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May 2001
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Through May 13, 2001
"Rice Boy"
by Sunil Kuruvilla, Directed by Chay Yew
Taper, too performance at:
The Actors' Gang
6209 Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood at El Centro Ave., one block east of Vine St. Valet Parking available.Single Tickets: $20
Students: $15
For tickets and more information, call (213) 628-2772, or visit http://www.TaperAhmanson.com.
Starts May 25, 2001
"Himalaya"
Directed by Eric Valli
Cecchi Gori Fine Arts Theater
8556 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills
(310) 652-1330
Lectures, conferences, and performances
May 1, 2001
Korean Women Writers' Workshop
Ms. Kyong-suk Shin, Novelist
Ms. Hye-sun Kim, Poet2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for more information.
May 2, 2001
A Conversation with Bei Ling: A talk and reading by the poet Bei Ling
12 noon
243 Royce Hall, UCLAA U.S. resident since 1989, Bei Ling is the founder and editor of the Chinese-language journal Tendency, the first literary journal to feature writing by both Chinese writers in exile and those living and working inside China. He was jailed in the summer of 2000 during a trip home to China to distribute and promote the latest issue of the magazine. Claiming that Tendency had political problems, authorities seized 2,000 copies of the journal and appeared determined to prosecute Bei Ling for illegal and unlicensed publications. Protests led by prominent PEN members including Nadine Gordimer, Susan Sontag, Arthur Miller, and Gunter Grass helped bring Bei Ling's fate to the attention of the world, and the Chinese authorities released him and put him on an airplane to the U.S. two weeks later. In October 2000, Bei Ling received the PEN Center USA West Freedom to Write Award.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the UCLA Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
May 2, 2001
"Sects in the City: the Li Teaching in 1930s Tianjin and Cangxian"
Thomas DuBois
Doctoral Candidate History, UCLA12:00-1:30 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room), UCLAPopular teachings and sects have had an enormous influence on religious life in China. These teachings were accepted into society, but were themselves altered in the process, forcing one to ask how coherent these "schools" really were. This paper addresses this question by examining one influential sect, the Li Teaching (Zailijiao) in its urban center of Tianjin, the nearby town of Duliu and the villages of Cangxian, one hundred kilometers distant. In each of the three locations, the sect was marked by characteristic organization, rituals and proscriptions. However, as one looks beyond Tianjin, these characteristic markers masked a very different reality.
The colloquia are free and the public is always welcome.
Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA.
May 2, 2001
Physical Geography and Political Fragmentation in the Mekong River Valley
Robert Acker
Department of Geography12 noon
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
May 2, 2001
"History and Its Discontents"
Mary Hancock
Anthrpopology, UC-Santa Barbara2 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLAThis paper deals with a recent effort, conducted jointly by corporate and voluntary bodies, to create a themed cultural environment in Chennai (formerly Madras), the capital city of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. This project, not yet completed, fuses craft center with architectural reconstruction, and is the work of upper-caste, globally connected elites. The site, Dakshinachitra, envisions southern Indian culture and history in ways that that are tied to consumerism and to elite perceptions of regional and national heritage. This effort departs from and poses a critique of the versions of culture, history and identity that have been inscribed by the state in urban public space during the latter half of the twentieth century the statues, monuments and memorials that celebrate Tamil nationalism. The latter, which originated in the late nineteenth century and served as a platform for anti-colonial and subaltern social movements, continues to be promulgated by parties who have controlled, at different times, Tamil Nadu's government since 1967: the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and its rival offshoot, the All-India Annadurai Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIA-DMK).
The competing discourses on heritage posed by these different projects are indicative of political economic and cultural transformations associated with liberalization that are now reconfiguring the relations between state and society in southern India. The constructions of locality and history that became visible during the anti-colonial struggle of the first half of the twentieth century are being challenged by alternate formulations as heritage becomes a marketable good and consumption becomes a vehicle of political participation. With this case I consider the ways that themed urban environments serve not only as indices of the changing political economy, in this instance from India's modified state socialism to a system dominated by free market capitalism, but also as markers of changes in the cultural mediation of political subjectivity.
This presentation is part of the Southern California Colloquium on South Asian History and Cultural Studies. Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies. All are invited. Contact Vinay Lal for additional information: vlal@sscnet.ucla.edu.
May 7, 2001
"Lexical Strata in Early Japanese"
Jim Unger
Linguistics, Ohio State University3 p.m.
