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Student creativity exceeds expectations at first artistic works competition on ‘comfort women'
The Center for Korean Studies conferred its first awards for creative student projects related to “comfort women” in late May. The annual competition seeks to educate the UCLA community about the history and impact of the sexual slavery of women who were forced to work in Japanese Army brothels during World War II.
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UCLA Asia Pacific Center designated a National Resource Center
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the UCLA Asia Pacific Center, or APC, an East Asia National Resource Center grant that is expected to reach roughly $691,000 over a three-year period.
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Aomar Boum's graphic novel wins IPPY award
Anthropologist Aomar Boum, Maurice Amado Professor of Sephardic Studies at UCLA, has received the top award (“Gold Medal”) for 2023 graphic novel/drawn work from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for his work of historical fiction, “Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa” (Stanford, 2023), together with illustrator Nadjib Berber. The IPPY awards have recognized the best independently published books since 1997.
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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.
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Bringing migrant and refugee stories and connections to light
UCLA Newsroom / Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi's relational approach to Asian American studies and refugee memory creates a powerful ripple effect.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Annual Japanese Speech Contest at UCLA
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