Lectures, conferences, and performances
February 1, 2001
Part of Tibetan Dawn: Luminous Early Narratives of Enlightenment by
Ann C. Klein, "Spontaneity Trumps Effort: A Tale of Confidence in
Practice"
Ann C. Klein
11:00 a.m.
Rose Hills Theater, Smith Campus Center, Pomona College
For more information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
February 1, 2001
"The Spirit of Chinese Dance"
Yao Zhuzhu, Director of Dance, Nat'l Song & Dance Ensemble of China
4:00 p.m.
UCLA Dance Building (Kaufman Hall), Theater 200
Noted dancer and researcher Yao Zhuzhu is now working on a six-part TV
series on Chinese dance. This presentation will include a talk by Yao, a
screening of a documentary film on the folk dance of China's minorities, and
a performance by Yao.
Theater 200 is located on the second floor of the Dance Building and is
accessible by staircase only. For information call 310 825-3951.
Sponsored by the UCLA Department of
World Arts & Cultures, the Department
of East Asian Languages & Cultures, the Center
for Chinese Studies, and the Center
for East Asian Studies
February 1, 2001
Part of Tibetan Dawn: Luminous Early Narratives of Enlightenment by
Ann C. Klein, "Seminar for Faculty and Students: The Challenges and
Rewards of Cross-Cultural Study"
Ann Klein
4:15 p.m.
Teaching Learning Center, Smith Campus Center, Pomona College
For more information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
February 1 & 3,
2001
"When Nights Were Dark" Performance by Eiko & Koma
8 p.m.
Japan America Theatre
Japanese-born dancers Eiko & Koma create organic, pulsing works of
stark beauty that evolve on stage like a flower in bloom. Students of
both Japanese Butoh and German Expressionists modern dance, their eloquently
poignant choreography breathes on stage like a living Haiku. Fascinated
by such universal themes as growth, decay and renewal, their latest piece,
"When Nights Were Dark" features an a Capella score and explores the
fleeting cycle of life.
Tickets: $30, $9 (for UCLA Students with valid I.D.)
For tickets, please call: (310) 825-2101
Co-presented with the Japanese American Cultural and Community
Center. Sponsored in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation and the New
England Foundation for the Arts.
February 3, 2001
"Exemplary Women in Late Imperial Texts and Contexts: The
Lien-Zhuan Tradition from Yuan to Late Qing" Day-Long Conference
Chair: Kathryn Bernhardt (UCLA)
Discussant: Lisa Ralphals (University of California, Riverside)
10 a.m. Morning Session
1:30 p.m. Afternoon Session
9383 Bunche
Hall, UCLA
10:00 am -- Morning session
Beverly Bossler (University of California, Davis) "Echoes of
the 'Songs': Exemplar Poetry in Yuan China"
Katherine Carlitz (University of Pittsburgh) "Mixed Messages in
the Zhi buzu zhai Lien-zhuan"
1:30 pm -- Afternoon session
Joan Judge (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Exemplary
Women of the Qing Dynasty: Lien in an Early Twentieth Century Popular
Pictorial"
Hu Ying (University of California, Irvine) "Modeling Lives of/for
Women: Late Qing Biographies"
Presented by the UCLA Center for
Chinese Studies in conjunction with the Southern California China
Colloquium.
February 4, 2001
UCLA Vietnamese Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival
Doors open at 6 p.m.
Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA
A Tet festival featuring dragon dance performances, musical
performances, skits, game booths, ao dai (traditional Vietnamese dress)
pageant, and much more. The event is free and open to everyone.
This event is hosted by the UCLA Vietnamese Language and Culture Club
and the UCLA Vietnamese Student Union.
February 5, 2001
"The Global Imaginary and Governmental Rehabilitation of Sex
Workers in Vietnam"
Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo
3 p.m.
243 Royce Hall,
UCLA
Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo, from California State University, Los Angeles is a
candidate for a UCLA position in Vietnam/Vietnamese American Studies. The
presentation is sponsored by the UCLA
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the UCLA
Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
February 5, 2001
The 9:30 a.m. Panel IV on "Confronting the Past IV: Memory, Money,
and the Politics of Reparations" will include a presentation on:
"How to Overcome Impunity of Wartime Sexual Violence: The Meaning
of Women's War Crimes Tribunal for Japan's Military Sexual Slavery "
by Yayori Matsui, Asahi Shimbun
4 p.m.