Hacienda Room, Faculty Center, UCLASuggested readings:
1) "Reconciling Comparative and Internal Reconstruction: The Case of Old Japanese /ti, ri, ni/." Language 76:3.655-681 (2000).
2) "Layers of Words and Volcanic Ash in Japan and Korea." Journal of Japanese Studies 27:1.81-111, (2001).Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies. If you have difficulty locating these articles, CJS has a few copies. Please contact the office at 310-825-8681.
May 7, 2001
"Lust and Violence in the Red Chamber Dream"
Halvor Eifring, University of Oslo
4 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
May 8, 2001
"Japan's View of the Bush Administration"
Glen S. Fukushima, President, Cadence Design Systems, Japan
12 - 1:30 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall (History Department Conference Room), UCLAGlen Fukushima has been a respected commentator on Japan for many years. He was the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, the U.S. Trade Representative's point person on Japan and China, and has been a lawyer and entrepreneur in Japan. In this talk, he will discuss the current state of U.S. - Japan relations. Mr. Fukushima's talk is co-sponsored by the Southern California Japan Seminar and the Japan America Society of Southern California. The Seminar is a project of the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center. For additional information please call (213) 740-2993.
May 9, 2001
"Genealogies of the Intimate and Imperial Rule: Caveats on the Colonial"
Anne Stoler, History, University of Michigan
12 noon
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
May 10, 2001
"Island of Lost Empires"
Marc Jason Gilbert
North Georgia College and State University12 Noon
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLAMarc Jason Gilbert, University System of Georgia Regents Distinguished Professor of Teaching and a UCLA alumnus, will present a talk entitled ?sland of Lost Empires.?This presentation will offer new paradigms for understanding the place of Southeast Asia in the modern world by examining and giving life to the little known, but dramatic events that transpired over a period of almost three hundred years on a small island in the South China Sea called Con Son. These events altered the course of the British Empire in India and China, heralded the end of the last indigenous dynasty in Vietnam, marked the beginning and end of the French Empire in Indochina, and may have played a pivotal role in the outcome of the American War in Vietnam.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Call (310) 206-9163 for more information.
May 10, 2001
"Trance and the Tibetan State Oracle"
Ter Ellingson,
Ethnomusicology, Comparative Religion, and South Asia Studies, University of Washington5-6 p.m.
1420 Schoenberg Music Building.Free to the public. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.
May 11, 2001
"Christianity and Stratification in Korea"
Byong-suh Kim, Ewha Womans University and UCLA
3 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
243 Royce Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies. Please call (310) 825-3284 for more information.
May 11-12, 2001
"Viet Nam: Beyond the Frontiers" Conference
May 11, 2001- 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
May 12, 2001- 8:30 a.m. -4:30 p.m.
Humanities Conference Room, Royce Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Comparative & Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, History Department, Asia Society & Cathay Pacific. For details, please see the "Viet Nam: Beyond the Frontiers" Conference announcement.
May 12, 2001
8th Annual UCLA Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies: Technology, Transformation, and Japan
8:30-5 p.m.
Covel Commons, UCLAMaki Fukuoka, University of Chicago
Kelly Hansen, University of Hawaii
Miri Nakamura, Stanford
Alexander Bay, Stanford
Hiromi Mizuno, UCLACommentators:
Christopher Bolton, UC Riverside
James Bartholomew, Ohio State University
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies.
May 12, 2001
Tibetan Monks to Sing and Dance
2-5 p.m.
Wright Family Home
24680 Piuma Road, MalibuEight monks from Drepung Gomang monastery will perform traditional songs, dances, a debate and offer personal blessings. They are touring the United States to raise money for their monastic university in India. A larger prayer hall, medical care, food and money to seed projects leading to self sufficiency are needed to help support the many new arrivals fleeing Tibet.
Suggested donation is $20. For a donation of $150 or more, a limited number of seats are available for a private lunch with the monks and the Wrights. Please RSVP and ask for a map or directions. 818 368-7131 or 818 591-8992.
"China-Taiwan Cross Strait Relations Conference"
8 a.m. - 3p.m.
Los Angeles Marriott DowntownThe Taiwan Strait has long been seen as a crucial locus for regional stability. As the turn of 2001, there are new challenges to the security of the region. The recent incidents, such as China's standoff and President Bush's imminent decisions about arms sales to Taiwan, has multiplied the complexity of the regional security.
