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Embracing dignity as the path away from racism

Anna Spain Bradley, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, spoke on “Global Racism and the Role of Education” at the virtual UCLA Global Conversation on November 18. Her remarks affirmed that embracing and enacting human dignity — the core principle of human rights — offers a powerful antidote to racism.

Cambodian American identity through the eyes of Jolie Chea

UCLA Professor Jolie Chea tells the story of their upbringing and political activation in Los Angeles and how they came to ethnic and Asian American studies.

UCLA Humanitarian Aid to Artsakh and Armenia

An interdisciplinary team of professionals from UCLA has come together to provide humanitarian aid and assistance to Artsakh and Armenia.

A Critical Approach to Understanding Hmong Refugee Realities

Professor Ma Vang, founding chair of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced, presents ways to reframe and interrogate Hmong identities and traumas of war.

International Bruin Spotlight: Ashraf Beshay

Ashraf Beshay (UCLA B.S. 2018) reflects on his experience as an international Bruin and his advocacy on the part of the international student community at UCLA and throughout the UC system.

International Bruin Spotlight: Yuzhou Wang

Yuzhou Wang (UCLA M.A. 2020), a student in the East Asian Studies M.A Program, reflects on her experience at UCLA.

International Bruin Spotlight: Yukta Trivedi

Yukta Trivedi (UCLA 2021), a business economics major and global studies minor, speaks about her experience as an international student at UCLA.

Understanding the politics behind Vietnamese refugee narratives

Professor Jana Lipman from Tulane University calls for unsettling dominant accounts of Vietnamese refugee migration after the war to better address the nuances of place in post-1975 Southeast Asia.

Family stories documented and shared through the Vietnamese Boat People Podcast

Tracey Nguyen Mang shares her family story and why she founded a podcast to deepen how Vietnamese diasporic history can be centered on personal experiences and emotions.

The fundamental value of international education

In solidarity with its international students and in affirmation of the value of international education, collaboration and exchange, UCLA celebrates International Education Week 2020 in an online format this year.

Witnessing the pandemic with the Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah)

Eugénie Clement, a visiting graduate student researcher at UCLA, spent June through September 2020 working with mutal aid groups in New Mexico responding to the Covid-19 crisis being experienced by the Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah in the Diné language).

New cluster teaches students about Islam from diverse perspectives

Behind the Scenes with the Los Angeles Indonesian Film Festival

Before the last event of the Los Angeles Indonesian Film Festival 2020, UCLA CSEAS spent some time with the team to learn more about their shift to virtual programming and dreams for the future.

Indigenous sovereignty in storytelling and identity-making

The seventh panel in the webinar series "Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific" navigates the tensions and obstacles in exploring Indigenous knowledge, identity, and empowerment.

Q&A: Nagorno-Karabakh at a crossroads

Sebouh David Aslanian, director of the Armenian Studies Center, offers perspectives on the Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict in advance of the center's Oct. 31 conference. Read the full interview here.

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What will Biden's policy toward Israel-Palestine be?

Nov. 19, 2020, The Washington Post. "Given the Trump administration's departure from decades of U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict... [m]ajor changes in the United States and in Israel-Palestine preclude a return to 'business as usual,'" writes Dov Waxman, director of the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, with co-author Jeremy Pressman. Facts on the ground limit President-Elect Biden's room for maneuver, including the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the "prevailing one-state reality in Israel-Palestine."

Colonialism and Catholicism in Vietnam

Sep. 23, 2020. UCLA historian George Dutton, director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, in an interview with the online mangonsteensmartlets, notes, "I think there was always at least an implicit sense of the Catholic missions as a kind of colonizing project.... The missionary efforts to convert and baptise Vietnamese went hand in hand with a range of cultural changes. This isn't to say that missionaries steamrollered local cultural practices and customs, but they did engage in various forms of iconoclasm and suppression of culture in the name of their faith. " Read the full interview at the link.

Joe Biden on the wrong track regarding Turkey

Sep. 22, 2020. "The ideas of the Democratic Presidential nominee will not restore U.S.-Turkish relations. Instead, Biden will exacerbate distrust between two NATO allies, facilitate an increasing tendency toward authoritarianism in Turkey, and push Turkey toward other patrons. It will also damage relations with our other allies in the Middle East," writes Eric Bordenkircher in The National Interest. Bordenkircher is a Research Fellow at the Center for Middle East Development.

Fear of authoritarian regimes pushes Hollywood to self-censor

Aug. 4, 2020. Writing in Foreign Affairs ("Hollywood is Running Out of Villains"), UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala observes, "Hollywood sanitizes or censors topics that Beijing doesn't like. But the phenomenon is not limited to China, nor is it all about revenue. Studios, writers and producers increasingly fear they will be hacked or harmed if they portray any foreign autocrats in a negative light, be it Russian President Vladimir Putin or North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un."

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