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21 Feb  2026
10:00 AM
23rd Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

23rd Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

This Colloquium is an annual international conference for graduate students in the Humanities/Social Sciences to present research pertaining to all aspects of Armenian studies, including but not limited to language, literature, history, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, and art history.

10 Mar  2026
11:00 AM
The Iran War

The Iran War

The second event in the Center's urgent series offering different perspectives on the 2026 Iran War.

10 Mar  2026
12:00 PM
Streets of a Million Martyrs: Everyday Poetics and Politics in Urban Algeria

Streets of a Million Martyrs: Everyday Poetics and Politics in Urban Algeria

In her forthcoming book, Streets of a Million Martyrs: Poetics and Politics in Urban Algeria, Love follows residents of Oran, Algeria to shows how city dwellers sustain a revolutionary spirit despite grappling with an all-too-recent history of violence, crumbling infrastructure, and ongoing state efforts to silence their diverse stories.

10 Mar  2026
5:00 PM
Book Talk:

Book Talk: "Acculturation of Korean New Zealander Youth: Re-Ethnicization of the Newer Generation"

This book by Changzoo Song (University of Auckland) explores the acculturation, identity development, and cultural reconnection of newer-generation (1.5- and second-generation) Korean New Zealander youth who grew up in New Zealand after the 1990s. Based on in-depth interviews, it shows how many of them initially sought to assimilate into the dominant culture but later experienced a process of re-ethnicization, rediscovering...

10 Mar  2026
6:00 PM
ICE OUT: Arte En Resistencia!
Cultural Outreach Events

ICE OUT: Arte En Resistencia!

Join the Center for the Study of International Migration, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network as they present an exhibition of community art depicting resistance and solidarity in the face of state violence.

11 Mar  2026
11:30 AM
Documentary Screening: Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting Tour
11 Mar  2026
12:00 PM
Believing in Light after Darkness
Book Talks

Believing in Light after Darkness

In this talk, Molly Fee will present her book Believing in Light after Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement; comments will be provided by Jake Watson.

11 Mar  2026
12:00 PM
Entangled Histories of Tangier During World War II: Muslims, Jews, Refugees, Spaniards & Nazis in an International City

Entangled Histories of Tangier During World War II: Muslims, Jews, Refugees, Spaniards & Nazis in an International City

A hybrid lecture by Natalie Bernstien (PhD candidate in History, UCLA). Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and UCLA Department of History.

11 Mar  2026
2:00 PM
Empires of Fantasy and Fear: Unfree Migration in the Age of Emancipation

Empires of Fantasy and Fear: Unfree Migration in the Age of Emancipation

This talk will examine how nineteenth‑century projects of penal reform and colonial expansion across Europe and the Atlantic—spanning deportations from Mecklenburg-Schwerin to Brazil and the emigration of boys from England to Natal—together reveal a transimperial system of displacement that linked carceral governance, migration, and empire‑building through intertwined logics of coercion, reform, and racialized fantasies of agrarian regeneration.

12 Mar  2026
9:00 AM
Guided Photo Exhibition & Book Reading: Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting Tour

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Book Talk: "Acculturation of Korean New Zealander Youth: Re-Ethnicization of the Newer Generation"

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
5:00 PM

This book by Changzoo Song (University of Auckland) explores the acculturation, identity development, and cultural... Read More

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ICE OUT: Arte En Resistencia!

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
6:00 PM

Join the Center for the Study of International Migration, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center,... Read More

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Believing in Light after Darkness

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
12:00 PM

In this talk, Molly Fee will present her book Believing in Light after Darkness: Displacement... Read More