The Asia Society Southern California Center will present speakers on the following topics:
* How would the new U.S. President handle China-Taiwan cross-strait relations?
* How might the China-Taiwan disputes affect US-China relations?
* What challenge face the Chen Shui-bian administration in the Taiwan Strait issues?
* Can the dialogue between Beijing and Taipei be re-established to resolve long term disputes?
* What are the implications of the missile deployment for the regional stability?
* What are the effects of China's accession to WTO on China-Taiwan cross strait relations?
Keynote Speakers David Keegan Taiwan Coordinator/Advisor, East Asian Pacific/Region Security Policy/Taiwan Coordination Department of State
Lin Chong-pin Vice Chairperson, Mainland Affairs Council, TaiwanPanelists Richard Baum Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Joseph Bosco School of Foreign Relations, Georgetown University
Peter Brookes
Frank Ching Far Eastern Economic Review
Norman Fu Bureau Chief, China Times
Frank Gibney President, Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College
Thomas Gold Sociology, UC Berkeley
Kau Yin-mao National Taiwan Security Council
Ronald Montaperto Dean, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies
Ramon Myers Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute
Jonathan Pollack Asian and Pacific Studies, Naval War College
Robert Scalapino Government, UC Berkeley
Charles Wolf Jr. Senior Fellow, RANDModerators Gary Larsen Vice President-Pacific Coast, Asia Society
Daniel Lynch International Relations, USC
Tom Plate Director, Asian Pacific Media Network
James Tong Director, UCLA Center for East Asian StudiesTo RSVP, contact the Asia Society's Jeffrey Inada at jeffreyi@asiasoc.org or (213) 624-0945 Ext. 14. Seating is limited. The cost is $25 for Asia Society members, $30 for non-members, and $15 for students. Continental breakfast and lunch are included.
May 16, 2001
"Imaging History: The Komiks in the Philippines"
Professor Soledad Reyes, Ateneo de Manila University
12:00 noon
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Call (310) 206-9163 for more information.
May 16, 2001
"What's New in Technology Development in Hong Kong?"
Annie Tang
Director, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisconoon
Omni Los Angeles Hotel
251 South Olive Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Tel: (213) 617-3300Over the past few years, Hong Kong has embarked on a host of initiatives to promote the development of its high technology industries and services. The Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), Cyberport and Hong Kong Science Park are the flagship projects to position Hong Kong as the technology hub in Asia. Ms Annie Tang will discuss the latest developments on the technology front in Hong Kong and the opportunities for cooperation between Hong Kong and the West Coast of the United States.
Ms. Annie Tang joined the Hong Kong Government as an Administrative Officer in 1982. She has worked in a number of trade and commerce related posts. Between 1993-1994, she was the Assistant Director-General of Trade. She spent three years in Geneva as Hong Kong's Deputy Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization from 1994-1997. After returning to Hong Kong, she became the Deputy Director-General of Industry. Before she joined the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in San Francisco, she was Deputy Secretary for Trade and Industry. Ms Tang graduated from the University of Hong Kong and held a Master of Business Administration Degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
This luncheon is sponsored by the Hong Kong Association of Southern California, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (San Francisco), the Asian Business League, the Asia Society Southern California Center, the UCLA Center for East Asian Studies, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Foreign Trade Association of Southern California.
The luncheon fee is $30 per person and reservations are required. Call (213) 622-3194 ext. 201 or 206 for more information.
May 17, 2001
Music of India and Java
Abhiman Kaushal and Shujaat Husain Khan, Directors, Music of India
I Nyoman Wenten, Director, Music of Java7:30 p.m.
1100 Schoenberg Hall, UCLAThe Music of India Ensemble performs short compositions of North Indian classical, semi-classical ragas and talas (rhythmic patterns on tabla). The ensemble is comprised of the students of Shujaat Husain Khan on vocals and sitar (a long-necked lute with seven principal strings, plus 12-20 sympathetic strings) and the students of Abhiman Kaushal on tabla (drums).
The Java Ensemble performs on the most famous gamelan in the United States, “Sir Venerable Dark Cloud.” The gamelan includes a variety of instruments with bronze keyes, tuned gongs and bamboo resonators, creating a calm atmosphere perfect for the graceful dances it accompanies.
Free to the public. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.
