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Islam in China -- a workshop for teachers

May 14 workshop looks at the history of Islam in China, at Muslim societies in China, and the lives of Chinese Muslims. Enrollment space is limited.
Posted: 4/21/2005

The Business of Lobbying in China

Scott Kennedy discusses the growing influence of domestic & foreign businesses on China's national economic policy
Posted: 4/19/2005

UCLA's Yunxiang Yan receives Association for Asian Studies China Book Prize

Levenson prize-winning Private Life Under Socialism shows how Chinese villagers, including young women, are increasingly demanding autonomy and privacy.
Posted: 4/9/2005

UCLA IT director creates Aceh photo journal, finds hope amidst destruction

Yoh Kawano, Director of Information Technology at the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, has just returned from Aceh. He has put together a remarkable photo journal of his time there that captures not only images of destruction that have come to represent the tsunami, but also the strength, resilience and hope of the Acehnese people.
Posted: 4/7/2005

What the U.S. Needs to Do to Move an Arab-Israeli Peace Forward

Steven Spiegel criticizes the Bush administration for pursuing global goals in the Middle East while failing to address the specific issues that leave the region in crisis. He proposes a strategy for disengagement between the Palestinians and Israelis.
Posted: 4/6/2005

Former BBC correspondent Philip Short speaks on his new biography of Pol Pot

How a Paris Playboy Came to Kill a Million and a Half People
Posted: 3/10/2005

The People Who Cover Up Genocide

UCLA panel looks at people and governments who deny or explain away the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the killing of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, and the ongoing massacres in the Darfur provinces of Sudan.
Posted: 3/3/2005

Graduate Students Present Research on the European Union

Doctoral students from seven California universities offer papers on the EU's institutional framework, economy, international role, and citizenship policies.
Posted: 2/15/2005

Tsunami Still Taking Toll: Indonesian Military Combines Relief with Executing Rebels, while Sri Lankan Fishermen Face Loss of Livelihood

UCLA professors say relief efforts hurt by prexisting conditions in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Posted: 2/10/2005

African Union Representative Explains New Continentwide Organization

UN representative faces sharp criticism of AU role in Darfur during UCLA discussion.
Posted: 11/4/2004

2004 California NCTA Study Tour of China

Nineteen California teachers spend three weeks exploring China's rich cultural legacy and its complicated present.
Posted: 9/1/2004

Hmong: An Endangered People

Economically marginalized in Southeast Asia, the Hmong face assimilation and loss of their culture in the United States.
Posted: 7/7/2004

Government Attacks on Area Specialists Called Disservice to U.S. Middle East Policy

Rashid Khalidi sees perils for the U.S. in empire building while ignoring its own professional Middle East experts and the history of the region.
Posted: 6/29/2004

Remembering the Carnage in Tiananmen: June 4, 1989

A forum at UCLA analyzes the legacy of Tiananmen, and UCLA's Richard Baum interviewed on CNN
Posted: 6/10/2004

"Dysfunctional" State to "Blackmail" State: Paradoxes of the Post-Soviet Transition in Ukraine

A talk by Mykola Riabchuk.
Posted: 6/1/2004

Is Europe Unable to Assimilate Its Growing Islamic Minority?

Peter O'Brien suggests that liberalism leads to xenophobia when it finds it cannot reshape people to its model of life.
Posted: 5/26/2004

Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi Calls for Freeing Political Prisoners in Iran, Removal of U.S. Troops from Iraq

Large turnout from Iranian community in Los Angeles greets feminist human rights activist.
Posted: 5/17/2004

Remembering Rwanda: Ten Years after the Massacres

Award-winning photojournalist Corinne Dufka recalls her time in the midst of the 1994 genocide. She blames the Rwandan state, not tribal violence, for the killings, and castigates the U.S. and the world community for standing by while hundreds of thousands died.
Posted: 5/11/2004

One Year of the Lula Administration

The far left and far right in Brazil are disappointed that Lula government did not usher in a crisis.
Posted: 4/28/2004

Prominent Egyptian Human Rights Activist Looks on the Bright Side of the Middle East

Former political prisoner Saad Eddin Ibrahim presents 7 reasons for optimism for the region.
Posted: 4/27/2004

Middle East Graduate Students Explore Frontiers in UCLA Conference

Jusur, UCLA's graduate student journal of Middle Eastern Studies, sponsors conference on "Limits to the Frontier."
Posted: 4/9/2004

Is Citizenship Being Diluted by Globalization?

Sociologist Saskia Sassen proposes that international business at one end and poor immigrants at the other are shaping a new status of individual rights no longer tied to citizenship in a national state.
Posted: 4/2/2004

Peter Singer at UCLA Critiques President Bush's Ethics

The well-known ethicist and author of the best-selling book "The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush" accuses the president of being more willing to kill Iraqi civilians than warehoused embryos.
Posted: 3/16/2004

UCLA Conference to Honor Centenary of Ralph Bunche, June 3-5, 2004

Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche and the Decolonization of Africa*
Posted: 2/24/2004

Japanese Brazilian Return Migration and the Making of Japan's Newest Immigrant Minority

Dr. Takeyuki Tsuda (UC San Diego) asks: Are Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan a Transnational Community?
Posted: 1/27/2004

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