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Through July 14, 2002
The Way of Rama: A Prince in Exile
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
(619) 232-7931Beginning this weekend, Museum visitors can follow the twists and turns of one of India's greatest epics, The Ramayana, in paintings from the Museum's Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of South Asian paintings. The Way of Rama focuses on the adventures of the Hindu god Rama and his wife Sita. Rama, like Krishna, is an incarnation of the great god Vishnu, born as a mortal in order to bring divine powers into the course of events on earth. While Krishna brought the power of play and devotion, Rama brings the virtue of a righteous son, husband, brother, and king.
In images made at various courts on the sub-continent between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, Rama's legendary honor and nobility are witnessed. He bravely accepts banishment from his father's kingdom and battles fierce demons in the depths of the forest. When the ten-headed King of the Demons, Ravana, uses trickery to capture his beautiful wife Sita, Rama is heartbroken, but soon Hanuman and his army of monkey warriors come to Rama's aid. Together they set out to find Sita and to destroy the Demon King.
This third exhibition in the Who's Who/What's What Series of South Asian paintings from the collection of Edwin Binney 3rd runs through July 14.
Museum hours: Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed Mondays.
March 6-8, 2002
The Gyuto Monks in residence to create a Yamantaka Sand Mandala
Public Observation Hours: Wed. 9am-12pm, 2-4pm; Thurs. 9am-12pm, 2-4pm, 7-9pm; Fri. 9am-12pm, 2-6:30pm.
UCLA Hammer MuseumOver a three-day period in the Museum's galleries, visitors may view fourteen Tibetan monks creating a sand mandala in the traditional Yamantaka format. The original Gyuto Monastic University was founded in Lhasa in 1474, and re-established in exile in Northern India after the Chinese invasion of Tibet. The Gyuto monks are currently based in Bomdilla, India.
Complete schedule:
Opening Ceremony - Wednesday, March 6, 9 am
Closing Ceremony - Friday, March 8, 6:30 pm
Upon the completion of the sand mandala on Friday, the Gyuto monks will perform a closing ceremony. During the closing ceremony, the monks will destroy the mandala, sweeping up the colored sands to symbolize the impermanence of all forms. The sands will then be carried to the ocean.Scattering of the Sand - Saturday, March 9, 9:00 am
The audience is invited to gather to witness the traditional scattering of the sand over the ocean. The exact location of the beach portion of the ceremony is to be announced.For further information, contact:
Jeanne Hoel
Education Assistant, UCLA Hammer Museum
tel: (310) 443-7055
fax: (310) 443-7099
March 6-June 16, 2002
Bijinga: Japanese Paintings of Beautiful Women
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626)449-2742This small exhibit will feature paintings and prints of beautiful women from the Museum's outstanding collection of Edo period (1600–1868) Japanese paintings. Such paintings, known in Japanese as bijinga (literally, "pictures of beautiful women"), depict courtesans and other women from the pleasure quarters of Japan's cities. These women often wore the most elaborate and fashionable kimonos and hairstyles of the day, the details of which are exquisitely rendered in pigments on silk and paper.
Artists from various schools, including the Kaigetsudo, Hishikawa and Hokusai schools, and celebrated artists such as Tohoharu (1763–1828) and Eisen (1790–1848) will be featured in this exhibition.
