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Material Culture and Maritime Asia: New International Perspectives
Podcast now available for "Material Culture and Maritime Asia: New International Perspectives"
Posted: 12/1/2010
Time to Get Out of Afghanistan
Michael D. Intriligator is a professor of economics, political science and public policy at UCLA. Nake M. Kamrany is a senior lecturer of economics and director of the Program in Law and Economics, Department of Economics, at the University of Southern California. This piece, which originally ran in the Huffington Post on Nov. 23, is a synopsis of the authors' presentation to the Global Security Seminar at UCLA.
Posted: 11/24/2010
'Auntie' Navigates Vietnam
The UCLA Graduate Student Quarterly profiled Merav Shohet, a former graduate student in anthropology and recipient of a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. Shohet is currently an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
Posted: 11/19/2010
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
The Roads to Oxiana: The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia (Panel II)
Central Asia Initiative International Conference (Panel II)
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
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities
Call for papers
Posted: 11/10/2010
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
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
Pakistan Takes a Turn at Global Literature
The London-based literary magazine Granta has dedicated an issue to the writing and art of Pakistan. At a recent campus event, Granta editor John Freeman and CISA faculty members agree that this is no isolated event.
Posted: 11/2/2010
Call for papers: Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference, Cambridge, MA, February 25-27, 2011
Call For Abstracts: Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference
Posted: 10/28/2010
UCLA Officials to Meet with Prospective Students in Tokyo
UCLA undergraduate admissions officers will be in Tokyo on Nov. 4 as part of a student recruitment tour in Asia that also includes stops in Osaka, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore. The session will help explain the UCLA admissions process to prospective students and their parents.
Posted: 10/27/2010
Monks Make Tibetan Art at Hammer
For a few hours each day until Nov. 7, the lamas will follow ancient instructions to transform millions of grains of colorful sand into a four-foot-square Tibetan sand mandala on a table in the Hammer's glass-fronted lobby.
Posted: 10/26/2010
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
Hong Kong Meeting with Prospective Students Oct. 18-19
UCLA undergraduate admissions officers' recruitment tour in Asia will include stops in Singapore, Seoul, Osaka and Tokyo.
Posted: 10/14/2010
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
UCLA in Shanghai: "Expo 360" features UCLA Travel Study Students
ICS English-language television segment of UCLA Students Studying Shanghai Expo 2010
Posted: 10/1/2010
UCLA, Japanese Firm to Collaborate on Nanotech Imaging Tools
The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced plans to collaborate with Hamamatsu Photonics to apply nanoscience and nanotechnology to projects having global importance in health, medicine, energy and the environment.
Posted: 9/10/2010
Countries Far North Will Thrive on Global Warming
As global pressures mount, the New North is well-positioned to prosper economically in the 21st century, a UCLA author says.
Posted: 9/3/2010
Shanghai Visit Underscores Global Presence of UCLA
Approximately 20 faculty, administrators and staff from UCLA traveled to Shanghai to create new alliances and reinforce ties within the Bruin community in China with a weeklong series of events in one of the most dynamic cities in Asia.
Posted: 8/31/2010
Area Studies, Language Programs Win Almost $11 Million from Education Department
Over the coming four years, the UCLA International Institute's renowned programs on East Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Near East, Southeast Asia and heritage language education anticipate federal support of $6.7 million for language instruction, public programming, outreach to local schools, and more. Five centers will distribute nearly $4.3 million in Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships to UCLA undergraduate and graduate students.
Posted: 8/9/2010
Exhibit Features Weavers
The UCLA Fowler Museum's exhibition "Weavers' Stories From Island Southeast Asia" focuses on traditional cloth and the women behind the looms. The show runs concurrently with "Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Cycle of Life in Kerek, Java," reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 8/9/2010
UCLA Author's Latest Novel: a Mother, a Nanny and Hard Choices
"My Hollywood," is a story of two women--Claire, a composer and new mother, and Lola, a nanny with five children back home in the Philippines--whose lives become intimately entwined through Claire's son, William.
Posted: 8/9/2010
Local Efforts Key to Nuclear Disarmament
Commemorating the atomic bombings on Japan in 1945 and joining in the call for a world without nuclear weapons were, on Wednesday in Haines Hall, a local grandmother who survived the Hiroshima attack, a Japanese-born artist, a UCLA anthropologist and, by Internet link, local officials from Hiroshima and Manchester, UK, who lead international anti-nuclear organizations.
Posted: 8/6/2010
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