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    Freedoms and flashpoints: Elections impact more than national politics in 2024

    Democracy — and the planet — are at stake in elections and governance around the world this year. That was one of several highlights of a recent institute panel discussion that explored such issues as a young political party sweeping Mexico's national elections and an opposition campaign in India that ran on defending liberalism and individual rights.

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    Scenes from national elections in Mexico (left) and India (right), two of the more than 100 countries that have held or will hold national elections in 2024, together with elections for the European Parliament.
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    Global health minor continues to flourish

    The popular global health minor of the UCLA International Institute brings together Bruins who major in the social sciences and humanities with life sciences and pre-med majors.

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    “It's important to teach how medicine and health sit within a power structure. They are not outside of it. I think people don't make those connections naturally or easily.” — Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos

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UCLA International Institute begins academic year with new and familiar faces

New faculty and experienced hands have taken leadership positions at the institute this year, during which several faculty will be on leave.

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Global Indigeneity Conference

Stephen Acabado and staff of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies attended a conference in Ifugao, the Philippines this past summer that brought together Indigenous peoples from the region and scholars who study the region to address issues vital to Indigenous communities worldwide.

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New works by International Institute scholars span a range of disciplines

New books by Stephanie Balkwill, Marjorie Elaine, Shaina Potts and David Kim arrive this fall.

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Utpal Sandesara brings new expertise, courses to global health program

In his first year of teaching for the International Institute's global health minor, Sandesara created two new electives for the program.

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UCLA Fulbright awardees will soon depart for global destinations

Five recent graduates and one faculty member will conduct research and promote cultural exchanges in locations such as Cambodia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Vietnam.

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International Institute fellowship fills crucial gap in dissertation research funding

The UCLA International Institute recently awarded 25 fellowships to defray the travel costs associated with dissertation fieldwork. Fellowship recipients — all UCLA doctoral candidates — will travel to 25 countries on four continents to conduct research this summer and, in a few cases, this fall.

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Lifelong anticolonial activist makes significant estate bequest to CNES

The Elaine and Mokhtar Mokhtefi Endowment at CNES will support fellowships and scholarships for students from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) who study the history and cultures of the region at UCLA.

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Sep 23, 2024. Writing in Scientific American with co-author Deisy Del Real (USC), Cecilia Menjívar (UCLA sociology and Center for Study of International Migration) details how "a new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies... Read More
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Jun 26, 2024. Steve Zipperstein, a global studies lecturer at the International Institute, was awarded a 2024 Hertie School of Governance Teaching Award after teaching his first course at the private graduate school in Berlin this spring. Zipperstein also teaches regularly... Read More
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Jun18, 2024. The Foundation of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association has awarded UCLA professor Tejas Parasher (political science & International Institute) the 2024 Best First Book Award for his monograph, “Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought”... Read More

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Center for Near Eastern Studies

The 'Arabicate' World: Arabic in the Making of African, Asian, and Mediterranean Literatures

A one-day conference co-organized by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History....

The 59th Annual UCLA Graduate Symposium18Oct2024

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The 59th Annual UCLA Graduate Symposium

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The Promise Armenian Institute

'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters during the Armenian Genocide

The second Kerr Family Lecture will feature Khatchig Mouradian, Ph.D., lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at...

Science Fiction Against the Margins: Time Travel18Oct2024

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Science Fiction Against the Margins: Time Travel

Science fiction films from France, Brazil and the U.S. explore time travel in this UCLA Film & Television Archive Series.

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Delegation From Indonesia

DELEGATION 14 members Visit Date: 02/20/2024
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Supporting Integration And Human Rights Of Displaced Persons: A Project For Armenia

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Establishment Of A National Public Health Institute In Uzbekistan: A Project For Uzbekistan

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