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VIDEO:"Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Cross‐Border Spillover: U.S.Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico." Talk by Oeindrila Dube, comments by Leah Boustan.
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO:"Illegal Drug markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"The Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Violence in Mexico." Talk by Gabriela Calderon, comments by Daniel Ortega.
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO:"Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Violent Corruption and Violent Lobbying: Logics of Cartel‐State Conflict in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia." Talk by Ben Lessing, comments by Helsky Bar‐Isaac.
Posted: 4/5/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Collusion, Price Competition and Inter‐gang Violence." Talk by Joao de Mello, comments by Andres Zambrano.
Posted: 4/4/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"The Economics of the War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking." Talk by Pascual Restrepo, comments by César Martinelli.
Posted: 4/4/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"On the Effectiveness of Anti-drug Public Expenditures: Evidence from Coca Producers in Colombia." Talk by Sandra Rozo, comments by Christian Dippel.
Posted: 4/4/2013
VIDEO: Illegal Drug markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America" Conference
Keynote Address, "Violence-minimizing Drug Law Enforcement" by Mark Kleiman
Posted: 4/4/2013
The Logic of Iran's Foreign Policy
A lecture by Dr. Mansour Farhang, Bennington College. Part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
Posted: 4/2/2013
How do you teach the Arab Spring?
A recent course on the Arab Spring taught by CMED Director Steven Spiegel invited specialists from around the country and UCLA to lecture on individual countries—some in person and some via a videoconferencing link.
Posted: 4/1/2013
PODCAST- At the Crossroads: Medicine and Culture in Latin America
Listen to presentations by anthropologists and clinicians on health and culture in Latin America.
Posted: 4/1/2013
The post-Fukushima world: Interconnected and fragile
Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, former Chairman of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (2011–2012), and Professor Hitoshi Abe, Director of the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, addressed different aspects of the post-Fukushima world in a symposium on March 22, 2013.
Posted: 3/27/2013
Cinema According to Nelson Pereira dos Santos
A series of films directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Posted: 3/26/2013
East meets west in a portrait: A conversation with Korean art scholar Burglind Jungmann
UCLA Professor Burglind Jungmann, a member of the core faculty of the Center for Korean Studies, speaks about her work and Rubens's drawing, "Man in Korean Costume," on exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Posted: 3/25/2013
Empowering girls to achieve in Rwanda
A $1 million grant has been awarded to the UCLA African Studies Center (ASC) for a capacity-building partnership with the Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) of Rwanda.
Posted: 3/25/2013
Reveal the truth, but don’t hit people over the head with it!
Author and Los Angeles Times journalist Hector Tobar discusses immigration and the Latin American experience in his works.
Posted: 3/21/2013
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala is quoted in The Guardian's article on the U.S. Constitution
Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala is quoted in The Guardian's article "Charles Krauthammer's false statement about the US Constitution."
Posted: 3/20/2013
Culture matters, especially in medicine
A Latin America Institute symposium finds that culture greatly influences how indigenous communities in Mexico, Central and South America experience Western medicine.
Posted: 3/14/2013
Double Feature Lecture: Prof. Feng Shi and Prof. Miao Zhe
Natural Color and Philosophical Color:
A Study on the Origin of the Theory of the Relation between Colors and Directions in China
by Feng Shi (Institute of Archaeology, CASS)
From the Lingguang Palace to the Wu Liang Shrine
Some Traces of the Imperial Art from the Late Western Han and Early Eastern Han Periods
by Miao Zhe (Zhejiang University)
Posted: 3/14/2013
Israel in all of its complexity
Israeli journalist Natasha Mozgovaya highlighted Prime Minister Netanyahu’s stinging setback in the January 2013 parliamentary elections and a new political focus on simmering domestic issues.
Posted: 3/14/2013
Policy Panel: Illegal Drug markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America" Conference
Policy panel featuring: Alejandro Poiré, Fernado Carrera, General Oscar Naranjo, Roberto Sa, Jay Bergman.
Posted: 3/14/2013
Stanley Kramer’s political critique of the Nuremberg Trials
Author and scholar Elisabeth Bronfen discusses a chapter from her book Specters of War:
Hollywood's Engagement with Military Conflict, explaining how Stanley Kramer uses film to critique the Nuremberg trials.
Posted: 3/14/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Illegal Drug Martets and Violence in Mexico: The Causes Beyond Calderon." Talk by Daniel Mejia, comments by Dora Costa
Posted: 3/14/2013
VIDEO: "Illegal Drug Markets, Crime and Violence in Latin America"
"Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War." Talk by Melissa Dell, comments by Ernesto Schargrodsky
Posted: 3/14/2013
Highlights from the IoES Urban Sustainability in North American Cities Symposium
Decision-makers, researchers, and UCLA faculty and students participated in the conference held Feb. 26 at UCLA.
Posted: 3/13/2013
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