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The Buddha as Astute Businessman, Economist, Lawyer

Wall Street bankers would have benefited from being in the Buddha's audience. At the 106th Faculty Research Lecture, Gregory Schopen explains.
Posted: 3/19/2009

Musawah Movement: Seeking Equality and Justice in Muslim Family Law

A doctoral student in women's studies reports on a February gathering in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, demanding inclusion of women's perspectives in the construction of family law in both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority countries.
Posted: 3/13/2009

Drama: The Forgotten Genre

Cody Poulton of the University of Victoria traces the rise and fall of drama as a literary genre in early 20th-century Japan.
Posted: 3/6/2009

Whose Buddhism and Which Science?

Donald S. Lopez Jr. of the University of Michigan seeks to explain why some Buddhists and some scientists have been so eager, for a century and a half, to assert the compatibility of two very different ways of seeking knowledge.
Posted: 2/25/2009

Venues of Transformation

Damola Osinulu, a doctoral student in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, took his International Fieldwork Fellowship to Lagos, Nigeria, to understand why at least a million Pentecostal worshippers come together just north of the city.
Posted: 2/24/2009

The Other Oscar Made in Asia

Hadn't heard of Yojiro Takita's 'Departures' before it won the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards? Asia Pacific Arts, an online publication of the UCLA Asia Institute, reviewed the film last month and took stock of a great year in Japanese cinema.
Posted: 2/23/2009

Buson's Comedic Artistry

Cheryl Crowley of Emory University uncovers the messages hidden in Yosa Buson's comedic haiku paintings.
Posted: 2/18/2009

10 Questions for Robert Lemelson

In 1965-66, between 500,000 and 1 million Indonesians were slaughtered in one of the most horrific state-sponsored acts of modern times. Long denied by the Indonesian government, the little-known massacre is the subject of a chilling documentary film produced and directed by Robert Lemelson, a research anthropologist at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
Posted: 2/6/2009

A Stitch in Time Saves Everyday Memorabilia

Renowned Ethiopian artist Elias Sim oversaw the making of a huge, paneled tapestry assembled by an eclectic mix of impromptu "artists" gathered outside the Broad Art Center Monday, Feb. 2.
Posted: 2/3/2009

Rio de Janeiro: Two Centuries of Urban Change 1808-2008

The Latin American Institute launches new Center for Brazilian Studies at the Exhibition of Rio de Janeiro: Two Centuries of Urban Change 1808-2008 on February 5, 2009.
Posted: 2/2/2009

Chinese Children's Art Troupe Visits Los Angeles

The Southern California portion of the tour was coordinated by the UCLA Confucius Institute and Star Education, a nonprofit organization.
Posted: 1/27/2009

Human Rights Film Series Starts Wednesday

The UCLA International Institute Human Rights Film Series begins on Wednesday, Jan. 28, with a public screening of "Killer's Paradise" and discussion with director Giselle Portenier. The documentary film shines a light on the murders of more than 2,000 Guatemalan women in recent years and on responses by police and officials that often only compound the crimes.
Posted: 1/23/2009

10 Questions for Vinay Lal

Going by the title of a witty and insightful book by Vinay Lal, associate professor of history, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and U.S. Surgeon General-designate Sanjay Gupta are among "The Other Indians," distinct in many ways not just from native Americans but also from India's 1 billion people. Lal's book was recently published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press and HarperCollins (India). Here, he discusses the Indian community in the U.S. and geopolitical events in South Asia.
Posted: 1/22/2009

Kyoto's Urban Heritage

Christoph Brumann, professor of anthropology at the University of Cologne, seeks Kyoto's heritage beyond museum walls.
Posted: 1/22/2009

Confucian Wisdom Guides Scholar Through Turbulent Times

The campus community got a rare glimpse Jan. 12 into the life of a Chinese literary scholar who embarked on a voyage of self-discovery and rose to take on a powerful role at the highest levels of government.
Posted: 1/14/2009

Hip Hop Dreams in Dakar

A whirlwind tour of the Senagalese captial's music scene laid the groundwork for my comparative dissertation.
Posted: 1/14/2009

10 Questions for Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Ostrich feathers for women's hats were worth nearly as much as diamonds by weight just prior to World War I, when the bubble burst. In "Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce" (Yale University Press), a book that resonates with the current financial crisis, UCLA historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein describes a European and American vogue for African feathers from the 1880s and recounts sad tales of a global market crash that struck particularly hard at Jewish merchants.
Posted: 1/9/2009

Outgoing US Cultural Affairs Official Touts Social Networking Website

At a lecture cosponsored by the Burkle Center and student groups, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Goli Ameri introduces ExchangesConnect, a social networking website intended to bring a "new generation of digital natives" into conversation around the globe. Her bureau will also fund Indonesian dance performances on campus in spring.
Posted: 1/7/2009

An Architect for the Next Generation

As chair of UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, internationally acclaimed Japanese architect Hitoshi Abe has launched educational initiatives including a Laboratory for Cross-Cultural Studies.
Posted: 1/5/2009

Developments in the Study of Buddhist Art

Art History experts gather at UCLA to offer new interpretations of Buddhist art.
Posted: 12/19/2008

2 Exhibitions at Fowler to Showcase Contemporary African Art

From Feb. 22, the concurrent exhibitions 'Continental Rifts' and 'Transformations' will include video and film, photography, painting, sculpture and prints.
Posted: 12/18/2008

Fowler Exhibit Showcases Marsh Arabs and Their 'Floating Houses'

Photographer Nik Wheeler, a Vietnam War photographer, photojournalist and now a freelance photographer, took the iconic National Geographic images of the Marsh Arabs, or Mad'an.
Posted: 12/15/2008

Talk With the Taliban?

Two European-based anthropologists say that Afghans may be more inclined than some others to speak with enemies and to entertain views opposed to their own.
Posted: 12/10/2008

Shards

The late Roxanna Brown, who earned a UCLA doctorate in art history near the end of a creative scholarly career, found sweeping historical narratives in recovered Southeast Asian ceramics. Some of her unpublished works will be pieced together, but her vision can't be replaced, say three speakers at a UCLA symposium.
Posted: 12/8/2008

'Creating Places'

At the first "Asia in LA" program, architects, urban designers, and faculty members discuss the relationships between cosmopolitanism in a global city and particular locales.
Posted: 11/26/2008

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