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Museums in the Colony

CISA member Saloni Mathur, Assistant Professor in Art History at UCLA, has recently received a $248,700 grant from the prestigious J. Paul Getty Trust for a collaborative project on 'Museology and the Colony: The Case of India.'
Posted: 9/6/2005

The Diversity in Indian Islam

Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam challenges those who suggest that Muslims are divorced by their religion from local Asian cultures.
Posted: 8/6/2005

Mantle Hood, 87, dies

UCLA professor emeritus founded the prestigious Institute for Ethnomusicology and brought the Indonesian gamelan to the United States.
Posted: 8/5/2005

Fifteenth Annual Iranian Film Festival

Themes of loss, yearning, nostalgia predominate
Posted: 7/2/2005

Global Entertainment and Popular Culture

Special Guest Lecture by Gareth Chang, with Professor Toby Miller, UC Riverside
Posted: 5/17/2005

Political Hinduism Goes Beyond Politics

A two-day conference at UCLA explores the way the Hindu right in politics affects the practice of Hinduism in cultures.
Posted: 5/17/2005

Lotus Steps 2005 -- UCLA's Chinese Cultural Dance Club

Highly-regarded student-led program brings dance to Los Angeles audiences. Beyond its performances, the club also provides training for pre-teen students.
Posted: 4/29/2005

Augusto Espiritu launches new book Five Faces of Exile at UCLA

UCLA alumnus breaks stereotypes in his intellectual history of prominent Filipino American writers.
Posted: 4/27/2005

Lotus Steps 2005: A New Chapter

UCLA Chinese Cultural Dance Club presents its sixth annual dance performance
Posted: 4/27/2005

Islam in China -- a workshop for teachers

May 14 workshop looks at the history of Islam in China, at Muslim societies in China, and the lives of Chinese Muslims. Enrollment space is limited.
Posted: 4/21/2005

Vietnamese Diaspora on Film

The Vietnamese International Film Festival comes to UCLA.
Posted: 4/20/2005

Contemporary Ethiopia: Revolution and Transformation?

What is the status of Ethiopia, 20 years after famine relief? Why hasn't Ethiopia progressed as predicted? Former Clinton advisor for Africa, Gayle Smith, along with leading Ethiopian scholar, Edmond Keller, lead a panel discussion focusing on the state of Ethiopia. Where were you when "We Are the World" dominated the radio waves? Marcia Thomas of USA for Africa discusses the 1984 famine relief effort and pop culture.
Posted: 3/10/2005

Last Professional Performer in the United States Demonstrates Vietnamese Classical Opera

Mrs. Ngoc Bay gives exhibition of techniques of Hat Boi at UCLA.
Posted: 2/28/2005

UCLA Asian Studies Faculty in the News -- January 2006

Performers influenced by the APPEX experience, gift to create a chair for the study of Korean Christianity
Posted: 1/2/2005

The African Studies Center Screens Hotel Rwanda

UCLA AFC screens major motion picture "Hotel Rwanda" and hosts actor Don Cheadle, director Terry George and Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroism during the Rwanda genocide is the basis of the film.
Posted: 12/1/2004

Mismatched Concepts of Early Medieval Chinese Religious History

A talk by Victor H. Mair
Posted: 11/21/2004

Lothar von Falkenhausen delivers Washington University's Nelson Wu Lecture

UCLA Art Historian speaks on "The Musical Archaeology of Ancient China: A Presentation of Art and Music"
Posted: 11/16/2004

Large Turnout for Sammy Lee Lecture on Chinese Imperial Garden

Che Bing Chiu recalls the history of the Yuanmingyuan, the 857 acre "Garden of Perfect Brightness" from which China's Manchu emperors ruled an empire for a century and a half.
Posted: 11/8/2004

17th Annual Sammy Lee Lecture -- Yuanmingyuan: The Garden of Perfect Brightness - a Mirror for the Last Dynasty of China

CHE BING CHIU, Professor at the Centre de recherche sur l'Extrême-Orient de Paris-Sorbonne, speaks about China's most famous garden on November 6, 2004.
Posted: 10/4/2004