Calendar
Results For 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Jarayanat-e Islami Moaser dar Iran ve Jonbesh-e Democracy-Khahi
Irans Contemporary Intellectual and Political Trends within Islam and the Pro-Democracy Movement. A lecture in Persian by Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East
A lecture by Dawn Chatty, Oxford University.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The Musical Ritual of the Mevlevi Dervishes: Past and Present
A lecture by Walter Feldman
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile
A one-day conference focusing on the development of Afghanistan's national literature over the past 50 years.
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Pre-Positional Conjunctions: Sexuality and/in Islam
A lecture by Joseph Massad, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, January 25, 2010
Race and the Trace of History
A lecture by Patrick Wolfe, La Trobe University, Australia
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Regional Context of Turkey's Foreign Policy
A lecture by Dean Ahmet Evin, Sabanci University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Islam and the Bible
A lecture by Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, January 29, 2010
Orientalism in the Works of Paul Bowles
Lecture by Philip Schuyler, University of Washington
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, February 01, 2010
Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent Masculinities
A lecture by Marcia Inhorn, Yale University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, February 05, 2010
Media Freedom in the Maghreb
A lecture by Abdelaziz Nouaydi, attorney at Rabat Bar
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, February 05, 2010
Giasone
"Giasone" (Jason) is a Baroque opera composed in 1649 whose plot is loosely based on the story of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. The opera contains many comic elements too. Conducted by Stephen Stubbs and Directed by Peter Kazaras.
8:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Giasone
"Giasone" (Jason) is a Baroque opera composed in 1649 whose plot is loosely based on the story of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. The opera contains many comic elements too. Conducted by Stephen Stubbs and Directed by Peter Kazaras.
2:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Tahrim, Daramad-e Naft, va Eqtesad-e Iran (Sanctions, Oil Income and the Iranian Economy)
A lecture in Persian by Professor Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge University. Part of the CNES Bilingual Lecture Series.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, February 08, 2010
One Hundred Years of Oil Income and the Iranian Economy: A Blessing or a Curse
A lecture in English by Professor Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge university. Part of the CNES Bilingual Lecture Series.
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, February 08, 2010
The Goldstone Report & Int'l Law - Part 3: Daniel Taub, State of Israel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Daniel Taub, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser, State of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will speak on "Israel, the Palestinians, and International Law". This is the 3rd event of a 3-part lecture series titled, "The Goldstone Report and International Law - Three Perspectives".
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
War, Citizenship and Memory in Iraq
A lecture by Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Journalists Under Fire: An Independent Reporter's View from Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan
A public lecture by Anne Nivat, Award-Winning Paris-Based Freelance War Reporter and Writer
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, February 12, 2010
How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era
A one-day conference organized by Asli Bali, UCLA
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, February 12, 2010
Giasone
"Giasone" (Jason) is a Baroque opera composed in 1649 whose plot is loosely based on the story of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. The opera contains many comic elements too. Conducted by Stephen Stubbs and Directed by Peter Kazaras.
8:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Giasone
"Giasone" (Jason) is a Baroque opera composed in 1649 whose plot is loosely based on the story of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. The opera contains many comic elements too. Conducted by Stephen Stubbs and Directed by Peter Kazaras.
2:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Tea on the Axis of Evil
Jean Marie Offenbacher US, Syria | 2009 | 67 min | Documentary. Free Screening followed by Q&A.
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Heaven's Taxi and Iran Zendan
A free screening of "Heavens Taxi" a full length feature and "Iran Zendan" a 30 minute short film
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Changing Paradigms Society, Democracy, and Theology In Contemporary Iran
Day one of a two day conference
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Changing Paradigms Society, Democracy, and Theology In Contemporary Iran
Day two of a two day conference
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization
Day 1 of a two-day conference examining the role of transnational Islam and new technologies on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order.
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, February 26, 2010
Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization
Day 2 of a two-day conference examining the role of transnational Islam and new technologies on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order.
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, March 01, 2010
Dreams from an Elsewhere: Muslim Subjectivities beyond the Trope of Self-Cultivation
A lecture by Amira Mittermaier, University of Toronto
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Before the Holocaust: Italian Fascist Concentration Camps in Colonial Libya, 1929-1933
Lecture by Prof. Ali Ahmida (University of New England).
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Islam and the Bible
A public lecture by Walid Saleh (University of Toronto)
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, March 05, 2010
Memory, Imagination, and Roots in the Music and Literature of Syrian-Lebanese Immigrants and their Descendants in Brazil
A lecture by A.J. Racy, UCLA and Robert Moser, University of Georgia
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, March 06, 2010
A Night of Arab and Brazilian Music
A free concert with A.J. Racy, Samba Society, and Special Guests - please RSVP online!
