UCLA ASIA INSTITUTE e News- May 2014

Asia in the Humanities/Humanities in Asia Film Screening Kamakha Through Prayerful Eyes A film by Aparna Sharma, UCLA World Arts & Cultures/Dance Monday, May 19, 2014 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum Poetics of the Invisible How can a documentarist visualize the "Inivisible?" With this as a cue, Kamakha: Through Prayerful Eyes (2013) documents the disparate ways by which devotees and visitors to Goddess Kamakhya’s shrine in Assam, northeast India, visualize a Goddess who is concealed and remains unseen. Composed over two years, this film explores possibilities for a poetic and sensory documentary experience.The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker, Aparna Sharma, moderated by Allyson Nadia Field (UCLA Film Television and Digital Media) Economic Change and Emerging Asia-Africa Interactions Forum on Asia/Africa Relations in Global Security Thursday, May 8 1:30-5:15 PM 11360 Young Research Library (UCLA) The last two decades have witnessed a shift in the cultural, political and economic geographies of Africa and Asia. The changing relations between the countries and the people of the two continents are among the most visible and striking evidence of the move from a unipolar to a multipolar world. This half-day program, organized by the Asia Institute and the UCLA African Studies Center is the culmination of the ongoing series on “Economic Change and Emerging Asia-Africa Interactions” which examines how we can understand the growing ties between Africa and Asia from vantage points that do not start from or converge on US and Europe. Click here for full program and abstracts of the presentations May Asian Studies Spotlight Events at UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Thursday, May 8 Film Screening: Issei: The First Generation Documentary film about Japanese immigrants who, at the turn of the century, immigrated to the West Coast of the U.S. and tell their stories of struggles and triumphs in a new land. 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM UCLA Broad Art Center EDA Room Luskin School of Public Affairs Tuesday, May 13 UCLA Regents' Lecturer Charles C. Mann The Futures of Food and the Futures of Farmers 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Public Affairs Third Floor Terrace Center for India and South Asia Monday, May 19 2014 CISA Annual Lecture Homi Bhabha, Director, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University 4:00 PM-6:00 PM UCLA Broad Art Building, Room 2160E (Auditorium) UCLA East Asian Library Monday, May 19 UCLA Library Writer Series Hiding in a Cave of Trunks A presentation by Mrs. Ester Benjamin Shifren Author of Hiding in a Cave of Trunks: A Prominent Jewish Family’s Century in Shanghai and Internment in a WWII POW Camp 12:30 PM Young Research Library RSVP by May 16 to tscott@library.ucla.edu Center for Southeast Asian Studies Tuesday, May 20 The Uncolonized: Resisting Colonialism in the Northern Philippine Highlands Stephen Acabado, UCLA Department of Anthropology 12:00 PM-1:30 PM 10383 Bunche Hall Center for Buddhist Studies Thursday, May 22 Tang Women in the Transformation of Buddhist Filiality Ping Yao, California State University Los Angeles 4:00-5:30 PM Bunche 10383 Center for Chinese Studies Thursday, May 29 Returning to the Mound of Xia: Archaeology and Social Memory of Zhou State-Building Li Min, UCLA 4:00-5:30 PM Bunche Hall 10383 Center for Korean Studies Wednesday, April 2 Contact and Interference: Hybridity in Korean Language, in comparison with English and French Jongsok Koh 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Royce Hall 314 Center for India and South Asia Saturday, April 5 Prospects for Pakistan: Looking beyond 2014 Ambassador Cameron Munter 3:00-5:00 PM UCLA Broad Art Center Room 2160E Rsvp required Center for Buddhist Studies Monday, April 7 The Relation of Early Buddhism in Northeast South Asia with Buddhism in Areas of Burma Arlo Griffiths, Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient, Jakarta 4:00-5:30 PM Dodd 275 Center for Chinese Studies Wednesday, April 9 Film Stars in the Perspective of Performance Studies: Play, Liminality, and Alteration in Chinese Cinema Yingjin Zhang, University of California, San Diego 4:00-5:30 PM Bunche Hall 11377 Prop Q Series Thursday, April 10 Lecture/Demonstration: “He is My Wife, He is My Mother” Director Katherine Hui-ling Chou and performer Yi-Hsiu Lee 4:30-6:00 PM MacGowan 1330 10383 Bunche Hall More events posted here

Asia Institute Member Centers For further information and announcements about research on campus, public events, funding, and ongoing programs, please visit the UCLA Asia Institute website, or the centers' individual websites. Center for Buddhist Studies Center for Chinese Studies Center for India and South Asia Center for Korean Studies Center for Southeast Asian Studies Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies UCLA Program on Central Asia