eNews | Spring 2018 Events Wednesday, April 11, 12:00–1:30 p.m. China and India Comparative Entrepreneurship Forum: Can brains circulate? Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) and Entrepreneurship in a Transnational Perspective Purnima Mankekar (UCLA) Discussant: Gina Masequesmay (CSU Northridge) Bunche Hall 10383 Cosponsored by Center for India and South Asia Tuesday, April 17, 12:00 p.m. Live Music Event: Refugee Re/Enactments Original music by artist Tiffany Lytle with songs from Cambodian Child (EP) Dickson Court Organized by Asian American Studies Department Friday, April 20, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Going Global: Exploring Human Rights in the Shadow of Nationalism International Institute 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference Faculty Center RSVP required: click here Cosponsored by African Studies Center, Center for Middle East Development, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Latin American Institute, Graduate Division Friday, April 20, 11:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m. 2018 Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference: A New Era of Economic Ties and Bilateral Investment for the U.S. and China Anderson School of Management Registration required: click here Organized by Center for Global Management, Greater China Business Association, and Chinese Students and Scholars Association. Cosponsored by Center for Chinese Studies, Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, and other companies and organizations. Thursday, April 26, 4:00–5:30 p.m. Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea Jaeeun Kim (University of Michigan) Bunche Hall 10383 Cosponsored by Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Center for the Study of International Migration, Department of Sociology Friday, May 4, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Crescent Moon Symposium Susan Chan Egan (retired securities analyst), Liu Cong (Qufu Normal University), Tony S. Hsu (physicist, entrepreneur turned writer), Sasha Su-Ling Welland (University of Washington), Michelle Yeh (UC Davis), and UCLA faculty Michael Berry, King-Kok Cheung, and Louise Hornby Faculty Center California Room Organized by Department of English and cosponsored by several departments Friday–Saturday, May 11–12 UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative Conference Indigenous Knowledge, Taiwan: Comparative and Relational Perspectives Detailed schedule to be announced Part of the UCLA-National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan Studies Initiative. Cosponsored by American Indian Studies Center. Monday, May 21, 12:00–1:30 p.m. China and India Comparative Entrepreneurship Forum: Global Dynamics of Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Changing Trends, Ethnonational Variations, and Reconceptualizations Min Zhou (UCLA) Discussant: Akhil Gupta (UCLA) Bunche Hall 10383 Cosponsored by Center for India and South Asia Complete schedule of events posted here Event Monday, April 16 4:00–5:30 p.m. Afghan Studies Lecture Pashto Literature in North India in the 16th-18th Centuries Mikhail Pelevin (St. Petersburg State University) Bunche Hall 10383 Presented in collaboration with Center for India and South Asia Related Event of Interest Sunday, April 22 2:00–5:00 p.m. Persian and Greek Participation in The Making of the First Empire in China Duan Qingbo (Northwest University, Xi’an, China) with musical performance by UCLA faculty Li Chi and Amir Pourjavady Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum Cosponsored by Fowler Museum at UCLA, Cotsen Institute for Archaeology, Department of Ethnomusicology, Boethius Initiative, and UCLA Confucius Institute News Caught between empires: Rising nationalism in Taiwan, Okinawa and Hong Kong As part of our Taiwan Studies Lecture Series, Rwei-Ren Wu (Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica) recently spoke about the new waves of nationalism that have swept through Okinawa, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in recent years. Wu argued that these nationalist discourses evolved from the semi-independence of Hong Kong under British rule and the communities created in Taiwan and Okinawa by Japanese colonial institutions, as well as the current oppressive actions against activists, legislators and national economies taken by the Chinese and Japanese governments. Zuo Tradition/Zuozhuan receives Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation The Asia Pacific Center congratulates Professor David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, on being awarded the 2018 Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation (China and Inner Asia) by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) for Zuo Tradition/Zuozhuan. Shared with his co-translators Stephen Durrant (University of Oregon) and Wai-yee Li (Harvard University), the prize was awarded at the AAS annual conference in Washington, D.C. on March 23. The Asia Pacific Center presented a major conference in honor of this translation in May 2017: Zuozhuan in the Context of Warring States Texts. Read an excerpt from the book on Scribd. Professor Nile Green receives Guggenheim Fellowship Former Program on Central Asia Director Nile Green, Professor of History at UCLA, has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor Green will use his fellowship to complete a concise book that asks what is global Islam and where did it come from. For more information about his work and the award, please visit his fellow page on the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation website. Copyright © 2018 UCLA Asia Pacific Center, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: UCLA Asia Pacific Center 11286 Bunche Hall Box 951487 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487