Southern California East Asian

    Calendar of Events and Exhibitions

  October  1998  

Please send announcements of appropriate events to
        Clayton Dube
        USC-UCLA Joint East Asian Studies Center
        11266 Bunche Hall, UCLA
        Los Angeles, California  90095-1487

        email: <cdube@isop.ucla.edu>
        fax: (310) 206-3555
 
Please note: Underlined names or phrases indicate links to that organization's website. You may click on such links to visit that site for more information about the event or exhibition. Use your browser's back button to return to the USC-UCLA Joint Center website. Click here to get directions to UCLA. Most UCLA lectures are free and open to the public (on-campus parking costs $5).
 

Ongoing

"From the Rainbow's Varied Hue:  Textiles of the Southern Philippines"

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
(Located just west of Royce Hall. Take Sunset Boulevard to Westwood Plaza
and get a parking permit - $5 - for lot 4 or 5.)
(310) 825-4361
 

        Ongoing to November 1

"Basketry of the Luzon Cordillera, Philippines"

            UCLA Fowler Museum -- free admission
 

This exhibition of 50 detailed and finely crafted baskets from the mountains of the Philippines largest island.

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
(Located just west of Royce Hall. Take Sunset Boulevard to Westwood Plaza and get a parking permit - $5 - for lot 4 or 5.) (310) 825-4361  

October 1, 4:15 pm

"The Impact of Reversion on the Political Economy of Hong Kong"
Tahirah Lee, Assistant Professor
University of Florida Law School

Room 108, Hahn Building
Pomona College

Sponsored by the Asian Studies and International Relations programs and the Pacific Basin Institue at Pomona College.  For information, call Eddie Young at 909-607-8035.

October 5, 3-5 pm

"Public Interest Lawyering in Japan"
Setsuo Miyazawa
Law, Kobe University

Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies (310) 825-8681
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).

October 7, 4:15 pm

"Between Diaspora and Native Place:  The Changing Relationship of Taishan County and Overseas Taishanese, 1849-1989"
Madeline Hsu, Assistant Professor
Department of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University

Pearsons 16, Pomona College

Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the History Department.  For information, call Samuel Yamashita at 909-607-2924.

October 8, 1998 4-5:45 pm

UCLA Fowler Museum Film and Lecture Series: "Evidence and Encounter"

Screening of the film "Bontoc Eulog" (1995, 60 minutes), directed by Marlon Fuentes; guest speaker Marlon Fuentes. This critically acclaimed experimental documentary about the Filipino experience at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 explores the complex convergence of race, science and politics at the turn of the century.

Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History (310) 825-8655.

The screening and talk are free as is museum admission through December.

October 10, 3-4:30 pm

11th Annual Sammy Yu-Kuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology and Art:
"Extraordinary Luxuries in Gold and Jade: The Impact of Western Asia and the Steppe Area on the Imperial Tombs of the Han Period"

Jessica Rawson
Warden of Merton College, Oxford University

Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

Sponsored by the Sammy Yu-Kuan Lee Foundation and organized by the UCLA Center for Pacific Rim Studies (310) 206-8984. The lecture is free and open to the public.
 

October 20, 3 pm

"New Findings on Kim Hong-do's Genre Paintings"

Saehyang Chung

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies (310 825-3284)
This lecture is free and open to the public (on-campus parking is $5).
 

October 22, 4-5:30 pm

UCLA Fowler Museum Film and Lecture Series: "Evidence and Encounter"

Screening of the film "A Filipino in America" (1938, 30 minutes), directed by Doroteo Ines; guest speaker professor Steffi San Buenaventura, UC Riverside. This film documents the experiences of Filipinos in the United States through an immigrant's eyes.

Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History (310) 825-8655.

The screening and talk are free as is museum admission through December.

October 24

"Media and Modernity Across the Chinese Pacific"
Conference organized by Shu-mei Shih
Comparative Literature/East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA,

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies (310) 825-8683
 

October 26, 3-5 pm

"Reconstructing the Verb Conjugations in Japanese and Korean"
John Whitman
Asian Studies, Cornell University

Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies (310) 825-8681
This event is open to the public and is free of charge (on-campus parking is $5).