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European Ambassadors Discuss Global Challenges, Transatlantic Cooperation
Representing France, Britain, Germany, the Czech Republic and the European Union, the ambassadors highlighted a broad range of political, economic, environmental and security issues confronting their respective governments as well as the European Union and the transition of President-elect Barack Obama.
Posted: 12/8/2008
Shards
The late Roxanna Brown, who earned a UCLA doctorate in art history near the end of a creative scholarly career, found sweeping historical narratives in recovered Southeast Asian ceramics. Some of her unpublished works will be pieced together, but her vision can't be replaced, say three speakers at a UCLA symposium.
Posted: 12/8/2008
From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe
A book talk with author NINA BANDELJ, UC Irvine, Sociology
Posted: 12/3/2008
Peruvian Leader on the Costs of Global Poverty
A son of poverty, former Peruvian president, and founder of the Global Center for Development and Democracy, Alejandro Toledo on Dec. 2 spoke of poverty, inequality, and social exclusion as evils in themselves, and warned of the consequences of failing to reduce all three.
Posted: 12/3/2008
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
A book talk with author RONALD FINDLAY, Columbia University, Economics, and discussant ROBERT BRENNER, UCLA, History.
Posted: 12/1/2008
Company Fruit in Danger
In the second of a series of talks by journalists for the UCLA Latin American Institute, Dan Koeppel discusses the history and the fate of the banana.
Posted: 10/29/2008
Vietnamese Forest Policy and the Locals
In northern Vietnam, people living around Tam Dao National Park may gain access to park land through legal title, influence, or labor, explains UCLA-trained political scientist Cari An Coe.
Posted: 10/27/2008
Opening Address: Wang Xiaodong, The WTO Director General’s Counselor for Asia
2008 US-China Business Law Conference at UCLA
Posted: 10/24/2008
Rwanda as an African Model
Veteran journalist Stephen Kinzer talks about his latest book, on President Paul Kagame's role in the amazing rise of Rwanda.
Posted: 10/14/2008
At Kickoff for UCLA Center, Argentine Ambassador Sizes Up Latest Crisis
Hector Marcos Timerman, the ambassador to the United States, tells how Argentina emerged from the economic crisis of 2001. UCLA's Sebastian Edwards says current troubles are deep, but not a Great Depression in the making. Both welcome the UCLA Center for Argentina, Chile, and the Southern Cone.
Posted: 10/9/2008
UCLA Professor Teaches Short Course in Brazil
William Summerhill is Professor of History at UCLA. His research focuses on the determinants of long-run political and economic change in Latin America.
Posted: 9/9/2008
Seeking 'Spatial Justice' for World's Disabled
Victor Pineda, a doctoral student in urban planning, will return to Dubai on a Fulbright-Hays award in December to monitor the implementation of an ambitious disability rights law. He argues that the built environments we live in largely determine our abilities and who we are.
Posted: 9/5/2008
Diplomat Concludes K-12 Training With Talk on Caspian Region
The world history teachers in a two-week training workshop at UCLA learned about Azerbaijan and its neighbors from the country's representative in Los Angeles. Consul General Elin Suleymanov also expressed concern about Russian military action in the Caucasus at the lunchtime talk.
Posted: 8/12/2008
UCLA Students Providing Tsunami Relief in Thai Fishing Villages
As part of the program, students will work with village residents to regenerate mangroves to fight erosion and resist disasters, and to identify and propagate local species that promise the greatest biodiversity and sustainability.
Posted: 6/28/2008
Conference on US-Mexican Issues Caps Off Term
In late May and early June, the Latin American Institute put on a conference addressing issues of policy in U.S.-Mexican relations and sponsored a classical music concert benefitting the UCLA Mexican Arts series, along with other events.
Posted: 6/10/2008
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan: State Ownership and Rentierism in the Former Soviet Union
A public lecture by PAULINE JONES LUONG, Brown University, Political Science
Posted: 6/7/2008
Globalization: A Blessing or A Curse? (Arnold C. Harberger Lecture)
Kantathi Suphamongkhon, 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand, UC Regents Professor, Burkle Center Senior Fellow and this year's presenter of the Annual Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development.
Posted: 5/22/2008
Lecture by Dr. Suphamongkhon - Globalization: A Blessing or A Curse?
Dr. Suphamongkhon is the 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand, UC Regents Professor, Burkle Center Senior Fellow and this year's presenter of the Annual Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development. Drawing from his experiences in Thailand and abroad, Dr. Suphamongkhon speaks to the pros and cons of globalization today.
Posted: 5/22/2008
Unsettled Deep in Asia
With a film screening and a panel discussion, the UCLA Asia Institute and partners launch a Central Asia Initiative. The goal is to understand societies and cultures long on the fringes of study. Anticipating a UCLA conference in October 2008, historians on the panel ask what changed on the steppes of Central Asia as states acquired the means to move and deport whole peoples, and as nomads increasingly stayed put.
Posted: 5/19/2008
10 Questions for Richard Baum
A crackdown on protesters in Tibet last month triggered demonstrations in London and Paris amid the running of the Olympic torch, effectively turning this summer's sporting contest in Beijing into what some are calling the "Human Rights Games." Richard Baum, veteran Sinologist and professor of political science, talked to Staff Writer Ajay Singh about China's decades-old Tibet challenge.
Posted: 4/22/2008
Which Special Interests Get Heard?
Japanese politics expert Megumi Naoi explains the relationship between Japanese politicians and interest groups.
Posted: 4/16/2008
Danish Ambassador Touts 'Dangerous' Example
How Denmark stays progressive, pro-U.S., and thoroughly multilateral, as explained by Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen, the country's top representative in Washington.
Posted: 3/14/2008
Bill Richardson: Personal Relationships at Heart of Diplomacy
Listen to the New Mexico governor's March 11 keynote address at UCLA on "U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Rogue States," a conference organized by the Burkle Center. Richardson says the "bad guys" of international relations often crave recognition from the United States and respond to personal connections.
Posted: 3/4/2008
'Life After Kyoto'
David Victor discusses what direction international strategies should go to address climate change.
Posted: 3/4/2008
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