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Studying the modern Ethiopian state from the ground up
Galaan Hayle spent the summer of 2022 on a coffee farm about 70 to 80 miles outside of Addis Ababa, conducting research on coffee checkpoints.
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Human rights and solidarity in a postcolonial world
The work and teaching of David Kim grapple with the challenge of human rights in a post-colonial world, cosmopolitanism and solidarity, as well as an array of German authors.
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Cultivating scholarship and empathy in equal measure
Anthropologist Aomar Boum will speak at UCLA this month about his two newest publications: a co-edited volume and a graphic novel on the history of the Holocaust in North Africa during World War II.
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Ukraine and Bosnia: Wars to eradicate people, their culture and memory
“It's clear that Russia invests so much to destroy Ukrainian cultural identity because… Ukrainians can resist only when they can feel themselves a separate nation. Over 500 objects [have been] destroyed or damaged [over] the last nine months all over Ukraine," said Ihor Poshyvailo, director of the Maidan Museum in Kyiv.
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‘Canonization' of Hindustani music favors some, marginalizes other, performing arts traditions
The work of ethnomusicologist Anna Morcom, director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, focuses on modern Indian and Tibetan performing arts.
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Thanksgiving Medical Mission for the Armenian International Medical Fund
FIFTEEN CHILDREN AND ADULTS TREATED DURING THE AIM FUND'S 24TH MEDICAL MISSION
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Japanese Philosopher Kojin Karatani awarded Berggruen Prize
Winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, philosopher and literary critic Kojin Karatani was Terasaki Professor of U.S.-Japan Relations at UCLA in 2016–17.
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The Nazarian Center mourns the passing of long-time lecturer, Kassem Nabulsi
Dr. Kassem Nabulsi, a lecturer at the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies for many years, died November 27, 2022 at the age of 69. From 2012-2018, Nabulsi served as a visiting lecturer in political science and taught several UCLA courses examining the role of identity in the relationship between the State of Israel and its Arab minority as well as the complex interaction between the different segments of Israel's society.
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Decolonization, education and “slow archaeology”
“Decolonization is not just about highlighting flawed historical narratives, it's also about redress... It's economic, it's political and, of course, it's educational,” says CSEAS Director Stephen Acabado.
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Educational, cultural and diplomacy events shine at IEW 2022
Supported by 27 campus sponsors, International Education Week 2022 offered programming that spanned cultural performances, career events, fellowship information sessions, academic skills training, martial arts workshops and lectures on global issues.
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Kelly Lytle Hernández on her new book, "Bad Mexicans"
“‘Bad Mexicans' tells the story of how the magonistas built their social movement here in the United States... [and the] cross-border counterinsurgency campaign that tried to stop them,” said historian Kelly Lytle Hernández at a recent Center for Mexican Studies event.
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Ann Karagozian appointed Collins Aerospace Chair for Innovation
The founding director of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, Karagozian is distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and director of the UCLA-AFRL Collaborative Center for Aerospace Sciences.
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Apply to the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program!
Academic-year and summer fellowships are available to support undergraduate and graduate students to study in modern foreign languages and area studies.
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Dersim 1937-38 Tertele Oral History Project
Over 350 oral history interviews with survivors of the 1937-38 Dersim genocide transferred to Shoah Foundation.
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Fieldwork in Guatemala sheds light on global health work
“It was a really great first-hand experience to see how a public health program is implemented in a country with limited resources and hard-to-reach communities,” said Mia Giordano of her fieldwork in Guatemala last summer.
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