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Terra Nullius: Its past and some thoughts on today

A lecture by Carole Pateman, UCLA

 
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The settlers ongoing contract: Assimilation and removal in the post-frontier era.

A lecture by Patrick Wolfe, La Trobe University, Australia

 
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UCLA Hosts 1st Conference on Afghan Literature

"Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile" focused on works written or recorded in the tumult of the past three decades. Audio podcasts of conference presentations are now available.

 
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Haiti Badly Shaken by 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake

Port-au-Prince is devastated by a disaster aggravated by weak infrastructure. UCLA students and faculty members familiar with the country put the tragedy in context in this Daily Bruin article.

 
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Don't Revalue the Yuan Yet

Without measures to stimulate consumption in China, such a move won't help, writes Calla Wiemer, who is a visiting scholar at UCLA's Center for Chinese Studies and a visiting associate professor of economics at Claremont McKenna College.

 
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Arabs, Turks, and Europeans in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Podcast of a lecture by Professor Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota on November 12, 2009.

 
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South Korean Central Banker Shares Lessons Learned in Crisis

Dosoung Choi of the Bank of Korea delivers the inaugural lecture in a series jointly sponsored by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies and Seoul National University. The lectures will look at global issues from Korean vantage points.

 
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Establishing Formal Rules such as Property Rights is a Promising Road to Sustainable Economic Growth and Peace

Elena Panaritis, author of Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), speaks at UCLA.

 
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Many Modernities Ahead

China's rise as a global power will change world politics and culture, not just the economy, argues Martin Jacques in a new book. To look ahead, start by understanding the difference between a nation-state and a civilization-state.

 
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Researchers to Use Grant to Improve Water in Tanzania

Professors and students hope to create portable device that could test for contaminants immediately, reports The Daily Bruin.

 
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Somaly Mam: 'We Have to Save Them'

Cambodian activist and author Somaly Mam has rescued more than 6,000 girls in Southeast Asia from sexual slavery and helped many to rebuild their lives. She spoke last month at UCLA's law school on how to go beyond mere talk in the fight against predators and organized criminals. Watch a video about the event.

 
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Venezuelan Ambassador Discusses Relations Between US and Region

Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, the ambassador from Venezuela, says that the political crisis in Honduras and the U.S. military presence in Colombia will be pivotal issues in U.S. relations in Latin America.

 
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The Peace Process in the Middle East: What is Going On?

Podcast of a lecture by Ayman Abdel Nour presented by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and the UCLA International Institute on March 11, 2009.

 
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Clock Ticking on Taiwan Strait Resolution

The coming three years may be the best chance for mainland Chinese and Taiwanese leaders to settle their differences, says former Taiwanese Foreign Minister Hung-mao Tien.

 
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She Travels Sahara to Record History of Caravan Trade

Ghislaine Lydon, the new chair of the African Studies interdepartmental program, will travel to Mauritania in December to collaborate on an article and a documentary film about the last women caravanners in the western Sahara Desert.

 
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Former Pakistani PM Urges Open Talks on Afghanistan

Shaukat Aziz, who served Pakistan for eight years as finance minister and prime minister, argues in a talk at UCLA that global and regional powers will need to meet with all Afghan factions, the Taliban included, and offer a Marshall Plan for Afghanistan in order to put the country on the right track.

 
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Human Rights Advocate Somaly Mam Speaks on Campus

Somaly Mam, founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation goes into detail about her personal experiences as a survivor of forced prostitution for Daily Bruin Radio. Somaly urges students to visit her website somaly.org in order to read testimonials, look at pictures and learn how to save lives.

 
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The Marshes of Mesopotamia: Dried, Restored, Will it Last?

A public lecture by Azzam Alwash, CEO, Nature Iraq

 
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Human Trafficking Escalates as World Economy Plunges

An Indonesian woman shared her story at the conference, "Impact of the Economic Crisis: Increase in Reports of Human Trafficking in LA County and Globally," co-sponsored by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center.

 
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PODCAST-Former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo: "Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty"

Former President of Peru, founder and President, Global Center for Development and Democracy, and Distinguished University Fellow, Stanford University speaks on Global Financial Crisis and the Fight Against Poverty.

 
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Japanese, South Korean Consuls Discuss Regional Security, Global Economics

The top representatives from Japan and the Republic of Korea in Southern California visited campus on Monday for a discussion sponsored by the Graduate Student International Affairs Association at UCLA and cosponsored by the Asia Institute and the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.

 
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Predicting Social Change

Psychology Professor Patricia Greenfield has elaborated a new theory that explains rapidly changing values in terms of adaptations to different types of environments. She posits a long-term, world-wide trend.

 
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eBay Has Unexpected Effect on Looting of Antiquities, Archaeologist Finds

UCLA archaeologist Charles Stanish argues in the latest issue of Archaeology that the antiquities market created by the online auction house eBay has reduced incentives for looting.

 
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Foucault and Middle East Studies - Discussion

Michael Meranze, UCLA

 
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Foucault and Middle East Studies - Foucault and the Historiography of Nationalism in the Arab Middle East

James L. Gelvin, UCLA

 

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