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May 2015 Event Calendar (version 3, 05/01/15)
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9 am – 5 pm
Sciences Po-UCLA
Graduate Student
Workshop
Pgm on Int’l Migration
279 Haines Hall
South East European
Film Festival
Apr 30–May 7
www.seefilmla.org/
2015-program/
Center for European
& Eurasian Studies,
many others
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9:30 am – 12 pm
2015 South-East
European Film
Festival Business
Conference
European & Eurasian
Studies, others
Goethe-Institut
5750 Wilshire Blvd.,
Ste. 100
*RSVP required
May 2 – 3
[two-day conference]
10 am – 5 pm
People's United
Nations
Pedro Reyes
Hammer Museum at
UCLA
10899 Wilshire Blvd.,
Los Angeles
*Pre-registration
required
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May 2015 Event Calendar (version 3, 05/01/15)
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May 2 – 3
[two-day conference]
10 am – 5 pm
People's United
Nations
Pedro Reyes
Hammer Museum at
UCLA
10899 Wilshire Blvd.,
Los Angeles
*Pre-registration
required
4 pm
Film Screening &
discussion: “Six
Centuries, Six Years”
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Near Eastern Studies,
others
161 Dodd Hall
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12 – 1:30pm
India’s Aam Aadmi
Party and its
Significance
Ronojoy Sen
India & South Asia
10383 Bunche Hall
3 pm
The Contagion of
Confessionalism in
the Middle East
Mark Farha
Near Eastern Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
4 – 6 pm
Can Mexico Save
Itself? #YoSoy132 to
Ayotzinapa and
Beyond!
Francisco Goldman
Mexican Studies, others
11360 Young Research
Library
7:30 pm
Why Can't We Stop
Genocide?
Richard Hovannisian,
Jok Madut Jok/: Kal
Raustiala
Burkle Center, Zócalo
Public Square
Goethe-Institut
5750 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 100
*Pre-registration
req’d
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11 am – 1 pm
The Meaning of Body
Through the
Perspective of
Experientialism and
Early Buddhism
Seungtaek Lim
Korean Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
11:30 am – 2 pm
Central Asia
Workshop: Graduate
Conference Planning
Meeting
Pgm on Central Asia
Location TBD
6 – 9 pm
Five-Year
Anniversary Gala:
Younes & Soraya
Nazarian Center for
Israel Studies
Amos Oz, Younes &
Soraya Nazarian, Ari
Shavit, Natalie
Portman
Nazarian Center
Annenberg Center ,
Beverly Hills/ 9390 N.
Santa Monica Blvd.
*Ticket purchase
required
Tickets: $1,000/
Tables: $10,000
7 pm
Tales Spun from
Illustrations of
Beautiful Women
Robert Campbell
Asian Languages and
Cultures, others
Japan Foundation
5700 Wilshire Blvd.,
Suite 100, Los Angeles
*RSVP required
7:30 – 9 pm
Film Screening:
“Revelando
Sebastião Salgado”
*In Portuguese w/
English Subtitles
Brazilian Studies,
others, James Bridges
Theater, Melnitz Hall
3 pm
Book Talk: The Arab
Uprisings: What
Everyone Needs to
Know, 2nd edition
James L. Gelvin,
Nouri Gana
Near Eastern Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
Landscape Painting,
Cartographic
Practice, and
Geographical
Thought in SongDynasty China
Julia Orell
Chinese Studies
11372 Bunche Hall
3 – 5 pm
Broken Bodies: The
Death of Buddhist
Icons, 10th –12th
Century China
Wei-cheng Lin
Asian Languages &
Cultures
243 Royce Hall
4 – 6 pm
Anthropocene versus
‘Capitalocene’? A
False Opposition
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Center for India & South
Asia
193 Humanities
5:30 pm
Colloquium:
Reporting on
"Comfort Women"
Takashi Uemura
Terasaki Center
1302 Perloff Hall
*RSVP requested
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12 – 1:30 pm
Articulating Caste,
Religion and Poverty
in “New” India
Madhavi Murty
India & South Asia
10383 Bunche Hall
12 – 2 pm
New Research on the
Romanesque West
Façade of the
Cathedral of Santiago
Francisco Prado-Vilar
Center for Medieval &
Renaissance Studies,
European & Eurasian
Studies, others
5628 Math Sciences
Building
*RSVP required
4:30 pm
Oriental Neighbors:
Arabs and Sephardi
Jews in Mandatory
Palestine
*RSVP requested
Moshe Naor
Y&S Nazarian Center
Location TBD
May 11–13
6:30 pm
10th Annual CMED
Conference: Enriching
the Middle East's
Economic Future
Center for Middle East
Development
Doha, Qatar
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2 – 3:45 pm
The Cartoons of Feng
Zikai and Ogawa Usen
Christoph Harbsmeier
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
4 – 5:30pm
Eurasian Imperial
Interactions
Stephane Dudoignon
European & Eurasian
Studies, others
10383 Bunche Hall
4:30 pm
Coleman Memorial
Lecture: “Art on the
FrontLine: Cultural
Activism in East
Congo”
Chérie Rivers Ndaliko,
Petna Ndaliko
African Studies Center,
World Arts & Cultures/
Dance
200 Kaufman Hall
5 pm
Bernard Brodie
Distinguished
Lecture: The New Cold
War?
