This international conference explores the 1930 Musha Incident, a violent conflict between the indigenous Seediq and the Japanese colonial powers in Taiwan. Through a series of lectures, panels, and discussions, “Musha 1930: History, Memory, Culture” will explore the lingering impact of this conflict and how it has been constructed in contemporary Taiwanese cultural memory. This...

Internationally acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda will be in Los Angeles to participate in an exciting retrospective of his films at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater and a other venues across town. The director will introduce some films and engage in Q&A about others. This exciting event is presented by the Yanai Initiative at UCLA and...

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 &...

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 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...

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...