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Results For 2010

Language in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Azerbaijan: Policies and Processes

A public lecture by William Fierman (Indiana University at Bloomington, Central Eurasian Studies)
Thursday, January 07, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Morometii

A screening of the Romanian Film "Morometii" followed by Q&A with Professor Gail Kligman (UCLA Sociology, CEES Director)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
6:30 PM

From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe Since 1973

A book talk with author Ivan Berend (UCLA, History)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Reverse

A screening and discussion of Poland's Oscar Submission in the Best Foreign Language Film Category.
Friday, January 15, 2010
7:00 PM

Memory, Democracy, and Moral Justice: Romania Confronts Its Communist Past

A public lecture by Vladimir Tismaneanu (University of Maryland, Government and Politics)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Conservative Nationalists and Right Radicals: Two Rival Trends of Hungarian Politics

A public lecture by Istvan Deak (Columbia University, History)
Thursday, January 28, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in Postcommunist Eastern Europe

A public lecture by Radu Ioanid (Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies)
Thursday, February 04, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Legacy of Laxness: An Anthropological View

A lecture by Gisli Palsson, University of Iceland
Thursday, February 04, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Journalists Under Fire: An Independent Reporter's View from Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan

A public lecture by Anne Nivat, Award-Winning Paris-Based Freelance War Reporter and Writer
Thursday, February 11, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Letter to Anna: The Story of Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's Death

A documentary film screening and discussion
Saturday, February 13, 2010
7:30 PM

History, Memory, and Human Rights: The Politics of Reconciliation and Retribution

A public lecture by Adam Michnik (Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, UCLA Regents Lecturer)
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
4:00 PM

Creating Citizens' Democracy in Post-Communist Countries

A public lecture by Adam Michnik (Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, UCLA Regents Lecturer)
Thursday, February 18, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Future of Opposition to Tyranny

A public lecture by Adam Michnik (Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, UCLA Regents Lecturer)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
6:00 PM

1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe

A book talk with author Mary Elise Sarotte (University of Southern California, School of International Relations) and discussant Norman Naimark (Stanford University, History)
Thursday, February 25, 2010
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Music and Dance of Bulgaria

A concert by the UCLA Balkan Music Ensemble
Friday, March 05, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Jews of Italy's Response to Challenge: Past, Present and Future

A public lecture by Sergio DellaPergola (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
4:00 PM

2010 Russian Poetry and Music Night

a UCLA Russian Program annual tradition
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia

A book talk with author Vladislav Zubok (Temple University, History) and discussant Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley, Anthropology)
Thursday, March 11, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Armenian Communities of Asia Minor

Conference
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM

The Tjibaou Center: Post-/Neo-Colonialism in New Caledonia and Paris

a lecture by James Clifford, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology
Thursday, April 08, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

California Eurasian Studies Kurultai

A Graduate Conference
Saturday, April 10, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Smyrna/Izmir, 1914-1916: A Special Case during the Armenian Genocide

A public lecture by Matthias Bjornlund, Archival Historian, Copenhagen. Part of a series commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
2:00 PM

Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early 20th Century

A book talk with author Elisa Camiscioli (Binghamton University, History) and discussant Stephanie Limoncelli (Loyola Marymount University, Sociology)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Confiscation and Colonization: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property

A public lecture by Ugur Umit Ungor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin. Part of a series commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
2:00 PM

Symposium Commemorating the 95th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

1915-2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Contemporary Chinese Migration to Central Asia: Trends, Challenges, and Responses (Case-study of Kazakhstan)

Elena Sadovskaya, Fulbright Visiting Scholar Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM), Georgetown University
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

"Balcerowicz: All or Nothing"

A screening of the documentary film "Balcerowicz: All or Nothing," followed by Q&A with the producers.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