314 Royce Hall,
UCLA
Part of the Confronting
the Past: Memory, Identity, and Society, A Comparative and Cross-Cultural
Conference.
General Information: The conference is open to the general public at no
charge. Pre-registration is required. Please call the Center to make
reservations. The Conference will take place in the Faculty Center. Henry
Greenspan's performance will take place in the Fowler Museum's Auditorium.
For more information, e-mail Alexandra Garbarini, conference coordinator,
at agarbari@ucla.edu, or call
UCLA's Center for Jewish Studies (310) 825-5387.
February 5, 2001
Part of The Teaching and Practice of Zen Buddhism Series,
"Lecture: Master Rinzai's Zen"
Roshi Keido Fukushima, Abbot of Tofukuji
4:15 p.m.
Rose Hills Theater, Smith Campus Center, Pomona College
For more information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
"Zazen Meeting"
Roshi Keido Fukushima, Abbot of Tofukuji
7 p.m.
Hampton Room, Malott Commons, Scripps College
For more information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
February 5, 2001
"Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy"
William McKeever
Walk-through of Himalayan Gallery at 5:30 p.m.
Lecture/slide presentation at Board Room at 8 p.m.
Los Angeles
County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 857-6000 (general information)
(323) 857-0098 (TDD)
Please join William McKeever on a walk-through of Himalayan gallery
following his lecture on Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy, thought
and practice in general.
February 6, 2001
Tour or Mandala: A Journal for Universal Peace
2 p.m.
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA, 91101
one half block north of Colorado Boulevard in downtown Pasadena.
Free admission and advance registration required. Please RSVP by
Febuary 1, 2001. Advanced registration is required. For more
information please call (213) 624-0945 ext. 12, fax (213) 624-0158, or
email tiffanyc@asiasoc.org.
This program is co-sponsored with Pacific Asia Museum and Chagdud Gonpa
T'hondup Ling Center and supported by Cathay Pacific Airways.
February 6, 2001
Part of The Teaching and Practice of Zen Buddhism Series,
Demonstration of Zen Calligraphy
Roshi Keido Fukushima, Abbot of Tofukuji
4:15 p.m.
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, Pomona College
For more information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
February 7, 2001
Historical Memory in Indonesia
Dr. Mary Zurbuchen, Visiting Professor, SSEALC
12 noon
10383 Bunche
Hall, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Center
for Southeast Asian Studies Center.
February 7, 2001
Student Ensemble: Music of India Abhiman Kaushal and Shujaat Husain
Khan, Directors
7 p.m.
Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA
Department of Ethnomusicology.
February 7-11, 2001
KODO
Wednesday-Saturday at 8 p.m.
Sunday at 2 p.m.
Royce Hall,
UCLA
Translated as "heartbeat" or "children if the
drum," Kodo generates waves of intense rhythmic percussion to create
primal musical experience. Formed in 1981 by a community of people
who sought to preserve the traditional Japanese performing arts, Japan's
famous drummers from Sado Island electrify audiences with their
virtuosity, enormous strength and stamina.
Centerstage one hour prior to each performance with Paul Humphreys,
faculty, Loyola Marymount University.
Co-presented with the Japanese American Cultural and Community
Center. Sponsored, in part, by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.
February 8, 2001
"Trajectories of the Filipino/a: A Challenge to Cultural
Studies"
Epifanio San Juan, Jr. Washington State University
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Herbert Morris Seminar Room
306 Royce
Hall, UCLA Campus
(Park in Lot 5 or 2, $6.00 daily parking)
The lecture will deal with the Filipino diaspora, especially the
situation of the Filipina domestics and Overseas Contract Workers--about 7
million around the world, more than 1% of the total Filipino population.
Professor San Juan will show a short clip of a video documentary and
discuss the nature of this new global phenomenon and in the process do a
critique of orthodox globalization and postcolonial theory.
