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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
Research Center Will Be at Epicenter of Marine Biodiversity
UCLA is developing a biodiversity research center in Bali, Indonesia, that will support research and educational collaboration between UCLA and three universities in Indonesia: Udayana University, Diponegoro University and the State University of Papua, as well as the Smithsonian Institution.
Posted: 4/16/2010
To be or not to be Multilingual
A lecture by UCLA professor of Geography Jared Diamond.
Posted: 4/16/2010
UCLA's James S. Coleman African Studies Center to Celebrate 50th
The anniversary event on April 17 will feature a concert by Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal.
Posted: 4/15/2010
Are Native Languages Worth Saving? A Globetrotting Scholar Says Yes
Geography Professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond, the author of books on how societies succeed and fail, argues in a lecture that being bilingual or multilingual is good for cognitive skills, for memory in later years and probably for your country. The Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes was on hand for the discussion.
Posted: 4/14/2010
Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932
A lecture by Afshin Marashi, California State University, Sacramento
Posted: 4/14/2010
UCLA International Faculty Take 4 Guggenheim Fellowships
The winners include African Studies Center Director Andrew Apter and Center for Chinese Studies Co-director Yunxiang Yan. The 2010 fellowships will support UCLA research on Roman theater, Byzantine villagers, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and morality in contemporary China.
Posted: 4/14/2010
Columnist Gustavo Arellano of 'Ask a Mexican!' Fame to Keynote UCLA Commencement June 11
Arellano, who holds a UCLA master's degree in Latin American Studies, has won awards for his observations on Orange County in the syndicated column, a book and radio appearances.
Posted: 4/8/2010
Haitian Ambassador Outlines Rebuilding Strategy, Thanks UCLA Medical Team
In events at the School of Nursing and the International Institute, Ambassador Raymond Alcide Joseph explains how international pledges to his country will build roads, schools, houses, trade and tourism and support a plan to decentralize the country, moving resources from Port-au-Prince to other regions.
Posted: 4/8/2010
Ruminations on Heritage Languages: A Few (Semi)Radical Thoughts
Podcast by Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University
Posted: 3/23/2010
'Lebanon Was Going to Stay'
In the latest of a series of articles about the lives of Middle Eastern women for Maingate, the American University of Beirut's quarterly magazine, UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr tells the story of her former roommate Naziha.
Posted: 3/12/2010
Questions for Joshua A. Fishman
At an international conference last month, the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA presented the first Joshua Fishman Award for Outstanding Contributions and Leadership in the Heritage Language Field. Before the conference, the center arranged for a telephone interview with Professor Fishman, who shared thoughts on the award, his current work, and a recent honor he received from the Royal Academy of the Basque Language in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
Posted: 3/12/2010
IDS Students Keep Up Haiti Support
Nineteen students in an International Development Studies seminar enlisted UC faculty and staff for a forum and fundraiser on March 5.
Posted: 3/9/2010
March 5 Forum to Discuss Haiti's Most Vulnerable
UCLA faculty and other scholars will participate in a forum to discuss what can be done to ensure empowerment and security for Haiti's most vulnerable populations in the aftermath of that country's devastating earthquake. "Haiti Rising" will take place on Friday, March 5, 3-5 p.m. in the Broad Art Center courtyard in northeast campus. The event is open to the public and free of charge, but proceeds raised from food, refreshments, a slide show and an art auction will go to Haiti relief.
Posted: 3/3/2010
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Receives UCLA Medal, Lectures on UN's Global Initiatives
In front of a packed house at UCLA's Kerckhoff Hall on March 2, 2010, Chancellor Gene Block presented United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the UCLA Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the campus.
Posted: 3/2/2010
UC Study Abroad Students in Chile Confirmed Safe
Education Abroad Program participants used Facebook, Twitter and e-mail to contact friends and family, reports The Daily Bruin student newspaper.
Posted: 3/1/2010
Haiti Volunteers Face Unknown with Lots of Preparation
UCLA Health System partnered with the Navy to staff a military hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, which docked at Port-au-Prince. The UCLA Operation Haiti team is now nearing the end of their two-week deployment.
Posted: 2/26/2010
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