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Researchers to Use Grant to Improve Water in Tanzania
Professors and students hope to create portable device that could test for contaminants immediately, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 10/22/2009
About James Smoot Coleman
In 1985, the African Studies Center at UCLA was renamed the James S. Coleman African Studies Center in his honor.
Posted: 10/21/2009
She Travels Sahara to Record History of Caravan Trade
Ghislaine Lydon, the new chair of the African Studies interdepartmental program, will travel to Mauritania in December to collaborate on an article and a documentary film about the last women caravanners in the western Sahara Desert.
Posted: 10/5/2009
Through Food, Teachers Take Lessons in World Cultures at UCLA
Celebrating 30 years of teacher training programs on campus, the UCLA International Institute this summer dedicated a 10-day workshop to the theme of food in world history and world cultures.
Posted: 9/28/2009
Through Food, Teachers Take Lessons in World Cultures at UCLA
Celebrating 30 years of teacher training programs on campus, the UCLA International Institute this summer dedicated a 10-day workshop to the theme of food in world history and world cultures. Watch a video about the program.
Posted: 9/16/2009
International Institute Cooks Up Recipe for Teacher Success
This year's International Institute summer training program for teachers, a 10-day workshop, traced the evolution of regional and cross-regional food cultures from antiquity to the present day in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Posted: 8/27/2009
Trial by Fire in the Lassa Ward
Dr. Ross Donaldson interrupted med school at UCLA to travel to Sierra Leone and treat victims of one of the world's deadliest diseases, the Lassa virus. Thus began an adventure that he turned into a book.
Posted: 8/10/2009
Georgette Gagnon: Let's Take Practical Steps Against Genocide
In this video, the Africa Director of Human Rights Watch, Georgette Gagnon, tells why her organization pushed for the principle of a "responsibility to protect" to guard people from atrocities committed by their governments. The next step, Gagnon says, is to "operationalize" R2P.
Posted: 7/27/2009
Local Teachers to Eat Up International Studies at UCLA
Rice, chicken, tea. Sounds like a meal, but in a summer class about international food, these staples are a jumping-off point for understanding rice's role in globalization, how rumors about chicken quality represent distrust of the global market and how a British obsession with Chinese tea led to slave raids in the Philippines.
Posted: 7/10/2009
Narratives of Now: Opening and Keynote
African Activist Association's Fourth Annual Conference.
Posted: 6/30/2009
From Kuxa Kanema to Dockanema: The Re-emergence of Mozambican Cinema
Cassandra Tesch
Posted: 6/29/2009
Learning to Pray: Images of Violence Against Women in the Novels of Amma Darko
Shanique Streete
Posted: 6/29/2009
The Development of Tunisian Theatrical Experience: A Review of Its History from the Colonial Era to the Present
Rayed Khedher
Posted: 6/29/2009
Artists of the Green Sahara: Using Rock Art to Contextualize the Archaeology and History of the Sahara
E. Bryan Cooper Owens
Posted: 6/26/2009
Cigars, Champagne, and Convertibles: Coup-decale Music and the Performance of an African Identity
Katelyn Knox
Posted: 6/25/2009
From the Battle of Algiers to the Lyrical Battle for Ears: A Brief Introduction to Algerian Hip Hop
Mouna Mana
Posted: 6/25/2009
The Future of the South African Dream: Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and the April 2009 Elections
A conversation with author and journalist Mark Gevisser and Los Angeles Times reporter Scott Kraft. Featuring special guest actor Blair Underwood.
Posted: 6/15/2009
Experts Bring Africa Alive for Young Students
Nearly 1,000 middle and high school students came to campus on May 30 for the Teach Africa Youth Forum, the last and largest event in a yearlong collaborative effort carried out in Southern California schools to increase awareness about Africa and its place in global affairs.
Posted: 6/2/2009
Teach Africa Educates Students in Royce
In a forum on Saturday, speakers addressed several topics to break stereotypes of life in Africa, The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 6/1/2009
Dr. Keller Presents at Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs
Dr. Edmund Keller participated in the seventh annual Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs, held on April 17-18, 2009 at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Keynotes and featured presenters explored the positive and negative effects of globalization.
Posted: 5/1/2009
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