Lectures, conferences, and performances
Through March 3, 2002
17th Santa Barbara International Film FestivalShanghai GhettoMarch 1, 2002; 2 pm March 2, 2002; 12:30 pm Victoria Hall 33 W. Victoria St., Santa Barbara World PremiereIn the late 1930’s Germany, as the drums of war and holocaust boomed, only the fortunate or luckiest among the Jews were able to escape. 8,000 miles away was Shanghai, China’s commercial center and already home to two separate Jewish neighborhoods. Over the next several years, approximately 20,000 Jews made the voyage, not knowing what to expect. The newcomers were placed in Hongkew district, already home to desperately poor Chinese and Japanese. Survivors tell their stories, rare archival photos reveal their lives. This is a well-told, valuable chapter of Holocaust survival history.Directors/Producers/Editors: Dana Janklowicz-Mann, Amir Mann; Cinematography: Amir Mann. USA, 2002. 1:37 minutes.About the directors: Both directors attended NYU film school; in January, 2000, they opened Rebel Child Productions.Daughter from DanangMarch 1, 2002 3 pm Metro 4 Theater 618 State St., Santa Barbara Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2002In 1975, the Vietnam War was winding down for America, but in victorious Vietnam there was nation building and healing to do. A symbol of the war were the Amerasian children. Rumors abounded that they’d never be accepted and, worse, they’d be treated with vengeful cruelty. One such child was 7-year-old Mai Thi Hiep, sent to America by her mother, Mai Thi Kim, so that she would have a safe and happy life. Heidi, as she was renamed, landed in Pulaski, Tennessee, was adopted and integrated into her new family and schools. Growing up, she became “101% American”: she had everything, she said, except loving parents. After much searching Kim and Hiep/Heidi connect. This film is a profound and moving look at cultural misunderstandings and the pain all feel at being unable to make emotional connections.Directors: Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco; Producer: Gail Dolgin; Cinematography: Vicente Franco; Editor: Kim Roberts.About the directors: Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco directed CUBA VA, the highly praised 1994 Sundance entry.Ravi Shankar: Between Two WorldsMarch 1, 2002 7:30 pm March 3, 2002 2 pm Victoria Hall 33 W. Victoria St., Santa Barbara US Premiere Performing Arts Silver Award, F.I.P.A. Biarritz, France, 2002Music, for legendary sitar performer/composer Ravi Shankar, is a state of mind, an ecstasy. This finely crafted documentary, an earlier version of which played at Telluride Film Festival, 2001, travels from the master’s early days to his on-going master classes. There are archival and family photos, interviews and, always, the music. Born in 1920 to a Brahmin family in Benares (Varanesi), India, Ravi Shankar started performing at age 9, when he joined his world famous dancer brother’s dance troupe. They traveled west to Europe, then to New York City and Hollywood. In the late ‘60’s Ravi Shankar was “discovered” and, much to his gentle amusement, became a superstar, ”the godfather of world music,” said his friend George Harrison.Director: Mark Kidel; Co-Producers: Jane Weiner, J P WEINER PRODUCTIONS, Inc. and Nicolas Blanc, AGAT FILMS & Cie; Cinematography: Olivier Gueneau, Mark Kidel, Alistair Cameron; Editor: Andrew Findlay.About the director: Since 1970, Mark Kidel has created films for the BBC, specializing in music, arts and cultural programs.Mai's America March 2, 2002 11 am Victoria Hall 33 W. Victoria St., Santa Barbara World PremiereThis film shows the U.S. through the eyes of a spunky, mini-skirted Vietnamese exchange student. Mai’s first host family was depressed, rarely smiling; her second was undergoing severe marital problems. Her best friend was Chris,a transvestite, who has a “reality check” and decides, after all, he is a man. Non-judgmental, eager to learn, Mai observes and befriends everyone. Returning to Vietnam for vacation, she gently observes the differences between the countries and cultures.Director: Marlo Poras; Producer: Marlo Poras; Screenwriter: Marlo Poras; Cinematography: Marlo Poras; Editor: Michele Gisser. USA, 2002. 1:26 minutes.About the director: Marlo Poras lived in Hanoi for two years, producing AIDS education videos for Vietnamese teens. This is her first feature. For more information, visit: www.marloporas.com.
March 1, 2002
Monsoon WeddingFilm Screening Mina Nair, DirectorLandmark Regent 1045 Broxton Westwood (310)208-3259This new film on a Punjabi wedding from famed Indian director Mira Nair kicks off the festival. Jennifer Stark writes, "A big family wedding becomes a hotbed of secrets revealed, as one family prepares for the pageantry and vibrancy of a Punjabi wedding, set against the backdrop of the monsoon rains looming on the horizon. In this wonderfully colorful and vivacious film that balances drama with frenetic comedy, Nair proves her dexterity and versatility as a filmmaker. After the disastrous relationship with a boss twice her age ends, Aditi hastily agrees to an arranged marriage with Hamant, an engineer now living in Houston, Texas. As the date moves closer and the relatives start to arrive with their own agendas, the atmosphere begins to heat up, culminating in Aditi's decision to tell Hamant the truth about her past, which threatens the marriage ceremony itself. Rich in a splendor of sight and sound, with infusions of 'Bollywood-style' musical numbers, this film is a treat that celebrates the tradition and love of family."
March 1, 2002
Symposium on Korean Catholicism
3-5 pm
243 Royce Hall UCLAProgram:
Don Baker, University of British Columbia
"Persuasion and Coercion: Catholic Strategies in the Fight for Religious Freedom in Confucian Korea"
Kwang Cho, Korea University
"Early Christian life & Catholic persecution of 1801 in Korea"Respondent: Wijo Kang, 2001-2002 Luce Distinguished Professor of Korean Christianity at UCLA
Prof. Tim Lee, Luce Postdoctoral Fellow in Korean Christianity at UCLA, will read the English translation.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for additional information. http://www.isop.ucla.edu/korea.
