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Festival of Books Preview: Geoffrey Robinson on East Timor
On Saturday, April 24, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on campus, UCLA Professor Geoffrey Robinson will participate in a discussion of "History: Rising Above Oppression." Robinson is the author of "If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor" (Princeton University Press, 2010). The discussion will take place at 11 a.m. in Haines 39.
Posted: 4/13/2010
Promise or Peril? The China-ASEAN Trade Relationship
Podcast by Dr. Walden Bello, Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines
Posted: 3/5/2010
Legacies of Constitutional Engineering in Thailand
Allen Hicken of the University of Michigan traces some of today's political unrest and polarization in Thailand to the effects, intended and otherwise, of political reforms.
Posted: 1/26/2010
Project Aims to Improve Economy of Thai Village
Years after Indian Ocean tsunami, students hope to help by marketing community's handicrafts, reports The Daily Bruin student newspaper.
Posted: 1/26/2010
Polarization and the De-Thaksification of Thai Politics
Podcast of a colloquium with Prof. Allen Hicken, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Posted: 1/20/2010
Thai Government Gift Backs Language Courses Through Tough Times
Because of the generous gift, UCLA remains the only campus in California offering Thai language instruction at all levels. On Nov. 23, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the International Institute hosted a luncheon in honor of Consul General Damrong Kraikruan.
Posted: 11/24/2009
Shaping Islam to France (and Vice-Versa)
A public lecture by John Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis.
Posted: 10/28/2009
Global Studies Thesis Award Goes to Student with Ethos of Service
Elya Filler's Global Studies thesis on the East Asian sex industry and its historical background won that interdepartmental program's top honor for 2008-09. Now she is volunteering at a school in Cambodia and thinking about how best to continue her education while helping to battle poverty.
Posted: 10/27/2009
Somaly Mam: 'We Have to Save Them'
Cambodian activist and author Somaly Mam has rescued more than 6,000 girls in Southeast Asia from sexual slavery and helped many to rebuild their lives. She spoke last month at UCLA's law school on how to go beyond mere talk in the fight against predators and organized criminals. Watch a video about the event.
Posted: 10/16/2009
Somaly Mam: We Have to Save Them
Cambodian activist and author Somaly Mam has rescued more than 6,000 girls in Southeast Asia from sexual slavery and helped many to rebuild their lives. She spoke last month at UCLA's law school on how to go beyond mere talk in the fight against predators and organized criminals.
Posted: 10/12/2009
Human Rights Advocate Somaly Mam Speaks on Campus
Somaly Mam, founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation goes into detail about her personal experiences as a survivor of forced prostitution for Daily Bruin Radio. Somaly urges students to visit her website somaly.org in order to read testimonials, look at pictures and learn how to save lives.
Posted: 10/2/2009
Through Food, Teachers Take Lessons in World Cultures at UCLA
Celebrating 30 years of teacher training programs on campus, the UCLA International Institute this summer dedicated a 10-day workshop to the theme of food in world history and world cultures. Watch a video about the program.
Posted: 9/16/2009
Former Buddhist Nun Helps Stressed-Out Find Inner Peace
Diana Winston rarely talks about the spiritual evolution that brought her here, to a large university where researchers are discovering that the practice of mindfulness meditation has many physical and psychological benefits, including slowing the progression of HIV in patients suffering from stress and helping ADHD teens focus.
Posted: 8/21/2009
Intermediate Khmer and Advanced Filipino Language Courses Coming to UCLA Fall 2009
The Southeast Asian language courses will be teleconferenced to UCLA from U.C. Berkeley as part of a foreign language initiative and distance-learning partnership.
Posted: 8/12/2009
Local Teachers to Eat Up International Studies at UCLA
Rice, chicken, tea. Sounds like a meal, but in a summer class about international food, these staples are a jumping-off point for understanding rice's role in globalization, how rumors about chicken quality represent distrust of the global market and how a British obsession with Chinese tea led to slave raids in the Philippines.
Posted: 7/10/2009
Brent Luvaas: studying youth culture in Indonesia
When Brent Luvaas spent 1996-97 in Indonesia as an exchange student from UC Santa Cruz, Yogyakarta had only "one coffee shop inside this exclusive little mall, and the only people who went there were rich, and they were the only ones with cell phones."
Posted: 6/30/2009
Human Trafficking Escalates as World Economy Plunges
An Indonesian woman shared her story at the conference, "Impact of the Economic Crisis: Increase in Reports of Human Trafficking in LA County and Globally," co-sponsored by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center.
Posted: 6/5/2009
AIDS Researcher Detels Wins Teaching Award
Roger Detels, a professor of epidemiology, is recognized for Distinction in Teaching at the Graduate Level.
Posted: 6/2/2009
Students Granted Pilipino Studies
Group lobbies successfully for new concentration within existing department, reports The Daily Bruin.
Posted: 5/21/2009
Burkle Senior Fellow Kantathi Suphamonkhon: Can Thailand Avoid the Abyss?
Burkle Center Senior Fellow and 39th Foreign Minister of Thailand, Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, explains in a widely circulated op-ed how his country can "reset" its politics.
Posted: 4/24/2009
UCLA Holds 1st Graduate Conference on Indonesia
Sponsored by the new UCLA Indonesian Studies Program, a graduate student conference promotes activism and collaborative scholarship about the world's fourth-largest nation.
Posted: 4/23/2009
Kantathi Suphamongkhon on 'R2P' and the 2008 Myanmar Cyclone
Kantathi Suphamongkhon, former foreign minister of Thailand and senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations discusses the international communitys response to the 2008 Myanmar cyclone. Suphamongkhon made his remarks as part of the UCLA Burkle Center's 2009 Annual Conference.
Posted: 4/15/2009
Finding the Cutting Edge of Fashion in Indonesia
The Graduate Quarterly profiles anthropology graduate student and Fulbright fellow Brent Luvaas.
Posted: 4/9/2009
Musawah Movement: Seeking Equality and Justice in Muslim Family Law
A doctoral student in women's studies reports on a February gathering in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, demanding inclusion of women's perspectives in the construction of family law in both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority countries.
Posted: 3/13/2009
10 Questions for Robert Lemelson
In 1965-66, between 500,000 and 1 million Indonesians were slaughtered in one of the most horrific state-sponsored acts of modern times. Long denied by the Indonesian government, the little-known massacre is the subject of a chilling documentary film produced and directed by Robert Lemelson, a research anthropologist at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.
Posted: 2/6/2009
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