• Home
• News

News

LAI Tinker Recipient Publishes Article on Ecuadorian Amazon Research
2017 Tinker Recipient Ana María Durán used grant to study urbanization and infrastructure development projects in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her results have been published by online journal, E-FLUX (an editorial affiliate of the Oslo Triennale).
---

Strong community of migration scholars takes hold at UCLA
An impressive array of migration scholars has created a strong multidisciplinary community at UCLA. Their expertise will be on display at the “Emerging Scholars in Migration Conference” on Feb. 15–16, 2019.
---

Former Foreign Minister addresses ethnic nationalism in Israel and beyond
In the Center-sponsored talk, Visiting Professor Shlomo Ben-Ami assessed the resurgence of ethnic nationalism in Israel as well as around the globe as a reaction to the perceived failures of the liberal order.
---

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.”
---

In search of the Israeli Bob Dylan
Professor Uri Dorchin's article in UCLA's Jewish newsmagazine "Ha'am" examines the seeming indifference to political conditions among Israeli musicians.
---

UCLA's head of technology transfer discusses process in Israel and US
The "Daily Bruin" covered the recent Center-sponsored talk with UCLA's Amir Naiberg, who compared the journey campus-driven innovations take to the market in both the US and Israel and the entrepreneurial networks supporting innovation on campuses in both countries.
---

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.
---

Zionism: A brief guide in perplexity
In his contribution to UCLA's Jewish newsmagazine, "Ha'am," Professor Daniel Stein Kokin examines two understandings of Zionism and explores whether the intepretation that supports the nationalization and territorialization of Judaism is consonant with or at odds with traditional Judaism.
---

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.
---

New Indonesian film highlights the reign and legacy of Sultan Agung of Mataram
UCLA hosted the 2018 Los Angeles Indonesian Film Festival with a screening of the new film "Sultan Agung" by the prominent Indonesian director, Hanung Bramantyo.
---

Award for new faculty book
Faculty members from two UCLA departments combined forces to report on a little-known minority group: Jewish communities in North Africa during the Holocaust.
---

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.
---

Challenges of the new Mexican administration
A panel of Mexican scholars warned that the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador would face immediate challenges on immigration, U.S.-Mexican relations and crime and corruption.
---

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.
---

Writing contemporary indigenous ethnography
Mariana Bayo Mora described a decade of ethnographic research with the Tsetal and Tojolabal peoples of the Zapatista territory in Chiapas, Mexico, as a collaborative experience in which the indigenous communities insisted on shaping her research methods.
---
2624 Records Found
1 2 3 4 5 ...175
Per Page  5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 75 100 125 150 175 200