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Lectures

2007-2008 Lecture Series

2006-2007 Lecture Series

• Buddhism, War, and Violence presented by Prof. Michael Zimmermann
  Thursday, September 20, 2007, 3:45 - 5:00 p.m. at 103 Fine Arts B.
• Indological and Buddhological Intersections: German and American Approaches to the study of Buddhism and Indian Religion presented by Prof. Michael Zimmermann, University of Hamburg, Germany.
  Thursday, September 20, 2007, 6:30 - 7: 30pm at 117 Anderson Hall.
• U.S. Premiere of Pamina Devi: A Cambodian Magic Flute
  Thursday, September 27, 2007, 7:30 p.m. at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Students may purchase $10 tickets forPamina Devi beginning August 27. There will be a pre- and post-performance discussion with artists from the production. Please click here for more information.
• Making Modern Masculine Japan: Literature, Hokkaido, and the Meiji Colonial Project presented by Dr. Michele Mason, Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, University of Maryland.
  Thursday, October 18, 2007, 4:00 - 6:00pm at 109 Little Hall.
• Censorship Apparatus and Censors in Colonial Korea presented by Dr. Jung Keun-sik, Professor of Sociology in Seoul National University.
  Thursday, November 8, 4:00 - 6:00pm at 109 Little Hall.
• Studying Asian American Politics from the Transnational Lens presented by Professor Pei-te Lien (UC Santa Barbara).
  Thursday, November 15th, 2:30-4:00pm at 216 Anderson Hall
  For more information on Professor Lien, visit http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/bios/lien.php.  For more information about the program, contact Dr. Won-ho Park , Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science.

2005-2006 Lecture Series

• Minami Ryuta lecture November 7, 2005
• Benjamin Smith, UF Poli Sci, November 21, “Oil, Opposition, and Late Development: Regimes, Booms and Busts in the Exporting world, 1975-1999.”
• Prof. Matthew Thorn presents "Commercialization and Loss of Innocence: Children's Manga from 1920's to Present" at Reitz Union 282, Feb 24, 12 Noon
• Prof. Eugene Wang , Gardner Cowles Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, shares "Other Times, Other Spaces in the Dunhuang Caves" at Dauer 219, Mar 6, 3PM
• Dr. Byong Man Anh , UF Distinguished Alumnus, Fulbright Scholar, and President of Hankuk University, Seoul,Republic of Korea, explains "Dealing with North Korea" at the Emerson Room, University of Florida Foundation, Mar 23, 7:30PM
• Prof. Gayatri Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, presents "Marxism and the Literary" at the Keene Faculty Center, Mar 31, 8PM
• Romulus Whitaker, Founder and Director of the Madras Crocodile Bank and Centre for Herpetology, describes "Challenges Facing Wildlife Conservation in Asia" at Reitz Union 282, Apr 19, 8PM
• Janaki Lenin, Coordinator of the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station and author/producer, defines "Human-Animal Conflict Mitigation in Asia" at Reitz Union 282 after Romulus Whitaker on Apr 19
• Janaki Lenin hosts films, screening "Spunky Monkey" which addresses the problem of nuisance animals, and "King Cobra and I" aired by BBC, which concerns king cobra conservation and a rainforest research station in Western Ghats of India, beginning at 7:30PM, Reitz Union 282

Fall 2005 Film Series, "Revisiting Early Maoism"

The Hippodrome State Theatre, 7pm, FREE and Open to the public

• National Anthem (1999), November 14
• Mao Zedong in 1925 (2001), November 21
• Song of Youth (1959), November 28
• Xi'an Incident (1981), December 12

2004-2005 Lecture Series

• "Gods and Ancestors in Early China"
  Dr. Michael Puett, March 11th, 2005. Harn Museum Auditorium, 6:00-7:00 pm

• "The Emergence of the Detail in Late Colonial Korea."
  Dr. Janet Poole, March 17th , Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium, 1pm

• "Coffins, Jars, and Tombs: Prehistoric Burial in East and Southeast Asia"

  Organizer: Dr. John Krigbaum (Assistant Professor, Anthropology), Saturday, April 16, 2005, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm, Friends of Music Room

• "Beyond Inequality: Gender Empowerment, Poverty Alleviation, and the Redefinition of Manhood."
  Dr. Fauzia Ahmed, March 25th, 219 Dauer Hall, 2:30pm