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UCLA Brings Egyptian Temple Karnak to Life

A virtual model and digital resources help students and instructors to learn about the historic, sacred site.
Posted: 4/22/2009

2 at International Institute Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Among the six new fellows on the UCLA faculty are Sanjay Subrahmanyam, a historian who directs the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, and Rogers Brubaker, a sociologist who serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for European and Eurasian Studies.
Posted: 4/21/2009

Missed Opportunity Hurt US-African Relations for Decades

For the last half-century the United States has undermined itself in Africa by failing to distinguish itself from Europe and the colonial legacy, says Haskell Sears Ward, one of the first to graduate from UCLA with an interdisciplinary master's degree in African studies.
Posted: 4/10/2009

Finding the Cutting Edge of Fashion in Indonesia

The Graduate Quarterly profiles anthropology graduate student and Fulbright fellow Brent Luvaas.
Posted: 4/9/2009

Renewable Energy for Urban Homes

Urban planning graduate student and Fulbright fellow T.H. Culhane introduces handmade solar water heaters in Cairo and thinks about how energy projects can address both poverty and environmental problems.
Posted: 4/9/2009

Entrikin to Lead Institute, International Studies Through 2011

The UC Regents have approved the appointment of Professor Nicholas Entrikin as vice provost for international studies. Professor Entrikin has served as the acting vice provost since 2007.
Posted: 4/8/2009

'To Know Mexico Better Is to Know Ourselves Better'

UCLA is expanding its studies of and ties with Mexico with the creation of a dedicated center under the Latin American Institute and new programs of scholarly collaboration and exchange. At the inaugural event for the Center for Mexican Studies, speakers honored decades of service by UCLA's "dean of Mexican studies," Professor James Wilkie.
Posted: 4/8/2009

Universidad de California abre estudios sobre México

La UCLA reforzará las investigaciones sobre el país con la inauguración del Centro de Estudios Mexicanos
Posted: 4/7/2009

Former UCLA Dean to Head University in Hong Kong

Tony Chan, a former dean in the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, has been appointed the next president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Posted: 4/6/2009

Obituary: Jorge Preloran, 75, UCLA Professor, Documentary Film Pioneer

Jorge Preloran, a pioneer in the field of ethnographic documentary film and a professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, died March 28 in Los Angeles following a 10-year battle with prostate cancer.
Posted: 4/2/2009

Alumnus to Speak on US Relations with Africa

Haskell Sears Ward, an expert on development and one of the first UCLA graduate students in African Studies, will focus his Thursday afternoon talk on what Africa and the United States have meant to one another for the past 50 years.
Posted: 4/1/2009

Malcolm Kerr's Middle East

The family of a famous Bruin peacemaker, assassinated 25 years ago while serving as president of the American University of Beirut, has remembered him by seeking truth about his killers and reconciliation between nations.
Posted: 3/30/2009

Language Fees Cut for Summer

Lower tuition for beginning intensive courses meant to accommodate students and professors
Posted: 3/18/2009

Toward a Pan-American School of Things Korean

Now in its third year, the Korean Studies in the Americas program brings students to UCLA from four Latin American countries, supports collaboration among faculty, and sends American Koreanist scholars north and south for lectures. Funded by the Seoul-based Academy of Korean Studies, the UCLA-administered program has begun to snowball, attracting interest in the form of travel grants for Latin American students and faculty members visiting Korea and the United States.
Posted: 3/18/2009

Three Chinese Histories of Globalization

Delivering the inaugural lecture for the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies speaker series "Beyond the Headlines: China and the Global Future," Wang Gungwu of the National University of Singapore shows how China's image of and role in globalization have changed as the country has become less closed off and more of an active participant in world affairs.
Posted: 3/16/2009

Historian Looks Back on Fall of Communism 20 Years Ago

Visiting professor Jurgen Kocka, a modern social historian at the Free University of Berlin, gave a lecture that kicks off more than a year of talks, conferences and film screenings organized by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies. An international conference about 1989's events and a film series are set for November.
Posted: 3/13/2009

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

Lessons in Buddhism from an Iconoclastic Scholar

In his Faculty Research Lecture on March 10, Gregory Schopen hopes to illuminate a little-known aspect of Buddhism: the fact that it was one of the earliest social organizations in India to develop what might be called a corporation.
Posted: 2/26/2009

Venues of Transformation

Damola Osinulu, a doctoral student in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, took his International Fieldwork Fellowship to Lagos, Nigeria, to understand why at least a million Pentecostal worshippers come together just north of the city.
Posted: 2/24/2009

UCLA Brazilianists Launch Center

The UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies holds its inaugural event in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition on the last two centuries of urban change in Rio de Janeiro. The Latin American Institute now has a member center devoted to the Southern Cone of South America and will launch a Center for Mexican Studies in the spring.
Posted: 2/17/2009

Chinese Children's Art Troupe Visits Los Angeles

The Southern California portion of the tour was coordinated by the UCLA Confucius Institute and Star Education, a nonprofit organization.
Posted: 1/27/2009

60th Japan-America Student Conference

By Joshua Evan Schlachet
Posted: 1/23/2009

Human Rights Film Series Starts Wednesday

The UCLA International Institute Human Rights Film Series begins on Wednesday, Jan. 28, with a public screening of "Killer's Paradise" and discussion with director Giselle Portenier. The documentary film shines a light on the murders of more than 2,000 Guatemalan women in recent years and on responses by police and officials that often only compound the crimes.
Posted: 1/23/2009

Hip Hop Dreams in Dakar

A whirlwind tour of the Senagalese captial's music scene laid the groundwork for my comparative dissertation.
Posted: 1/14/2009

Studying Abroad in Vietnam a Chance for Global Understanding

"I found studying abroad such a critical, life-changing experience that it needs to be mandatory," writes UCLA Daily Bruin columnist Nam-Giao Do.
Posted: 1/14/2009

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