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45th Annual Council for Thai Studies

Royce 314

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 &...

Historical Issue and Peace in Northeast Asia Northeast Asian History Foundation (NAHF) and Center for Korean Studies (CKS) Symposium

Main Conference Room,Charles E. Young Research Library 280 Charles E Young Dr N, los angeles, CA

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...

The Yanai Initiative at UCLA and Waseda University presents Heteroglossolalia: Bakhtin, Bakin, Translation, and Early Modern Japanese Prose

Royce Hall 243 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

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...

The Yanai Initiative at UCLA and Waseda University presents Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Pacification, Offering, and Burial in Early Japanese Buddhism a lecture by Akiko Walley

Royce Hall 243 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

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...

The 6th International Conference on Ganhwa Seon

Royce 314

The 6th International Conference on Ganhwa Seon is sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Jogye Order (Dongguk University) and Center for Buddhist Studies (UCLA) Tuesday, July 17, 2018 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Royce 314 Humanities Conference Room UCLA Please register at https://ucla.in/2HqbpTt 8:30 - 9:00 am, Check-in 9:00 - 9:30 am,...

Chinese Opera from Taiwan: A Retrospective of the Ya-Yin Ensemble

The Department of Asian Languages & Cultures is proud to join the Bricks Foundation in co-sponsoring a rare West Coast appearance by legendary Chinese opera performer, Ms. Kuo Shaio-Chuang. Regarded as a national treasure in Taiwan, Ms. Kuo is a figure who has revolutionized Peking Opera in the modern era. Ms. Kuo will speak about her...

Shinto and Gagaku Lecture and Music Performance

Royce 314

Please join us for an introduction to Shinto and a performance of Gagaku music by a wind instrument ensemble from the Meiji Jingu Shrine. Moriyasu Ito, a Shinto officiant (negi) and the chief of the intercultural section of the Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Institute, first will present an overview of Shinto in Japanese culture. Gagaku,...