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Yemeni identity in Israel
Yemeni Jews in Israel are caught between assimilating into Israeli society and preserving their culture, said Ari Ariel at the Center for Near Eastern Studies event, “Yearning for Yemen: Migration and Memory.”
China's Xinjiang Province: Assimilationist policies turn coercive on a mass scale
Since 2017, a massive re-education campaign in China's Xinjiang province has imprisoned close to one million Muslim Uighurs and other minorities in “vocational training camps” and prisons, said Georgetown's James Millward at a recent lecture.
Andrew Apter, an anthropologist among the historians*
Anthropologist-historian Andrew Apter, interim director of the African Studies Center, hopes to oversee a period of much greater undergraduate student involvement in its activities.
Acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz has died at age 79
One of Israel's best known and most revered contemporary authors, Oz was the recipient of a multitude of honors, including the 2015 UCLA Israel Studies Award.
Kevan Harris wins two prestigious book awards
“A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran” has won both the Nikki Keddie Book Award and the Middle East Political Economy Book Prize.
Peter Cowe to head Center for World Languages
Professor Cowe is the third director of UCLA's Center for World Languages, following in the footsteps of renowned linguists Olga Kagan and Russell Campbell.

Yemeni identity in Israel

Yemeni Jews in Israel are caught between assimilating into Israeli society and preserving their culture,...

China's Xinjiang Province: Assimilationist policies turn coercive on a mass scale

Since 2017, a massive re-education campaign in China's Xinjiang province has imprisoned close to one...

Andrew Apter, an anthropologist among the historians*

Anthropologist-historian Andrew Apter, interim director of the African Studies Center, hopes to oversee a period...

Acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz has died at age 79

One of Israel's best known and most revered contemporary authors, Oz was the recipient of...

Kevan Harris wins two prestigious book awards

“A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran” has won both the Nikki...

Peter Cowe to head Center for World Languages

Professor Cowe is the third director of UCLA's Center for World Languages, following in the...

Spotlight

Sanjay Subrahmanyam wins $500,000 Dan David Prize

The UCLA history professor has written 16 books and edited almost as many. “I greatly...

Racism and White Supremacy in Europe

An international interdisciplinary conference....

Thursday, February 21, 2019
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Disaster, Human Sacrifice, and Ishimure Michiko's New Noh Okinomiya

Friday, February 22, 2019
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Chancellor Block's statement on the ending of DACA (Sept. 2017)

Response to U.S. executive order on immigration and visas (March 2017)

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Upcoming Events

[Non-CKS] Take My Money / Take My Body
Thursday, January 3, 2019
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Racism and White Supremacy in Europe
Thursday, February 21, 2019
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
These Days, These Homes: Domestic Aesthetics, Gendered Modernity, and Filming Futures in “Minority” China
Thursday, February 21, 2019
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Of Slavery and the Public Sphere
Thursday, February 21, 2019
4:00 PM

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Lens on the World

Istanbul, Turkey — Patriarchal Church of St. George

Jan. 6, 2019. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, left, and Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, conduct a service celebrating the Ukrainian church's independence from the Russian Orthodox Church. (Photo: © AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, 2019.) This photo is licensed, do not copy or download.

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Latin American Institute
The Latin American Institute, the base for activities related to Latin America, sponsors interdisciplinary research, coordinates bachelor's and master's degree programs in Latin American Studies, issues publications, and hosts events for the campus community and...
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African Studies Center
The African Studies Center at UCLA was established in 1959 to further stimulate the growing national interest in the region and to develop outreach, academic, and research programs on Africa. Increased national demand for new...
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Center for India and South Asia
The Center for India and South Asia is the newest center in the Asia Institute. It promotes dialogue between humanists who focus on the region's rich past, social scientists concerned with its dynamic present, and...
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Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
Originally founded in 2005 as the UCLA Israel Studies Program, the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies is one of the nation's premier centers for education and research about the history, culture,...
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Program on Central Asia
With generous support from the UCLA International Institute, the Asia Institute will lead a three-year initiative in collaboration with the Center for European and Eurasian Studies and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. Promoting the...
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