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The Stone Foxes, Blues-Rock Group From San Francisco, Perform Intimate Concert

Jan 03, 2018

Aliso Viejo, CA – The Stone Foxes perform a rock show at Soka Performing Arts Center’s intimate Black Box Theatre on Friday, February 2, 2018, at 8:00 p.m. It’s impossible not to feel the dynamic

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Newly Formed Kova Quartet of Colburn School Performs at Soka

Jan 02, 2018

Aliso Viejo, CA – The Kova Quartet performs at Soka Performing Arts Center on Sunday, January 28, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. as a part of the Colburn at Soka: Artists on the Rise Series. In collaboration with

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Soka Professors Help Organize International Documentary Film Festival

Sep 10, 2017

Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation’s Just Films Office, Professors Kristi M. Wilson and Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli helped organize the 24th Visible Evidence documentary film festival in

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Governance, Internal Migration, Urbanization: A Cross-Regional Research Project

Mar 17, 2017

Governance, Internal Migration, Urbanization: A Cross-Regional Research Project March 17 – 18, 2017 East-West Center, Burns Hall, Honolulu, HI Organized by the Pacific Basin Research Center and the

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Humanity’s Penchant for Violence: Patterns of Religious Expressions - Michael Jerryson

Mar 06, 2017

Pacific Basin Research Center Presents Dr. Michael Jerryson - Associate Professor of Religious Studies Youngstown State University “Humanity’s Penchant for Violence: Patterns of Religious Expressions”

European Urban Renewal Policy: Facing Contradictory Spatial Developments by Arvid Krüger, Lecturer/ Researcher, Architecture & Urbanism Bauhaus Univ. Weimar, Germany

Feb 28, 2017

European Urbanism is often held up as a superior example to the sprawling, suburban-oriented way of life in the United States. Urban planners point to more compact and less car-dependent cities that

Saving the Bolsa Chica Wetlands: An Inspiring Documentary About Passion, Patience And Perseverance

Apr 19, 2016

Amigos de Bolsa Chica, a nonprofit environmental organization based in Huntington Beach CA, turns 40 this year. The story of the Amigos de Bolsa Chica is as rich as the land itself. In 1976, a group

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How to Have Your Soul and Eat It Too - Richard Fox

Apr 06, 2016

Pacific Basin Research Center Presents Dr. Richard Fox, Universität Heidelberg “How to Have Your Soul and Eat It Too: Moments of Translational Indeterminacy on the Indonesian Island of Bali” Wednesday

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History Across Ocean Worlds

Oct 29, 2015

Thursday, October 29, 2015 Gandhi 209 at 4:45pm A Panel Discussion with Dr. Kris Alexanderson, Assistant Professor of History, University of the Pacific Dr. Marc Matera, Assistant Professor of History

Lunch Talk on Environmental Documentary Filmmaking by Thea Mercouffer, Documentary Filmmaker & Director Of “Rock The Boat”

Oct 26, 2015

Born and raised in Romania, Thea and her family escaped the communist dictatorship in 1987 and immigrated to the US. In 1995, Thea received an MFA from the University of Washington. For the next few