Epifanio San Juan, Jr. is Professor and Chair of Comparative American
Culture in Washington State University. He is the author of a number of
influential works, including Beyond Postcolonial Theory (State Univ of NY
Press, 1995) and Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression (NY, St Martin's
Press, 1998).
Sponsored by the Multi-Campus Research Group on Transnational and
Transcolonial Studies at UCLA and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
For more information, please contact Corie Goodloe: cgoodloe@humnet.ucla.edu
or 310.825.9581.
February 8, 2001
"Juniper and Cannabis: Ecstatic Techniques in
Pakistan"
Adam Nayyer Director of Research, National Institute of Folk and
Traditional Heritage, Pakistan
5-6 p.m.
1230 Schoenberg Music Bldg (Green Room), UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA
Department of Ethnomusicology.
February 9, 2001
Screening of "Declaration of Fools" (Lee Jang-Ho, 1983, 97
mins)
7:00 p.m.
Lucas Room 108, USC
Screening of "Deep Blue Night" (Bae Chang-Ho, 1984, 93 mins)
9:00 p.m.
Lucas Room 108, USC
"Shadows
of the Modern: Social Change and the New Korean Cinema" film festival
is presented by the USC School of Cinema-Television and Korean Studies
Institute.
February 10, 2001
Screening of "Green Fish" (Lee Chang-Dong, 1997, 111 mins)
7:00 p.m.
Norris Theater, USC
Screening of "Peppermint Candy" (Lee Chang-Dong, 2000, 130
mins)
9:00 p.m.
Norris Theater, USC
"Shadows
of the Modern: Social Change and the New Korean Cinema" film festival
is presented by the USC School of Cinema-Television and Korean Studies
Institute.
February 11, 2001
Screening of "Sopyonje" (Im Kwon-Taek, 1993, 112 mins)
7:00 p.m.
Norris Theater, USC
Screening of "Spring in My Hometown" (Lee Kwang-Mo, 1998,
113 mins)
9:00 p.m.
Norris Theater, USC
"Shadows
of the Modern: Social Change and the New Korean Cinema" film festival
is presented by the USC School of Cinema-Television and Korean Studies
Institute.
February 12, 2001
"Maritime Asia in the Making of Modern Vietnam: The Chinese
Merchant Community of Hoi An, c. 1550 - c. 1830"
Charles Wheeler
Yale University
12 noon
243 Royce
Hall, UCLA
Charles Wheeler's research interests include national identities and
the Chinese diasporic community in Vietnam. His recent conference
presentations include "Overseas Trade in Vietnamese Hoi An: the Cham
Precedent," "The Problem of Multiple Identities in a
Trans-regional World: Linji Buddhsm, Maritime Trade, and the Case of Da
Shan" and "Hoi An in the Maritime Trade of Asia: The Value of
the Long Perspective." Wheeler is a candidate for a position in the
UCLA Department of East Asian Literatures and Cultures. The Department and
the UCLA Center for East Asian
Studies are sponsoring his presentation.
February 12, 2001
"Eisai, Dogen and the Body of Buddha"
Carl Bielefeldt
Religious Studies, Stanford University
3 p.m.
Hacienda Room, UCLA
Faculty Center
Sponsored by the UCLA Center
for Japanese Studies.
February 12, 2001
Screening of "Brother" with Takeshi Kitano
8:15 p.m.
Premier Magic Johnson Theatres, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
Part of the 9th Annual Pan African Film Festival and Arts Festival (PAFF).
We also be showing on February 17, 10:45 p.m.
"Brother," which also stars Omar Epps, is the story of a
displaced yakuza gangster whose crime family is annihilated in a Tokyo
gang war. He flies to Los Angeles in search of his half brother. Stranded
in an unfamiliar culture, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a
young hustler (Epps) as they engage in a violent struggle to take over the
downtown LA drug turf.
For a schedule listing, go on line at http://www.paff.org
or call (213) 896-8221. Additional information is available from Emma
Pullen (323) 937-6911 or eepblackseeds@aol.com.
