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The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia (Panel I)
Central Asia Initiative International Conference (Panel I)
Posted: 11/15/2010
Writing Travel at Asia's Crossroads
Departing from texts in Chinese, Persian, Urdu and other languages, scholars at an international conference, "The Roads to Oxiana," look at Central Asia in the ages of camel caravans and horsemen and of motor cars and airplanes. Audio podcasts of the conference presentations are now available.
Posted: 11/15/2010
Professor's Website Lets Music Flow Across Former Soviet Union
Difficult geography, limited communication and a collapsed music industry mean that many Russian bands and artists are limited to their local scene. But Professor David MacFadyen's website, "Far From Moscow," has given them a way to escape their isolation.
Posted: 11/10/2010
Big Experiences for Small Scandinavian Studies Graduate Program
The Scandinavian Section, which split off from the department of Germanic languages decades ago, is geared toward independent students who are responsible for their own learning and progress.
Posted: 11/8/2010
International Education Week 2010
Stop by Kerckhoff Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 16, between 10:00 and 1:00 to get information on careers, study, internships and fellowships abroad as well as campus-based international involvement opportunities. The opportunities fair is part of International Education Week, Nov. 15-19, an initiative of the U.S. Departments of Education and State. Video by the UCLA Broadcast Studio.
Posted: 11/5/2010
Robot Helps Professor Train New Surgeons in Italy
Using an android-like robot controlled with joysticks, UCLA's Dr. Erik Dutson is able to interact with trainees and faculty in Italy, answer questions and "move" around the room.
Posted: 11/3/2010
Rock Bands, Rock Brands of India
On her International Institute dissertation fieldwork grant, ethnomusicology graduate student Chloe Coventry traveled to Bangalore, in the south Indian state of Karnataka, to study the city's local rock music.
Posted: 11/3/2010
UCLA Officials to Meet with Prospective Students in Osaka, Japan
UCLA undergraduate admissions officers will be in Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 1 and 2 as part of a student recruitment tour in Asia that also includes stops in Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Posted: 10/26/2010
Teaching to Your Taste Buds
This month, a Fowler museum curator is arranging a new kind of exhibit: specially ordered tasting menus at Southeast Asian island-specific restaurants. In November, the Fowler offers a Korean cooking class following a museum exhibition tour.
Posted: 10/22/2010
US-Japan Relations Chair Studies Impact of Digital Media
Stefan Tanaka, a professor of history at UC San Diego, joins UCLA this year as the seventh Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations.
Posted: 10/21/2010
Focus on Men at Reproductive Health Conference
The UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health and James S. Coleman African Studies Center organize a two day-gathering to assess how family planning policy and anti-HIV/AIDS efforts would look different with greater attention to African boys, men and masculinities.
Posted: 10/18/2010
The Fabric of Life
More than 50 years after they graduated, UCLA Fulbright coordinator Ann Kerr-Adams has interviewed six of her American University of Beirut classmates to discover the lives they have built in the Middle East.
Posted: 10/14/2010
Nobel for Mario Vargas Llosa
Professor Efraín Kristal, chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, is a leading expert on Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize. In this UCLA Newsroom video, Kristal discusses the generosity and curiosity of the novelist, dramatist and essayist.
Posted: 10/11/2010
Qatar Building Partnerships for Security, Sustainability of Food Supply
At an Oct. 4 luncheon hosted by California Secretary of Education Bonnie Reiss and Chancellor Gene Block, the leaders of the Qatar National Food Security Programme explain their vision for a sustainable food supply to potential partners in academia and industry.
Posted: 10/8/2010
Around the World of Music in 50 Years
The Department of Ethnomusicology in the Herb Alpert School of Music now produces more ethnomusicology graduates than any program of its kind and houses an important collection of international musical instruments.
Posted: 10/7/2010
UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Dedicated, Donors Honored
The event, which was attended by Jacob Dayan, Israel's consul general in Los Angeles, and Sherry Lansing, vice chair of the UC Board of Regents, honored the Iranian American couple whose foundation has donated a total of $5 million to create the new center.
Posted: 10/7/2010
10 Questions: Miriam Robbins Dexter on the Power of Female Display
Miriam Robbins Dexter, a lecturer in the Department of Women's Studies and expert on ancient heroines and goddesses, and a co-author have completed a cross-cultural study of stories and artifacts in which women lift their skirts and expose their genitals, a performance that drives away enemies and returns joy and fertility to the land.
Posted: 10/6/2010
The Diplomat and the General: No Easy Answers on Ending War Crimes
The thorny topic of the crime of aggression, to come under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, made for lively discussion Sept. 27 between David Scheffer, the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes, and Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the retired general and Burkle Center senior fellow.
Posted: 10/1/2010
Campus Welcomes Whirlwind Visits by Heads of State
The presidents of Chile, Croatia and the Dominican Republic descended on UCLA with their entourages over a five-day span Sept. 24-28. The dignitaries held meetings with Chancellor Gene Block and university, state and city officials and forged international partnerships in education, research, environmental issues and other areas.
Posted: 9/30/2010
Artist Focuses Camera on Arctic North
Rebeca Méndez, a professor in the Department of Design|Media Arts, films and photographs nature from the Sahara Desert in Africa to the glaciers of Iceland. Next month, she will go on the adventure of a lifetime to the Arctic north.
Posted: 9/24/2010
International Students Adjust to Campus Culture
About 835 new international freshmen and transfer students enrolled at UCLA this academic year, compared with 570 last year. Nearly 1,000 new international graduate students also will be attending the university this year.
Posted: 9/24/2010
Terasaki Postdoc Investigates Breakdown of Democracy
Hiroyuki Yamamoto joins UCLA this academic year as the third Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Posted: 9/24/2010
International Migration Scholar Waldinger Joins Institute Leadership
As interim associate vice provost, Sociology Professor Roger Waldinger will oversee changes in the International Institute's degree programs, lead a faculty search, and work with center directors on Institute-wide projects. Professor Waldinger also coordinates the interdisciplinary UCLA Migration Study Group.
Posted: 9/22/2010
10 Questions for Jared Diamond on Global Collapse
Diamond's 2005 book and now a National Geographic documentary, "Collapse" juxtaposes America's future with the demise of the Roman Empire and other failed civilizations as a warning that we are hurtling down the same path.
Posted: 9/16/2010
Do the Math, Say UCLA Researchers
A World Health Organization proposal to eliminate AIDS in South Africa is flawed, according to a UCLA team.
Posted: 9/16/2010
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