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Eternal Stones: Historical Memory and Notions of History Among the Early Turkic Peoples
A paper by Peter Golden, Rutgers University
Posted: 6/15/2010
Toshie Marra named Librarian of the Year
Toshie Marra, a librarian in the UCLA Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, has been named the 2010 Librarian of the Year by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Posted: 6/15/2010
Two UCLA Fowler Exhibitions Showcase Arts of Korea
Korean art is widely recognized for its fine traditions of painting and classical ceramics. Yet the arts of Korea run a much wider gamut, and this summer, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presents two lesser-known but equally compelling genres of Korean art in the exhibitions "Life in Ceramics: Five Contemporary Korean Artists" and "Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World."
Posted: 6/11/2010
Student Group Will Travel to Vietnam to Provide Basic Health Care, Promote Education
UCLA's Medical, Educational Missions and Outreach counterpart was established this past winter quarter to recruit UCLA students to join a UC-Irvine outreach mission.
Posted: 6/7/2010
Three UCLA Researchers Receive Pacific Rim Grants 2010-2011
One faculty member and two graduate students won UC funding for work on Asian historical and societal issues.
Posted: 6/4/2010
UCLA's Israel Studies Center Named for LA Philanthropists Younes and Soraya Nazarian
The Y & S Nazarian Family Foundation has made donations totaling $5 million to the university, which helped establish the Israel Studies Program in 2005 and created an endowment for the center.
Posted: 6/2/2010
Opportunities for Scholars and Students with the Council of American Research Centers
A talk with Dr. Mary Ellen Lane, Executive Director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Posted: 6/2/2010
Education Secretary Praises NHLRC in Speech
In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan singled out the "innovative" work of the National Heritage Language Resource Center.
Posted: 5/28/2010
Fowler Museum to Showcase Women's Textile Traditions of Southeast Asia
"Weavers' Stories From Island Southeast Asia" and "Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel" run from August through mid-December at UCLA.
Posted: 5/27/2010
Taking Risks to Teach Lessons
The Daily Bruin student newspaper reports on one students long journey to bring a school to ethnic Karen refugees in Burma.
Posted: 5/27/2010
Two Students Change the World, from South LA to Senegal
UCLA alumnus Brian Rishwain gave two $2,500 awards to urban planning doctoral students Ava Bromberg and John Scott-Railton, who brought an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit to social justice work. Scott-Railton is working in poor slums in Senegal to help the residents counteract devastating floods.
Posted: 5/26/2010
Two Students in East Asian Studies Program Receive 2010 Thomas Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
Congratulations to Haenim (Grace) Yoo and Wendy Zheng; two outstanding scholars from the UCLA East Asian IDP program who were awarded 2010 Thomas Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship under Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Posted: 5/26/2010
Professionals Share International Experiences
Now a visiting professor of law and diplomacy at UCLA and senior fellow at the Burkle Center, Kantathi Suphamongkhon will be one of three panelists to speak at the International Career Panel today, sharing his story and the insight he gained in international affairs.
Posted: 5/13/2010
Unrest in Thailand Doesn't Faze Study Abroad Students
Last spring, 16 UC students studied at Thammasat University, in contrast to the 26 currently in Bangkok. Thirty-five are expected for the summer session that begins in June, The Daily Bruin student newspaper reports.
Posted: 5/13/2010
Leaving Istanbul
Turkish director Atil Inac discusses the challenges of telling, in two countries and four languages, the story of a young ethnic Turkmen woman who is pressured into committing an act of terror and revenge. An on-campus screening and discussion of "A Step into the Darkness" concluded the 5th annual Southeast European Film Festival.
Posted: 5/11/2010
Four UCLA Students Honored With Humanitarian Award for Volunteer Efforts
Benjamin Moore, a member of Bruins for Burma, spent his spring break preparing for the opening of a high school at a refugee camp for Burma's ethnic Karen minority.
Posted: 5/10/2010
Fastest Way to Asia's Heart
About 150 people stopped at the alumni center for a day of tastings, demonstrations and discussions about Asian cuisines and cultures in Los Angeles.
Posted: 5/6/2010
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
Indus Urbanism and Trade: Recent Discoveries from India and Pakistan
A lecture by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin Madison
Posted: 4/29/2010
The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
A lecture by Marc David Baer, UC Irvine
Posted: 4/29/2010
Explore Asian Cuisine in LA, UCLA Style
An enticing mix of well-known personalities in the world of Asian cuisine and UCLA experts who study at the intersection of culture and food will be served up Sunday, May 2, to those who attend an all-day program, Asia in LA 2010: Creating and Consuming Asian Cuisines.
Posted: 4/27/2010
Arab-Afghans, Jihad, and the Roots of 9/11
A lecture by Thomas Hegghammer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Posted: 4/26/2010
Devastation And Controversy: Consequences of the US Invasion for Iraqi Archives
A lecture by Jeff Spurr, Harvard University
Posted: 4/26/2010
Fulbright Keynoter: University's Main Impact Is Moral
UCLA political scientist Susanne Lohmann underscores the value of values in higher education for a regional association of visiting Fulbright scholars. At afternoon and evening events on April 21, UCLA student leaders, foreign scholars and other invited guests assess the university's role in moral education.
Posted: 4/26/2010
UCLA Center Rings in 50th with Senegalese Superstar Baaba Maal
The popular Senegalese musician and his band joined a gala celebration for the golden anniversary of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center.
Posted: 4/20/2010
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