The Institute in the News
Why Russia protects Syria's Assad
An op-ed piece by Professor Daniel Treisman, a political scientist with the UCLA Center for Europe and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 2/2/2012
Veil of Silence Lifted in Indonesia
Professor Geoffrey Robinson, former director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, is quoted in a New York Times article about a new book exposing details of anti-Communist purges in Indonesia from 1965 to 1966. Robinson currently teaches classes at UCLA on the history of Southeast Asia.
Posted: 1/19/2012
Do Israelis really want to bomb Iran?
Will this be the year that Israel uses military force to try to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions?
Posted: 1/13/2012
Mature societies must deal with challenges like Lokpal
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA’s Doshi Professor of Pre-Modern Indian History and former director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, is quoted in an Indian Express column about India's constitution.
Posted: 12/20/2011
Troops Leave Iraq; Kim Jong Il Dies
Russell Burgos, a UCLA lecturer in global studies, was interviewed Dec. 18 on KTLA-Channel 5 about the U.S. military pulling out of Iraq and quoted in a CNN/KTLA web article about the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.
Posted: 12/19/2011
‘Korean language scientifically superior’
Korean language and culture have become popular subjects of interest for post-graduate students.
Posted: 12/16/2011
Trio of events focus on US-China
Film Business Asia
Posted: 11/4/2011
Profesor traduce un códice clave para decodificar los jeroglíficos mesoamericanos
Professor Kevin Terraciano was interviewed by Agencia EFE about his latest research project: translating the Codex Sierra.
Posted: 11/3/2011
Improving Health Care in China
A New York Times op-ed by C. Cindy Fan, professor of geography and Asian American studies, about the challenges facing China's health care system and its aging population.
Posted: 11/2/2011
US / China-US China gaining clout in film industry
From an industry perspective, Janet Yang, president of Manifest Films, and former president of production of Oliver Stone's Ixtlan Productions, said it's a whole shift of power toward China. The move is deeply rooted in China's increasing "capital earning and spending power."
Posted: 10/29/2011
Zhang Jizhong to speak at first UCLA-USC joint Media and Culture in Contemporary China conference
The Daily Bruin
Posted: 10/21/2011
Bilingual and struggling
A bilingual parent tries to keep a native tongue alive at home, a problem faced by many immigrants.
Posted: 10/19/2011
H'w'd focus on China's changes
Variety
Posted: 10/17/2011
Taking down Anwar al-Awlaki shows the US is winning against al-Qaida
With the takedown of Anwar al-Alwaki, one more leadership piece of al-Qaida has been smashed. But even more importantly, this demonstrates the effectiveness of the US's adaptation to strike directly and covertly at terrorists, anywhere in the world, says Wesley Clark, senior fellow, Burkle Center for International Relations.
Posted: 10/2/2011
José Bedia's spiritual and physical journeys
"Transcultural Pilgrim: Three Decades of Work by José Bedia," a comprehensive retrospective of work by the famed Cuban American artist is highlighted in a Los Angeles Times article. The exhibition is on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA September 18, 2011 - January 8, 2012.
Posted: 9/28/2011
Albright, Hagel: Language cuts endanger U.S.
The modest funding for International Education and Foreign Language Studies is vital to maintaining and enhancing our critical workforce needs. The institutional capacity on university campuses across the nation that exists today has taken decades to build and would be impossible to easily recapture once these programs are slashed. These cuts threaten that capacity.
Posted: 7/18/2011
Los Angeles Film Fest includes program on Cuba
L.A. Downtown News reports that the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival (June 16-26), will showcase films representing 30 countries. This year's International Spotlight, co-sponsored by the Latin American Institute, focuses on films from Cuba. The program includes Latin American Institute host film Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba, a documentary about 14,000 Cuban children who in 1961 and ’62 were sent by their parents to the United States.
Posted: 6/10/2011
Reconnecting With the Mother Tongue
An article in Education Week about federal budget cuts for K–12 and college-level foreign-language instruction programs highlighted UCLA's National Heritage Language Resource Center programs, which give students a chance to learn or reconnect with their ancestral languages.
Posted: 6/3/2011
Global Warming's Effect on Arctic Transport
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported on a UCLA study showing that global warming over the next 40 years will likely open up Arctic shipping routes while severely limiting transportation along inland trucking routes. Study author Scott Stephenson, a UCLA graduate student in geography, was quoted.
Posted: 6/1/2011
Korea shows how to keep identity in global age
UCLA prof. John Duncan says globalizing Korean Studies is key task for scholars outside peninsula
Posted: 6/1/2011
New Ambassador to Russia
An article in Tuesday's Moscow Times about President Obama's plans to appoint a new ambassador to Russia cited Daniel Treisman, UCLA professor of political science, as one of the foremost experts on Russia since the Cold War.
Posted: 6/1/2011
Global Warming's Effect on Arctic Transport
A UCLA study showing that global warming over the next 40 years will likely open up Arctic shipping routes while limiting inland trucking was highlighted Sunday by Reuters; Monday by Agence France-Presse, the Toronto Globe & Mail, Canada's Postmedia News, the London Times, a Nature blog and the Alaska Dispatch; and today by the Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch. Study author Scott Stephenson, a UCLA graduate student, and co-author Laurence C. Smith, UCLA professor of geography, were quoted.
Posted: 5/31/2011
Sexual Harassment in France, U.S.
France's Politis on Thursday featured an interview with Abigail Saguy, associate professor and vice chair of the UCLA Department of Sociology, about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and differences in the way issues of sexual harassment are addressed in France and the U.S.
Posted: 5/31/2011
Are Winds of Change Passing Palestinians?
Wednesday's Daily News Egypt featured an op-ed by Saree Makdisi, UCLA professor of English and comparative literature, on President Obama's recent speech about U.S. policy in the Middle East and how it applies to Palestinians.
Posted: 5/26/2011
Sebastian Edwards
Edwards, the Henry Ford II Professor of International Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, was quoted Tuesday in a Reuters column about Asia not putting forth a candidate to head the International Monetary Fund following Dominique Strass-Kahn's departure.
Posted: 5/26/2011
