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Exposicion de jaranas y son jarocho
Posted: 9/16/2009

Leader in Son Jarocho Revival Tells His Music's Story

Gilberto Gutierrez, a Son Jarocho singer-poet and master of the stringed jarana, explained how this once-popular music of southern Veracruz has not only come back, but begun to spread.
Posted: 9/10/2009

Korean Cultural Minister Visits Center

Yu In-Chon, South Korea's minister of culture, sports and tourism, met Tuesday with UCLA Korean studies faculty members and Nicholas Entrikin, the vice provost for international studies. Yu, a well-known former actor, heard from CKS Director John Duncan and Professors Burglind Jungmann, Sung Deuk Oak, Lisa Kim Davis and Dong-suk Kim about their current research and thanked them for building an excellent Korean studies program at UCLA.
Posted: 9/9/2009

10 Questions for Nile Green

In his 2009 book, "Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire," Professor Green follows the development of a "barracks Islam" that was practiced by Indian soldiers and their faqir holy men in 19th- and early 20th-century Hyderabad, a princely state then under de facto British rule.
Posted: 9/2/2009

Grad Students Hone Chinese Translation Skills in Shanghai

Fudan Scholarly Translation Workshop in Shanghai was sponsored by the UCLA Confucius Institute and was designed to teach the general principles of translation and to help students with their graduate research.
Posted: 8/28/2009

International Institute Cooks Up Recipe for Teacher Success

This year's International Institute summer training program for teachers, a 10-day workshop, traced the evolution of regional and cross-regional food cultures from antiquity to the present day in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Posted: 8/27/2009

Former Buddhist Nun Helps Stressed-Out Find Inner Peace

Diana Winston rarely talks about the spiritual evolution that brought her here, to a large university where researchers are discovering that the practice of mindfulness meditation has many physical and psychological benefits, including slowing the progression of HIV in patients suffering from stress and helping ADHD teens focus.
Posted: 8/21/2009

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

Russian Spoken Here: Intensive Language Courses Hit the Streets

More than 400 students took advantage of L.A.'s linguistic diversity this summer by signing up for Language Intensives in L.A., organized by the Center for World Languages and Summer Sessions.
Posted: 8/11/2009

VOA, NPR Report: UCLA Course Teaches High School Students Language of Their Parents, Grandparents

In innovative summer courses on campus, speakers of less commonly taught languages such as Hindi, Persian and Russian learn advanced skills and keep their heritages alive.
Posted: 8/4/2009

Local Teachers to Eat Up International Studies at UCLA

Rice, chicken, tea. Sounds like a meal, but in a summer class about international food, these staples are a jumping-off point for understanding rice's role in globalization, how rumors about chicken quality represent distrust of the global market and how a British obsession with Chinese tea led to slave raids in the Philippines.
Posted: 7/10/2009

From Red Guard to Red Carpet

UCLA alumna Anna Chi became a filmmaker after an initial love of literature and writing was curtailed by an order from China's Communist Party for her to work as a film editor and after friends coaxed her to move to the United States, a country she was taught as China's enemy.
Posted: 7/7/2009

The Politics of Quranic Hermeneutics: Royalties on Interpretation

A public lecture by Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
Posted: 7/6/2009

Brent Luvaas: studying youth culture in Indonesia

When Brent Luvaas spent 1996-97 in Indonesia as an exchange student from UC Santa Cruz, Yogyakarta had only "one coffee shop inside this exclusive little mall, and the only people who went there were rich, and they were the only ones with cell phones."
Posted: 6/30/2009

Narratives of Now: Opening and Keynote

African Activist Association's Fourth Annual Conference.
Posted: 6/30/2009

New Answers to Big Questions in Chinese History

For 30 years Lothar von Falkenhausen has observed changes in China over two very different time scales, one of them measured in millennia.
Posted: 6/30/2009