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Event Calendar – April 2015 (version 3, 4/13/15)
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Teach-In: Out of
Nowhere? Discussion
about ISIS
Ali Hamdan
Near Eastern
Studies, Geography
10383 Bunche Hall
6 pm
Literature and
Aesthetics in the
Aftermath of the
Armenian Genocide
Talar Chahinian
Richard Hovannisian
Endowed Chair in
Modern Armenian
History
A25 Haines Hall
7:30 – 9:30pm
Film: “Casa Grande”
(Ballad of Poor Jean)
*In Portuguese w/
English subtitles
Film screening &
discussion w/director
Fellipe Barbosa
Brazilian Studies, others
James Bridges
Theater, Melnitz Hall
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12 –2:00 pm
The Headscarf
Debates: Conflicts of
National Belonging
Gokce Yurdakul, Hilal
Elver
Center for European &
Eurasian Studies,
Center for Near Eastern
Studies, others
10383 Bunche Hall
12 – 1:30 pm
Narratives of
Belonging Among
Chinese Newcomer
Immigrants in Japan
Gracia Liu-Farrer
Asia Institute, Pgm on
International
Migration, Terasaki
Center, Int’l Institute
279 Haines Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
Rethinking History in
Chinese Central Asia
Rian Thum
Near Eastern
Studies, others
10383 Bunche Hall
5 – 7:30 pm
Film: "REBEL: Loreta
Velazquez, Civil War
Soldier and Spy"
María Agui Carter,
Maylei Blackwell
Chicano Studies
Research Center, others
144 Haines Hall
5:30 – 7 pm
"How Terrorism is
Designed to Work"
Barbara F. Walter
Burkle Center, UCLA
Law
1314 Law School
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11 am – 1 pm
Syngman Rhee
Peter Kim
Korean Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
12 – 1:30 pm
The Politics of
In/visibility around
Nepal’s Spectral
Infrastructures
Matthäus Rest
Center for India and
South Asia
10383 Bunche Hall
3 pm
Libya: What Next?
Amal Suleiman ElObeidi
Near Eastern Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
11:30 am – 2:00 pm
Central Asia Wkshop
Discussion of paper by
Stephane Dudoignon
Pgm on Central Asia
11377 Bunche Hall
3 pm
The Barber of
Damascus: Nouveau
Literacy in the 18thCentury Levant
Dana Sajdi
Near Eastern Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
12 – 1:30 pm
Immigration and
Inequality in France
Mirna Safi
Pgm on International
Migration
279 Haines Hall
2 – 4 pm
A Comparative Study
of Apology
Narratives by Korean
and Japanese Media
Seongbin Hwang
Korean Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
4:30 – 6 pm
Social Change and
Shifting Values
Among Israeli
Minorities
Michael Weinstock
Nazarian Center
3340 Moore Hall
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12 – 2 pm
Book Talk: "A History
of the Armenian
Genocide"
Ronald G. Suny, Michael
Mann │ European &
Eurasian Studies, Near
Eastern Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
April 10 – 11
[two-day conference]
9 am – 5:15 pm
A Conference on the
100th Anniversary of
the Armenian
Genocide
Richard Hovannisian
Endowed Chair in
Modern Armenian
History, History Dept.,
Ctr for European &
Eurasian Studies, others
California Room, UCLA
Faculty Center
April 10 – 11
[two-day conference]
3:30 – 5 pm
Towards a ContentsPlatform
Conglomerate?