March 2, 2002
The Historical Panorama of Japanese Dance
2-2:45 pm
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101
(626)449-2742Distinguished Japanese dancer, Kazuko will perform an intriguing program of traditional Japanese dance including The Origin, Ancient Court Dance, Folk Dance and Contemporary Dance. Fully costumed in rich textiles and traditional make-up, the dances will be accompanied by live musicians. Visitors will be able to learn about Japanese theater as costume changes will be made on stage. This event is free with Museum admission.
March 4, 2002
Wisdom for Challenging Times: A Tibetan Buddhist View
Tibetan Lama Jigme Rinpoche
2-3 pm
2408 Ackerman Union, UCLABorn in Dergue, Eastern Tibet, Lama Jigme Rinpoche was rapidly recognized within his order as an exceptional child. He was granted from an early age the type of education generally reserved for high Lamas. Lama Jigme Rinpoche began his education in Tibet, and then continued it in India, after his exile. In response to the increasing number of Europeans that expressed the desire to have a deeper knowledge of Buddhism, Jigme Rinpoche settled in the Perigord region of France in the 1970's, to oversee the development of Dhagpo Kagyu Ling and other European centers. Lama Jigme Rinpoche is visiting from France and will be giving talks throughout California.
This event is sponsored by University Religious Conference (URC) of UCLA and University Religious Conference Buddhist Group. For further information, you may contact the Bodhipath Westwood Group at bodhipathwwood@aol.com.
March 4, 2002
How Political is Nishida's System?
Yoko Arisaka
Philosophy, University of San Francisco3 pm
Hacienda Room
Faculty Center, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. If you have questions, please contact the office at 310-825-8681.
March 5, 2002
Images of a World: Treasures of Indian and South Asian Painting
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (East)
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tel. 323-857-6000Discover the glowing colors, delicate geometric and floral patterns, and lively stories that make the Indian and South Asian paintings some of the best-loved treasures of the museum. In this session, you will explore portraits, court paintings, and manuscript illustrations from LACMA's collection. $14 fee for the session. Part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Evenings for Educators Program. Registration is at LACMA East.
Go to http://www.lacma.org/educate/teach_sch/evesedstart.htm for additional information.
March 5, 2002
Raas/Garba/Bhangra Night
7-11 pm
Kirkhoff Grand Salon RoomAll are invited and encouraged to come as we help teach the community of UCLA how to Raas/Garba/Bhangra.
For more information Contact: Paul Sachdeva 310-208-2101 or email: raasteam@ucla.edu or bhangra@ucla.edu
Sponsored by the UCLA Raas Team and UCLA Bhangra Team.
March 6, 2002
Finding Justice for East Timor
Filomena Barros dos Reis
East Timor Action Network-US Speaking Tour12-1:30 pm
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLASponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. For further information call, (310)206-9163.
March 6, 2002
Figures of Famine
Parama Roy
Associate Professor of English
UC-Riverside12-2 pm
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020, UC Santa BarbaraThis talk focuses on the central importance of hunger and famine, and the fantasies, traumas, and repressions associated with them, as irreducible and emblematic components of a postcolonial Indian history. A number of cultural factions in South Asia have made the tropes of dearth and inanition their own: in the Bombay film industry, for instance, famine has been deployed as a favoured topos of sentimentality, usually to be contrasted with lush and lyrical landscapes and scenes of happy rural folk; this is particularly true for the social realist films of the fifties. In a more elevated cultural realm, the devastating famine of Bengal of 1943 has sparked the production of Nobel Prize-winning economic analysis (Amartya Sen, Poverty and Famines, 1981) as well as filmmaking by Satyajit Ray (Asani Sanket [Distant Thunder], 1973) and Mrinal Sen (Akaler Sandhaney [In Search of Famine], 1980) and the formation of the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA). This talk uses such accounts to address the relationship between the conventional conception of famine as anomalous and exorbitant to the experience of the modern subject of the liberal state and the deranging revelation that subaltern, and more specifically tribal, famine on a genocidal scale remains the inadmissible secret of the postcolonial Indian state.
Parama Roy is one of the foremost scholars in postcolonial studies today whose work has taken up and reformulated the central questions of originality, mimicry, and impersonation in the South Asian context. She is the author of a groundbreaking book Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Berkeley: UC Press, 1998) and has published several major articles in the Yale Journal of Criticism, Boundary 2, Studies in English Literature, and Victorians Institute Journal.
March 6, 2002
Seduction
For more information Contact: Paul Sachdeva 310-208-2101 or email: raasteam@ucla.edu or bhangra@ucla.edu
Sponsored by the UCLA Raas Team and UCLA Bhangra Team.