May 19, 2001
Asian Pacific Heritage Night
7:30 p.m.
Campus Theatre, California State University at NorthridgeA variety show featuring traditional Asian-Pacific performing arts by professionals and semi-professionals from the Greater Los Angeles Asian-Pacific community.
Donations: $10.00
For tickets and information, please call Amy Tang at (818) 363-2788 or Robert Yang at (818) 891-6424.
Presented by the Asian Business Association, China institute, Cal State University at Northridge, and the San Fernando Valley Chinese Cultural Association.
May 19, 2001
"A Slice of Rice"
7:30 p.m.
Concert Hall, Santa Monica College
1900 Pico Boulevard,
Santa Monica, CA 90405Great Leap, a local arts troupe, offers a blend of drama, dance, and music exploring Asian heritage. A panel discussion chaired by Santa Monica College history professor Leslie Kawaguchi will follow. The event is sponsored by SMC Associates and the SMC Social Sciences Department with the help of a grant from the California Council for the Humanities. The event is free and open to the public. For additional information, please call (310) 434-4003.
May 21, 2001
"Whither China?"
Hu Angang Chinese Studies, Qinghua University (Beijing)
Lo Dic Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies (London)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom History, Indiana University2 -5 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall (History Department Conference Room), UCLAThis colloquium is presented by the UCLA Centers for Social Theory & Comparative History, Chinese Studies, and East Asian Studies. The colloquium is free and open to the public. Parking passes are $6 and can be purchased at the kiosk at Wyton and Hilgard Avenues.
May 21, 2001
Paintings that Matter: The Visual Metamorphosis of Medieval Short Stories in Seventeenth Century Japan
Melanie Trede
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU3 p.m.
Hacienda Room, Faculty Center, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies.
May 23, 2001
"Inside or Outside: Is Demography Destiny? The Case of Filipino Immigrants in Malaysia"
Kamal S., Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, University of Chicago, Visiting Fellow, UCSD
12 noon
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Call (310) 206-9163 for more information.
May 23, 2001
"Cinema, the City, and the Cinematic"
Ackbar Abbas Comparative Literature, Hong Kong University
4 - 6 p.m.
314 Royce Hall (Humanities Conference Room), UCLAIs "the cinematic" any longer in the cinema or has it migrated to the city? Ackbar Abbas will address this question via discussion of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "In the Mood for Love." Dr. Abbas is Chair of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC), both at Hong Kong University. His book _Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance_ was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1997.
The talk is open to the public, but seating is limited. The talk is sponsored by the UCLA Multi-Campus Research Group. For further information, please go to www.humnet.ucla.edu/transnation/ or contact Corie Goodloe: cgoodloe@humnet.ucla.edu or (310) 825-9581.
May 25-26, 2001
"After the End: Hong Kong Culture After 1997"
306 Royce Hall, UCLA
What comes after "the end"? In 1997, Hong Kong was "returned" to China by its British colonizers. Many feared that 1997 would mean the "end" of Hong Kong as they knew it. People fled, businesses took refuge abroad, and cultural workers, certain that 1997 meant that "Hong Kong-ness" would become the remnant of a by-gone era, the object of nostalgia, longing, and regret, rushed to salvage a unique Hong Kong identity.
1997 came and went, and somehow "Hong Kong-ness" was not obliterated overnight. At the other side of the "end," life goes on.
Beginning with the question of what comes after the end, this conference is aimed at exploring dimensions of Hong Kong culture after 1997. Papers to be presented at the conference not only explore developments of post-1997 Hong Kong culture in its many manifestations (cinema, popular music, literature, cultural criticism, tourism, etc.), but also consider what is at stake in using 1997 as the turning point of Hong Kong culture. Leading scholars from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States, as well as the acclaimed film director, Fruit Chan, whose "Hong Kong Trilogy" has been widely received as one of the most authoritative renderings of post-1997 Hong Kong, will gather together at UCLA for three days of presentations, film showings, exchanges, and dialogues.
Friday, May 25, 2001
9:00 Conference registration 9:30 Introductory Remarks Shu-mei Shih Director, Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, UCLA
10:00-12:00 Theoretical Considerations after the End Moderator/discussant: Nick Browne (UCLA)
Allen Chun (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) "Hong Kong 'Identity' after the End of History" Ackbar Abbas (Hong Kong University) "After 1997; or 'What do we do now, now that we're happy?'"
