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Family love leads donor to create two endowed scholarships at UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies

Kyung Ki (Cindy) Min has created two endowed scholarships at the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies that provide valuable support to students of Buddhism.

Military dictatorship in Brazil pushes political class to accept mass mobilization

At a book talk for "Until the Storm Passes" about the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964–1985, author Bryan Pitts said the malleability of the Brazilian political class has made it possible for Brazilian democracy to become more representative over the past several decades.

Debate over identity sparks the emergence of a “passionate center” in Israeli politics

At the inaugural Younes Nazarian Memorial Lecture of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, writer Yossi Klein Halevi contended that mass demonstrations against the proposed judicial reforms of Prime Minister Netanyahu were reanimating the center in Israeli politics.

LA City Council President Paul Krekorian to speak at 2023 International Institute commencement

Krekorian has had a long career that spans the practice of law, service as counsel to the Webster Commission following the 1992 Los Angeles uprising and four years as a California State Assemblyman.

Translation, disinformation and a Guggenheim Fellowship

Michael Berry has received a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in translation. The award follows a tumultuous, but very productive, last three years.

Sociologist Min Zhou elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The honor for the director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center follows her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.

Ambition and the sense of powerlessness among young Chinese

In a lecture at the Center for Chinese Studies, anthropologist Biao Xiang said the sense of powerlessness felt by young Chinese today is curiously similar to that felt by the young generation in China before the 1980s, when the reforms that transformed the country into an economic powerhouse were first introduced.

A family humanitarian legacy born in the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide

Documentary filmmaker Ani Hovannisian used a mix of photos, video clips and historic and family documents to recount the humanitarian work of Stanley and Elsa Kerr with Near East Relief in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, when they saved thousands of Armenian Genocide survivors.

Report documents violence against Central American migrants at U.S.-Mexican border

Using quantitative and qualitative data, the report's analysis finds unprecedented violence against migrants in six northern Mexican border states and four southwestern U.S. border states during the period January 1, 2021–June 30, 2022.

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Documentarian Explores Kerr Family's Legacy of Humanitarian Works in Promise Armenian Institute Program

On Wednesday, April 12, the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA introduced a newly endowed lecture series named in honor of the Kerr family.

Annual Japanese Speech Contest at UCLA

UCLA delegation visits Mexico

A UCLA delegation made a recent trip to Mexico City to meet with alumni and re-invigorate campus relationships with institutions with whom UCLA has ongoing collaborative relationships.

Superb global studies teachers honored by UCLA

Global studies teachers Hannah Appel and Arjun Krishna have both received a 2023 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. The duo teamed on two International Institute courses during the 2021–22 academic year, when Bruins returned to the classroom after a year and a half of remote learning.

Forced migration: Q&A with expert Roger Waldinger

The UCLA distinguished professor of sociology answers questions about the current state of global migration and international refugee policies.

Study shows comparative increase in U.S. death rate

A new study by International Institute faculty member Patrick Heuveline shows that 'excess deaths' in the U.S. rose in comparison to those in five European nations during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet only a portion of the rise was directly attributable to COVID-19.

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Ralphe Bunche and 'The Problem of Palestine'

May 10, 2023. In an essay for Zocalo Public Square, Kal Raustiala writes, "Bunche's involvement in what he called 'the problem of Palestine' grew out of a lifelong commitment to anticolonialism and racial justice. He strongly believed in the right of all peoples to self-determination.
"Early on he recognized that a just resolution to what he called 'the refugee problem'—the Palestinians displaced from their lands—was essential to any lasting peace," adds the director of the UCLA Burkle Center. "The two-state solution of his original U.N. proposal has, of course, never been realized, despite the widespread recognition of the state of Palestine in recent years."

Min Zhou interviewed about Monterey Park mass shooting

Speaking to NPR about the recent shooting in Monterey Park, a local community for which she has great affection, Professor of Asian American Studies Min Zhou said, "Well, whatever the motive of the killer — right? — one thing to me is for certain — that that person is definitely emboldened by the gun culture in this society and also by the violence against Asians in the recent years, especially during the pandemic... [W]hen we are walking on the street and... doing things in the community, now we are still scared." Zhou is director of the UCLA Asia Pacific Center.

Pandemic offers learning opportunity for entire families

"What we've heard families say more of... [is] they see their kids are more relaxed now. They're less stressed," said UCLA Professor of Education Marjorie Faulstich Oreallana, associate vice provost of the UCLA International Institute, of a diary-based study of U.S. families during the pandemic published in the Harvard Educational Review.
"[W]e also wanted to show the world that both parents and children learned a lot of life lessons... Some teenagers wrote stories and diaries [expressing] that they learned to be empathetic," said co-author Priscilla Liu. Added second co-author Sophia L. Angeles, "[W]e learned that multigenerational households are rich with resources whether that be cultural, linguistic, or human. I hope that we are able to recognize these types of households in a more positive light moving forward."

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Family love leads donor to create two endowed scholarships at UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies

Military dictatorship in Brazil pushes political class to accept mass mobilization

Debate over identity sparks the emergence of a “passionate center” in Israeli politics

LA City Council President Paul Krekorian to speak at 2023 International Institute commencement

Translation, disinformation and a Guggenheim Fellowship

Sociologist Min Zhou elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Ambition and the sense of powerlessness among young Chinese

A family humanitarian legacy born in the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide

Report documents violence against Central American migrants at U.S.-Mexican border

Documentarian Explores Kerr Family's Legacy of Humanitarian Works in Promise Armenian Institute Program

Annual Japanese Speech Contest at UCLA

UCLA delegation visits Mexico

Superb global studies teachers honored by UCLA

Forced migration: Q&A with expert Roger Waldinger

Study shows comparative increase in U.S. death rate

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Ralphe Bunche and 'The Problem of Palestine'

Min Zhou interviewed about Monterey Park mass shooting

Pandemic offers learning opportunity for entire families

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