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Results For 2008

Reading and Writing Ryoanji: (De)Constructing a Japanese Icon

Colloquium with Kendall Brown, Department of Art, California State University, Long Beach
Monday, January 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

US Bombing Strategy, the Destruction of Japanese Cities, and the American Way of War from the Pacific War to Iraq

Colloquium with Mark Selden, East Asia Program, Cornell University; Coordinator, the Asia Pacific Journal, Japan Focus
Monday, January 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Blood Into Ink: the Poetry of the Shishi in Nineteenth Century Japan

Colloquium with Matthew Fraleigh, Asian Languages and Literature, Brandeis University
Monday, February 04, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

The Stealth Activism of the Japanese Judiciary - How Japanese Judges Surpass American Courts as Social Engineers

Colloqium with Frank Upham, the Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, New York University School of Law
Friday, February 22, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Matsurou Sasaki

President, SAPS/Sasaki and Partners, Tokyo; Professor, Hosei University, Tokyo
Monday, March 03, 2008
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Sendai Kuji Hongi: Imitator or Facilitator

Colloquium with John Bentley, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Northern Illinois University
Monday, March 10, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West

Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Thursday, March 13, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West

Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Friday, March 14, 2008
1:00 PM - 9:00 PM

J-Wave USA: Southern California as the Gateway to Japanese Contemporary Creative Industries in the West

Three-day conference to discuss work related to the ongoing UCLA project "Made in Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Creative Industries in Art, Music, Fashion and Food."
Saturday, March 15, 2008
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Kimono: Sea of Silk

Lecture and demonstration by Nobuaki Tomita, Kimono Designer, Stylist, and Producer
Monday, March 17, 2008
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Mobilizing Geographic vs. Nationally-Organized Interests in Trade Politics: Evidence from Trade Testimony before the Japanese Diet

Colloquium with Megumi Naoi, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Monday, April 07, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Berlin and Beyond: Yamada Kosaku and the Beginnings of Western Classical Music in Japan

Colloquium with Thomas Rimer, Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations, UCLA
Monday, April 28, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Solitary Warriors of Class Warfare: Kajiwara Ikki's Manga Heroes and Their Violent Quest for Historical Agency

Colloquium with Yoshikuni Igarashi, History, Vanderbilt University
Monday, May 05, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Symposium: Kuki Shuzo and the Question of Hermeneutics

Organized by UCLA Professor Michael Marra, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Friday, May 16, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Screening of Kon Ichikawa's 'Odd Obsession'

The screening of 'Odd Obsession' (1959, 96 min) is a tribute to the passing of director Kon Ichikawa, with Director Shunji Iwai.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Tokyo Then, Tokyo Now

A colloquium funded in part by the Arts Initiative, a program of UCLA Arts & UCLA Theater Film and Television. Special thanks to the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Power, Play, and Dialogic Imagination in Late Tokugawa Japan

Colloquium with Katsuya Hirano, History, Cornell University
Monday, June 02, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Joint Seminar with Shigemi Nakagawa and Barbara Sato

Joint Seminar by Shigemi Nakagawa, Japanese Modern Literature and Comparative Literature at Ritsumeikan University, and Barbara Sato, History, Seikei University
Monday, October 06, 2008
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

UCLA International Institute Open House

in association with the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars & the Office of International Education
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Japan Translates: Words between Languages from Classics to Hyperculture

Graduate student symposium organized by Jordan Smith.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

Japan's Jazz Coffeeshops: Cultural Underground or Otaku Refuge?

Colloquium with Michael Molasky, History, University of Minnesota.
Monday, October 27, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Recent Discoveries in Japanese Archaeology

Presented by Prof. Donald McCallum, Japanese Art History
Friday, November 14, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Recent Developments in the Study of Buddhist Art

This symposium is intended to survey some of the most important recent developments in the study of Buddhist art throughout Asia.
Friday, November 21, 2008
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Out of the Glass Case: The Social Life of Urban Heritage in Kyoto

Colloquium with Christoph Brumann, anthropology, University of Cologne
Monday, November 24, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM