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Faculty Book Launch

Book Launch for Dr. Domenico Ingenito's "Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry" hosted by CNES

Shaping the possibilities of political belonging

Scholar describes how legal practices, institutions shaped nationality, citizenship, belonging for Jewish communities in nineteenth-century Mediterranean

UCLA receives $2 million gift to support Taiwan Studies Program

The gift will create a program on Taiwan in the World and establish an endowment fund that will help permanently support the Taiwan Studies Program of the Asia Pacific Center.

Philippine Resistance and Medical Care under U.S. Empire

Christine Peralta, postdoctoral fellow at Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University, analyzes medical care, healing and resistance in Taytay, Rizal in the early 1900s through a feminist lens.

Generous gift will promote student research and public service in Africa

The newly established Dr. Elizabeth Woldemussie Centennial Global Health Fund at the UCLA African Studies Center will support UCLA students to travel to Africa to conduct health-centered research or an original intervention with a local community development agency.

The Armenian Medical Genomics Project

In 2020, The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA provided a seed grant to the Armenia Medical Genomics Project to sequence and interpret DNA samples collected from Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.

Faculty Q&A: The state of migrant detention

‘We need to abandon the idea that immigrants are criminals,' says UCLA's Cecilia Menjívar.

Faculty Brief: Steve Zipperstein

Steve Zipperstein brings the expertise of a seasoned legal practitioner to his courses on globalization for the Institute's Global Studies program.

CNN's Jake Tapper: Journalists must be loyal to the facts

Delivering the 2021 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, Tapper said journalists nned to be clear-eyed and precise with the public to counter the perpetuation of lies in the national discourse.

Michael Berry awarded NEA translation fellowship

Following his translation of Chinese author Fang Fang's "Wuhan Diary" into English, Michael Berry has received an NEA fellowship that will support the translation of her novel, "A Soft Burial."

Q&A with Prof. Menachem Hofnung on the trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Professor Menachem Hofnung discusses the resumed corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hofnung teaches in the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a visiting professor at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.

Analyzing Angkorian compassion through an archeological lens

Piphal Heng, postdoctoral fellow at Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, offers an alternative approach to archeological research to explore how Angkor was led with compassion.

Institute alumna lands position on National Economic Council

International development studies alumna Joelle Gamble (UCLA 2002) is the special assistant to the president for economic policy, a position on the NEC.

Approaching Vietnamese Refugee Stories from a Transnational, Critical Framework

UCLA Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi shares about her background in comparative research and how that led to rooting her work in Indigenous and critical refugee studies.

Recent Conference Explores Political Discourse within the Contemporary Middle East

The Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) continues to host scholars from around the world thereby contributing to the accessibility of cutting-edge scholarship on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

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Biden, Iran and the nuclear deal

Feb. 22, 2020. Ben Radd, research fellow at the Center for Middle East Development, spoke on KPCC's "AirTalk" about U.S. plans to rejoin the JCPOA in the current international setting. While many Arab nations are more closely aligned against Iran than several years ago, Radd pointed out, "The Europeans... are eager to get Iran back into compliance.They were very much opposed to the United States withdrawing and also [against] attempts last year by then Secretray of State Pompeo to reimpose United Nations sanctions against Iran."

Center director quoted in Israeli daily Haaretz on AIPAC

UCLA Prof. Dov Waxman, director of the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, is quoted in Haaretz article, "This Time, AIPAC Stays Silent on Netanyahu's Alliance With Far-right, Anti-gay Party" (February 17).

Seize the moment to improve immigrant health

“Public health researchers, practitioners, and advocates should be prepared to rise to the current moment and stand with immigrants to achieve health equity,” writes Steven P. Wallace (Fielding School of Public Health), associated faculty member of the Center for the Study of International Migration, and co-author Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young (UCLA Ph.D., 2018) of UC Merced, in the American Journal of Public Health. The authors outline priorities for overcoming structural racism with respect to immigrants in their op-ed piece.

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.

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