Marc Steinberg
Terasaki Center
243 Royce Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
Picturing Political
Abstractions in
Song/Jin Painting
Martin Powers
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
6 – 8 pm
ISIS and the
Enslavement and
Trafficking of Women
Khaled Abou El Fadl
Al Talib Magazine,
others
1347 School of Law
7 – 10 pm
Korean Culture Night
Korean Studies,
Hanoolim Korean
Cultural Awareness
Group
Royce Hall Auditorium
11:30 – 6 pm
Conference:
U.S.-China: Economic
Ties, Growth
Strategies and
Investment
Opportunities
*Registration/ checkin at noon
UCLA Anderson School
of Mgmt, Chinese
Studies, Asia Institute
Korn Convocation
Hall, Anderson School
$40 registration
includes parking/
Free for UCLA students
& faculty w/ID
10 am – 5 pm
A Conference on the
100th Anniversary of
the Armenian
Genocide
Richard Hovannisian
Endowed Chair in
Modern Armenian
History, History Dept.,
Ctr for European &
Eurasian Studies, others
Main Dining Room,
UCLA Faculty Center
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Event Calendar – April 2015 (version 3, 4/13/15)
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Film: “Tigers”
In English and Urdu
w/subtitles
Near Eastern Studies,
Indian Film Festival Los
Angeles
ArcLight Cinema
5350 W. Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood
www.indianfilmfestival.org
4 pm
Compulsory Veiling
(Hijab) and Stealthy
Freedom in Iran
*Lecture in Persian
Masih Alinejad
Near Eastern Studies,
others
161 Dodd Hall
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10:30 am – 12 pm
Book Talk:
Compañeras: Zapatista
Women’s Stories
Hilary Klein
Caesar E. Chavez Center
for Interdisciplinary
Instruction in Chicana and
Chicano Studies, others
175 Dodd Hall
12:15 pm
Human Rights and the
Armenian Genocide
Gary Bass
Burkle Center, Int’l and
Comparative Law Pgm
1357 Law School
4 – 5:30 pm
New Evidence on
Shanghai's Pre-War
Stock Exchange
Niv Horesh
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
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April 13 cont’d:
5:30 pm
Ancient Human
Activities on the
Eastern Edge of the
Tibetan Highlands
Li Yongxian
Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology, Pgm on
Central Asia
A222 Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology
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3 pm
History of Middle East
Studies in the U.S.
Zachary Lockman
Near Eastern Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
4:30 – 6 pm
The Israeli Elections:
New Coalition, New
Agenda?
Shmuel Rosner
Nazarian Center, Jewish
Journal Los Angeles
11348 Young Research
Library
4 pm
Discussion with Former
U.S. Ambassador
Cameron Munter
Cameron Munter
Burkle Center, Dept of
Public Policy
2355 Luskin School
5 – 8 pm
Film: “Manila in the
Claws of Light" *In
Tagalog w/ Eng.
subtitles
SE Asian Studies, others
Design Room Theater
(Rm 2534), Melnitz Hall
7:30 – 9 pm
Film: “Korean Indie
Rock in a K-Pop World”
Stephen Epstein,
Timothy Tangherlini
The Scandinavian Section,
Pgm on Central Asia
314 Royce Hall
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April 16 – 17
[two-day conference]
8 am – 4 pm
9 am – 6 pm
UCLA International
Institute Graduate
Student Conference
Int’l Institute and its
Academic Programs
Grand Salon, Kerckhoff
Hall/ *RSVP required
Span. & Portuguese
Graduate Student Conf
Dept of Spanish &
Portuguese, others
11360 Young Research
Library
TUES, APRIL 14:
11:30 am – 2 pm
Central Asia Workshop:
Pgm on Central Asia
11377 Bunche Hall
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3 – 5 pm
Film Screening &
Discussion: “Justice
for My Sister”
Kimberly Bautista
Fullerton College Ethnic
Studies Department,
others
229 Fullerton College,
321 E. Chapman Ave.,
Fullerton, CA
4 – 5:30 pm
Living with an
Afghan Warlord
Brian Glyn Williams
Pgm on Central Asia,
American Institute of
Afghanistan Studies
10383 Bunche
12 – 1:30 pm
Italian Democracy
1945–2015: An
Interim Report
Aldo Schiavone
Center for European &
Eurasian Studies, Dept.
of Italian
10383 Bunche Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
Rumor, Gossip, and
the Early-Modern
Information
Economy of a
Chinese Erotic Classic
Pieter Keulemans
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
4 pm
Genocide and Ethnic
Cleansing in Greater
Europe, 1875-1945
Donald Bloxham
Near Eastern Studies,
others
6275 Bunche Hall
April 16 – 17
[two-day conference]
9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Span. & Portuguese
Graduate Student Conf.
Dept of Spanish &
Portuguese, others
11360 Young Research
Library
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April 17 – 18
[two-day conference]
9:30 am – 1:45 pm
Visual and Textual
Dialogues in Colonial
Mexico and Europe
Mexican Studies, others
Museum Lecture Hall,
The Getty Center
*Free for UC faculty &
students with ID; $20
general admission
*RSVP required
April 17 – 18
[two-day conference]
9:30 am – 5 pm
Visual and Textual
Dialogues in Colonial
Mexico and Europe
Mexican Studies, others
314 Royce Hall
*Free for UC faculty &
students with ID/ $20
general admission
*RSVP required
12 – 1:30 pm
Migration, Gender, &
Politics of Transnational Mexican Comms
Abigail Andrews
Pgm on Int’l Migration
279 Haines Hall
2 – 5 pm
Japanese Annexation
of Korea, 1910 │ Korean
Studies, others / West
Electronic Classroom
(2nd floor), YRL
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Event Calendar – April 2015 (version 3, 4/13/15)
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12 – 2 pm
Monastery Layout of
the Three Kingdoms
Youn-mi Kim
Ctr for Korean Studies
275 Dodd Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
American Military
Policy in Iraq and
Afghanistan, 1979–
2011
Mesrob George
Vartavarian
Asia Institute, Pgm on
Central Asia
10383 Bunche
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4 pm
Book Talk:
“Sephardi Lives: A
Documentary History,
1700–1950”
Maurice Amado, Sarah A.
