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Summer 2013 - High School Teacher Workshop: Afghanistan
A three-day summer program for high school teachers, July 29-31, 2013.
Posted: 5/16/2013
Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
Posted: 4/17/2013
Profile of Nile Green
This engaging portrait of UCLA History Professor Nile Green, who is the director of the Program on Central Asia, was published in the Winter 2013 edition of "The UCLA College Report," a publication of the College of Letters and Science.
Posted: 4/5/2013
Afghanistan’s Palimpsest Landscape: Buddhism and Islam in Material Culture
A lecture by Alka Patel, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, UC Irvine. Part of the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."
Posted: 11/15/2012
Archaeology and political rivalries 1920-1940: From Afghanistan to Iran
A lecture by Ali Mousavi, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Part of the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."
Posted: 11/15/2012
Archaeology in Danger: How to Deal with Archaeology in the Post-Conflict Context of Today's Afghanistan?
A lecture by Phillipe Marquis, Director, Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan (DAFA), Kabul. From the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."
Posted: 11/15/2012
Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Concluding remarks from Monica Smith, UCLA. Part of the conference " Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."
Posted: 11/15/2012
Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Welcome and introductory remarks by Nile Green, UCLA. From the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World"
Posted: 11/15/2012
Oxus: Bamiyan, Afghanistan and the World
Keynote Lecture by Llewelyn Morgan, Brasenose College, Oxford. Part of the conference "Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World."
Posted: 11/15/2012
International Conference on Afghanistan Aims to Develop Central Asian Studies at UCLA
"Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World" is an upcoming 2-day conference to be held at UCLA and UC Irvine on November 8 and 9, 2012.
Posted: 10/29/2012
UCLA grad returns to share experience on the ground in Afghanistan
After four years with the U.S. Foreign Service, Erin Rattazzi, BA '02, advises students to take advantage of every possible opportunity to learn more about the world and their place in it.
Posted: 7/27/2012
Osama bin Laden Was Not Caught Because of Torture but in Spite of It: Daily Beast Op-Ed by Burkle Center Fellow Matthew Alexander
Contrary to the claims by the man who ran the CIA’s torture program, attempts to find and kill Osama bin Laden were hindered by waterboarding and other torture techniques.
Posted: 5/8/2012
Video: Nile Green Discusses "Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes"
Taymor Kamrany interviews Green for "New Generation of Afghans TV"
Posted: 12/14/2011
The Lasting Legacy of the Great Game: ‘Pashtunistan’ Through Afghan Lenses
A talk by Amin Tarzi, Marine Corps University, Quantico. Part of the conference: Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes
Posted: 12/5/2011
Crafting History: A Tribute to Fayz Muhammad and Seraj-al-Tawarikh
A video presentation by Ashraf Ghani, Chairman, Institute for State Effectiveness, Kabul. Part of the conference: Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes
Posted: 11/28/2011
Afghan Historiography in the Twentieth Century
A talk by Senzil Nawid, University of Arizona. Part of the conference: Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes
Posted: 11/22/2011
Reclaiming the Past: The Tawarikh-i Hafiz Rahmat Khani and Pashtun Historiography
A talk by Robert Nichols, Richard Stockton College, NJ. Part of the conference: Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes
Posted: 11/22/2011
Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes: Opening Remarks
An introduction by Nile Green, UCLA. Part of the conference: Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes
Posted: 11/22/2011
Seeing Afghan history through Afghan eyes
Upcoming conference recognizes the 80th anniversary of the death of Fayz Muhammad Katib, the first major Hazara writer and historian, and the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
Posted: 11/10/2011
Top U.S. military commander is coming to UCLA
General James Mattis, the top commander of the American military in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will join award-winning NPR foreign affairs correspondent Mike Shuster for a public conversation on Nov. 18.
Posted: 11/4/2011
Former ambassador is hopeful that U.S. will soon “cover much more of the field”
Christopher Hill predicts that America will soon return to a fuller, more traditional approach to foreign policy.
Posted: 10/17/2011
Podcast: The Arab Spring: An Update from the Region
A lecture and question and answer session with James A. Larocco, Ambassador (Retired) and Director, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA), National Defense University
Posted: 7/7/2011
Newly Appointed Burkle Center Fellow Matthew Alexander Discusses Harsh Interrogation Techniques on NPR's Fresh Air
Matthew Alexander was a senior military interrogator in Iraq. In 2006 he led an interrogation team that tracked down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Posted: 2/15/2011
Graduate Student Profile: Hannah Reiss
A video interview with Hannah Reiss, PhD candidate in Anthropology
Posted: 1/18/2011
Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
Michael D. Intriligator is a professor of economics, political science and public policy at UCLA. Nake M. Kamrany is a senior lecturer of economics and director of the Program in Law and Economics, Department of Economics, at the University of Southern California. This piece, which originally ran in the Huffington Post on Nov. 23, is a synopsis of the authors' presentation to the Global Security Seminar at UCLA.
Posted: 11/24/2010
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