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Architecture in Context
World-renowned architect Hitoshi Abe, the new chair of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, discusses his fascination with Los Angeles' environs and Japanese-influenced structures.
Posted: 10/4/2007
Petraeus' Optimistic Take on Iraq War Not a Consensus
The Daily Bruin, September 27, 2007
Posted: 9/27/2007
Careers in International Law and Diplomacy
Peter Kovach, UCLA Diplomat in Residence, and Anna Spain, Deputy Director of the Burkle Center.
Posted: 9/19/2007
Unforeign Language
UCLA's National Heritage Language Resource Center held its first annual conference at UC Davis in 2007. Participants laid the groundwork for K-12 and college students to advance skills in the non-English languages they learned at home.
Posted: 9/4/2007
The Difficult Questions
62 years after bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, documentarian Stephen Okazaki tells the stories of survivors in modern cities that are struggling to remember their horrific pasts.
Posted: 7/31/2007
Kal Raustiala in the Los Angeles Times: A Bill of Rights Without Borders
A 50-year-old court decision on constitutional protections overseas comes into play in the war on terror, writes Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 6/15/2007
The Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany
A book talk by author KATHRIN ZIPPEL, Sociology, Northeastern University
Posted: 6/8/2007
Portrait of a Painter as a Patriot
Columbia Japanologist Donald Keene examines the life of painter Watanabe Kazan.
Posted: 5/8/2007
Pickled Kabuki
U of Hawaii's James Brandon remembers kabuki plays from Japan's Fifteen-Year War.
Posted: 4/5/2007
Nonproliferation and the Nuclear South
Nuclear powers India and Pakistan were once on the brink of war, but India is now finalizing a civil nuclear deal with the United States. Speakers at a conference on nuclear challenges discussed how the South Asian nations are breaking the nonproliferation mold.
Posted: 3/14/2007
Cuba Overheard
Elizabeth Dore's two-year project aims to let Cubans speak for themselves. She shared her findings at UCLA on Jan. 12.
Posted: 1/25/2007
Clark: Iraq War Legal, Not Legitimate
Retired General Wesley K. Clark, a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, explains to a packed Law School auditorium that the United States has "squandered its mantle of legitimacy in this conflict."
Posted: 1/23/2007
Outreach World Website Lauded by Federal Government
Developed and hosted by the UCLA International Institute, the online hub for K-12 area studies has been showcased in Washington, D.C., and garnered praise from the U.S. Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Posted: 1/2/2007
UCLA Center Launches National Effort to Understand, Educate 'Heritage' Speakers
With a new National Language Resource Center, the federal government is recognizing that the preservation of U.S. language communities will not be accomplished with approaches aimed at monolingual Americans.
Posted: 11/29/2006
Experts Assess Iraq's Horrific Toll
Health-care professionals intimately familiar with the war's effects on bodies and minds shared their perspectives at a conference sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility, UCLA Extension, and the School of Public Health.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Nuclear North Korea as Seen From 4 Capitals
Experts on the Koreas, China, and the US say that North Korea won't give up its nuclear arms and that differences between the US and negotiating partners, including ally South Korea, will complicate six-party talks.
Posted: 11/8/2006
Panel Explores North Korea’s Future
Discussion attempts to add depth to public perceptions following country’s nuclear test
Posted: 11/3/2006
'The Day the Internet Blew Up in My Face'
MIT professor Shigeru Miyagawa got more than he bargained for when he posted an image of Japanese war propaganda on an educational website.
Posted: 10/30/2006
New laws hit Sudan funds
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was joined by actors George Clooney and Don Cheadle, former Secretary of State George Shultz, Assemblymember Koretz, Assemblymember J. Horton, executive members of the Sudan Divestment Task Force and other community leaders at a public signing for AB 2941 and AB 2179.
Posted: 9/26/2006
Muslim American Poet Sets Down Stakes
University of Arkansas' Mohja Kahf asks what one more label could do for study of American writers, herself not excluded. The lecture is part of CNES-, CEES-, and government-sponsored sociology course on Muslims in Europe and North America.
Posted: 6/7/2006
14 Ways of Looking at a Bald Eagle
Veteran New York Times international reporter Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow, worries that Americans again harbor good intentions about Iran.
Posted: 5/3/2006
Nuclear Deal Fueled by India's Energy Needs, Says Diplomat
Consul General B.S. Prakash says Indo-U.S. relations are warming.
Posted: 3/16/2006
Q&A: Lucy Burns
UCLA Filipino American theater expert says teaching is like performance, and scholarship and activism go hand in hand.
Posted: 3/10/2006
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