February 2015 (version 5, 2/02/15)

Event Calendar – February 2015 (version 5, 2/02/15)
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Objects and the
Writing of South
Asia’s “Sultanate”
History
Alka Patel
Center for India & South
Asia
10383 Bunche Hall
4 pm
Film: ”They Were
Promised the Sea”
Kathy Wazana, Alma
Heckman, Gil Hochberg
Center for Near Eastern
Studies, History, Jewish
Studies, others
314 Royce Hall
*Registration required
4 – 5 pm
Book Talk: "George W.
Bush"
James Mann
Burkle Center
Presentation Rm, YRL
4 – 6 pm
Beijing Opera China
11360 Young Research
Library
Center for Chinese
Studies
4:30 – 6 pm
Israel & Water:
Collaboration,
Innovation, & Global
Leadership
Booky Oren
Y&S Nazarian Center,
Anderson School
1347 UCLA Law
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10:30 - 4:30 pm
Conference: The
Use(fulenss) of Nauatl
Dialects
with Una Canger
Mexican Studies Center,
Linguistics, History,
Spanish & Portuguese
144 Haines Hall
5 - 10 PM
Film Series:
Landscape Theory
Go Hirasawa
Center for Japanese
Studies
James Bridges
Theater, Melnitz Hall
6 - 10 PM
Film: Landscape Theory
Go Hirasawa
Center for Japanese
Studies
James Bridges Theater
7:30–9:30 pm
Film: “O homem das
multidões”
(Man of the Crowd)
In Portuguese with
English subtitles
Center for Brazilian
Studies, Spanish &
Portuguese, ConsulateGeneral of Brazil in LA
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February 4 continued:
Time and venue TBD
Invitation-Only Dinner
w/Adm. Michael Rogers
Burkle Center
*Not open to the public
FEBRUARY 5:
10:30 – 3:30 pm
Conference: The
Use(fulenss) of Nauatl
Dialects
with Una Canger
Mexican Studies Center,
Others
144 Haines Hall
Time and venue TBD
Invitation-Only
Discussion with Author
James Mann
Burkle Center
*Not open to the public
10 am – 12:30 pm
Central Asia Wkshop:
Chinese Silk Road
Mia Bennett
Pgm on Central Asia
11377 Bunche Hall
10:30 am – 12 pm
Unaccompanied
Children: Contested
Care, Divided Interests
Lauren Heidbrink
Pgm on Intl’ Migration
3340 Moore Hall
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February 5 continued:
4 pm
Energy and Middle
East History
Richard W. Bulliet
Near Eastern
Studies, others
Presentation Rm, YRL
4 – 5:30 pm
Early Chinese
Daybooks and the
Question of Textual
Genre
Ethan Harkness
Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
6 - 10 PM
Film Festival::
Landscape Theory
Go Hirasawa
Terasaki Center
James Bridges Theater
1 – 4 pm
Wanderlust: Seminar
& Guided Tour of the
“Round Trip:
Bicycling Asia Minor,
1891” Exhibit
Nile Green
Pgm on Central Asia,
Asia Institute
Fowler Museum
*Reservation required
before January 30;
$20 Fowler members;
$25 non-members
FEBRUARY 6
Time and venue TBD
Graduate Student
Colloquium in
Armenian Studies
Center for Near Eastern
Studies, NELC
2–3:30 pm
Agent Orange as
Chemical & Metaphor
Diane Niblack Fox
Center for Southeast
Asian Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
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10 am – 12 pm
Central Asia
Workshop
Ali Nehmé Hamdan
Pgm on Central Asia
10383 Bunche Hall
11 – 1 pm
Dance of Divination
Swarnamalya Ganesh
Asia Institute
200 Kaufman Hall
2 – 5 pm
Russia/Ukraine:
Geopolitical Conflict
Center for European &
Eurasian Studies
6275 Bunche Hall
4 pm
Hafez, Timur and
Khosrow of Delhi: A
Geo-Historical
Investigation about
the "Shirazi Turk"
*Lecture in Persian
Domenico Ingenito
Center for Near Eastern
Studies, Pgm of Iranian
Studies, others
121 Dodd Hal
3 – 4:30 pm
Virtual Reality in
Archiving,
Interpreting, and
Replicating Buddhist
Art Forms, Cultural
Landscapes, and
Heritage Sites
Alan Potkin
Center for Buddhist
Studies, others
243 Royce Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
Rescuing Science
from Civilization: On
Joseph Needham's
“Asiatic Mode of
(Knowledge)
Production”
Kapil Raj
Center for Chinese
Studies, History
5288 Bunche Hall
4 pm
The Concept of
Genocide and the
Foundation of the
Postwar Order
Dirk Moses
Center for European
and Eurasian
Studies, others
6275 Bunche Hall
4:00 pm– 6:00 pm
Lost Modernities
Revisited
Alexander Woodside
Asia Institute
Venue TBD
*RSVP required
4:30 – 6 pm
Jewish and
Democratic? A
Perspective from
Israel's Arab Minority
Mohammed S. Wattad
Nazarian Center for
Israel Studies
1234 Luskin School
*RSVP requested
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FEB 12 continued:
7:30 pm
Fowler Outspoken:
NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo
African Studies Center
Fowler Museum
4 pm
Black Women
Prisoners & the
Making of the
“Modern” South
Talitha LeFlouria
African Studies
Center, Ctr for the Study