February 13, 2001
"A Comparative Analysis of Political Consciousness Among Korean
Americans and Native Koreans"
Dr. Tuk-Chu Chun, Professor of Political Science Soognshil University,
Seoul Visiting Scholar, Korea Project, USC
3:30 p.m.
Leavey Library Auditorium, USC
Reception to Follow
Professor Chun is currently president of the Korean Association of
Democratic Civic Education and chairman of the Advisory Commission for
Unification Policy, Ministry of Education, ROK. He received his Ph.D. in
Political Science from the University of Munich in 1976.
Moderators: Dr. George O. Totten and Dr. Yong Mok Kim
Panelists: Dr. Xylan Kayden (LA League of Women Voters), Dr. Sunhyuk
Kim (USC), Dr. Michael Preston (USC), Dr. Marn Cha (Fresno State
University) and Mr. Charles Kim (Korean American Coalition)
Sponsored by the Korea Project and Korean Studies Institute, University
of Southern California and the Centennial Committee on Korean Immigration.
Event is Free and Open to the Public. Parking is available on
campus for $6.00 at USC Gate#4 (Jefferson and Royal) or for $3.00 at Lot T
(Jefferson and Figueroa). For more information, please call (213)
740-2993.
February 13, 2001
"Premodern Flows in Postmodern China: Buddhism and cross-border
flows between China & Southeast Asia, Yesterday & Today"
Sara Davis Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
3:30 pm
10383 Bunche
Hall, UCLA
The Golden Triangle (on the borders of China, Laos, Thailand and
Burma), while on the frontier of four nation-states, has also been a rich
cultural center for many centuries. The ethnic migration of hill tribes,
combined with trade and cultural exchange between multiple empires, made
this an active transnational web. This presentation will focus on the
historical Buddhist network in this region, in the context of the recent
revival of Chinese ethnic minority Buddhism. We will examine some evidence
of early Buddhist transmission to southwest China, and by looking at monks
as culture bearers, will ask what new ideas are coming into China along
these old mountain roads.
Dr. Sara Davis is a postdoctoral fellow at the Council on East Asian
Studies at Yale University. She earned a dual Ph.D. at the University of
Pennsylvania in Folklore and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, and has
taught there and at Temple University. Davis did research with the Tai L
ethnic minority in southwest China, where she worked with epic oral
storytellers (zhangkhap) and issues of cultural survival.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for
Chinese Studies. A paper will be available for pick up in the first
week of February, at the CCS office (11353 Bunche Hall).
February 14, 2001
"Migrants and Dam Protestors: Development in Northeastern
Thailand"
Charles Keyes, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Washington
12 noon
10383 Bunche
Hall, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Center
for Southeast Asian Studies Center.
February 14, 2001
"Heroism Revisited for the Vietnamese and Vietamese
Americans"
Mariam Beevi
4 p.m.
243 Royce Hall,
UCLA
Mariam Beevi, from University of California, Irvine is a candidate for a
UCLA position in Vietnam/Vietnamese American Studies. The presentation is
sponsored by the UCLA
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the UCLA
Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
February 15, 2001
Screening: "One World: The Kingdom of Thailand"
11 a.m.
1601 Hershey Hall, UCLA
Visiting Prof. Charles Keyes will show the film, in his Anthropology
class. He served as a consultant for the film and appears in some
interviews. The public is invited to attend. The following is a
description of the film.
ONE WORLD: THE KINGDOM OF THAILAND 1998; 1 hour and 26 minutes Produced
by Ward TV for South Carolina ETV for distribution to PBS stations
Directed by Jonathan Ward and Paul Malkie Narrated by Charles Osgood
This film has its origins in an interest of the filmmakers in making a
film to honor King Bhumibol Adulyadej on his 50 year reign in 1996. This
film still opens with a long segment on the role and biography of the
king. It was reshaped, however, to fit the "One World" series on
countries that have undergone significant economic growth in the post
World War II period. And it was reshaped again to take account of the
economic crisis that began in Thailand in 1997.
The film contains good segments on Buddhism in Thai society, on the
development of democracy and civil society, especially since 1992, on the
changing role of women, including discussion of the dramatic drop in birth
rates in the country, on the development of consumerism, on the pollution
and traffic problems of Bangkok, on such negative consequences of
development as high rates of prostitution and the serious HIV/AIDS crisis,
and on American investment in Thailand.
