Past Events

4:30 pm January 26, 2018 243 Royce Hall   In 1907, three sets of eighth-century objects were discovered from underneath the bronze pedestal of the seated Vairocana Buddha in the Great Buddha Hall, Tōdaiji, Nara prefecture. The objects were initially identified as examples of “platform pacifying objects” (chindangu), but their actual function has been debated since the 1970s. Tōdaiji was conceived of as the main temple for the nascent Chinese-style centralized government, and its construction was an undertaking of unprecedented…

The Yanai Initiative at UCLA and Waseda University presents   Heteroglossolalia: Bakhtin, Bakin, Translation, and Early Modern Japanese Prose a lecture by Glynne Walley   12:30 pm January 25, 2018 243 Royce Hall   Glynne Walley will discuss significant features of the prose style of early modern Japanese novelist Kyokutei Bakin, as well as some approaches to translating him, in light of Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia.  Bakin’s prose constitutes a perfect example of what Bakhtin posited as the multi-tongued…

The symposium will explore the challenges presented by the historical issues and how they affect the current and future peacekeeping efforts in the Northeast Asia.   Friday, January 19, 2018 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Main Conference Room Charles E. Young Research Library 280 Charles E Young Dr N Los Angeles, 90095 Symposium Schedule:  Time Description  8:30AM  Registration   9:00AM-9:15AM  Welcoming Remarks Professor Do-Hyung Kim (President, Northeast Asian History Foundation) Professor Namhee Lee (Director, Center for Korean Studies)   9:15AM-11:15AM…

Inquiries: jenjit@humnet.ucla.edu REGISTER HERE Schedule: Friday, November 10, 2017 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. Registration and welcome 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. Session I: Fictions of Diversity – Hjorleifur Jonsson, Arizona State U Tai Groups’ Social Network: The Traditional and the Present (Case Study on Tai Groups in the Northeast of Vietnam) – Hoang Thi Le Thao & Ly Viet Truong, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences The Role of Thai Women in the Circulation of Traditional Culture in Some Mountainous Provinces of Northern…