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Cambodian Americans Re-Member the Genocide of the Khmer Rouge
According to scholar Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Cambodian American artists are providing new interpretations of the Khmer Rouge period that go beyond the previous frame established by the movie,“The Killing Fields.” Their works critique the strategic amnesia of the United States regarding twentieth-century Cambodian history and are re-scripting the Cambodian experience so that it is not exclusively about trauma.
Posted: 3/8/2013
Cambodia-Thailand Relations: The Questions of the Preah Vihear Temple and a Clash of Two Nationalisms
Podcast of talk by Professor Charnvit Kasetsiri, Department of History, Thammasat University
Posted: 11/6/2012
All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals
A talk by Amb. David Scheffer, the first US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes, about his new book, "All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity)". This talk was co-sponsored by the UCLA International Human Rights Law Program.
Posted: 3/13/2012
Modern Cambodia’s Emergence from the Killing Fields: What Happened in the Critical Years?
Book talk by Michael Haas, a political scientist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Posted: 1/27/2012
Senior Fellow Kantathi Suphamongkhon on the Thai-Cambodia Temple Dispute
Kantathi Suphamongkhon wrote about the military clashes over the Hindu temple of Preah Vihear, and the issue of border demarcation in the May 2011 issue of "Business Report Thailand."
Posted: 4/22/2011
Cambodian Students Begin Learning about Khmer Rouge Atrocities
Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, describes the challenges of teaching young people about the country's holocaust. Over the last two weeks of April, he met with students and faculty at UCLA, Berkeley, Irvine and San Diego.
Posted: 5/3/2010
Global Studies Thesis Award Goes to Student with Ethos of Service
Elya Filler's Global Studies thesis on the East Asian sex industry and its historical background won that interdepartmental program's top honor for 2008-09. Now she is volunteering at a school in Cambodia and thinking about how best to continue her education while helping to battle poverty.
Posted: 10/27/2009
Somaly Mam: 'We Have to Save Them'
Cambodian activist and author Somaly Mam has rescued more than 6,000 girls in Southeast Asia from sexual slavery and helped many to rebuild their lives. She spoke last month at UCLA's law school on how to go beyond mere talk in the fight against predators and organized criminals. Watch a video about the event.
Posted: 10/16/2009
Cambodia's Somaly Mam Addresses UCLA on Fight Against Sexual Slavery
In this video, activist and author Somaly Mam speaks on how to go beyond mere talk in the fight against predators and organized criminals.
Posted: 9/30/2009
Intermediate Khmer and Advanced Filipino Language Courses Coming to UCLA Fall 2009
The Southeast Asian language courses will be teleconferenced to UCLA from U.C. Berkeley as part of a foreign language initiative and distance-learning partnership.
Posted: 8/12/2009
Southeast Asian Dancers Illuminate New Course
A theory course in the Department of World Arts and Culture brings practicing dancers from Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia into the classroom.
Posted: 1/17/2006
Former BBC correspondent Philip Short speaks on his new biography of Pol Pot
How a Paris Playboy Came to Kill a Million and a Half People
Posted: 3/10/2005
The Near Extinction of Cambodian Classical Dance
Cambodian classical dancer and teacher Sophiline Cheam Shapiro speaks about the dance's political and cultural roles, how it was almost destroyed by Pol Pot, its politicization under the Vietnamese communists, and its revival today.
Posted: 5/7/2004
