, will moderate the discussion.
Monday, May 20, 2013
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
UCLA Bunche Hall
A Public Lecture by Leading Scholar of Ancient Chinese Culture, Professor Li Ling (李零)
International Animals: Images of Lion and Tiger in Chinese Archaeological Findings
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall 10367
Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela
A lecture by Waïl S. Hassan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
African Muslim Women and the Global Feminist Movement: Rethinking the Empowerment Paradigm
Professor Pearl T. Robinson, Tufts University, will deliver the Annual James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
University of California, Los Angeles
CAW: Migration, Trade, Travel
Led by Marjan Wardaki
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
The politics and emotions of change in South African Universities
UCLA's Graduate School of Education, the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, and the Institute of American Cultures cordially invite you to Chancellor Jonathan Jansen's presentation.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Dodd 175
Saramamalla (Mother Corn)- Climate Change and the Andean Corn Culture
An academic and cultural event by the UCLA Kichwa/Quechua class
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" UCLA Human Rights Film Series
Please join us for a documentary screening and panel discussion of "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," as part of the UCLA International Human Rights Film Series.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
7:00 PM
UCLA James Bridges Theater
Historia Indígena de México Michoacán Durante la Época Colonial y el Siglo XIX
First International Symposium on Michoacán during colonial era and the XIX century
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
YRL Conference Room 11360
Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders
A conference to honor the career of Professor Ismail Poonawala.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
UCLA Faculty Center
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
The Jazz Reggae Festival at UCLA
2013 Jazz Reggae Festival at UCLA
Sunday, May 26, 2013
UCLA Intramural Field
The Jazz Reggae Festival at UCLA
2013 Jazz Reggae Festival at UCLA
Monday, May 27, 2013
UCLA Intramural Field
브랜드 위기시 소비자의 행동투자 매몰비용이 브랜드전환행동에 미치는 영향 The Effect of Consumers' Behavioral Investment Sunk Cost on Brand Switching Behavior in Brand Crisis
By Jieun Lee, Chung-Ang University
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11377 Bunche Hall
Flowers, Fragrance, and Porcelain Wares in the Cultural History of Song China 宋人與花與香與瓷器
A Talk by Yang Zhi Shui 揚之水
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
West Electronic Classroom (2nd floor of YRL)
UFAHAMU Journal of African Studies Digitization Launch Party
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
UCLA Fowler Museum Terrace
Expanding the Urban Horizon: Research in the Hinterlands of the Kalinga Polity, India
By Professor Monica Smith, UCLA Department of Anthropology
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
12:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Fowler Museum Building
CAW: TBD
Led by Catherine Formusa
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
A Discussion of Local Customs in Hanafi Sources from the 10th to 16th Centuries
Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Dr. Zafar Najmiddinov, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton
Thursday, May 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
The Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace with Ambassador Ryan Crocker: "The Arab Spring and US Interests"
The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations proudly presents the 2012-13 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace featuring Ambassador Ryan Crocker. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia, the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, The UCLA Center for Middle East Development, and the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
UCLA Law School, Room 1357
‘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
Lexilalia: On Translating a Dictionary of Untranslatable Philosophical Terms
The UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies presents a lecture by Professor Emily Apter
Thursday, May 30, 2013
4:30 PM
UCLA
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
Egypt’s Search for Regime Security and the Failure in the making of the U.S.-Egypt Cold War Alliance During the Eisenhower and Kennedy Years
A lecture by Kangsuk Kim, Fulbright Visiting Graduate Researcher from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
CAW: TBD
Led by Feruza Djumaniyazova
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
Protest Dialectics: The Emergence and Evolution of South Korea’s Democracy Movement (1970-1979)
By Paul Y. Chang, Yonsei University
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
Corações Sujos (Dirty Hearts)
A 2011 film by Vicente Amorim
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Melnitz Hall 1409
