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Remembering a Journalist
New York Times columnist David Brooks delivered the Sixth Annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Tuesday to a capacity audience gathered at Korn Convocation Hall to remember the prominent Wall Street Journal reporter.
Posted: 2/27/2008
The Rise of Asian Nations
In a Q&A with AsiaMedia's Debory Li, former Singapore diplomat Kishore Mahbubani discusses his latest book and the future of the Asian hemisphere.
Posted: 2/27/2008
Emergency, Difference, and Popular Politics in Karachi
Talk by Tahir Naqvi, Reed College. 2/25/08
Posted: 2/26/2008
How America Can Cope with the Rise of Asia
Asia's most famous diplomat, Kishore Mahbubani, has been going around the world outlining just why the United States needs to pay attention to Asia.
Posted: 2/22/2008
Please Listen, People: Addressing HIV/AIDS in Bengali Scroll Paintings
on display at the Fowler Museum, March 16 through July 12, 2008
Posted: 2/12/2008
Music for a Goddess
A new release from CISA ethnomusicologists Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
Posted: 2/4/2008
Week Explores South Asian Heritage
South Asian Heritage Week at UCLA. Article from the Daily Bruin.
Posted: 2/4/2008
Off India's Beaten Path
Dayamani Barla reports on the concerns of rural people in India, while enduring sexism and financial hardship.
Posted: 1/25/2008
Michael L. Ross: Rein in 'Oil Bully' Burma
In this video op-ed, Michael L. Ross, a UCLA political scientist and acting director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, explains the dynamics that allow oil-exporting nations, particularly Myanmar (Burma), to win influence and political cover for human rights abuses.
Posted: 12/11/2007
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
Anderson Students Go Global
The Anderson School, in partnership with the National University of Singapore, offers an executive MBA program which gives students an opportunity to further their business studies in a global context. Students travel to four cities on two continents for classes.
Posted: 8/20/2007
Obituary: Medha Yodh, 79, Professor and Expert on Classical Indian Dance
Her documentary film "Garba-Ras: A Glimpse Into Gujarati Culture"--a study of the Garba and Ras communal dances of the western Indian state of Gujarat, as practiced by the immigrant Gujarati community of Los Angeles--was highly regarded in academic circles.
Posted: 7/30/2007
From Early Modern Indo-Persian Travels to the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
A look at some of the recent and forthcoming publications by UCLA Faculty working on India and South Asia
Posted: 7/26/2007
Majority World Finds Voice in Photos
Photographer from Bangladesh delivers lectures at UCLA about human rights, images, and new takes on citizen journalism.
Posted: 7/23/2007
307 Degrees Conferred by International Institute in 2006-07
View a slideshow of the 2007 International Institute Graduation Ceremony (Flash plug-in required). Speakers included retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark.
Posted: 7/10/2007
Native Son Returns to Delhi
Historian Vinay Lal's sojourn will take him and his family away from their home at UCLA and back to Delhi, the city of his birth, where he will lead a UC-wide study abroad program.
Posted: 6/15/2007
Gillian Goslinga Wins 2006 Sardar Patel Award
The Center for India and South Asia, and the UCLA Department of History felicitated Gillian Goslinga on June 9, 2007 with the Sardar Patel Award, given for the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India.
Posted: 6/7/2007
The Origin of Language Families
U of Texas-Arlington linguist Jerold A. Edmondson, whose doctorate is from UCLA, explains what the field of linguistic history might stand to gain from advances in population genetics and archaeology.
Posted: 5/3/2007
A World of Conflict
Listen to a UCLAradio story about a documentary screening by Kevin Sites, a pioneering solo journalist for Yahoo! News, on war zones around the world. The event was presented by AsiaMedia, sponsored by the UCLA International Institute, Latin American Center, African Studies Center and Asia Institute.
Posted: 5/1/2007
Online Conflict Reporting Hits the Big Screen
Pioneering solo journalist Kevin Sites screens his film about the civilian cost of war.
Posted: 5/1/2007
Leading Buddhist Studies Program Eyes Tibetan Gap
Center events on Tibetan Buddhism are part of an effort to create a UCLA chair in the field. On May 23, a high-ranking Buddhist abbot and a U of Michigan professor will read the poetry of a modern Tibetan monk in the original language and in English translation.
Posted: 4/30/2007
Web Journalists Keep Discerning Eye on Asia
AsiaMedia's focus on global dimensions will be evident on April 27 when it will screen a documentary film by Yahoo! News reporter Kevin Sites about his solo journeys across 22 war zones over a year.
Posted: 4/24/2007
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
UC delegates aim to forge partnership with India
In an effort to establish a partnership based on education and research with Indian government officials, several University of California professors and administrators are traveling to India this weekend.
Posted: 2/16/2007
Bruin Angels: Niranjala and Lokubanda Tillakaratne
Using primarily their own savings, they fund self-help projects for poor Sri Lankan villages, where the Tillakaratnes spend their vacation time each year.
Posted: 12/13/2006
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