of Women
306 Royce Hall
4 pm
Holocaust &
Genocide Studies
Dirk Moses, Benjamin
Madley, Wendy Lower,
Wolf Gruner
Center for Near Eastern
Studies, History
10383 Bunche Hall
6 – 9 pm
Craniofacial Surgery
& Culture In Mexico
Screening of “Beautiful
Faces” plus discussion
w/ plastic surgeons
Mexican Studies, others
11360 Young Research
Library
*RSVP requested
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12 – 2 pm
Colloquium:
Japanese Erotic
Imagery in a
Comparative Context
Ellis Tinios
Terasaki Center, ALC
314 Royce Hall
PRESIDENT’S DAY
3 pm
The Orphan Scandal:
Christian Missionaries and the Rise of
the Muslim
Brotherhood
Beth Baron
Center for Near Eastern
Studies
11348 Young Research
Library
4 – 5:30 pm
Islamic Practices and
Institutions among
Inner Asian Nomads
Allen Frank
Center for Near Eastern
Studies, Pgm on Central
Asia, others
10383 Bunche Hall
3 – 6 pm
Human Rights in
Latin America
Felipe Michelini
Center for Southern
Cone Studies, others
11360 YRL
7 pm
Film Screening and
Discussion: “It's
Better To Jump”
In English
Patrick A. Stewart,
Gina M. Angelone,
Mouna B. Stewart,
Gabriel Piterberg
Center for Near Eastern
Studies, Cinema Libre
Studio
118 Haines Hall
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Feb 19–20
Time TBD
Excess: Annual UCLA
Comparative Lit
Graduate Student
Conference
Comparative Literature
306 Royce Hall
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Feb 19–20
Time & Venue TBD
Excess: Annual UCLA
Comparative Lit
Graduate Student
Conference
Comparative Literature
10 am – 12:30 pm
Central Asia
Workshop:
Pgm on Central Asia
11377 Bunche Hall
12 pm
Belonging at
Macedonia’s Club
Sektor 909
Dave Wilson
European & Eurasian
Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
2 – 4 pm
North Korea: Loved
Ones Not Forgotten
Michelle Mope
Andersson
Korean Studies
314 Royce Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
China’s Aid to the
Khmer Rouge
Andrew Mertha
Center for Chinese
Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
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10 am – 12 pm
Central Asia Workshop:
Andrew Grant
10383 Bunche Hall
12:30 – 2 pm
Building China: The
Rise of Informal
Precarious Work in
China’s Construction
Industry
Sarah Swider
UCLA Institute for
Research on Labor &
Employment
5391 Luskin School
12 – 1:30 pm
CISA Lecture Series
Saurabh Dube
Center for India and
South Asia
10383 Bunche
4 pm
Panel on RussoIranian Political
Relations and
Intellectual Ties
*Lecture in Persian
Maziar Behrooz, Ali
Farasati, Afshin MatinAsgari
Center for Near Eastern
Studies, Pgm of Iranian
Studies, others
121 Dodd Hall
5:30 – 7:30 pm
Film Screening and
Q&A with Director:
“Lessons in Dissent"
Matthew Torne
Center for Chinese
Studies
11360 YRL
7 – 9 pm
Film Screening and
Q&A with Director:
"Lessons in Dissent"
Matthew Torne
Center for Chinese
Studies
11360 Young Research
Library
2 – 4 pm
Film Screening &
Discussion: “Comfort
Women Wanted”
Chang-Jin Lee
Center for Korean
Studies, others
10383 Bunche Hall
7 pm
Why History Matters:
The Past and Future
of the Middle East
Robert S. Ford, Steven
Heydemann, Marina
Ottaway, James Gelvin
Department of History
Lenart Auditorium,
Fowler Museum
10:30 am – 12 pm
The Family Work of
Bilingual Children of
Immigrants
Hye-Young Kwon
Pgm on Intl’ Migration
3340 Moore Hall
12 pm
Book Talk “The Birth of
Modern Istanbul”
Charles King, / European
& Eurasian Studies, Near
Eastern Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
12–1:30 pm
The New Terrain of
International Law:
Karen Alter
Burkle Center, others
1430 UCLA Law
12:15–1:30 pm
The Rule of Law under
Xi Jinping / Jerome
Cohen, 1430 UCLA Law
2 – 3:30 pm
Cultural Exchange
Along China’s Northern
Frontier (3rd Cent.BCE)
Xiaolong Wu
Center for Chinese Studies
10383 Bunche Hall
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Feb. 26 continued
4 pm
The Politics of Black
Identity & Gendered
Racial Consciousness
Tiffany WilloughbyHerard / African Studies
Center, Ctr for Study of
Women, others
135 Haines
FEBRUARY 27
Feb 27–28
Time TBD
Ottoman & Qing
China Workshop
Near Eastern
Studies, Chinese
Studies, Pgm on Central
Asia, others
6275 Bunche Hall
*By invitation only
Feb 27–28
Time TBD
Ottoman & Qing
China Workshop
Near Eastern
Studies, Chinese
Studies, Pgm on Central
Asia, others
6275 Bunche Hall
*By invitation only
3 – 5 pm
Colloquium:
Buddhist Music,
Rituals & Founder
Worship
Michaela Mross
Center for Buddhist
Studies, others
243 Royce Hall
4 – 5:30 pm
Book Talk: “Afghan
Rumour Bazaar”
Nushin Arbabzadah
Pgm on Central Asia
10383 Bunche
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