February 15, 2001
"Democratic or Undemocratic?: Toward a Sociology of Islamic
Social Movements"
Robert Hefner
Boston University
12 noon
1648 Hershey Hall, UCLA
Robert Hefner is a candidate for a UCLA position in sociology. The Department
of Sociology and the UCLA
Center for Southeast Asian Studies are sponsoring his presentation.
Prof. Hefner's recent publications include Southeast Asian Pluralisms: The
Politics of Multiculturalism in Malaysia; Singapore and Indonesia; Civil
Islam: Muslims and the Democratization in Indonesia; and "The Divided
Nation: Suharto's Malukan Legacy."
February 15, 2001
"Globalization and Urbanization in Korea"
Dr. Sang Chul Choe
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
School of Policy, Planning and Development
Lewis Hall (RGL) Room 308
650 Child's Way
Lewis Hall is located at the corner of Child's Way and Pardee Way,
adjacent to the University's new main entrance at Pardee Way and
Exposition Blvd, just west of Figueroa Streets. Parking is available at
Gate #3 (Figueroa and 35th Streets)
Dr. Choe is formerly the dean of the Graduate School of Environmental
Studies at Seoul National University and has served as the first president
of the Seoul Development Institute. More recently Dr. Choe was chair of
President Kim Dae Jung's Greenbelt Reform Committee. His expertise extends
to the entire Pacific Rim, particularly Northeast Asia.
The Southern California Korean and Korean American Studies Seminar is a
project of the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center, funded by a grant
from the U.S. Department of Education. For further information, please
contact Chris Evans at (213) 740-2993.
February 16, 2001
Screening of "The Day a Pig Fell into the Well" (Hong
Sang-Su, 1997, 114 mins)
7:00 p.m.
Lucas Room 108, USC
Screening of "No.3"(Song Neung-Han, 1997, 108 mins)
9:00 p.m.
Lucas 108, USC
"Shadows
of the Modern: Social Change and the New Korean Cinema" film festival
is presented by the USC School of Cinema-Television and Korean Studies
Institute.
February 17, 2001
Screening of "Lovers in Woomukbaemi" (Jang Sun-Woo, 1990,
114 mins)
7:00 p.m.
Norris Theater, USC
Screening of "Chilsu and Mansu" (Park Kwang Su, 1998, 109
mins)
9:00 p.m.
Norris Theater, USC
"Shadows
of the Modern: Social Change and the New Korean Cinema" film festival
is presented by the USC School of Cinema-Television and Korean Studies
Institute.
February 17, 2001
Screening of "Brother" with Takeshi Kitano
10:45 p.m.
Premier Magic Johnson Theatres, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
Part of the 9th Annual Pan African Film Festival and Arts Festival (PAFF).
We also be showing on February 12, 8:15 p.m.
"Brother," which also stars Omar Epps, is the story of a
displaced yakuza gangster whose crime family is annihilated in a Tokyo
gang war. He flies to Los Angeles in search of his half brother. Stranded
in an unfamiliar culture, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a
young hustler (Epps) as they engage in a violent struggle to take over the
downtown LA drug turf.
For a schedule listing, go on line at http://www.paff.org
or call (213) 896-8221. Additional information is available from Emma
Pullen (323) 937-6911 or eepblackseeds@aol.com.
February 18, 2001
Screening of "A Single Spark" (Park Kwang Su, 1995, 96 mins)
1:00 p.m.
Norris Theater, USC
Screening of "Black Republic" (Park Kwang Su, 1990, 100 mins)
6:00 p.m.
Norris Theater
"Shadows
of the Modern: Social Change and the New Korean Cinema" film festival
is presented by the USC School of Cinema-Television and Korean Studies
Institute.
February 20, 2001
"Success Asian American Style?-A Reexamination of Asian and
American State Policies and the Repackaging of the 'Model Minority
Myth'"
Barbara Kim, Department of Sociology, Pomona College
4:15 p.m.