U.S. Amb. Michael
McFaul  Burkle Center
Korn Convocation Hall,
Anderson School
*Pre-registration req’d;
vacant seats filled at
5:40 pm
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12 – 1:30 pm
Gazing at the Left
Eye of God:
Caodaism’s
Transpacific
Transformations
1926–2015
Janet Hoskins
Southeast Asian Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
3 – 5 pm
Colloquium:
Organizing Latino
Immigrants in the
Informal Economy
Alvaro Huerta, others
Chicano Studies
Research Center, others
144 Haines Hall
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May 14 – 16
Ninth Intl Conference
on Language
Teaching Education
CARLA, Center for World
Languages
Commons Hotel
Minneapolis, MN
*Registration required
May 15 – 16
8:30 am – 6 pm
2015 Conference on
Mariano Azuela
Cal State LA, UCLA Ctr for
Mexican Studies, others
Music Hall, CSULA
5151 State University
Drive (Bldg 1A), LA
4 – 5:30 pm
The Sovereignty of
the Dead and the
Disorder of War in 20th
Century China
Rebecca Nedostup
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
Juan Rulfo, Reader of
Nellie Campobello
*Lecture in Spanish
Kristine Vanden Berghe
Spanish & Portuguese,
Mexican Studies, others
4302 Rolfe Hall
7:30 pm
Film: “Asleep “
*In Japanese w/ English
subtitles
Discussion w/director
Shingo Wakagi
Fowler Museum, Japan
Foundation LA, Yanai
Initiative / Lenart Aud.,
Fowler Museum
9:30 am – 6 pm
Global Japan Forum
2015
Terasaki Center
Grand Salon, Kerckhoff
Hall
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Fri., May 15, cont’d:
7 – 9 pm
Music of India and
Music of Bali Ensembles
Center for India & South
Asia, Ethnomusicology
Schoenberg Hall
7:30 pm
Film Screening: “Waltz
in Starlight”
*In Japanese w/English
subtitles
Fowler Museum, Japan
Fdtn LA, Yanai Initiative
Lenart Auditorium,
Fowler Museum
SAT. MAY 16:
12 – 1:30 pm
Authors-Meet-Critics:
“Skills of the
‘Unskilled’”
Jackie Hagan, others
Pgm on Int’l Migration
279 Haines Hall
12 – 1:30 pm
Book Talk: “Unsettling
India”
Purnima Mankekar
India & South Asia,
Asian-American Studies
Presentation Room,
Young Research Library
*RSVP required
3 – 5 pm
Peter Gregory
Colloquium Talk
Buddhist Studies
11377 Bunche Hall
10 am – 1 pm
Sardar Patel Awards
Ceremony
Center for India & South
Asia
California Room, UCLA
Faculty Center
*Lunch by invitation
only
1:15 – 4 pm
Workshop:
Infrastructure in
India
Center for India & South
Asia
California Room, UCLA
Faculty Center
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12 – 1 pm
Ebola Genesis: Identifying the Virus &
First Epidemic
Dr. Joel G. Brennan
UCLA Public Health
Ground Rounds
13-105 Community
Health Sciences
*RSVP req’d
4:30 – 6 pm
Chinese Politics in
the Era of Xi Jinping
Willy Lam
Chinese Studies
4276 Bunche Hall
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Time TBD
Empire and the
Media of Religion
Carol Bakhos, Robert
Gurval
Asia Institute, UCLAHKUST Joint Program
11348 Young Research
Library
11 am – 12:30 pm
A Live Dance
Presentation
Ming-Shen Ku
(古名伸）
World Arts & Cultures/
Dance
208 Glorya Kaufman
Hall
2 – 5 pm
The State, ANC, &
Future of the Labor
Movemt in So Africa
Trevor Ngwane, Gay
Seidman, Dinga
Sikwebu
Center for Social Theory
& Comp. History,
African Studies, others
6275 Bunche Hall
3 – 5 pm
Mexican Writers in
the Context of Social
and Political Crisis
Juan Villoro, Jorge F.
Hernández
Editorial Almadia,
others
11360 Young Research
Library/ *RSVP req’d
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4 – 5:30 pm
From the Classics to
Literature and
Religion in
Traditional China
Yu-yu Cheng, Muchou Poo, Jack Chen
Asia Institute, others
Main Conference
Room, Young
Research Library
12 pm
Challenges of
Providing Assistance
for Syria
Mark S. Ward
Burkle Center
2343 Luskin School
3 – 5 pm
Writing Buddhist
Liturgies at
Dunhuang
Paul Copp
Asian Languages &
Cultures
243 Royce Hall
4:30 – 6 pm
Modern Developmt
of Laozi's Philosophy
Xiaogan Liu
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
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12:30 – 2 pm
Filipino Musicians
and their AfricanAmerican Conductor
Tour America’s
Symphony Halls and
World’s Fairs
Mary Talusan
Southeast Asian Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
MEMORIAL DAY
National Holiday
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12 – 1:30 pm
3rd Annual
International
Institute End-of-theYear Celebration of
Scholarship &
Service
UCLA Int’l Institute
Academic Programs
10383 Bunche Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
Water Resources and
Environmental Issues
in Beijing
Dai Qing
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
7:30 – 9 pm
Film Screening:
“Dominguinhos”
*In Portuguese w/
English subtitles
Brazilian Studies, others
James Bridges
Theater, Melnitz Hall
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9 am – 3:30 pm
Israel in 3D 2015 —
Spotlight: Jerusalem
Y&S Nazarian Center,
others
*Free for UCLA
students w/ ID;
$45 gen’l admission;
$25 young prof’ls (35
and under)
UCLA Covel Commons
4 pm
Film Screening:
“Children’s Song
Writer, Life and Work
of Abbas Yamini
Sharif”
*In Persian w/ English
subtitles
Followed by
discussion w/producer
Homan Yamini Sharfi
Near Eastern Studies,
Farhang Fdtn, others
121 Dodd
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