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The Difficult Questions

62 years after bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, documentarian Stephen Okazaki tells the stories of survivors in modern cities that are struggling to remember their horrific pasts.
Posted: 7/31/2007

Latin American Scholars Meet over Kimchi

A conference this month in Koreatown was the first step in bridging studies of Korea carried out in North and South America. Under a five-year grant, UCLA Korean studies researchers and their Latin American colleagues are planning collaboration and exchanges.
Posted: 7/30/2007

Obituary: Medha Yodh, 79, Professor and Expert on Classical Indian Dance

Her documentary film "Garba-Ras: A Glimpse Into Gujarati Culture"--a study of the Garba and Ras communal dances of the western Indian state of Gujarat, as practiced by the immigrant Gujarati community of Los Angeles--was highly regarded in academic circles.
Posted: 7/30/2007

Majority World Finds Voice in Photos

Photographer from Bangladesh delivers lectures at UCLA about human rights, images, and new takes on citizen journalism.
Posted: 7/23/2007

307 Degrees Conferred by International Institute in 2006-07

View a slideshow of the 2007 International Institute Graduation Ceremony (Flash plug-in required). Speakers included retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark.
Posted: 7/10/2007

Rapping About War

MIT anthropologist Ian Condry discusses the history of Japanese hip hop and Japanese rappers' commentary on the Iraq war and 9/11.
Posted: 7/2/2007

UCLA Psychology Study finds Resonance with Buddhist Teachings

Putting Feelings Into Words Produces Therapeutic Effects in the Brain; UCLA Neuroimaging Study Supports Ancient Buddhist Teachings
Posted: 6/26/2007

Predicting DPJ's Defeat

Cornell's Robert Weiner explains why the opposition Democratic Party of Japan will keep losing to the Liberal Democratic Party in Japanese politics.
Posted: 6/25/2007

Visuality & Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific

Professor Shu-mei Shih's new, pathbreaking book
Posted: 6/20/2007

Native Son Returns to Delhi

Historian Vinay Lal's sojourn will take him and his family away from their home at UCLA and back to Delhi, the city of his birth, where he will lead a UC-wide study abroad program.
Posted: 6/15/2007

Schoolgirl as Femme Fatale

Stanford's Indra Levy discusses the development of the schoolgirl figure as a femme fatale in modern Japanese literature.
Posted: 6/11/2007

International Institute Staffers Honored

This year's Excellence in Service Awards went to an enthusiast about Japanese (and other) cultures and a strong supporter of students working for a better Africa.
Posted: 6/6/2007

Historian Notehelfer Honored for Leadership in Japanese Studies

Fred G. Notehelfer directed the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies for 16 years and co-directed an East Asian Studies consortium in Southern California for 20 years. He will continue teaching at UCLA for another year before retiring.
Posted: 6/4/2007

Entry to the World

"Fowler in Focus: Doors in Global Perspective" Opens June 24 at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
Posted: 5/31/2007

Engendering a New Working Class: Social Trauma and Labor Resistance in China

A talk by Pun Ngai
Posted: 5/24/2007

China and the Developing World

Joshua Eisenman (Ph.D. student in political science) discusses his new book
Posted: 5/18/2007

Portrait of a Painter as a Patriot

Columbia Japanologist Donald Keene examines the life of painter Watanabe Kazan.
Posted: 5/8/2007

The Origin of Language Families

U of Texas-Arlington linguist Jerold A. Edmondson, whose doctorate is from UCLA, explains what the field of linguistic history might stand to gain from advances in population genetics and archaeology.
Posted: 5/3/2007

Online Conflict Reporting Hits the Big Screen

Pioneering solo journalist Kevin Sites screens his film about the civilian cost of war.
Posted: 5/1/2007

Leading Buddhist Studies Program Eyes Tibetan Gap

Center events on Tibetan Buddhism are part of an effort to create a UCLA chair in the field. On May 23, a high-ranking Buddhist abbot and a U of Michigan professor will read the poetry of a modern Tibetan monk in the original language and in English translation.
Posted: 4/30/2007

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