March 7, 2002
Three Gestures in the Poetics of Place: Perspectives and Fengshui in Two Contemporary Chinese Places
Stephan Feuchtwang,
Professor in the Anthropology Department,
London School of Economics and Political Science3 pm
2001A Humanities & Social Science Bldg., UC Santa BarbaraThe three gestures are linking, centering, and gathering. They are part of a single process that constructs place and story, stories and schemes of fengshui, from the intimately familial to the political to the cosmogonic. The talk examines two scenes in post-Mao China, a northern scene of burial and a southern scene of reconstructing an ancestral hall. Both refer to an historic moment of retrieving a past and adjusting to an intrusion that is understood as modernity. Modernity can be visualised as linear and as vanishing-point perspective, and it is also experienced as a destructive abstraction of space, against which "tacit space" circumscribes a place of safer negotiations.
Stephan Feuchtwang is the author of Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor (2001). He is one of the few China scholars in the world who have written on fengshui, an ancient art or technology which tries to improve people's physical and spiritual life by aligning the buildings they live in and the graves their ancestors are buried in, to harmonize with and tap into the flow of the "primordial energy" or qi of the earth.
March 7, 2002
Private Luxury Workshops during the Han Period
Anthony Barbieri-Low
University of Pittsburgh4 pm
275 Dodd Hall, UCLADuring the Warring States period (ca. 453-221 BC), there was a dramatic change as private workshops, which supplied the courts with ritual implements and markers of status, arose beside state-sponsored ones. This talk is a preliminary examination of the relationship between those private workshops and the well-developed state-sponsored system during the subsequent Han period (202 BC-AD 220).
Professor Barbieri-Low completed his MA in East Asian Studies at Harvard University with the thesis, "Wheeled Vehicles in the Chinese Bronze Age" (later published in Sino-Platonic Papers). He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2001 in Chinese Art and Archaeology with the dissertation, "The Organization of Imperial Workshops during the Han Dynasty." He is currently Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. Please call (310) 825-8683 for further information.
March 8, 2002
Transnational Linkages in Work and Gender: Vietnamese Workers in Electronics and Garment Industries
Angie Tran,
California State University at Monterey Bay11 am-1 pm
3233 Campbell Hall, UCLACo-sponsored by UCLA Program for Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia and UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
March 8-9, 2002
Translating the Nation in East Asia
314 Royce Hall, UCLA
This conference will examine a number of the ideas that grew out of the ongoing process of the development of the nation state, and will try to work out a critical sense of the cost these ideas exacted on the study of the actual historical process in China, Japan and Korea, the three entities that have been tied together within the modern rubric of East Asian Studies.
Program:
Friday, March 8, 2002
1:30 pm Welcoming Remarks: Vincent Pecora, UCLA
Introduction: John Duncan & Theodore Huters, UCLA
2 pm Session 1
Ken Pomeranz, University of California, Irvine
East Is East and West Is Everywhere: Universals, Particulars and Discourses of East Asian Political Economy3 pm
Henry Em, University of Michigan
Anachronisms and Progressive History in Colonial KoreaComments: Namhee Lee, UCLA
4:30 pm Reception
Saturday, March 9, 2002
10 am Session 2
Stefan Tanaka, University of California, San Diego
Time and the Historicization of Meiji Japan11 am
R. Bin Wong, University of California, Irvine
From Agrarian Empire to National State: Twentieth-Century China in Late Imperial Perspective (copies of this paper are available in 310 Royce Hall)Comments: Michael Bourdaghs, UCLA
12-1:30 pm Break
1:30 pm Session 3
Donald Baker, University of British Columbia
Hananim, Hanullim, and Haneollim: The Construction of Terminology for Korean Monotheism2:30 pm
Seiji Lippit, UCLA
The Abject Borders of the Nation: Yokomitsu Riichi's Modernist TopographiesComments: Theodore Huters, UCLA
The webpage for the conference is: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/cmcs/EastAsian.htm.
This conference is free and open to the public. Registration is not required, but seating is limited. Parking is available for $6.00 in Lot 2, or as directed by the Parking Services Information kiosks.
For further information, please contact our Center by email at modcon@humnet.ucla.edu or call (310) 825-9581.
Co-sponsored by UCLA Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies.