CANCELLED - A Mestizo Planet: The Other Face of the Musee du Quai Branly

a lecture by Serge Gruzinski, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, History
Thursday, April 22, 2010
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Building States and Markets: Enterprise Development in Central Asia

a book talk with author Gul Ozcan (Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance and International Business, School of Management of Royal Holloway College, University of London)
Thursday, April 29, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

South-East European Film Festival Business Conference 2010

Why not be as creative about bringing your vision to the screen (and to audiences) as you are in creating the vision itself?
Monday, May 03, 2010
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Constitutional Crises in Turkey

A public lecture by Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law
Thursday, May 06, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Ethnography for the Masses: The Musee de l'Homme and the 'Modern' Museum in 1930s Europe

A lecture by Alice Conklin, Ohio State University, History
Thursday, May 06, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The EU and the Fight Against Corruption in Romania and Bulgaria

A public lecture by Mitchell Orenstein, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, European Studies
Thursday, May 13, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

'Us' and 'Them': Colonial Legacies and Shifting Identities in Paris' New Museums

a lecture by Benoit de l'Estoile, Ecole Normale Superieure, Anthropology
Thursday, May 20, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The Minsk Ghetto during World War II: Resistance and Inter-Ethnic Solidarity

A panel discussion with Barbara Epstein (UC Santa Cruz, History) and Maurice Zeitlin (UCLA, Sociology)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
7:30 PM

Moving West: French Primitivism from the Porte Doree to the Musee du Quai Branly

a lecture by Daniel Sherman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Art History
Thursday, May 27, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia, and China Compared

A public lecture by Ivan Szelenyi, Yale University, Sociology
Thursday, June 03, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Electoral Competition and Violence in Italy: The Challenge of Organized Crime (1983-2003)

A public lecture by Salvatore Sberna, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence
Thursday, June 10, 2010
12:00 PM

Film screening: "Street Days"

Presented as part of the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
7:15 PM

Law Enforcement Responses to Human Trafficking in the Netherlands and the United States

An exchange and round-table discussion with representatives of law enforcement, academic, and community anti-trafficking organizations.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Sauerkraut Cowboys: Sturm, Twang, and the Imaginary Wild West in Europe

A public lecture by Ruth Ellen Gruber, award-winning writer, photographer, editor and independent scholar
Thursday, September 30, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

UCLA Study Abroad Fair

The UCLA International Education Office is pleased to be hosting UCLA's 24th annual study abroad fair on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 in Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

One Germany, Twenty Years Later

A documentary film screening and discussion with filmmakers Gabriele and Mark Hayes
Thursday, October 07, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

UCLA International Institute Open House

In association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars and the International Education Office
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Rebuilding Berlin: Urban Design and Planning after the Fall of the Wall

A public lecture by Deike Peters, Technical University Berlin, Center for Metropolitan Studies
Thursday, October 14, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Institutions, Shocks and Economic Growth

A public lecture by Professor Leszek Balcerowicz, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland
Friday, October 15, 2010
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Drafting a United Germany

A public lecture by Horst Teltschik, Former National Security Adviser to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
4:00 PM

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift (1984)

Film screening in advance of the 'Jews and Judaism in the Work and Biography of Franz Werfel' international conference.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
5:30 PM

Subversions of Hi/story and Desire for Memory

15th Annual Graduate Student Conference in French and Francophone Studies - October 21-22
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Solidarity 30 Years Later: Women's Roles in the Movement

A roundtable discussion with filmmaker Jolanta Chojecka, journalist Jane Dobija, and scholars Ewa Kondratowicz and Shana Penn
Thursday, October 21, 2010
6:00 PM

Jews and Judaism in the Work and Biography of Franz Werfel/ Juden und Judentum in Werk und Biographie von Franz Werfel (Day One)

An international and interdisciplinary conference in German and English.
Friday, October 22, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Jews and Judaism in the Work and Biography of Franz Werfel/ Juden und Judentum in Werk und Biographie von Franz Werfel (Day Two)

An international and interdisciplinary conference in German and English.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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