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UCLA Brazilianist Takes Top Sociology Book Award

Assumptions about race relations derived from U.S. experience don't hold for Brazil, Edward Telles announced in 'Race in Another America,' judged best contribution to sociology in three years.

 
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Center Focusing on Africa, Globalization Launches Multimedia High School Curriculum

GlobaLink-Africa, a free resource for students and teachers, was four years in the making. GRCA celebrated its launch with African and Afro-Brazilian musical and dance performances.

 
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Law Prof Reaffirms Islam's Moral Message

In Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt and Turkey, audiences of up to 1,000 people recently turned up to listen to him speak. In the United States, Abou El Fadl's views have made him unpopular among fellow Arab Americans.

 
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Flashpoint in Japanese-Korean Relations

Connecticut College's Alexis Dudden speaks on "Illegal Korea".

 
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Iranians Demand Change, Reject War by US, Says Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi

Human rights advocate denounces Iranian laws that harm children and women, set back path to 'advanced democracy.' Protesters interrupt speech; a few are ejected.

 
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Iranian Lawyer to Give Talk on Human Rights

Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, was given the award for her dedication to human rights and a nonviolent, evolutionary process for change in the Iranian government.

 
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Middle East Moments

Four scholars uncover, try out ways of seeing early photographs of region.

 
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Diary Offers Window into French Indochina

A chance encounter with a rare original source took a professor and his students on a captivating journey through Vietnam. In a colloquium at UCLA, Bucknell U's David Del Testa and Los Angeles educators discuss how to share a 19-year-old woman's personal story with K-12 students.

 
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'Truth Without Justice' in Chile

Human rights lawyer Fabiola Letelier argues that Chile has assembled plenty of facts about Pinochet years, needs to move on to punishment of guilty and reparations for victims. She does not entirely share public 'optimism' about President Michelle Bachelet.

 
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Bernard-Henri Lévy Warns on Anti-Semitism, Stage 6

The famed, if not always celebrated, French intellectual urges all groups to refrain from absurd, counterproductive 'competition of victimhoods.'

 
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Nepalese Journalist to Speak on Benefits of News Blogs

As online publications increase in popularity, critics question their credibility as sources.

 
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Leading Ethiopian Historian Revisits Student Movement

Bahru Zewde of Addis Ababa University was a member and early observer of the movement that supplied ideas for transition after the 1974 revolution.

 
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Tainted Legacy

U. of Pittsburgh's Akiko Hashimoto examines the debate surrounding Japan's guilt over World War II.

 
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Missing Merchants

A Paris researcher says historians of colonial India have been neglecting an important part of history.

 
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Changing Times for Japanese Sex Workers

In medieval Japan, sexual entertainers and their customers enjoyed great freedoms until a growing orthodoxy stifled their trade, Janet Goodwin tells a UCLA audience.

 
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UCLA Asian Studies Faculty in the News -- December 2005

Comment on the Vietnamese American community, China's one child policy and adoption trends, and the place of Mao in today's China

 
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Transforming the World View of Minority Cultures

A program funded by the Mellon Foundation is creating an enlightened new perspective on the influence of minority cultures around the world.

 
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Japan and the Emancipator

Harvard history professor Daniel Botsman discusses the progress and plight of Japan's Burakumin under Meiji rule.

 
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Q&A: Eric Hayot

A Global Fellow at the International Institute takes up queries on torture, Abu Ghraib, the adoption of Chinese girls, and success in academia.

 
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U.S.–Arab Relations Broken After Iraq War, Scholar Reports

University of Maryland and Brookings Scholar Telhami says growing opposition to U.S. foreign policy is not the worst news for the superpower.

 
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Visions of India's Past

CISA Director and Doshi Chair Subrahmanyam takes up cause of 'unloved' cities Delhi and Chennai.

 
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'Ugly Ducklings' Kick Off Lecture Series

UCLA Center for India and South Asia begins its programming.

 
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The Defeat of Iran's Revolutionary Economics

Economist Sohrab Behdad, who was teaching in Tehran during the 1979 Revolution, says role of religion in Iranian economic policy is overstated.

 
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UCLA Historian Publishes Biography of Gandhi

Stanley Wolpert, Professor Emeritus of Indian History, publishes "Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi"

 
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Remembering Nurcholish Madjid

Muslim scholar was an influential player in Indonesia's democratic development

 

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