March 9, 2002
Gyuto Monks
8 pm
Royce Hall, UCLAThis month, in a coincidence of bookings, Los Angeles will be able to compare and contrast three sets of performing Buddhist monks. Each has added theatricality to ritual and created touring shows that bring Eastern traditions to Western audiences. Brethren from Gyuto monastery, headquartered in Dharamsala, India, make up the Tibetan Tantric Choir which is featured in this performance. The Gyuto monks, performing under the auspices of the Dalai Lama and to benefit the monastery in India, have toured the world. Their music has proven so popular that the group has recorded a handful of CDs, joined on some tracks by such luminaries as composer Philip Glass and Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart, who also produces the discs. A new CD is slated for release next month. What makes their sound so distinctive is that each of the monks vocalizes a chord--that is, each can sing two or three tones simultaneously. In Tibetan Buddhism, such sounds are thought to arise only from the throat of a person who has realized "selfless wisdom," which emanates from the trancelike state of pure consciousness, Samadhi. Donyo, 40, acts as a translator and spokesman for the choir.
Tickets: $14-$35. For further information,call: (310) 825-2101.
March 10, 2002
Okinawa Music and Dance
1 pm
George and Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theatre
Tickets and information call the box office at 213.680.3700Traditional music, folk dancing and classical dance from Okinawa.
March 11, 2002
The Culture of Tibet - Discussion with Gyuto Monks
7-9 pm
UCSB MultiCultural Center, UCSB
FreeThis discussion is sponsored by Students for a Free Tibet. Please come and meet with some of the Gyuto Monks who are here for the Tibetan Sacred Culture Week events.
March 12, 2002
Gyuto Monks: Tibetan music concert performance
8 pm
UCSB Lotte Lehman Concert Hall, UCSBThe Gyuto Monks are famous for their remarkable ability to create polyphonic chanting in which a single person chants a full chord. They will also perform traditional Tibetan music with their long horn, flute and percussion instruments. Tickets: $10 students, $20 general admission. For ticket information call Arts and Lectures box office at 805-893-3535.
March 13, 2002
The Hakka People and Their Dwellings
Zhang Liangren
Ph.D. student
Department of Art History, UCLA12 noon
Fowler Museum 222 (in the Costen Institute of Archaeology), UCLAMr. Zhang says of his talk, "This presentation is based on my 2001 summer internship at the Getty Conservation Institute. The Hakkas are a group of Chinese who currently reside in southern China and overseas. They are quite distinct in their culture and dwellings. Since my research is still preliminary, many questions have not yet been pursued in depth, but the talk is intended to provide a visual overview of these people and their marvelous dwellings."
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. For further information, call 310 825-8683 or email gunde@ucla.edu.
March 13, 2002
Chinese Vernacular Architecture: the Stilt Houses of River Valley Settlements of Central China
Zhang Liang Gao,
Professor Emeritus
Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
Wuhan, China7:30 pm
The Main Space at SCI-Arc, 350 Merrick St., Downtown LA, 90013 213-613-2200
March 14, 2002
Vertical Ray of the Sun
Film Screening
7:30 pm
UCSB Campbell Hall, UCSBA Chekhovian look at three Vietnamese sisters coping with their parents' deaths and the tenuous balance between daily life and unbridled passions. Directed by Tran Anh Hung who directed The Scent of Green Papaya. (2000, 112 min.).
March 14, 2002
An Evening of North Indian Classical Music
8 pm
Geiringer Hall, Music Dept., UCSB
Tickets: $5 - at the door only.The UCSB Indian Music Ensemble, Scott Marcus, Director with special guest, Master Tabla Drummer, Abhiman Kaushal.
1st half: The UCSB Indian Music Ensemble.
The Ensemble will perform two ragas, Yaman and Malkauns, on sitars with tabla accompaniment .2nd half: Master talba drummer, Abhiman Kaushal, will perform an extended tabla solo.
March 14, 2002
Shaolin Warriors
8 pm
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, CerritosThis month, in a coincidence of bookings, Los Angeles will be able to compare and contrast three sets of performing Buddhist monks. Each has added theatricality to ritual and created touring shows that bring Eastern traditions to Western audiences. In two separate productions, some 40 Shaolin monks from China, practitioners of kung fu, will perform martial arts demonstrations, choreographed, costumed and staged. "The 1,500-year-old Shaolin tradition, now carried on by a temple in China's central Henan province, expresses spirituality on a decidedly more physical plane. By meditating on movements of animals, the first Shaolin monks developed kung fu, a system of self-defense. While Buddhism is generally nonviolent, Shaolin monks continue to be trained in the use of 18 types of weaponry. Xiugin Wang, an English-speaking promoter from Beijing, is handling the 28-city tour of the Shaolin Warriors, a group of monks contracted from the main temple and sponsored by the Chinese government.
