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UCLA Receives Grant to Develop Heritage Classes

New UCLA Language Resource Center offers specialized instruction for students with background in a language
Posted: 12/11/2006

UCLA Digital Library Presents International HIV/AIDS Posters

Online collection of 625 posters from worldwide public health campaigns marks World AIDS Day.
Posted: 11/30/2006

UCLA Center Launches National Effort to Understand, Educate 'Heritage' Speakers

With a new National Language Resource Center, the federal government is recognizing that the preservation of U.S. language communities will not be accomplished with approaches aimed at monolingual Americans.
Posted: 11/29/2006

$10M Gift to Save Global Heritage

The gift will support major initiatives at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, including the recruitment of top faculty and graduate students, who will be able to embark upon projects and digs around the globe.
Posted: 11/27/2006

Professor Wins Top French Literary Prize with Congolese Fable

Alain Mabanckou, a visiting professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies, won the annual prize for his best-selling novel, "Mémoires de porc-épic" ("Memoirs of a Porcupine").
Posted: 11/27/2006

Sondhi's 'New Time' Journalism

In an on-camera interview with AsiaMedia, media mogul and anti-Thaksin activist Sondhi Limthongkul said corruption in Thailand has forced his news reporting into a journalism-activism hybrid.
Posted: 11/22/2006

Journalist Discusses Recent Thai Coup

Sondhi Limthongkul speaks on campus about what led to the government’s overthrow by the military. The talk was sponsored by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Posted: 11/21/2006

'After Bach': UCLA Live Welcomes Latvian Violinist Gidon Kremer

Joined by pianist Andrius Zlabys and percussionist Andrei Pushkarev, Kremer on Nov. 19 will perform celebrated works composed or influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Posted: 11/17/2006

Unknown Voices from Argentina

Photographer Patrick Liotta and Mapuche Indian performer Beatriz Pichi Malen tell of the Mapuche people's bravery and determination in confronting wars, poverty, and domination by various groups.
Posted: 11/17/2006

The Aesthetics of 'Bijin'

USC scholar discusses a Japanese notion of beauty and its artistic representation in Meiji period paintings.
Posted: 11/15/2006

Film Captures Vietnam-Israel Connection

The UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies present a documentary recounting the true story of Vietnamese immigrants to Israel.
Posted: 11/6/2006

Ngugi wa Thiong'o Shares His Art

On a book tour for his English translation of 'Wizard of the Crow,' the Kenyan novelist and playwright teaches a UCLA audience about dictators, globalization, and 'the unity behind creation.'
Posted: 11/6/2006

UCLA Visiting Professor Wins Prestigious French Book Prize

Prix Renaudot winners become "mega-stars overnight" in France.
Posted: 11/6/2006

Powell Showcases Middle East in American Popular Fiction

The exhibit, curated by CNES Assistant Director Jonathan Friedlander, runs Nov. 6-Jan. 12 at UCLA’s Powell Library. A Jan. 11 lecture will treat the Middle East in American crime fiction.
Posted: 11/2/2006

African-based Performers Next on UCLA Live's World Music Schedule

Nov. 11 show features the Mombasa Party and the Royal Drummers of Burundi. Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil will appear in March.
Posted: 11/1/2006

'The Day the Internet Blew Up in My Face'

MIT professor Shigeru Miyagawa got more than he bargained for when he posted an image of Japanese war propaganda on an educational website.
Posted: 10/30/2006

Israel's Premier Dancers to Perform at UCLA

This Nov. 4-5 the Batsheva Dance Company will present "Three," a new work by Ohad Naharin.
Posted: 10/27/2006

Art Intersects with Life at the Fowler

"Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives" features some 250 objects from the Fowler's permanent collection--the art of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Americas.
Posted: 10/26/2006

Foremost Western Historian of India Publishes New Work on End of Colonial Period

UCLA Professor Emeritus Stanley Wolpert reflects on his career.
Posted: 10/26/2006

UCLA Ethnomusicologist on Arab Classical Sounds

Racy explains pleasures of a musical tradition to the Kansas City Star.
Posted: 10/19/2006

Obituary: Mazisi Kunene, South African Poet Laureate, Anti-apartheid Leader, and UCLA Professor

The UCLA African Studies Center held a memorial service for Kunene on Oct. 12.
Posted: 10/18/2006

For the Grins

The question of why to study the Quechua language has any number of easy answers.
Posted: 10/16/2006

K-12 Teachers Seek Out Lesson in African-Latin American Links

A ten-day workshop for local educators provides much-needed evidence that heritages of Latina/o and African American students intersect.
Posted: 10/9/2006

The Sammy Yukuan Lee Lectures on Chinese Art and Archaeology

For more than two decades, the series has featured presentations by leading scholars exploring major issues in China's rich artistic heritage.
Posted: 10/2/2006

Sammy Yukuan Lee: A Biography

The story of Sammy Yukuan Lee and the Foundation that bears his name
Posted: 10/1/2006

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