Hi Folks,

Are you ready for the launch of our seminar? We’ll be meeting at UCLA at 9 am. Courtesy parking permits in lot 3 three have been arranged for you. Simply drive to the parking kiosk at Wyton and Hilgard, give them the magic phrase “UCLA Asia Institute” and you’ll be provided with a permit.

For directions to UCLA, please go to:
http://international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=2390

We’ll be meeting on the 10th floor of Bunche Hall in room 10383. Bunche Hall is located immediately south of parking lot 3. You’ll walk past the Broad Art Center (under construction), Melnitz Hall (where we are screening a Japanese film Saturday), and the sculpture garden on your way to Bunche Hall (okay, extra credit time – for whom is Bunche Hall named?). We will start promptly at 9 am, so leave early. You can meander through the sculpture garden with any extra time you’ve got.

From 9 am to noon, we’ll be looking at early East Asia and East Asian geography. We’ll provide refreshments. From noon to 2 pm you are free to eat lunch at one of the campus dining halls or to bring your own lunch (we have microwaves in the dining areas). You can also use this time to tour the Fowler Museum of Cultural History on your own (admission is free, visit their website for details
http://fowler.ucla.edu) .

At 1:50 pm, we’ll reconvene at the door of the Lenart Auditorium (Fowler Museum). From 2 to 3:30 pm, we will hear and see a presentation on early Chinese family rituals and stories about family rituals. Cary Liu, curator of Asian art at Princeton University’s Art Museum is our speaker. His presentation concludes our first PVPUSD/UCLA seminar session, but we hope you’ll join us for a catered reception in the amphitheater beside the auditorium.

After enjoying the reception, you could walk down to the Hammer Museum ($5, http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/). The Hammer is open until 7 pm, so you could also wait and check out the “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architecture of Japanese Prints” exhibition that is currently there http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/96/) . At 7:30 pm, the UCLA Film Archive is opening its new series on Naruse Mikio (http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/public/calendar/calendar_f.html ) . Of Naruse Miko and Saturday’s film, Kevin Thomas wrote:

“Director Naruse Mikio (1905-69) was a master at transforming the traditional "woman's picture" into an enduring expression of the human spirit under siege. With compassion but detachment, the generally pessimistic Naruse viewed people's tangled lives and deepest longings straight on, and his steadfast vision and simplicity of style could bring dignity and meaning to even the most melodramatic soap opera plots.

“The UCLA Film and Television Archive begins its retrospective of the Japanese filmmaker with one of Naruse's finest films, "Floating Clouds" (1955). It packs such an emotional wallop that it's worth adjusting to its measured pacing, ample hand-wringing and full-blown score. It is in glorious black-and-white, features some of Japan's greatest stars of the era and is based on a famous novel by Hayashi Fumiko. It's an epic-scale romantic love story set against the morally bankrupt postwar era. Takamine Hideko and Mori Masayuki are the star-crossed lovers whose ill-fated affair is bathed in ineffable poignancy.” (LA Times, Nov. 3, 2005)

So you could spend the entire day in Asia at UCLA! The formal seminar, however, only includes the following:
9 am to noon in 10383 Bunche Hall
2 to 3:30 pm in the Lenart Auditorium

Click on the icon below to download a copy of the seminar assignments.

This is in your binder, but just in case...

Hi Folks,
I hope we can keep the session, though I'm loathe to intrude on your all-too-short break. I wish the district folks had let me know about this earlier. We could, perhaps, have the session earlier in the day. What do the rest of you think?

Hi Folks,
You have a print copy of this, but some may find it useful to have a "clickable" version as well. Some may wish to share this with their students.