Tickets: $40-$50. Call (800) 300-4345 for further information.
March 16, 2002
"South Asian Paintings: A New Rotation"
Caron Smith
Curator of Asian art, San Diego Museum of Art6 pm
Rotunda
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Phone (619) 232-7931
Fax (619) 232-9367
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed on MondaysEvery month, the Museum offers educational talks in the galleries that are open to the public. These talks are free with your museum admission and presented by museum curators, educational staff, docents, and local art experts.
March 19, 2002
"South Asian Paintings: A New Rotation"
Caron Smith
Curator of Asian art, San Diego Museum of Art2 pm
Rotunda
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Phone (619) 232-7931
Fax (619) 232-9367
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed on MondaysEvery month, the Museum offers educational talks in the galleries that are open to the public. These talks are free with your museum admission and presented by museum curators, educational staff, docents, and local art experts.
March 19-22, 2002
Bringing Treasures to Light: An Intimate View of the Museum's Collection
This spring the San Diego Museum of Art is hosting a five-week visit from renowned scholar of Indian painting, Dr. B. N. Goswamy. During his stay, Dr. Goswamy will work with senior curator of Asian art, Caron Smith, on research and documentation of the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection and engage in various public programs.
Dr. Goswamy will provide an in-depth view of the Museum's collection of South Asian paintings in a series of four workshops on different aspects of Indian painting. Participants will examine paintings through slides and original works from the Museum's vaults made available for these workshops. The workshops are designed for anyone, regardless of previous background or knowledge of the subject. Each session will be a complete subject, and therefore participants may choose one or more of the sessions. Together the four sessions will provide a rounded approach to Indian manuscript painting.
Workshop I (March 19): From the Interstices of the Mind: The Painter's Mind and Methods
Workshop II (March 20): A Certain Innocence: The Presence of Krishna in Indian Painting
Workshop III (March 21): Born of the Same Womb: Poetry and Painting in Indian Art
Workshop IV (March 22): Essence and Appearance: Indian PortraitsEach workshop runs from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm each day and is limited to twenty-five participants. The cost per session is $75.00, or $250.00 for the full series. Call (619) 696-1993 for more information and to reserve a spot.
March 20, 2002
Shaolin Warriors
8:15 pm
Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal CityThis month, in a coincidence of bookings, Los Angeles will be able to compare and contrast three sets of performing Buddhist monks. Each has added theatricality to ritual and created touring shows that bring Eastern traditions to Western audiences. In two separate productions, some 40 Shaolin monks from China, practitioners of kung fu, will perform martial arts demonstrations, choreographed, costumed and staged. "The 1,500-year-old Shaolin tradition, now carried on by a temple in China's central Henan province, expresses spirituality on a decidedly more physical plane. By meditating on movements of animals, the first Shaolin monks developed kung fu, a system of self-defense. While Buddhism is generally nonviolent, Shaolin monks continue to be trained in the use of 18 types of weaponry. Xiugin Wang, an English-speaking promoter from Beijing, is handling the 28-city tour of the Shaolin Warriors, a group of monks contracted from the main temple and sponsored by the Chinese government.
Tickets: $23.50-$33.50. Ticket information, (213) 252-8497; for additional information, (818) 622-4440.
March 21, 2002
Japan.com: Constructing Japan's National Identity: Historical Processes and Contemporary Challenges
Neil Renwick
Reader in International and East Asian Studies,
Co-Director,
Centre for Asia/Pacific Studies Nottingham Trent University, England8 pm
Von Kleinsmid Center (VKC) Room 260
Adjacent to the East Asian Studies Center (VKC 263), University of Southern CaliforniaJapan's national political identity as traditionally defined is being undermined by internationalization, cybernetic contacts, and community insecurities. Dr. Renwick will discuss how these forces are posing fundamental challenges to received ideas of what it means to be Japanese and to the legitimacy of the contemporary Japanese state. Dr. Renwick (Ph.D., Australian National University) is the author of Japan's Alliance Politics and Identities in International Relations.
The Southern California Japan Seminar is a project of the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center. For additional information please call (213) 740-2993.
