Global Insights
Perspectives on World Affairs at UCLA
Center Kicks Off Year of Events on Mexican Revolution's Centennial
A series on the 1910 revolution began Nov. 16 with a conference organized jointly by the Center for Mexican Studies and the just-opened Los Angeles branch of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Posted: 11/19/2009
Burma and a Lifetime of Human Rights Advocacy
Talk by Jack Healey, world-renowned human rights activist and pioneer, former Executive Director of Amnesty International.
Posted: 11/18/2009
Movie Sheds Light on Transnational Families
"Those Who Remain" tells the story of Mexican families who have at least one member working in the United States. On Nov. 18, the UCLA Latin America Institute will be screening the film on campus with co-director Carlos Hagerman present, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 11/18/2009
UCLA Ranks 8th in Foreign Students, 5th in Number Studying Abroad
In a nationwide report released this week, UCLA ranked eighth among U.S. universities in the number of foreign students it hosted during the 2008-09 academic year and was fifth in the number of students it sent abroad to study in 2007-08. UCLA was the only University of California campus listed in the top 10 in either category.
Posted: 11/18/2009
UC-Wide Institute to Address Global Health Woes
Faculty and students from across UC's 10-campus system will join forces in the new University of California Global Health Institute. Thomas Coates, director of the UCLA Program in Global Health, will co-lead the institute.
Posted: 11/18/2009
Taiwan Culture in the New Millennium: A Conversation with Two Cultural Figures
A roundtable with screenwriter and novelist CHU TIEN-WEN, and novelist, poet, and naturalist LIU KE-SHIANG
Posted: 11/17/2009
The Buddhist Arts of Tea in Medieval China
James A. Benn delivers the 22nd Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Art
Posted: 11/17/2009
New podcast: Global Political Risk: Managing Through Economic Catastrophe
Ian Bremmer is an American political scientist specializing in US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is president of Eurasia Group, the global political risk consultancy.
Posted: 11/16/2009
Europe and America Couldn't Be More Different, Right? Not So Fast, Says a UCLA Historian
Marshalling quantitative comparative data on subjects as diverse as colon cancer deaths and the accuracy of clocks in public settings, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.
Posted: 11/12/2009
UC Searches for Interned Japanese-American Students to Receive Honorary Degrees
About 700 UC students withdrew from school in 1942 when they and approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were sent to internment camps. UCLA will award honorary degrees this spring.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Wesley Clark: Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?
Clark, a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations, opened the afternoon session for a Nov. 6 conference, "1989: Assessing the Collapse of Communism Twenty Years Later." The conference was organized by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Burkle Sr. Fellow Dr. Suphamongkhon Speaks About ASEAN Progress
In October 2009 Burkle Senior Fellow Kantathi Suphamongkhon traveled to Santiago, Chile, for a conference to present his views on ASEAN progress in a speech titled "From Zero-sum to Positive-sum: Asean Turning Weakness Into Strength".
Posted: 11/10/2009
Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) on CNN Larry King Live debating Pete Hegseth about Afghanistan
Gen. Clark on CNN Larry King Live on Monday, November 2 where he debated Pete Hegseth about Afghanistan.
Posted: 11/10/2009
International Education Week at UCLA
Nicholas Entrikin, the vice provost of international studies at UCLA, invites all members of the community to an International Opportunities Fair in Kerckhoff Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 17, and to screenings, exhibitions and forums taking place during International Education Week Nov. 16-20.
Posted: 11/9/2009
Lighting a Fire for Human Rights
When Jack Healey, founder and president of the Human Rights Action Center, came to UCLA on Nov. 5, his purpose was clear: to inspire undergraduates to dedicate themselves to the universal struggle for human rights, as he has done for nearly three decades.
Posted: 11/9/2009
Award-Winning Israeli Journalist Based in Territories Reflects on Family History, Denounces Gaza Attack
Shortly after accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, Amira Hass delivers two talks on campus sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies. "Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945," Hass's mother's account of surviving the Nazi concentration camp, has been republished in English.
Posted: 11/5/2009
Obama Committed to Working with International Institutions, US Official Says
Assistant Secretary of State Esther Brimmer looks at U.S. cooperation on issues from global warming to peacekeeping and human rights.
Posted: 11/3/2009
FLAS Student Studies in Mongolia
Rick Miller, a graduate student in Geography, spent the year studying settled nomads and Mongolian language in Ulaanbaatar
Posted: 10/30/2009
Tea and Chinese Cultural Aesthetics
Podcast of public lecture by Pei-kai Cheng, Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Posted: 10/30/2009
"A Perspective on US Diplomatic Strategy" feat. US Asst. Secretary of State for Intl. Organizations, Esther Brimmer
US Asst. Secretary of State for International Organizations, Esther Brimmer
Posted: 10/29/2009
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) in Foreign Affairs on the Need for Cybersecurity
Burkle Center Senior Fellow and former Supreme Commander of NATO, General Wesley K. Clark, and Peter L. Levin, former CEO of the cybersecurity company DAFCA, report on the need to secure U.S. computer networks, software, and hardware from cyberterrorism.
Posted: 10/29/2009
Burkle Center Welcomes Fall 2009 Interns: Annie Augustine, Tomasz Dziadkowiec, Deborah Magsaysay, Sarah Mallory, Anubha Prakash, Amy Ta & Jasmin Yu
New to our Center are 7 accomplished undergraduate and graduate students to work as this year's Fall/Winter Quarter interns.
Posted: 10/29/2009
Islam and the Army in Colonial India
A book talk by Professor Nile Green (UCLA History).
Posted: 10/29/2009
Scholar Survives Political Imprisonment in Iran
Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, tells the harrowing story of her time as a political prisoner in Iran to a packed room of scholars and well-wishers on campus. She was a guest of the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Middle East Development.
Posted: 10/29/2009
Shaping Islam to France (and Vice-Versa)
A public lecture by John Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis.
Posted: 10/28/2009
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