Hahn 108, Pomona College
For more information, please contact Samuel Yamashita at syamashita@pomona.edu.
February 21, 2001
"The Khmer Rouge: Memories of Mass Violence and Contemporary
Politics"
Dr. Lao Mong Hay, Khmer Institute for Democracy, Cambodia
12 noon
10383 Bunche
Hall, UCLA
Dr. Lao Mong Hay is a veteran of regional and international missions
and debates as a public official, NGO leader, and academic. His lecture
will focus on contemporary Cambodian politics and will be followed by open
discussion.
The paper will briefly sketch the political environment and events that
were conducive to the rise to power of the Khmer Rouge, their imposition
of their brand of communism with the abolition of the monetary and market
system, the disastrous consequences of this abolition, their ousting by
Vietnam's invasion, the motivation behind this invasion, the continuation
of communist rule under Vietnamese occupation, and the impact of continued
communist rule on Cambodian society.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center
for Southeast Asian Studies Center Distinguished Visitors Program.
February 21, 2001
"Buddhism Fragmented: Civil Religion and Civil Society in
Thailand since the 1970s"
Charles Keyes, Visiting Faculty Member from the University of Washington
2:30 p.m.
Royce 243, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
February 22, 2001
Music and Escstasy Lecture Series: Shimmer, Shudder and Swirl:
Ecstatic Play with difference in Temiar Trance
Marina Roseman Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara
3:00 p.m.
Gamelan Room, 1659 Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Dr. Roseman is Associate Professor and Research Coordinator at
Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California, and a
Research Associate on the faculty in the Department of Anthropology at
Indiana University. She has conducted research among the Temiars
of peninsular Malaysia over a twenty-year period. In this
lecture, Dr. Roseman explores how music and movement, weighted with
meaning and intent, foster ecstatic experience among Temiars in the
rainforest of peninsular Malaysia. Using three rubrics Temiars employ to
describe stages of that experience -shimmer, shudder, and swirl-she
leads us through ritual transformations in sonic, visual, kinetic,
olfactory, and proprioceptive dimensions.
February 22, 2001
Music of China Ensemble
Chi Li, Director
7 p.m.
Jan Popper Theater (1200 Schoenberg Music Building), UCLA
Admission is free. This event is sponsored by the UCLA
Department of Ethnomusicology. Call (310) 206-3033 for additional
information.
February 22, 2001
"Race, Class, and Identity: Cultural Understanding Through
Cinema"
Screening of Pushing Hands
7-10 p.m.
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA
one half block north of Colorado Boulevard in downtown Pasadena.
A film and discussion series that will include eight feature length films
and videos that represent, engage, and challenge the multicultural identities
of Southern California communities. Other film screenings and discussion
will take place on March
3, March
4, March
10, March
17, March
22, March
31, and April 7.
Admission is free. Co-sponsored by the Asia Society. For
more information please contact (213) 624-0945 or email aslastaff@asiasoc.org
February 26, 2001
"China after Jiang Zemin: Prospects for Accelerated
Political and Economic Reform"
Richard Baum, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Willy Wo-lap Lam, CNN-Hong Kong
James Tong, UCLA Center for East Asian Studies
Tom Plate, Asian Pacific Media Network.
12 noon
Faculty Center, UCLA
A panel of experts discuss various facets of opportunities and
challenges post Jian Zemin in response to China's political and economic
reform.
Free admission with lunch included. Advanced registration is
required. Sponsored by the Asia Society. For more information
please call (213) 624-0945 ext. 12, fax (213) 624-0158, or email tiffanyc@asiasoc.org.
February 26, 2001
"The Imperial Throne as a Colonial Fetish"
Professor Lydia H. Liu (Department of Comparative Literature, UC
Berkeley)
12:00p.m.-1:30p.m.