Stein, Julia Phillips Cohen
│ Jewish Studies,
European & Eurasian
Studies
306 Royce Hall
*Pre-registration
required
4 – 5:30 pm
Being a Corpse the
Buddhist Way
Ruth Toulson
Buddhist Studies Ctr,
others
243 Royce Hall
5 pm
Martin de Figuerola
and his Work with the
Moors of Aragon
Mercedes Garcia Arenal
Near Eastern Studies,
Department of History
306 Royce
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8:30 am – 5 pm
Conference:
Innovative
Approaches to
Combating Forced
Labor and Other
Forms of Worker
Exploitation
*RSVP required/
space limited
Burkle Center
1347 Law School
2 – 4 pm
Colloquium:
Doubling Down on
the Negative in Post–
3/11 Japan
Nathaniel Smith
Terasaki Center
6275 Bunche Hall
3 – 5 pm
Daoist Terms in Early
Chinese Buddhist
Translations
Jan Nattier
Center for Buddhist
Studies, Asian
Languages & Cultures
243 Royce Hall
4:30 – 6:00 pm
Promoting Public
Awareness of Gender
& Sexuality Issues in
China
Yuxin Pei
Chinese Studies
11377 Bunche Hall
6:30 – 8 pm
Film: “Numbered”
Nazarian Center
190 Royce
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Event Calendar – April 2015 (version 3, 4/13/15)
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The “Marvelous” Life
and Thought of
Ahmad Fardid
*Lecture in Persian
Ali Mirsepassi
Near Eastern Studies,
Pgm of Iranian Studies,
others
121 Dodd
4:30 pm
Korean Lyric Songs
Korean Studies,
Department of Music
Jan Popper Theater,
Schoenberg Hall
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12 – 1:30 pm
Immigrants, Ethnicized
Minorities and the
Diversification of
Urban Cultures
Marco Martiniello
Pgm on Int’l Migration
279 Haines Hall
12 – 2 pm
Pornography and
Masculinity in China at
the End of Empire
Yvon Wang
Chinese Studies, Dept. of
History
6275 Bunche Hall
2 pm
Imagining a Modern
Iran and the Human
Sciences
Ali Mirsepassi
Near Eastern Studies,
Pgm of Iranian Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
4:30 - 6 pm
China: After the End
of the Reform Era
Carl Minzner
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
7 – 9 pm
Film: “Okul Nodi”
(Endless River)
Discussion w/director
Tuni Chatterji
India and South Asia
39 Haines Hall
3 pm
The Cultural, Political
and Strategic Shadow
of World War I
Josef Joffe
European & Eurasian
Studies, Center for Global
Management
Location TBD
4 pm
Martin, Malcom and
Muslims
Omid Safi, Sohail
Daulatzai │ Near Eastern
Studies, English Dept.
Location TBD
6 – 8 pm
Book Talk: The China
Mirage
James Bradley, R. Bin
Wong │ Asia Society
11360 Young Research
Library *Registration
required w/ suggested
donation of $15
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April 29 cont’d:
7:30 – 9 pm
Film: “A Despedida”
*In Portuguese w/
English subtitles
Brazilian Studies, others
Edwards Big Newport
300 Newport Center Dr
Newport Beach
Ticket purchase
required
THURS, APRIL 30:
4 – 5:30 pm
Masculinity Politics in
the Taiwan Rap Scene
Meredith Schweig
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
4 – 6 pm
Germany’s Role in the
European Union
*RSVP required
Josef Joffe, others
European & Eurasian
Studies, others
Location TBD
5:30 – 7 pm
Forecast Asia
Asia Institute, others
Doubletree Hotel
120 S Los Angeles St.
Downtown LA
*Ticket purchase req’d
by 04/29/15
$75 genera
$50 Asia Society
members
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