March 21, 2002
Gyuto Monks
8 pm
Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, CerritosThis month, in a coincidence of bookings, Los Angeles will be able to compare and contrast three sets of performing Buddhist monks. Each has added theatricality to ritual and created touring shows that bring Eastern traditions to Western audiences. Brethren from Gyuto monastery, headquartered in Dharamsala, India, make up the Tibetan Tantric Choir which is featured in this performance. The Gyuto monks, performing under the auspices of the Dalai Lama and to benefit the monastery in India, have toured the world. Their music has proven so popular that the group has recorded a handful of CDs, joined on some tracks by such luminaries as composer Philip Glass and Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart, who also produces the discs. A new CD is slated for release next month. What makes their sound so distinctive is that each of the monks vocalizes a chord--that is, each can sing two or three tones simultaneously. In Tibetan Buddhism, such sounds are thought to arise only from the throat of a person who has realized "selfless wisdom," which emanates from the trancelike state of pure consciousness, Samadhi. Donyo, 40, acts as a translator and spokesman for the choir.
Tickets: $35-$45. For further information, call: (800) 300-4345.
March 22, 2002
New Approaches to Women, Culture, and Development
All-Day workshop
9 am - 5 pm
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020, UCSB
FreePresented by UCSB's Women, Culture and Development Program and sponsored by Global and International Studies, this all-day workshop features speakers in the morning sessions who will discuss theoretical and methodological approaches to fieldwork and research in the topic. Graduate students will present specific research projects for discussion in the afternoon sessions. For more information, contact Global and Int'l. Studies at 805-893-7860. Workshop is free and open to the public.
Workshop Schedule:
8:30-10:30 am South Asia after Gender: Theory and Practice
Mary Hancock, Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Raka Ray, Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Shahnaz Rouse, Dept. of Sociology, Sarah Lawrence College
11 am-12:30 pm Dealing with Difference: Reflexivity and Working "in the Field"
Alexia Bloch, Dept. of Anthropology, University of British Columbia
Sondra Hale, Dept. of Anthropology/Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Rema Hammami, Dept. of Anthropology/Women's Studies, Birzeit University, Palestine
March 23, 2002
Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan
1:30-3 pm
Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street, Los Angeles
213-625-0414Join award-winning filmmaker Regge Life in a screening and discussion of "Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan," which is the first documentary to thoroughly examine the complex relationship of African Americans and Japanese.
Mr. Life first went to Japan as an Artist Fellow with the U.S. Japan Friendship Commission in 1990. At the end of his six-month fellowship, he began planning this documentary on African Americans and their experiences living in Japan.
Co-sponsored by USC Program in American Studies and Ethnicity and USC Asian Pacific American Student Services.
March 26, 2002
China Dawn: The Story of a Technology and Business Revolution
11:30 am-1:30 pm
The Los Angeles Athletic Club
China Dawn is the chronicle of the nascent Chinese technology revolution- a movement with the immodest goal of transforming the lives of more than a fifth of the world's people. The publication centers on the entrepreneurs who are trying to spark a social transformation by bringing the latest information technology to the planet's most populous country. David Sheff, the author, will be joined by Bo Feng, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Chengwei Ventures, and Nina Hachigian, Director, Center for Asia-Pacific Policy, RAND, to explore the impact of Internet on doing business in China, prospects for China and WTO, and Sino-U.S. relations. The panel will be chaired by Stephen Randall, Adjunct Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Buffet lunch will be provided. The Los Angeles Athletic Club members $40; non-members $45; pay-at-the-door $50. Seats are limited, please register early with the Asia Society Southern California Center at (213) 624-0945.Sponsored by The Asian Society Southern California Center. For further information call (213)624-0945. For more information on other events sponsored by The Asia Society Southern California Center, click here.
The UCLA Center for East Asian Studies and the USC East Asian Studies Center are coordinating institutions for these events.
March 28, 2002
Magical Flowers: The Indian Painter's World of Observation, Imagination, and Wonder
1 pm
James S. Copley Auditorium
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Phone (619) 232-7931Dr. Goswamy's research has greatly enhanced our understanding of Indian painting by identifying painters and family workshops in a field where individual artists have received little attention. In this lecture presented by the Asian Arts Committee, he will introduce the audience to some of India's master painters as artists and individuals. Tickets are $5 (free to committee members).
March 29, 2002
Japan's Response to Terrorism: Too Hot, Too Cold, or Just Right?
Tomohito Shinoda,
International University of Japan Research Institute10-11:30 am
The RAND Corporation
1700 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138Directions: From the 405 Freeway: Take the 10 freeway towards Los Angeles/Santa Monica. Exit at the 4th/5th Street exit. Turn left on 4th Street. Turn right on Pico Boulevard. Turn right at Main Street. Rand Corporation's phone: 310-393-0411
Admission: Free
The current perception is that Japan has moved decisively to support the United States, as well as its own interests, in the new War on Terrorism. Just how far has Japan come in its commitment to international action against terrorism? Will we soon see armed participation by Japan in anti-terrorist actions, or will Japan? actions remain in primarily that of supporting the actions of others.
