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Professor's Website Lets Music Flow Across Former Soviet Union
Difficult geography, limited communication and a collapsed music industry mean that many Russian bands and artists are limited to their local scene. But Professor David MacFadyen's website, "Far From Moscow," has given them a way to escape their isolation. read full article »
Big Experiences for Small Scandinavian Studies Graduate Program
The Scandinavian Section, which split off from the department of Germanic languages decades ago, is geared toward independent students who are responsible for their own learning and progress. read full article »
French Retirement Protests Turn Violent
Dominic Thomas, chair of the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and a professor of comparative literature, was interviewed Tuesday on KPCC-89.3 FM's "AirTalk" about ongoing protests in France against potential pension reforms that would include raising the retirement age from 60 to 62. read full article »
Mark Kleiman
Kleiman, professor of public policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, was quoted Monday in a Time magazine article about the effects of drug decriminalization in Portugal. read full article »
CEES Funding Opportunities for UCLA Graduate Students
CEES Funding Opportunities for UCLA Faculty
David MacFadyen
MacFadyen, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, was quoted Friday in a Boston Globe article on the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll. read full article »
Value-Added Tax in America, Europe
A Salon article published Tuesday about taxation and social spending in the U.S. references "The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike" by UCLA history professor Peter Baldwin, which illustrates how social, environmental, health care and other differences between the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe are less significant than commonly assumed. read full article »
Vacation Gap Between Europe, U.S.
Friday's New York Times featured an op-ed by Peter Baldwin, UCLA professor of history and author of "The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike," comparing work hours, vacation time and stress levels among Americans and Europeans. read full article »
Teaching U.S. History Through Czech Composer
An article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about a teacher-training program that aims to illuminate 20th-century American history through the work of composer Antonin Dvorak references an interactive DVD on Dvorak created in 2003 by UCLA music professor Robert Winter. The DVD and a companion book on the composer are used in courses at a New Jersey high school. read full article »
2009-10 CEES Graduate Student Funding Award Recipients
Dissertation/Pre-Dissertation Fellowships and Language Study Grants. read full article »
Book Explores Birth of Religious Tolerance
Tablet magazine today features a review of "The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard's 'Religious Ceremonies of the World'" and "Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion," two new books co-authored by Lynn Hunt, UCLA's Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, and Margaret Jacob, UCLA professor of history, that explore the history of a seminal 18th-century work on the world's religions and the effect it had on religious tolerance. read full article »
Book Explores Birth of Religious Tolerance
The New York Review of Books features a review of "The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard's 'Religious Ceremonies of the World'" and "Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion," two new books co-authored by Lynn Hunt, UCLA's Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, and Margaret Jacob, UCLA professor of history, that explore the history of a seminal 18th-century work on the world's religions and the effect it had on religious tolerance. read full article »
The New Grand Bourgeoisie under Post-Communism: Central Europe, Russia, and China Compared
A public lecture by Ivan Szelenyi, Yale University, Sociology. read full article »
"Street Days" at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival
CEES continues its partnership with the LA Film Festival with a screening of a dramatic feature from Georgia on June 19th and 23rd. read full article »
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