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, March 20, 2010
The Armenian Communities of Asia Minor
Conference
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Baz-afarini-ye gozashteh: Estefadeh va sue` estefadeh az "Iran bastan" dar dowreh-ye Pahlavi-ha va Jomhuri-ye Eslami
A lecture by Touraj Daryaee, UC Irvine
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, March 29, 2010
The Emerging Ideology of Nationalism in Modern Iran
A lecture by Touraj Daryaee, UC Irvine and Afshin Marashi, CSU Sacramento, with Nikki Keddie, UCLA as commentator
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 01, 2010
State of the Art: Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Day one of a two day conference organized by Sherine Hafez, University of California, Riverside and Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los Angeles
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, April 02, 2010
State of the Art: Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Day two of a two day conference organized by Sherine Hafez, University of California, Riverside and Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los Angeles
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, April 05, 2010
Secrets, Fear, Honor, and Outrage: Resistance to FGM/C Abolition in Sierra Leone and Sudan
A lecture by Ellen Gruenbaum, Purdue University
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, April 12, 2010
Deterrence and Proportionality: Assessing the Legality of the Dahiya Doctrine
Lecture by Omar Dajani, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
4:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
UCLA AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History Souren and Verkin Papazian Fund
1915-1995: 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide - April 13-18, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Arab-Afghans, Jihad, and the Roots of 9/11
A lecture by Thomas Hegghammer; fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Poetry & Knowledge: Thinking Through Bosnia & Palestine
A lecture by Ammiel Alcalay, Queens College; The CUNY Graduate Center
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, April 16, 2010
Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror
A one-day conference organized by Asli Bali, UCLA Law School
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, April 18, 2010
A Tribute to Documentary Filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov (1927-2009)
Screening of his final work Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, April 19, 2010
Devastation and Controversy: Consequences of the US Invasion for Iraqi Archives and Archival Documents since 2003
A lecture by Jeff Spurr, Harvard University
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Recent Trends of Islamization in the Middle East: A Political Economy View
Lecture by Salwa Ismail
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 22, 2010
The Decipherment of the Caucasian Albanian Script and Classification of the language on the Basis of New Manuscript Finds on Mt. Sinai
A lecture by professor Zaza Aleksidze, Senior Scientific Researcher and Chair of the Department of Codicology at the National Center of Manuscripts and Director of the Armenian Studies Program at the I. Javakishvili University, Tbilisi.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Parallel Worlds: Shadow Law and Political Culture in Morocco
A lecture by Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University
4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, April 23, 2010
Indus Urbanism and Trade: Recent Discoveries from Pakistan and India
A lecture by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin Madison
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
A lecture by Marc David Baer, UC Irvine
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 29, 2010
An Appraisal of Civil Society's Struggle for Democracy in Iran
A lecture by Shiva Falsafi, UCLA
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
A book reading in French, Dari & English by Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author
Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author reads from his book The Patience Stone
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Opportunities for Scholars and Students with the Council of American Research Centers
A talk with Dr. Mary Ellen Lane, Executive Director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, May 07, 2010
Rethinking Arab Women as 'Subjects'
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies distinguished lecture and reception, Suad Joseph, UC Davis
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, May 10, 2010
Citizens, Real Others, and Other Others: Biopolitical and Critical Phenomenological Reflections on Migrant Illegality in Tel Aviv
A lecture by Sarah S. Willen
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World, Day 1 of 2
The 2010 Levi Della Vida Award Honoring Professor C. Edmund Bosworth
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World, Day 2 of 2
The 2010 Levi Della Vida Award Honoring Professor C. Edmund Bosworth
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, May 21, 2010
Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures, Day 1 of 2
A two-day conference organized by Aamir Mufti, UCLA
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures, Day 2 of 2
A two-day conference organized by Aamir Mufti, UCLA
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Zanan dar dastanha-ye Sadeq Hedayat [Women in Sadeq Hedayat's Fiction]
A lecture by Homayoun Katouzian, University of Oxford
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, May 24, 2010
The Short-Term Society, A study in the Long-Term Problems of Political and Economic Development in Iran
A lecture by Homayoun Katouzian, University of Oxford
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
The Shahnameh: Iran's National Epic
Day 1 of a two-day conference examining Iran's national epic, composed in the 10th century CE by Iran's national poet Ferdowsi.
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
The Shahnameh: Iran's National Epic
Day 2 of a two-day conference examining Iran's national epic, composed in the 10th century CE by Iran's national poet Ferdowsi.