Royce
243, UCLA (Refreshments Served)
Professor Lydia H. Liu's talk is taken from a chapter of her book
manuscript "Desire and Sovereign Thinking." It is about the
fetishizing of the emperor's throne and the importance of this fetish to
the formation of modern subjectivity. By analyzing photographs, film, and
museum displays of imperial throne chairs in London and in Beijing, she
explores the state of the imperial unconscious and, in particular, the
ritual of self making and imperial nostalgia that surround the throne
chairs of dead emperors. She argues that visual and verbal incantations
are powerful forms of colonial memory that call for repeated performance
of imperial conjurations. This process is as vital to the colonial mirror
image of the imperial self as it is to the conjuring of the real with
respect to what Benedict Anderson terms imagined communities.
Sponsored by UCLA
Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research On Asia.
February 26, 2001
"The Making of Modern Buddhism"
Donald Lopez University of Michigan
3:00 p.m.
Royce
243, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.
February 27, 2001
"The Future of Press Freedom in Hong Kong"
Willy Wo-lap Lam, CNN-Hong Kong
Frankie Leung, USC School of Law
David Lang, Lang and Murakawa
12 noon
Fritz B. Burns Academic Center, Loyola Law School
A panel of experts examine freedom of speech, self censorship, and human
rights in Hong Kong. Member $10; Non-member $15. Advanced
registration is required. Sponsored by the Asia Society. For more
information please call (213) 624-0945 ext. 12, fax (213) 624-0158, or email tiffanyc@asiasoc.org.
February 27, 2001
"Media Globalization: The News Media in the Asia
Pacific"
Thomas Plate, Director, Asia Pacific Media Network
12 noon to 1:30 p.m.
Room 2355 Public Policy Building (2nd Floor, Policy Building)
Light luncheons and refreshments will be served.
Tom Plate, the internationally syndicated columnist, writes about
America's relationship with the Pacific Rim and travels frequently to
Asia. Mr. Plate's columns appear in world newspapers, in both Asia and the
United States, especially in The Honolulu Advertiser, The South China
Morning Post of Hong Kong, and The Straits Times of Singapore. His column
is also syndicated widely, including to such leading newspapers as The
Japan Times, The Korea Times (USA and South Korea) and The Seattle Times.
In his second full-time job, Prof. Plate has a joint appointment in the
School of Public Policy and College of Letters and Science at the
University of California, at Los Angeles, where he began teaching in 1994.
He also is the founder of the Non-profit Asia Pacific Media Network,
headquartered at UCLA. A graduate of Amherst College and Princeton's
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, with a master's
degree in U.S. foreign policy, Adjunct Professor Plate is the author of
five books and has been an editor or writer at Time, Newsday, New York
Magazine and CBS. From 1989-1995 he was Editor of the Editorial Pages of
the Los Angeles Times.
This lecture is cosponsored by the Center for Globalization and Policy
Research, UCLA School of Public
Policy and Social Research, and the Asia Pacific Media Network.
February 27, 2001
Student Ensemble: Music of China
Chi Li, Director
7 p.m.
Jan Popper Theater, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA
Department of Ethnomusicology.
February 28, 2001
"Artista and Pulitika in the Philippines: The Joseph
Phenomenon"
Dr. Eva-Lotta Hedman, SOAS, University of London
12 noon
10383 Bunche
Hall, UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Center
for Southeast Asian Studies Center.
February 28, 2001
"Religious Functions of the House Among Ethnic Groups in
Indonesia"
Gaudenz Domenig
Visiting Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
12:00-1:30 p.m
6275 Bunche
Hall (History Conference Room), UCLA
Sponsored by the Center
for the Study of Religion at UCLA.
February 28, 2001
"Patterns of the Strange in The Guideways through Mountains and
Seas (Shanhaijing)"
Richard E. Strassberg
East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
12:10-1p.m.
HMNSS 2412, University of California, Riverside
Sponsored by the UC
Riverside Department of Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages,
Twenty-Fifth Season of the Winter Colloquium (2001). For more information
call Faith Tilley at (909)787-5007.
February 28, 2001
"Beyond and Before the Boat People: Vietnamese American History
Before 1975"
Vu Hong Pham
4 p.m.
243 Royce Hall,
UCLA
Vu Hong Pham, from Cornell University is a candidate for a UCLA position in
Vietnam/Vietnamese American Studies. The presentation is sponsored by the UCLA
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the UCLA
Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
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
UCLA Center for East Asian Studies 