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Hope, Economic Transformation in Iraqi Marshlands
Peter Reiss, director of a USAID program to restore the world's second-largest wetlands, explains how Saddam Hussein's drainage of the area has altered an ancient culture.
Posted: 11/28/2007
Former Thai Foreign Minister Back at UCLA, with Stories to Tell
Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Thailand's UCLA-educated former 39th foreign minister, shares his experiences with students in a lecture delivered as part of International Education Week. Suphamongkhon is a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center and a UC Regents' Professor.
Posted: 11/20/2007
Many Ways for Bruins to Study Abroad
Various enrollment options can have dramatically different prices for similar education programs, The Daily Bruin reports.
Posted: 11/20/2007
UCLA in Top 10 for Foreign Students, Students Abroad
In a new nationwide report, UCLA ranked eighth in the number of foreign students it hosted during the 2006-07 academic year and was seventh in the number of students who traveled abroad to study in 2005-06.
Posted: 11/16/2007
Journalism and Asia: Career Reflections
Syndicated Asia columnist Tom Plate and former United Press International and Dow Jones reporter James F. Paradise discuss coverage of Asia in the media
Posted: 11/9/2007
Panel Speaks on Oil Politics
The panel featured journalist Steve LeVine and discussion centered around oil in the Caspian region, where LeVine spent 11 years reporting. [The event was sponsored by the UCLA Center for International Business Education & Research and cosponsored with the UCLA International Institute and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, among others.]
Posted: 11/7/2007
Lecture Focuses on Buddhism, Tibet
The Center for Buddhist Studies held its third and final event in an initiative to establish a permanent endowed chair in Tibetan Buddhist studies on Monday.
Posted: 11/6/2007
The Gifts of the Tibetans: Sparking New Directions in the Arts and Sciences
In the last of three events aimed at establishing a UCLA endowed chair in Tibetan Buddhist studies, Columbia University's Robert Thurman says that Tibetan perspectives are, or at least ought to be, very much at home in the university. Listen to a podcast of his talk.
Posted: 11/6/2007
Ambush in War Zone D, Gen. Clark Writes About His Experiences in Vietnam
Washington Monthly, Nov. 2007
Posted: 10/31/2007
Women's Studies Branches Out
The UCLA Graduate Quarterly reports on international directions in women's studies. Three graduate students are profiled.
Posted: 10/30/2007
First Steps for Peace in the Middle East
Steven Spiegel, a professor of political science and director of the Center for Middle East Development, is a leading expert on U.S. policy in the Middle East. A longer version of this article recently appeared in the Israeli paper Ha'aretz. (Photo courtesy of pbs.org)
Posted: 10/23/2007
Muslim Feminist Seeks to Educate Journalists
Zainah Anwar, executive director of Malaysian-based Sisters in Islam, pushes a message of diversity and progressivism within the framework of Islam.
Posted: 10/19/2007
A Time to Lead, for Duty, Honor and Country - Part I
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, (ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and Burkle Center Senior Fellow.
Posted: 10/15/2007
A Time to Lead, for Duty, Honor and Country - Part II
Gen. Wesley K. Clark, (ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and Burkle Center Senior Fellow.
Posted: 10/14/2007
10 Questions with Saul Friedlander
UCLA History Professor Saul Friedlander, chronicler of the Holocaust, will receive the top award at the Frankfurt Book Fair this month.
Posted: 10/10/2007
Former Cape Verdean President Sees Africa Standing Up
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, who served two five-year terms as Cape Verde's first president elected under a multiparty system, tells a UCLA audience that Africa is no lost cause, but a continent striving towards peace and democracy. He discusses Cape Verde's relations with China and other emerging powers.
Posted: 10/10/2007
South African Heritages and Their Owners
On a trip to Cape Town, Laura Foster, an attorney and UCLA doctoral student in women's studies, discovers that intellectual property rights are not marginal concerns for marginalized and historically oppressed communities. They're near the center of efforts to reclaim and reaffirm cultures.
Posted: 10/5/2007
Sputnik Launch Turns 50, Russia Yawns
Andrew L. Jenks, an assistant professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, explains that the Sputnik moment was a moment for Americans, not Russians (who also had Yuri Gagarin). And the moment could repeat itself.
Posted: 10/3/2007
Get Out of Iraq Within a Year, Urges Former US Defense Official
Larry Korb, a former assistant defense secretary under Reagan, wants to keep a regional military presence and to keep intervening in Iraq, but he thinks that continuing the occupation does more harm than good. He and Phillip Carter, a UCLA alum and Iraq war veteran, take questions on the war and Gen. Petraeus's strategy.
Posted: 10/1/2007
Not To Be Missed: Middle Eastern Americans on the Move
UCLA Today notes an exhibition co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Posted: 9/28/2007
US Intelligence Shortcomings Still Exist, Professor Amy Zegart.
UCLA Magazine,
September 11, 2007
Posted: 9/21/2007
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