12:00-1pm Lunch Break
1 pm-2:50 pm Transnational and Subnational Forms of Culture Discussant/moderator: Esha De (UCLA)
Kwai-Cheung Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University) "Transnational Objects of Fantasy in Post-1997 Hong Kong" Eric Ma (Chinese University of Hong Kong) "The Underground Empire of Subcultural Signs"
2:50-3:10 Coffee Break
3:10-5:00 Conditions of Decolonization Moderator/discussant: Cindy Fan (UCLA)
Angelina Yee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) "Decolonizing Academics: Research Culture and Academic Freedom in Postcolonial Hong Kong" Laikwan Pang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) "Imagining a City: The Changing Discourse of Tourism in Post-1997 Hong Kong"
Saturday, May 26
9:30am to 12:00 pm Queering and Permutating Hong Kong Moderator/.discussant: TBA
Mirana May Szeto (UCLA) "Permutating Hong Kong Subjectivities: Postmodernity as Coloniality" Helen Leung (University of British Columbia) "A Time to Dance: Stanley Kwan's Queer Fable of 1997 Past" David Eng (Columbia University) "Queer Diasporas/Psychic Diasporas: Space and the World of Wong Kar-Wai"
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:50 pm Cinematic Interventions Moderator/discussant: Berenice Reynaud (California Institute of the Arts)
Ka-fai Yau (Stanford University) "Molding and Out-Molding/Outmoding Hong Kong: 1997 as a cinematic intervention" Esther Yau (Occidental College) "Family Exposures: Victim's Secrets"
The conference is free and open to the public. Admission to the film showings (see the schedule below) is $7 general and $5 for students, seniors, and UCLA Alumni Assocation members with I.D. The conference is sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Office of the UCLA Dean of Humanities, UCLA Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia, UCLA Asia-Pacific Institute, UCLA Center for East Asian Studies, and UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. For more information, write to CIRA director, Shu-mei Shih at shih@humnet.ucla.edu and program assistant Franz Matzner at fmatzner@isop.ucla.edu, or call (310) 825-4921.
May 26, 2001
An evening with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Tenzin Gyatso, The XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet
6 p.m.
Pauley Pavilion, UCLATicket Prices:
$100 VIP Circle (floor), reserved seating
$50 Section A (arena), reserved seating
$36 Section B (blue), reserved seating
$16 Section C (gold), general seatingProceeds to benefit the Office of Tibet.
Tickets can be ordered:
By Mail: An Evening with the Dalai Lama
P.O. Box 3451, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266By Phone: (310) 825-2101-UCLA Central Ticket Office
By Fax: (310) 796-1042
Internet: http://www.speakersla.com/related.htm
For more information, please call (310) 546-6222 or visit http://www.speakersla.com/related.htm.
To insure priority reservations, all orders must be received NO LATER than March 20, 2001. After March 20, 2001, all tickets will be open to the general public. Tickets will be mailed on May 10, 2001.
May 26-27, 2001
Hong Kong Fruit: An exhibition of Fruit Chan's Films
In any discussion of the suddenly conspicuous indie film scene in Hong Kong, Fruit Chan looms large. Like the US' own Jim Jarmusch or Steven Soderbergh, Chan and his 1997 feature MADE IN HONG KONG (shot with non-professional actors on short ends that Chan had saved from previous film jobs) blazed an autonomous trail through Hong Kong's movie industry that others have quickly followed. This set of screenings is sponsored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and UCLA's Program on Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia.
Saturday, May 26, 7:30 p.m.
Durian Durian *West Coast Premiere* (Liulian Piao Piao) (Hong Kong/France, 2000) Chan suggests the durian, the Southeast Asian "King of Fruits" renowned for its inimitable spiked shell, creamy inside pulp and supremely pungent odor, is a metaphor for Hong Kong's own insinuating charm. In person: director Fruit Chan.Sunday, May 27, 7:00 p.m.
Little Cheung *U.S. Premiere* (Xilu Xiang) (Hong Kong/Japan, 2000) Director Chan elicits effortless performances from a cast of non-professionals in an earthy, exquisitely observed slice of contemporary Hong Kong.Made in Hong Kong (Xianggang Zhizao) (Hong Kong, 1997) Fruit Chan's nervy de-glorification of the popular "young and dangerous" subgenre of Hong Kong gangster flicks succeeds as a jagged, pre-handover reflection of working-class youth who see no future.
