'Spaces of Asian Cinema'

The “Spaces of Asian Cinema” symposium, with three keynote speeches and four panel discussions, is being held as part of the Asia Pacific Film Festival.

The symposium program is free and open to the public in the Andrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

 Organizers said: “While our festival is focused on Asian films, we hope the symposium, given its theoretical concerns, would be useful and interesting to a broader audience.”

Nov. 5

• 9:30 a.m. — Yingjin Zhang, keynote: “Cinema, Space and Polylocality in a Globalizing China.”

• 10:40 — Panel: "Spaces of Spectrality and Memory."

• 1:30 p.m. — Akira Mizuta Lippit, keynote: “The Inside Image Out, Japan."

• 2:40 p.m. — Panel: "Transcultural and Transnational Spaces."

• 4:40 p.m. — Panel: "Real and Imaginary Spaces."

Nov. 6

• 10:30 a.m. — Panel: "Postcolonial and Gendered Spaces."

• 11:50 a.m. — Kyu-hyun Kim, associate professor of history, UC Davis, keynote: “Concrete Purgatory — Apartment Complexes as Liminal Spaces and the Anxieties of Modernity in Contemporary South Korean Cinema."

Sponsors: Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Studies, and the UC Davis Humanities Institute Research Cluster on Space and Spatiality

More information: langlit.ucdavis.edu/home/shlu.

Future of ‘cleantech’

The School of Law is putting on a daylong symposium on the future of "cleantech," referring to alternative energy and a broad range of other environmentally sensitive innovations.

Symposium organizers said the speakers and panelists are top professionals, entrepreneurs and executives in law, engineering and environmental sciences.

"Cleantech in the New 'Environmental' Environment" is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Wilkins Moot Court Room in King Hall, with admission free and open to the public.

Industry watchers hail cleantech as the "next big thing." In fact, the emerging industry was one of the largest recipients of venture capital last year. President Obama has pledged to invest $150 billion over 10 years to establish a green energy sector capable of creating millions of new jobs.

The speakers and panelistshave been called upon to address developments in the entrepreneurial environment and the expanding role of universities and governments in providing financial, regulatory and technological support for the cleantech industry. They also are expected to discuss how society, businesses and governments ranging from the Obama administration to key states and
foreign countries are moving rapidly to develop green economies.

The keynote speakers:

• Daniel Sperling, UC Davis professor of civil engineering, and environmental science and policy; founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis; and acting director of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center.

• John Doerr, general partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a leading venture capital firm; director of Google, Amazon.com and several private companies; and appointee to Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

The panelists include:

• Peter F. Ward, alternative fuel and vehicle technology program manager, California Energy Commission.

• Erik Stenehjem, director, Industrial Partnerships Office, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

• Bill Tucker, executive director, Office of Technology Transfer, UC Office of the President

• Peter Van Deventer, president and chief executive officer, SynapSense.

• Hal La Flash, director, Emerging Clean Technologies, Pacific Gas & Electric.

• Paul Holland, partner, Foundation Capital, and board member, Serious Materials.

The cleantech symposium is the second in a five-year Technology,
Entrepreneurship, Science and Law lecture series co-sponsored by the
School of Law and Fenwick & West, a law firm serving technology and life sciences clients through offices in Mountain View, San Francisco and Seattle.

Lunch is available for $15 for students, $25 for others; the registration deadline for lunch has come and ghone, but you can contact Gia Hellwig, event coordinator, (530) 754-5335 or gkhellwig@ucdavis.edu, to see if you can still get lunch.

More information on the symposium.

Languages, cultures

The fifth annual Colloquium on Latin American and Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures, sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, is scheduled from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Memorial Union. More information: dhi.ucdavis.edu/?p=2495.

All Seminars and Colloquia.