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Document: Iranian-Americans in L.A.
A day of programs celebrates the opening of the photography exhibition
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
The UCLA International Education Office is pleased to be hosting UCLA's 24th annual study abroad fair on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 in Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom.
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, October 08, 2010
UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2010
A two-day conference that focuses on trans issues broadly construed from specific transgender embodiment to the intellectual, social, political, racial, global, theoretical, philosophical etc. 'crossings' that happen in queer lives and queer discourses.
Register to see Vaginal Davis' performance.
For free reservation email the LGBTS department at: lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, October 09, 2010
UCLA Queer Studies Conference 2010
A two-day conference that focuses on trans issues broadly construed from specific transgender embodiment to the intellectual, social, political, racial, global, theoretical, philosophical etc. 'crossings' that happen in queer lives and queer discourses. Register to see Vaginal Davis' performance. For free reservation email the LGBTS department at: lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu
8:30 AM - 8:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
UCLA International Institute Open House
In association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars and the International Education Office
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Islamic Law and Legal Change: The Internal Critique
A lecture by Intisar Rabb, Boston College Law School
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Doubt Jurisprudence in Early Islamic Law and Society (7th-- 9th-Centuries)
A lecture by Intisar Rabb, Boston College Law School
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Letters to My Torturer (lecture in Persian)
A lecture by Houshang Asadi, Journalist and Writer, Rooz Online
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, October 18, 2010
Letters to My Torturer
A lecture by Houshang Asadi, Journalist and Writer, Rooz Online
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Turkish Rom Social Dance Phenom
Modern Social "Belly Dance" as an Expressive Celebratory Tradition Among The Turkish Rom in Izmir and Istanbul, a lecture by Jaynie Aydin, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Israel and Apartheid: The Jewish State's Unspoken Alliance with Apartheid South Africa
A lecture by Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Senior Editor, Foreign Affairs
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Film Screening: The Wedding Song [France, Tunisia]
Part of the 2010 Arab Film Festival at the Writer's Guild of America Theater in Beverly Hills.
3:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Film Screening: Little Town of Bethlehem [USA]
Part of the 2010 Arab Film Festival at the Writer's Guild of America Theater in Beverly Hills.
11:30 AM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
From Early Judeo-Iranian Jargons to Central Asiatic Argots of Rom Groups: Evidence for an Influential Jewish Underworld in the Late Abbasid Period
A lecture by Martin Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Film Screening: Not an Illusion (Na Yek Tavahhom) [Iran]
Screening of the film Not an Illusion (Na Yek Tavahhom), followed by a Q&A session with director, writer, producer Torang Abedian. In Persian with English Subtitles.
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Shari'ah Watch: A View from the Inside
Lecture and Extended Q&A with Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, Moderated by Professor Asli Bali
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, November 05, 2010
The First North American Conference on the Kurdish Language
The conference will bring linguists, students, and scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe to address research on Kurdish studies
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Taxonomies, Minorities, and Boundaries: The League of Nations and the Interwar Middle East
A lecture by Sarah Shields, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia
Central Asia Initiative International Conference
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Preserving the Two-State Solution
A lecture by Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the US
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Art of Change-Making: Philanthropy at its Best
Screening of the documentary film 'Lady of the Roses,' followed by a bilingual (English/Persian) panel discussion
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Right to Education: Obstacles to Academic Freedom in Occupied Palestine
A lecture by Randa Siniora, Executive Director, Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Film Screening: Z32 [Israel]
A screening of Avi Mograbi's documentary film, Z32, followed by a discussion with Arnon Degani, History Department, UCLA. Film in Hebrew with English Subtitles.
7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Film Screening: Masquerades [Algeria]
Screening of the film Masquerades, followed by a Q&A session with director Lyes Salem.
Photo courtesy of the Global Film Initiative.
7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, November 29, 2010
Books, Wonder, and Exchange: American Protestants in 19th-Century Iran
A lecture by Adam H. Becker, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Classics, Director of the Religious Studies Program, New York University
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Leisurely Islam: Youth Negotiations of Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut
A lecture by Lara Deeb, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Scripps College
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Dar pey-ye mardomsalari: talash-ha ye sad saleh-ye demokrasi-khahi dar Iran
A lecture by Fakhreddin Azimi, Professor of History, University of Connecticut
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, December 06, 2010
Constitutionalism and Political Legitimacy in Modern Iran: Strategies of creating and confronting political authority
A lecture by Fakhreddin Azimi, Professor of History, University of Connecticut
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
