Initiation of Women's Studies Collaboration

A Swedish academic visits UCLA to begin an exchange program with the Center for the Study of Women and to present research. Professor Britta Lundgren also meets with the Vice Provost and Dean of the International Institute.
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Posted: 6/3/2008

Unsettled Deep in Asia

With a film screening and a panel discussion, the UCLA Asia Institute and partners launch a Central Asia Initiative. The goal is to understand societies and cultures long on the fringes of study. Anticipating a UCLA conference in October 2008, historians on the panel ask what changed on the steppes of Central Asia as states acquired the means to move and deport whole peoples, and as nomads increasingly stayed put.
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Posted: 5/19/2008

European Classical Meets Japanese Nagauta

Terasaki Chair Thomas Rimer discusses the beginnings of Western classical music in Japan and the life of Japan's first well-known composer.
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Posted: 5/8/2008

Film Notes: Three Romanian Movies

Denise Roman of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women discusses "Belonging and Corporeality in the New Wave of Romanian Cinema."
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Posted: 5/7/2008

Students, Fans Adore Him

Vladimir Chernov's lifelong love affair with singing began in a small village near the city of Krasnodar, some 1,400 kilometers south of Moscow. Now he is a professor of vocal studies in the Department of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
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Posted: 4/22/2008

Hyper-Driven

Todd Presner, associate professor of Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies and self-described "techie-humanist," is the mind behind Hypermedia Berlin, an online geodatabase that enables visitors to virtually explore the famous German city layer by layer and era by era.
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Posted: 4/21/2008

Saul Friedlander Wins Pulitzer for History of Nazi Holocaust

The 2008 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction goes to the occupant of UCLA's 1939 Club Chair in Holocaust Studies, for the second volume of his seminal history.
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Posted: 4/7/2008

Danish Ambassador Touts 'Dangerous' Example

How Denmark stays progressive, pro-U.S., and thoroughly multilateral, as explained by Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen, the country's top representative in Washington.
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Posted: 3/14/2008

The Book that Brought Tolerance to the Enlightenment

UCLAGetty Research Institute digital project revives Europe's first taste of religious tolerance.
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Posted: 12/21/2007

10 Questions for Lynn Hunt

Professor of History Lynn Hunt's 2007 book "Inventing Human Rights: A History" was published with CIA-sponsored "torture flights," "enhanced interrogation techniques" and genocide all in the news. She spoke with UCLA International Institute Senior Writer Kevin Matthews about whether the very idea of human rights is now in danger, and how novels aided the concept's evolution.
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Posted: 12/11/2007

Last US Ambassador to USSR Makes Case for Cooperation

Ambassador Jack Matlock says that, on the most pressing global issues, the United States still needs Russia. Speaking ahead of parliamentary elections, he calls U.S. discussion of Putin's autocratic tendencies "overblown."
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Posted: 12/4/2007

Panel Speaks on Oil Politics

The panel featured journalist Steve LeVine and discussion centered around oil in the Caspian region, where LeVine spent 11 years reporting. [The event was sponsored by the UCLA Center for International Business Education & Research and cosponsored with the UCLA International Institute and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, among others.]
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Posted: 11/7/2007

At UCLA, Mongolia's First Lady Seeks Ties with 'Third Neighbor'

Tsolmon Onon Enkhbayar addresses UCLA scholars and members of L.A.'s Mongolian community.
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Posted: 10/30/2007

10 Questions with Saul Friedlander

UCLA History Professor Saul Friedlander, chronicler of the Holocaust, will receive the top award at the Frankfurt Book Fair this month.
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Posted: 10/10/2007

Sputnik Launch Turns 50, Russia Yawns

Andrew L. Jenks, an assistant professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, explains that the Sputnik moment was a moment for Americans, not Russians (who also had Yuri Gagarin). And the moment could repeat itself.
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Posted: 10/3/2007

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