J-WAVE USA -- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AS THE GATEWAY TO JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE INDUSTRIES IN THE WEST
Three days of events at UCLA looking at Japan-LA connections in the creative industries, including a conference, talks, reception, and exclusive one day art exhibition
March 13-15 2008
Please join us for our program events at UCLA, featuring international guest lecturers, talks at the Hammer Museum and Anderson School of Management, a public reception, and the first ever West Coast exhibition of the acclaimed Japanese women photographers, Mikiko Hara and Mika Ninagawa.
Thursday March 13th Dept of Sociology, Haines Hall 279, Sociology Workshop, 5-7pm Takashi Machimura (Hitotsubashi University), ‘Migrants’ Los Angeles Revisited: Stduying Ethnic LA through its Immigrant Media'
Friday March 14th Hammer Museum, Lecture Hall, 1-3pm Art Talk by Hiromi Nakamura (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) ‘Sweet and Bitter: Contemporary ‘Girl Photography’ from Japan’ Discussion with Laura Miller, Sharon Kinsella, Charlotte Cotton & Yoshitaka Mouri more info: http://www.csw.ucla.edu/Newsletter/Feb08/Feb_08_sweet.pdf
Anderson School of Management, Entrepreneurs Hall & Korn Hall, 4-9pm Exhibition of artworks by Mikiko Hara and Mika Ninagawa Address by Japanese Consul General and Business Panel on ‘J-Wave entrepreneurship in LA’, with Roland Kelts, Ai Aota, Mike Tatsugawa, Bobby Okinaka & Jamie Rivadeneira Reception in Atrium C
**All Friday events open and free to the public**
Saturday March 15th Public Policy Lounge 5391, 8.30am-4pm A one day academic conference on the UCLA project with Ted Bestor, Gabriella Lukacs, W.David Marx, Patrick Macias, Yuniya Kawamura, Olga Sooudi, Michael Peter Smith
Open to researchers by registration only
Further information and registration for academic conference: afavell@soc.ucla.edu