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Chilling Effect on Muslim Giving Examined at Law Conference
The UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law will devote one of its annual issues to papers emerging from the April 16 meeting on "Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror."
Posted: 4/21/2010
Festival of Books Preview: Geoffrey Robinson on East Timor
On Saturday, April 24, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on campus, UCLA Professor Geoffrey Robinson will participate in a discussion of "History: Rising Above Oppression." Robinson is the author of "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor" (Princeton University Press, 2010). The discussion will take place at 11 a.m. in Haines 39.
Posted: 4/13/2010
Haitian Ambassador Outlines Rebuilding Strategy, Thanks UCLA Medical Team
In events at the School of Nursing and the International Institute, Ambassador Raymond Alcide Joseph explains how international pledges to his country will build roads, schools, houses, trade and tourism and support a plan to decentralize the country, moving resources from Port-au-Prince to other regions.
Posted: 4/8/2010
No Tulips This Time, But Hope
Ali F. Igmen, a historian at CSU Long Beach who specializes in Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan, recalls the disappointments of the country's 2005 revolution in assessing the events of this week.
Posted: 4/8/2010
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas Says Spirit of Mexican Revolution Still Alive 100 Years Later
The three-time Mexican presidential contender and key figure in the country's democratic transformation sought to apply revolutionary ideals of equality and shared progress to 21st-century issues such as domestic political participation and international trade.
Posted: 3/11/2010
IDS Students Keep Up Haiti Support
Nineteen students in an International Development Studies seminar enlisted UC faculty and staff for a forum and fundraiser on March 5.
Posted: 3/9/2010
Christopher Hitchens Decries Anti-Semitism in Lecture at UCLA
Alternating between black humor, biting sarcasm and insightful analysis, the internationally known columnist and author delivered the eighth annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at Korn Convocation Hall to an audience of more than 400 people.
Posted: 3/4/2010
Christopher Hitchens Delivers the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at UCLA
In this video, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens delivers the 2010 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture. The lecture was presented by the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA.
Posted: 3/3/2010
March 5 Forum to Discuss Haiti's Most Vulnerable
UCLA faculty and other scholars will participate in a forum to discuss what can be done to ensure empowerment and security for Haiti's most vulnerable populations in the aftermath of that country's devastating earthquake. "Haiti Rising" will take place on Friday, March 5, 3-5 p.m. in the Broad Art Center courtyard in northeast campus. The event is open to the public and free of charge, but proceeds raised from food, refreshments, a slide show and an art auction will go to Haiti relief.
Posted: 3/3/2010
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, Delivers Bernard Brodie Lecture
In this video UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers the 2010 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace. He spoke on "Mobilizing the Global Citizenry: the United Nations in a Changing World."
Posted: 3/2/2010
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General, Receives The UCLA Medal
In this video Chancellor Gene Block presented United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the UCLA Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the campus, UCLA's Kerckhoff Hall on March 2, 2010.
Posted: 3/2/2010
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Receives UCLA Medal, Lectures on UN's Global Initiatives
In front of a packed house at UCLA's Kerckhoff Hall on March 2, 2010, Chancellor Gene Block presented United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the UCLA Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the campus.
Posted: 3/2/2010
Hawalas: Financing Radical Islam or Survival?
A paper presented by Khalid Medani, Assistant Professor of Political Science, McGill University. Part of the one-day conference "How East Meets West Today: Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era."
Posted: 2/23/2010
A Look at Ordinary People Caught in the Chaos of War
Freelance war reporter Anne Nivat eschews bodyguards and bullet-proof jackets when she works in places like Chechnya and Afghanistan. She insists on dressing like a local and sharing the danger with those whose everyday lives are touched by war.
Posted: 2/17/2010
Haiti Relief Plans Move from Shore to Ship
A partnership with the U.S. Navy to send a dozen UCLA nurses and doctors to help in Haiti has transformed into plans to send rotating teams of eight UCLA medical staff, after the Navy revised its plans.
Posted: 2/10/2010
UCLA Sends Surgical Team, Supplies to Haiti
A dozen UCLA trauma and emergency-room doctors, nurses and surgeons are scheduled to arrive in Haiti as early as next week for a two-week stay. They're the first in what could be a series of UCLA Health System teams rotating through a field hospital there.
Posted: 1/29/2010
UCLA Professor Records Quake Evacuees' Stories
Research becomes journalism about victims who were overlooked by mainstream media, reports The Daily Bruin student newspaper.
Posted: 1/28/2010
UCLA History Professor Witnesses Devastation, Says Rural Haiti in Peril
History professor Lauren Robin Derby has returned from the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where rural villages are feeling the trauma of the Jan. 12 earthquake. "None of the medical aid is getting to them," she says.
Posted: 1/27/2010
Study Predicts Surge in HIV Drug Resistance
Applying their disease transmission model to San Francisco, the researchers found that the drug-resistant strains emerging in that city are also very likely to emerge in many African countries where treatment is just beginning.
Posted: 1/25/2010
Campus Community Scrambles to Respond to Crisis in Haiti
Empathy for the people's suffering after a massive earthquake in Haiti has energized students, staff and faculty to raise awareness, raise funds and in some cases to travel to the devastated country.
Posted: 1/15/2010
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.
Posted: 1/15/2010
Law Students Take Pulse on Issues of Global Justice at The Hague
After interviewing representatives of states and advocacy organizations at the annual meeting of the International Criminal Court, where the United States has sent official observers for the first time, the students will report their findings and perhaps make recommendations toward a broader U.S. engagement with the court.
Posted: 11/23/2009
Europe and America Couldn't Be More Different, Right? Not So Fast, Says a UCLA Historian
Marshalling quantitative comparative data on subjects as diverse as colon cancer deaths and the accuracy of clocks in public settings, Peter Baldwin illustrates how differences between the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe are much smaller than commonly supposed.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Wesley Clark: Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?
Clark, a senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations, opened the afternoon session for a Nov. 6 conference, "1989: Assessing the Collapse of Communism Twenty Years Later." The conference was organized by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Award-Winning Israeli Journalist Based in Territories Reflects on Family History, Denounces Gaza Attack
Shortly after accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, Amira Hass delivers two talks on campus sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies. "Diary of Bergen-Belsen: 1944-1945," Hass's mother's account of surviving the Nazi concentration camp, has been republished in English.
Posted: 11/5/2009
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