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Missing Merchants
A Paris researcher says historians of colonial India have been neglecting an important part of history.
Posted: 1/25/2006
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.
Posted: 1/13/2006
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
Posted: 12/20/2005
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.
Posted: 12/13/2005
Japan and the Emancipator
Harvard history professor Daniel Botsman discusses the progress and plight of Japan's Burakumin under Meiji rule.
Posted: 11/9/2005
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.
Posted: 11/8/2005
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.
Posted: 10/25/2005
Visions of India's Past
CISA Director and Doshi Chair Subrahmanyam takes up cause of 'unloved' cities Delhi and Chennai.
Posted: 10/19/2005
'Ugly Ducklings' Kick Off Lecture Series
UCLA Center for India and South Asia begins its programming.
Posted: 10/14/2005
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.
Posted: 10/10/2005
UCLA Historian Publishes Biography of Gandhi
Stanley Wolpert, Professor Emeritus of Indian History, publishes "Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi"
Posted: 10/2/2005
Remembering Nurcholish Madjid
Muslim scholar was an influential player in Indonesia's democratic development
Posted: 9/30/2005
The Diversity in Indian Islam
Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam challenges those who suggest that Muslims are divorced by their religion from local Asian cultures.
Posted: 8/6/2005
Who is a Nazi victim? Constructing Victimhood through Post-War Reparations in France, Germany and Switzerland
a CEES public lecture by Regula Ludi, a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Posted: 6/13/2005
The Missing Histories of the Hmong
UCLA Hmong Americans search for their place on campus and their place in the history books.
Posted: 6/3/2005
Wahhabism, bin Ladenism, and the Saudi Arabia Dilemma
Gregory Gause, speaking on "Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia and 9/11," says Saudi Arabia maintains a delicate balance.
Posted: 5/31/2005
Future of Iraq, Israel-Palestine Conflict, and Central Asia Weighed at International Conference
Three-day meeting at UCLA hears reports on "The Middle East in 2005"
Posted: 5/27/2005
Godzilla and Postwar Japan
William M. Tsutsui (Univ. of Kansas) explores the role of the Godzilla film series in popular culture
Posted: 5/26/2005
Reporting China: Tales from the Dragon's Mouth
A conversation with Seth Faison and John Pomfret
Posted: 5/25/2005
Political Hinduism Goes Beyond Politics
A two-day conference at UCLA explores the way the Hindu right in politics affects the practice of Hinduism in cultures.
Posted: 5/17/2005
The Rise of Islamic Extremism in Central Asia
Former Uzbek Ambassador to Iran and Afghanistan reviews the development of Muslim groups in his region as Soviet power faded and Saudi and Iranian influence grew.
Posted: 4/28/2005
A Forgotten History of Democratic Institutions in Mexico and Peru
Carlos Forment discusses his new book on the growth of civil society in Latin America in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Posted: 4/26/2005
Does Emigration Strengthen or Weaken Castro?
U. of Michigan sociologist examines the net effects of Cuban exodus on the stability of the island's government.
Posted: 4/26/2005
Islam in China -- a workshop for teachers
May 14 workshop looks at the history of Islam in China, at Muslim societies in China, and the lives of Chinese Muslims. Enrollment space is limited.
Posted: 4/21/2005
The Business of Lobbying in China
Scott Kennedy discusses the growing influence of domestic & foreign businesses on China's national economic policy
Posted: 4/19/2005
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