Films screen at the James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall and admission is $5 - 7. For more information, please call 310.206.8588 or log onto http://www.cinema.ucla.edu.
Hong Kong Fruit is being held in conjunction with the cultural studies forum After the End: Hong Kong Culture After 1997, scheduled for May 25-26, 2001 at UCLA. Organized by CIRA, the conference will bring together international scholars working in the areas of Hong Kong cinema, literature and art to explore the myriad dimensions of post-1997 Hong Kong. All conference events will be held in 306 Royce Hall, UCLA. Admission is FREE. For more information, call Franz Matzner at (310) 825-4921, or log on to http://www.isop.ucla.edu/cira.
May 29, 2001
Between Romance and History: Slavery and the Past in South Asia
Indrani Chatterjee University of California, Davis
4 - 6 p.m.
6275 Bunche Hall, UCLAThe talk focuses on the silence and slippages that occurred in thinking about slavery in the past of South Asia. These slippages in turn conditioned the conceptualization of history itself in the context of South Asia. This paper attempts to locate vernacular and romantic narratives of history in which the discussion of slave-using institutions continued during the nineteenth century. It argues that this body of writing can be historicized for a new social history - both of slavery and the discipline of history under colonialism.
Indrani Chatterjee is the auther of "Gender,Slavery, and Law in Colonial India(Oxford UP,1999), and of a few articles on related themes in academic journals. She studied History in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and London Universities, and has taught at various institutions in Delhi and London. At present she is visiting lecturer in UC Davis, from where she is scheduled to join Rutgers this Fall. This talk is sponsored by the UCLA Program on Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research on Asia.
May 30, 2001
"Korea and Korean Americans"
Erica Kim
attorney11 am -12:15 pm
1609 Hersey Hall, UCLAThis presentation is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and the UCLA Center for Korean Studies.
May 30, 2001
California Population Workshop Series:
, UCLA
"Migration and Division of Labor in China"noon - 1:30 pm
4355D Public Policy Building (ISSR Conference Room), UCLAProf. Fan is affiliated with the California Center for Population Research. The Center's website has more information about the Center, its workshop series, and its online working papers.
May 30, 2001
"Rizal Reading Pigafetta: the Filipino Intellectual and Orientalism"
Resil Mojares
University of San Carlos, Philippines; presently a Visiting Professor in the UCLA Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures12 noon
11377 Bunche Hall, UCLASponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Call (310) 206-9163 for more information.
May 30, 2001
Poetry Reading and Discussion with Poet Ko Un
3-4:30 pm
243 Royce Hall, UCLAThe reading is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and will be in Korean. The reading is free and open to the public.
May 31, 2001
Milken Institute Forum:
"The Role of Japan in the Asia-Pacific Balance of Power Economics, Technology, Politics and Psychology"
Refreshments & Beverages will be served. To reserve your space, telephone the Milken events information line (310) 998-2605.Peter Berton
International Relations, University of Southern California.4:30 pm
Milken Institute
1250 Fourth Street, Santa Monica, California 90401 (Fourth Street at Arizona)
(Two-hour free parking available in Public Lots #1 and #3 on 4th Street)
This talk will cover the strategic relationships in the Asia-Pacific region during the Cold War and the rise of Japan from the ashes of defeat in the Pacific war, with special emphasis on the first post-Cold War decade. Berton will address the impact of nuclear proliferation in South Asia, the escalation of tension in the Taiwan straits, and the potential development of nuclear weapons and delivery systems by North Korea, on Japan. He will also explain the characteristics of Japan's foreign policy as forged by politics, economics, technology, and psychology. Other issues posed are whether we expect a revision of Japan's peace constitution and a new assertive Japanese nationalism; should Japan become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (with or without veto power); and what role Japan might play in the evolving security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century?
Peter Berton is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He was Coordinator for the Asia/Pacific Regional Studies Program for 30 years. He also taught at Stanford and UCLA, as well as in Japan, England, and Germany. He held research positions at Harvard, Columbia and Tokyo universities, and the Kyoto Research Center. He is the author of over 100 publications on Asian and Soviet/Russian affairs, including International Negotiation; The Japanese-Russian Territorial Dilemma, "The Psychology of Japan's Foreign Relations," and "New Stability and Security in the Asia-Pacific Region."
Admission is free.
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