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Summer Workshops UCLA/USC and Illinois/Indiana National East Asia Dissertation Workshop Early Modern East Asia June 3–4, 2016 at UCLA Application Deadline: March 20, 2016 The University of California,  Los Angeles/University of Southern California National Resource Center Consortium (UCLA/USC NRC)  in cooperation with the Illinois/Indiana East Asia National Resource Center Consortium (IL/IN East Asia NRC)  is pleased to announce the second Joint Consortium National Dissertation Workshop in the field of  Early Modern East Asian Studies. Doctoral students in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts  whose dissertation projects concern early modern topics broadly conceived are invited to apply.  Areas of interest include history, literature, visual arts, performing arts, and philosophy of Imperial China,  Tokugawa Japan, and Joseon Korea. Application instructions are available on the Asia Institute website. UCLA-Shanghai Jiaotong University 2016 Summer Chinese Text and Translation Workshop New Materials and Interdisciplinary Methods of Studying Twentieth-century Chinese History:  Issues of Governance in Contemporary China July 4–11, 2016 at Shanghai Jiaotong University Application Deadline: April 10, 2016 This six-day intensive summer reading and translation workshop  will be held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University  and led jointly by Cao Shuji, Professor of History at SJTU and R. Bin Wong,  Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA.   The workshop is intended to serve students developing dissertation topics in an environment  that brings together International and Chinese-based graduate students.  Sessions will be conducted in a combination of Chinese and English languages. Application instructions are available on the Asia Institute website. Events Thursday, February 4, 2:00–3:30 p.m. Frontiers of Persian Learning Lecture Fluent in One Language, Literate in Another: New Approaches to Multilingual Persian Vocabularies Walter Hakala (University at Buffalo) 10383 Bunche Hall Cosponsored by Center for Near Eastern Studies and Center for India and South Asia Friday, February 5, 9:30 a.m.–5:15 p.m. Frontiers of Persian Learning Conference The Social Frontiers of Persian Learning 314 Royce Hall Registration is required (free for UCLA affiliates and $20 for the general public). Please RSVP via the conference website. Presented by Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and organized by  Program on Central Asia Director Nile Green Tuesday, February 9, 4:00–5:30 p.m. Afghan Studies Lecture Looking Back on 50 Years of Musical Research in Afghanistan Lorraine Sakata (UCLA) 10383 Bunche Hall Cosponsored by Center for World Music Copies of Lorraine Sakata’s book Afghanistan Encounters with Music and Friends  will be on sale at the event. Thursday, February 11, 4:00–5:30 p.m. Climate Change in Central Asia Lecture Knowledge of and Vulnerability to Climate Change among Pastoralists in Central Tibet Emily Yeh (University of Colorado Boulder) 10383 Bunche Hall Cosponsored by Departments of Anthropology and Geography Thursday, February 25, 4:00–5:30 p.m. Climate Change in Central Asia Lecture Integrating Local Knowledge with Ecosystem Science to Understand the Causes and  Consequences of Environmental Change in Tibet Kelly Hopping (Stanford University) 10383 Bunche Hall Cosponsored by Departments of Anthropology and Geography Call for Papers UCLA Central Asia Workshop Second Annual Conference 2016 Expanding Eurasia: New Approaches to Central Asian Studies April 28, 2016 (Deadline: February 20, 2016) Keynote speaker: Prof. Faiz Ahmed (Department of History, Brown University) The UCLA Central Asia Workshop is pleased to announce a call for papers for its second annual graduate student conference at the  University of California, Los Angeles. We invite papers from graduate students across  the United States in any discipline and stage of study. We particularly welcome papers that address themes such as: ·         cultural and political connectivity ·         study of language ·         religious minorities ·         circulation and mobility of people and ideas between Central Asia and greater Eurasia and North Africa We especially encourage papers that cut across disciplinary and temporal boundaries and time periods. Proposal should include a title, a 250-word abstract, institutional affiliation, and contact information.  Please submit proposal by February 20, 2016, to: Marjan Wardaki (mwardaki@ucla.edu).

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