RSVP: Reservations are required, and space is very limited. For reservations, please call (213) 627-6217, ext. 202 or email to JapanAmerica1@hotmail.com
Co-sponsored by the Japan America Society and the Center for Asia Pacific Policy at RAND.
March 30, 2002
Three Films by Chinese director Xie Jin
Director Xie Jin is one of the most popular and influential Chinese filmmakers of the last half century. Xie Jin will be in residence as a distinguished visitor at USC from April 6-26, and will be present at the screenings of The Opium War (April 6) and Stage Sisters (April 13) to discuss his films and answer questions from the audience. Professors David James (USC), Stanley Rosen (USC) Sun Shao-Yi (USC) and Esther Yau (Occidental College) will also participate in the discussions following the film screenings. All screenings and discussions are free and open to the public.
Hibiscus Town (Furong zhen, 1985)
1 pm
Norris Cinema Theater, USCHibiscus Town offers a critical re-examination of the CCP's radical politics. It shows how the lives of innocent, honest and hard-working people are destroyed by the political campaigns of Mao Zedong, especially the Cultural Revolution. Politics, local power-struggles, love and humiliation go hand in hand, as Hibiscus Town follows the lives of local 'beauty queen' Hu Yuyin, civil servant Li Guoxiang and activist Qin Shutian. The film has won numerous awards. Presented in 35mm, with subtitles.
For additional information or directions to USC call (213) 740-2993 (M-F 10:00-5:00).
Sponsored by University of Southern California East Asian Studies Center, in cooperation with USC School of Cinema-Television and the Asia Society Southern California Center.
March 30-31, 2002
2002 Convention of Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California (CESASC)
Los Angeles International Airport Hilton Hotel
5711 West Century Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90045
866-608-9330In past years, CESASC has hosted its annual international convention and invited Nobel Laureates, Oscar winners, political and business leaders to attend. The theme of this year's convention is: Asia + America Adventure. This year's two day conference includes three sessions which will cover the following general subjects:
1) higher education & science
2) the WTO and global economy
3) the creativity in two cultures, the East and West
4) Transportation
5) IT and Communications
6) Semiconductor Industry
Program Schedule:Topic 1: The Misunderstanding and Misperception of "the Other" among Americans and Chinese
Speaker: Richard Baum,
Professor of Political Science and Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese StudiesTopic 2: Managed Globalization: State Power and Cultural Transition in China
Speaker: Yunxiang Yan
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLATopic 3: Exploring the Laws of Nature from an Integrated Eastern-Western Point of View
Speakers: Zhen-Su She
Professor of Mathematics, UCLA
and Zhou Peiyuan
Professor of Mechanics and Director, State Key Lab for Turbulence and Complex System, Peking UniversityTopic 4: The New Progress of YBJ Cosmic Ray Observatory
Speaker: Yu Guangce
Professor of Physics Department, Southwest Jiao-Tung UniversityTopic 5: The Sensuality of Chinese Female vs. the Western Female
Speaker: Hsiu-Ping Wang
MA in dance, UCLA, 2001
Founder, art director and choreographer of The Dance Company of Chi-Ping.Topic 6: Chinese Cultural Relics Looking Forward to Scientific Technique
Speaker: Paul (Chun Zhong) Xu
Professor, University of California, Los Angeles; Consultant, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Orange CountyTopic 7: China's Trade Policy and the Implications of WTO
Speaker: Yi Feng
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Politics and Policy, Claremont Graduate UniversityDiscussants:
1) Dr. Richard Baum, UCLA
2) Dr. Barbara Pillsbury, Ph.D., Columbia University, Independent Consultant
3) Dr. Perry Wong, Economist & Research Associate, Milken Institute
The event has been covered by major media in LA. Relevant information is available at http://www.convention.cesasc.org.
There are three types of tickets: one for the Grand Dinner Banquet and the other two for two luncheons. In both the dinner banquet and luncheons, there will be keynote addresses delivered by distinguished speakers. In particular, at the Grand Dinner Banquet on 30 March, a poetic musical will be presented, starring the well-known actress Lisa Lu.
Admission: $15 / person; Lunch banquet: $25 /person; dinner banquet: $65/ person. Admission to all the sessions are free to students. For ticket information, please contact:
Mr. Hongbo Wang
Tel: (310) 876-0606
Email: giddenswang@yahoo.com
Where to send announcements:
Please send announcements of East Asia-related events, performances, and exhibitions to
Clayton
Dube
UCLA Center for East Asian Studies
11266 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, California 90095-1487
email: <cdube@isop.ucla.edu>
fax: (310) 206-3555
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